Re: Bulls : Sun Sep 17, 2023 5:56 pm  

Worked very hard in defence but careless with the ball throughout the game and especially the first half. I thought we lacked a little guile with Norman not so dominant and a lack of other flair players. Bulls deserved to edge it. Decent crowd felt larger than last week but possibly they shoved everyone into fewer stand - who knows. Lively atmosphere.

Re: Bulls : Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:02 pm  

Overall think that was a winnable game lost by london than won by Bradford. Dropped ball on wet conditions fine, but incorrect PTBs and giving away stupid penalties lost em the game. Last play kicking not great.
Thought Bradford played the wet conditions better and defended really well.

Re: Bulls : Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:13 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Worked very hard in defence but careless with the ball throughout the game and especially the first half. I thought we lacked a little guile with Norman not so dominant and a lack of other flair players. Bulls deserved to edge it. Decent crowd felt larger than last week but possibly they shoved everyone into fewer stand - who knows. Lively atmosphere.

Pretty spot on, a disappointing result all told and makes next Sunday more high stakes than we wanted.
A Bradford team we should've had the beating of on paper, but they executed better both sides of the ball. Thought the Bulls played with that bit more intensity too, whilst we looked a bit flat.

Keighely took 'Fax all the way it seems, no easy game next week.

Re: Bulls : Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:23 pm  

A bit like the York game we don't seem to adapt to wet conditions. I suspect we would have won in hot conditions.

Re: Bulls : Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:33 pm  

It was an error strewn performance, badly breaking up any momentum we were building. The idea of constant use of the 3 quarters to make ground from our own line was odd. Punchy forwards was what was needed. Bienek and Waine would have added as would Whare. If we play this mob in the play offs, I would back us. The referee did make some random decisions but he ho

Re: Bulls : Sun Sep 17, 2023 8:27 pm  

RfE wrote:

...COYB!!

Be careful what you wish for!

Re: Bulls : Sun Sep 17, 2023 10:52 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Be careful what you wish for!

Bongser I meant to ask. I saw you had problem with your coach for the Cup final. You did get to Wembley didn’t you?

Re: Bulls : Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:12 am  

Broncos don't play well in the wet. They missed Dean Whare. Bradford were more fired up and had a good goal line defence. Always going to be close and Bradford deserved it by making less mistakes.
A relatively good crowd and atmosphere. However, I will always find abuse of the match officials offensive.

Re: Bulls : Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:35 am  

Pretty poor performance. Far too many errors. It was surprising Bradford did not win by more.

Re: Bulls : Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:41 am  

ON the plus side, it does mean all playoff games will be away, so we won't have to try and book Rosslyn Park for the eliminator