Friendly: Keighley : Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:37 pm  

Still no Murphy, A. England or Hallas. Hopefully nothing too serious.

Be interesting to see how Kear approaches this. Obviously Lilley and Brough need to get some decent minutes under their belts to build that partnership, but Kear needs to give an opportunity for either Jowitt to stake a claim as the HB option for Fev and Sheffield or start swapping Pickersgill around and Brown at FB. I'd prefer just to give Jowitt a shot. Fevs a free hit and I think we'll have enough to beat Sheffield even if he isn't quite ready (famous last words)

I don't like the idea of moving Pickersgill, disrupting the whole team and then putting him back to FB. Just don't get any consistency in the spine.

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:22 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Still no Murphy, A. England or Hallas. Hopefully nothing too serious.

Slightly concerning that they aren't to feature this week. If these players have slight niggles there is no point potentially aggravating these injuries for a friendly. Hopefully there isn't anything long term with Murphy, Hallas and England.

As for the halfback dilemma, I'd be tempted to give Jowitt an opportunity to play longer minutes with Brough in preparation for Lilley's ban. Maybe give Lilley/Brough the first half and then give Jowitt an opportunity to play a large chunk of the second half with Brough.

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:04 pm  

and we are off for the second warm up ... live from china via California (lol)

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:06 pm  

2' Goal line drop out for the visitors, Brown trapped in goal.

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:07 pm  

3' Bradford hold out well however, as we look to break from our 20m line.

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:08 pm  

4' Brough kicks a fantastic 40/20, tap 20m out for us!

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:09 pm  

5' TRYYYYYY - What an effort from Tom Doyle!

He spots a gap and forces his way over for the opening score!

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:11 pm  

6' GOAL! - Brough converts! .... 6-0 Bulls

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:12 pm  

Danny Brough is looking absolute class.

Re: Friendly: Keighley : Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:13 pm  

8' TRYYYYY - Broughy's in for his first in Bradford colours!

Dancing around the Keighley defence, he manages to touch down to extend the scores!