: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:38 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

A very entertaining contest with both sides enjoying dominant spells. I thought we did very well to get our noses in front but like the penalty in the 1st minute.. I felt we should have ran with it. Our defence is still leaky and against teams like Saints and Leeds I feel we should be attacking their line as much as possible. Ok we came away with 2 points with the first penalty but we're then back deep in our own half. The Deacon miss and then failing to get it dead was a big blunder and that was obviously the turning point.

I think we can learn a bit from Leeds, their pressure building was better than ours and forced us to drop out on numerous occasions. When you're riding high, then the bounce of the ball often goes in your favour. I felt tonight that the bounce was nearly always in the Rhino's favour.

But we once again showed that when we cut out the silly errors we aren't a bad side and can play some decent Rugby. We now need to take these enthusiasm and effort levels into our remaining games. We have plenty of winnable games in there if we can continue with this level of performance.

Which games are left till the season finishes and of those who will you beat?

: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:46 pm  

debaser wrote:

Gutted in all honesty. It was there for the taking. I thought the 2 points was a fair call, get it or not, we should, should get the ball back, but bl00dy typically of our luck, its not dead and bang. Still had chances to level it or nick it. A nice big call of forward from the South Stand to give Bentham no choice then a few risky moves to force it and it all over.
Still, its the story of our season really, the better side for lots of the game and coming away with nothing.

Is it a coincidence that the two top sides in the comp look to be two of the "dirtiest" I wonder? High shots galore again and nothing done. I wonder if the Bulls need a big more mongrel, its obviously working.

Good game though. Well played all.

A yard forward bud. No exaggeration. Sorry

: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:01 pm  

A good performance from us tonight, could have really done with the result though. Got to kick on now though and not slip into making really numb errors. For me, what lost it was the first 25 mins, simply gave them to many soft points, carried them down the field and just couldnt get ourselves going.

: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:15 pm  

For the majority of the game Bradford played really well, bar that period in the first half where we decided to simply switch off and let Leeds run in a series of soft tries.

Overall a very good game, came away disappointed but not disheartened. I genuinely think that is a game where I can accept a line from McNamara saying we can take a lot of positives away from that game.

Re Sheriffe's disallowed try, I'd have liked to have seen it on the replay too, as would I have liked to see Hall's first as that was pretty close to the flag. It probably would have confirmed the decisions, but it's always nice to be sure in those circumstances.

: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:17 pm  

verynoble wrote:

It was clear from 120 yards away that it wasn't a try.

Not saying it was a try, but get away thinking it was a clear cut decision.

: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:06 am  

You can't expect to beat any team especially Leeds when you give them a 16 point start and that's what we did.

: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:19 am  

redeverready wrote:

You can't expect to beat any team especially Leeds when you give them a 16 point start and that's what we did.

Exactly

Take the first 15 mins out of the game and we're 16 points better off.

They beat us then. No surprise we looked a better side without newton tho

: Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:02 am  

Leeds should have had 50 tonight we bombed a few which let you back into the game but as soon ad you got a sniff Leeds moved up a gear and the game was ours! Bentham kept you in it with a outrageous lopp sided penalty count!! Leeds were no way worse than the bulls but Bentham couldn't help his self!! I'm not worried at all as you had so many sets on our line and didn't look like scoring!! Well done to the bulls big effort but not good enough to win. If I were a bulls fan I would be outraged and disgusted that your team can give it's all against Leeds one week and look disinterested for the best part of 17 games!! Bradford in he play off's?? Not a chance

: Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:20 am  

sgtwilko wrote:

Leeds should have had 50 tonight we bombed a few which let you back into the game but as soon ad you got a sniff Leeds moved up a gear and the game was ours! Bentham kept you in it with a outrageous lopp sided penalty count!! Leeds were no way worse than the bulls but Bentham couldn't help his self!! I'm not worried at all as you had so many sets on our line and didn't look like scoring!! Well done to the bulls big effort but not good enough to win. If I were a bulls fan I would be outraged and discusted that your team can give it's all against Leeds one week and look disinterested for the best part of 17 games!! Bradford in he play off's?? Not a chance

although i didnt see the game, i think its a bit early to be writing the bulls off for the play offs. after all they have beaten saints and leeds this season they will make the play offs mark my words.

: Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:23 am  

faxtastic wrote:

although i didnt see the game, i think its a bit early to be writing the bulls off for the play offs. after all they have beaten saints and leeds this season they will make the play offs mark my words.

Hey, don't get on the wrong side of the resident expert, he'll call you a feckwitt and everything, you know.