Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:14 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

He's done it all season and got a away with it- he's basically balancing the ball with his finger tips one handed and lobbing it up to the player (who then has to alter his run as its usually a shocking ball to catch) It went to no one, Leigh got a scrum and scored straight away down is wing. It's driven me insane and I do point the Kear for nipping it in the bud as Grants done it a few times this year.

ive never rated him. i just hope his contract doesnt get renewed

dont know why magrin was picked infront of bustin either

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:15 pm  

Newly promoted I was expecting to lose a few, but it's not too much to ask that we see some modest progression game on game. Instead it's starting to feel that we are standing still or worse going backwards. I can't understand it.

Halfback issues are not reason enough.

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:28 pm  

I think the reality is that we have some players who aren't good enough to be competing at the top of this division.
I'm also not sure that this 'hybrid' model of full and part time players is helping us in terms of cohesion on the pitch. I just wonder how many times - if at all - the entire squad are together for a decent training session.

My apathy towards this season continues, and as a result I'm really not bothered about results like today's. I'm already looking towards next season and who I want gone and areas I want strengthened.

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:34 pm  

Pumpetypump wrote:

Halfback issues are not reason enough.

we had a run of lilley and milnes at halfback, lilley i dont see as a creative half, milnes i see as a potential sculthorpe. we've been unlucky with injuries especially in the halves and we lost our only 'spark' to fev. keyes (fingers crossed) will help. which other team at the start of the season had 'four' halves (only to lose them through injury or transfer) is going to be successful?

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:35 pm  

Our line speed is terrible, we give opposition much too much time to put on moves. Our attacking line is flat just passing the ball from side to side with nobody going forward. How difficult is it to put on a basic play with 2 dummy runners and 2 men out back. Don't understand why Magrin gets in ahead of Bustin is there something about him that Kear doesn't like.

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:47 pm  

The injuries we cannot help, they're just part and parcel of the game and we've had a bad run just recently. I think you can point some blame at the club for releasing McNally without any sort of back up plan and then also releasing Chisholm when we still hadn't resolved our fullback problem.

I think when McNally went, we expected a replacement would arrive at some point. I know we have signed Brown but he is another young player in an already young squad. Let's hope we have identified some proven quality for next year to help bring these young lads on. We're still just about in the mix for a top 5 challenge but next week really will be crucial.

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:49 pm  

Its a catch-22 situation for the Bulls here. They are in no way able to compete with the other teams in the playoffs (despite having an enormous squad of underused, and probably sub-par players), but to admit that this season is about just holding our place would be tantamount to just not being bothered now we're safe. (Although it did look like that on the pitch at some points today.)

However, promising us playoff footy and then delivering THIS dirge is just as bad.

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:52 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Well given the side we picked I didn’t expect much from this match, but our own poor errors have contributed to a bit of a hammering. Desperately need some experience and quality retuning to our back line. If Keyes is over his injuries then maybe we might have a decent last third to the season, I just hope we aren’t too far behind the teams above by that point.

Must admit, disappointing to see McNally showboating in front of the Bulls fans after releasing him earlier in the season to ease his personal circumstances.

What a ridiculous comment about McNally. When he scored his breakaway try in the first half, as soon as he scored he put his hand up to the Bulls fans. When all his Leigh teammates jumped on him he again didn’t celebrate and again his held his hand up to the Bulls fans. Personally I would of celebrated a try with his team, but he didn’t, so what if he had. What part of that was you offended by????

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:26 pm  

roger daly wrote:

What a ridiculous comment about McNally. When he scored his breakaway try in the first half, as soon as he scored he put his hand up to the Bulls fans. When all his Leigh teammates jumped on him he again didn’t celebrate and again his held his hand up to the Bulls fans. Personally I would of celebrated a try with his team, but he didn’t, so what if he had. What part of that was you offended by????

Totally agree with you Roger, he put his hand up to the crowd as if to say sorry. He was the bigger man! As for game it wasn’t our best but Leigh are a good team and it didn’t help with all the errors we made. However, to see all the negative comments and the poop all over facebook makes me feel a little sick. It must be upsetting for the players! I’m sure they didn’t set out to lose, but we are not helping as fans! I spoke to a couple of players recently and one said he has a few options for next year but he said he loves being a part of Bradford partly because of the fans. Wonder what he would think now?

Re: Leigh A 16/6 : Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:33 pm  

I have to echo Roger there. He held his hand up to the Bulls fans when he scored in front of them in the first half. In the second he was in front of the Leigh fans when he celebrated. Thought he showed some class there tbf.

Now onto the game. Attack was much much better albeit 3 bombed chances. Kicking game shows exactly why we need proper halfbacks like Keyes. We still aren’t straightening up when taking the line on. And pass distribution is too poor at the moment. Too many balls at head or thigh height. End of the day just not clinical enough. Kirk scored it’s a different ballgame as they went up and got a repeat set them scored following his blunder.

Defence was good in parts. But the parts where it wasn’t good it was awful!! That second rowers try was awful. Yes Wood was lazy in the inside defence but Magrin wasn’t pushing him over from his inside either. I actually thought the nee faces like Magrin, Garside and Gibson didn’t do that bad. Although some may disagree. Not sure I like Minchella always coming back across the field, I prefer when he runs proper lines like Storton did for his try. DFJ was okay today but e’s been gret all season, god know what Grant was doing but the bloke has no pace at all. For the record I like Grant and his contributions for the past two years.

Leigh have built a very good side supplemented by a small Saints contingent and played better than us and were more clinical. They’ll be top 5 I think.

Totally different side when you get Keyes, Webster, Evans and Hitchcox back.