: Sat May 02, 2009 9:26 pm  

debaser wrote:

Every knock on=penalty. Is that a new rule?

Or if you're losing you can ignore blatant offside. Thought Smith was a little lenient at times but it matter not this time.

I was pleased with today's performance, our goal line defence was pretty special today at times. We still need to improve though, we made today a little more stressful than it needed to be. But the mistakes are much less frequent at the moment.

We have some very winnable games coming up, let's hope we keep the intensity up now. Ignore the table and just take each game at a time and see where we end up.

: Sat May 02, 2009 10:12 pm  

Two wins on the trot
Must say I started to worry in the second half and we made things much harder than they needed to be. But I was very happy to see (again) that steel in defence and pride in our line.
Well done lads and please keep it up.

Hope Semi not too badly hurt. He looked classy today.

: Sat May 02, 2009 11:11 pm  

Sky gave man of the match to Burgess. I though he played well, however i thought Jefferies was the best player on the pitch for us today. He has probably been our stand-out performer this season along with Menzies.

Warlord scored a try again at an opportune moment to curtail the Wakefield fightback and Sykes took his tries well.

Halley again dropped off a few tackles and i cant believe the Sherriffe knock-on!!

They seem to be playing with more confidence.

: Sat May 02, 2009 11:14 pm  

Sykes hat-trick sees off late Wildcats scare Worrincy got his angle on to Jefferies' pass just right and the crisis was over. Sykes had his personal celebration to come and Bradford's season, dying on its feet a couple of weeks ago, suddenly looks full of possibilities. Sky post-game

Sykes hat-trick sees off late Wildcats scare Worrincy got his angle on to Jefferies' pass just right and the crisis was over. Sykes had his personal celebration to come and Bradford's season, dying on its feet a couple of weeks ago, suddenly looks full of possibilities. Sky post-game

: Tue May 05, 2009 10:54 am  

No one got much to say about this game then? Shocked by the Beaver double whammy that led to the Snitch try. But good to see WL turn creator for the final score.

: Tue May 05, 2009 11:33 am  

af wrote:

No one got much to say about this game then? Shocked by the Beaver double whammy that led to the Snitch try. But good to see WL turn creator for the final score.

It does seem strangely quiet. I've commented more elsewhere, but briefly I thought the Wakey forwards were no match for Bradford, & BJ & Sykes ripped Wakey's centre/wing partnership to shreds.
Memories are a bit hazy but I thought the second of the 3 VT decisions was harsh on Wakey. I felt for John Kear, who is just about my favourite RL person on the planet, a 100% dignified gentleman. I look forward to him coming home to Cas.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:03 pm  

tigertot wrote:

I thought the second of the 3 VT decisions was harsh on Wakey.

Would that be the obstruction to deny Brough?

I thought it was a well executed move and Newton was attracted to the dummy runner in Sculthorpe. However Sculthorpe then unnecessarily grabbed Newton momentarily, once he had done that the video ref had little option but to scrub it off in my opinion. It is perhaps doubtful that Newton would have got there to make the tackle without being held back, but it was still the correct call I think. Wakefield only have Sculthorpe to blame for that decision.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:14 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Would that be the obstruction to deny Brough?

I thought it was a well executed move and Newton was attracted to the dummy runner in Sculthorpe. However Sculthorpe then unnecessarily grabbed Newton momentarily, once he had done that the video ref had little option but to scrub it off in my opinion. It is perhaps doubtful that Newton would have got there to make the tackle without being held back, but it was still the correct call I think. Wakefield only have Sculthorpe to blame for that decision.

Spot on. It was unofortunate for them as it was a well worked move, but Mr Sculthorpe blew it

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:15 pm  

We showed some very good signs both in attack and defence.

Attack - we seemed to be able to score tries for fun at times on Sat, some of the handling and running was superb.

Defence - The first 20mins of the second half if much closer to where we need to be with regard to goal line defence. To defend all that was thrown at us (apart from an avoidable try and an unbelievable stroke of luck) was immense.

Not the complete performance yet, but well on the road to recovery I feel.

Looking at results and performances across the league, you get the feeling that anyone in the 8 come September will stand a real good chance of going all the way.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:22 pm  

Well I have just watched the highlights again as the game was a bit of a blur!

All I can say is awesome, some of the best rugby I've seen Bulls play in a long time, everyone getting stuck in and all the players up for it, runners wanting the ball all over the place and some excellent, fast, precise passing which is something we've missed most of the season. Defense looked good for the most part and it looks like we're going in the right direction, lets just hope we can play like that and get results in the next two games.

A few points off the top of my head:

It was good to see Jeffries playing well as he's a real confidence player and that performance will of hopefully done him a lot of good.

Sykes had a stormer as well, pleased for him as he gets some stick.

Menzies was consistent as ever, top class, great in attack and he loves them crunching tackles.

Worrincy was making some good runs and looks almost unstoppable in full flight, more to come from that lad and think he's great as an impact sub.

Srutons effort to stop the wakefield try was fantastic, I've not been his greatest fan but he's starting to play well.

Burgess seems to be finding some form, he looked really up for it and made some of his trademark runs and put a few big hits on the Wakefield pack.

I could mention more as all the lads played well but thats what stood out for me, in a way its a shame we have a break until our next game, I know a rest is good but I would of loved to of gone straight into a game at the weekend on a high.