Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:25 am  

Tbh most of us Bulls fans knew Catalan would beat us. 20-0 at half time and the second half was 14-12 to Catalan. We played some good rugby but made poor defensive mistakes. Our wide defence was good just poor down middle. Plus we scored the 2 best tries of the game. The build up-s to both were pretty quality. Cats are a top 4 possibly top 3 side this season. Cas arn't (no ofeence) so should be a good game.

Castleford 28-32 Bradford.
MOM - Owen/Chase/Gale
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Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:30 am  

Think Bulls have a better pack than us - remember this is a far cry from the side we beat in the friendly. Think it's going to be tough and a much harder ask than Salford was.

Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:14 am  

Cas complacency will result in a 12-21 Win to the RFL Bulls ...

Might add that Basil has a tendency to play slightly weaker teams against the Bulls, well thats what it alegedly says in Shaun Longs book

Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:40 pm  

Fully wrote:

Think Bulls have a better pack than us - remember this is a far cry from the side we beat in the friendly. Think it's going to be tough and a much harder ask than Salford was.

Its a far cry from the team we put out against the bulls too.

Plus I don't think bradford and salford will be a world apart in league positions this season.

Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:00 pm  

No prediction from me....i don't think the game will go ahead if the weather forecast is to be believed.

Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:06 pm  

Towns88 wrote:

Its a far cry from the team we put out against the bulls too.

Plus I don't think bradford and salford will be a world apart in league positions this season.

True but I think Bradford's depth is much stronger than ours. There's probably only 4/5 players out of their squad from Boxing Day that will probably be in their 17 (Hargreaves, Langley, Manuoakafoa, Donaldson and possibly Joseph may get a run out this weekend).

We had Griffin, McGoldrick, Nash, Milner, Holmes, Jones, Massey, Clark and Snitch.

Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:26 pm  

Any news on the state of the pitch, I know it's still early but given the forecast what chance of the game going ahead, 50-50 or less?

Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:00 pm  

Weather Warning

Wednesday 8th February

YELLOW WARNING - ICE

Rain will spread southeastwards across Scotland later today, reaching northern England early Thursday. As it falls onto very cold surfaces, it will freeze instantly, leading to hazardouse icy conditions.

The warning may be upgraded to Amber in due course.

Valid until 1800 Thursday

Wednesday 8th February

YELLOW EARLY WARNING - SNOW

An area of snow is expected to develop over east and northeast England later on Thursday, and then during Friday this will extend steadily southwestwards into central and some southwestern parts of England, as well as the east of Wales.

Accumulations of up to about 10cm are possible in the worst affected regions. As a result, there could be some disruption to travel.
BBC

Re: Bulls at home ! : Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:33 pm  

Manuokafoa is out for at least 6 weeks.

Likely line-up:

1. Kearney
2. Kear
3. Purtell
4. Lulia
5. Crookes
6. Sammut
7. Gale
8. Hargreaves
9. Diskin
10. Kopczak
11. Whitehead
12. Sibbit
13. Langley

14. L'Estrange
15. Donaldson
16. Burgess
17. Scruton


I personally would go with:

1. Kearney
2. Kear
3. Purtell
4. Lulia
5. Crookes
6. Sammut
7. Gale
8. Joseph
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopczak
11. Whitehead
12. Langley
13. Addy

14. Diskin
15. Burgess
16. Scruton
17. Donaldson

Re: Bulls at home ! : Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:26 am  

Speedy wrote:

YELLOW EARLY WARNING - SNOW

I think you'll find I did warn you earlier about eating that yellow snow.
or now you mention it, it was more amber