I went yesterday and was disappointed for Ablett that the crowd wasn't bigger.
It was an excellent afternoon for rugby - I used to love such days in the era before super league.
A word of commendation to the groundstaff, considering the amount of rain we've had & the number of RU games played on it, it looked very good.
Re the game itself, Burrow looked very lively & seems to have lost none of his zip.
Singleton charged on to the ball at a good pace & Garbutt looks raring to go, our new Kylie or even Barrie Mac.
The Bulls offloaded excellently & made a good game of it, the score was closer due to our failure to convert our tries. I wonder if Zak is trying to kick the ball too hard but his kick offs were as difficult to deal with as ever.
He was safe as houses again under the high ball.
Briscoe looks back to his best & Ryan Hall was, well Ryan Hall.
McGuire made & scored the first try through his quick thinking, spotting a gap on the short side (blind side).
Watkins handling was iffy at times but he's great to watch once he has the ball in hand.
I worry that Ferres is a bit of a penalty machine but otherwise a great acquisition.
Galloway I'm not sure about, not a worldbeater but I don't think he'll let us down.
Falloon looked ok but only played about half the game - I think Burrow played the full 80.
It was good to see Sutcliffe back.
Golding continues to impress & both he & Handley have benefited from a full off-season.
Lilley wasn't on long enough, I'd have liked to have seen him & Sutcliffe on together more.
I though Achurch went ok, with his size & pace he can be a handful if he stays injury-free.
Bradford will I think go well in the Championship.
Roll on Feb 4th.

He was great individually at times, as was McGuire too. As a link for the rest of the team they were poor though, and that is the problem. We have fantastic backs, we have a very good pack. If you can't get them linked together then the team will suffer.

I would have Sutcliffe definitely playing on Sunday to get him fitter quicker. Oh, and Walters is absolute garbage, really sorry but he is.

It's a posh way of saying "crystal ball(s)".

Enjoyed the game.

Bradford played well and will be at worst 2nd night the championship.

It was a typical friendly sloppy at times lots of swapping and changing (specially second half)

Galloway looked ok but was blowing a lot but he is a big lad and will go ok I think once he gets some match fitness.

Garbut MOM for me, looked a great solid player last year, looks like a real force for this season not just a plodder.

Golding is a real future star, but where do we play him, I reckon he could a easily play centre, not a huge player like some in the modern game, but great feet strong and busts tackles, can see him replacing Moon.

Falloon looked good great sharp distribution and scored his try well.

Ferres yes needs to sort silly jiggly penalties out.

Lilley needed more time on field

And I think we pretty much know about everyone else.

Plenty to look forward to.

Hope Bradford come up. Super league and Leeds need a strong again Bradford.

Glad to see we gave you a contest. Couldn't make it to the match.

Hard to tell how we will go across the back line structure wise until a couple of games in I reckon. Looking at the forwards for me was most interesting yesterday. Early doors, but, we may prosper in different ways with the new lads I reckon. Galloway looks like he could be a wrecking ball, he's never gonna do stints like JP, but I think he may make more yards per carry. As for Garbutt, he will also make good yards per carry, but unlike Kyle, we have more chance of an offload from him. He looked to offload a couple of times with unfortunately no support on hand. Baldwinson has made a big lad, but in the couple of spells I've seen, it's been hard to judge what sort of an impact he may have. We will obviously miss JP's immense tackling stints, but at times he lacked the energy to go forward on the back of it. Maybe the new lads only being able to do shorter stints may be a bonus, only time will tell. Going forward the pack looks plenty strong enough, whether they will defend like the treble winning pack is the key question.

Handley is first reserve winger and Golding first reserve full back however Golding showed his real class well before he first played in the first team and IMO has leap frogged Handley as a possible centre should Keinhorst be unavailable. He can also play scrum half too with Lilley more suited to the SO position.