Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:44 pm  

27 minutes played.. time for a dose of reality of what a double salary cap means

Wakefield (worst team in Superleague 2015 ) 30 points ..Bradford Nil

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:56 pm  

To be fair Wakefield have improved quite well toward the end of the season. It's no shock that they are winning by this margin.
Wakefield just started like a house on fire and Bradford didn't.
Happens in SL all the time.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:03 pm  

Hold on. Bulls are a class act. Eddie has told us a few times they hammered the Eagles last week, so they must be good.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:03 pm  

Bradford have froze when their big opportunity came, does happen in sport.

Remember Widnes took quite a long time to score any points last week vs Halifax and only lost 14-0.

It was inevitable though really with RL fans that as soon as the first big score line came in that they'd be this type of thread, regardless of what happened in last weeks games.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:11 pm  

There will nobody more disappointed than Bradford themselves, they haven't done themselves any justice at all. Wakefield much better than earlier in the season too to be fair. Bulls try as I write, been pretty competitive since the first half hour.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:41 pm  

The gulf in class between Wakefield and the top two in the Championship is, IMO, not as big as the scoreline suggested.

Bradford didn't come into the game in form. Prior to the Sheffield game they had only won one in four (vs Hunslet). The Sheffield result last week highlights how badly the Championship lacks week-to-week intensity - that will hold the Championship clubs back more than any salary cap difference.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:38 pm  

Try to remember folks, this is a New Wakefield team, bought in, or brought in over the last few weeks specifically to save their skins in the Middle 8's.[/b][/b]
As improved as Wakey were, this is not the Bradford that made 2nd in the Championship, on form they are really very good & if they can put this to one side can still take it to a SL side.

The "Gulf" that some SL fans are so fond of describing is nowhere near as big between the bottom half of SL & the top 4 of Championship as their dilusional SL phsyche proclaims.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:49 pm  

I wonder what the odds are of no team from the Championship beating SL opposition? I can foresee every SL v Championship game going the way of the SL club.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:55 pm  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

Try to remember folks, this is a New Wakefield team, bought in, or brought in over the last few weeks specifically to save their skins in the Middle 8's.[/b][/b]
As improved as Wakey were, this is not the Bradford that made 2nd in the Championship, on form they are really very good & if they can put this to one side can still take it to a SL side.

The "Gulf" that some SL fans are so fond of describing is nowhere near as big between the bottom half of SL & the top 4 of Championship as their dilusional SL phsyche proclaims.

Wakefield are perfectly entitled to sign players whenever they choose before the deadline, as indeed all clubs are. In fact, most of Wakefield's signings only replaced player who left.
I am starting to think there is a gulf in class between the bottom of SL and the top of the Championship. It's easy beating semi professional teams by a cricket score, but completely different coming up against SL teams.

Re: Gulf in Intensity between Bradford and Super League : Sun Aug 16, 2015 7:17 am  

Leigh have shown in a one off game Chanpionship sides can beat SL but over 7 games against capable opponents may prove the undoing of the championship sides in my opinion. Wakefields forwards completely bossed the Bulls and At 30-0 up they took their foot of the gas