I went down today and enjoyed it, we look fit and n good shape.

Very comfortable as expected, credit to Wests they gave it a good crack, young Poching made a few good tackles.

Bentley and Oledski rested.

Newman and Croft withdrawn at halftime, Croft looked fine, Newman seemed to play last few minutes at half speed, hope he is OK. Sinfield did well but limped off after getting caught in the ankle, suspect he will miss next week as a minimum.

Good to see Edgell back. I like the look of Palasia, he looks a much better all round player than say Tetevano.

The crowd was very low, I was disappointed just how poor it was.

I wonder if next season , they need to put the championship and L1 clubs in a bag and draw 12 ties v SL teams , then draw the other games . Hopefully this would mean the home club could play at home and create more interest from SL fans.

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nearly HT and castleford don't even look like a decent championship side. dreadful

Take nowt away from Bradford who've been really good but cas look to have fallen off a cliff edge even from last season

And they were already dreadful.

Cas were dire,but we came unstuck a few years back there.
The mud and a pitch only 55 metres wide makes it easier to defend and is a great leveller.
I have seen wider schoolboys pitches and it should not be allowed.

Unless they can get significant investment into Odsal, they should move to Valley Parade.

it's a disgrace isn't it?

Valley Parade owners wanted £750k a season so that was a non-starter. We're stuck with the Odsal millstone unfortunately since finding someone with tens of millions needed has been impossible since the 1930s.

Valley Parade pitch is smaller than Odsal BTW. Odsal pitch has a dispensation to be the size it is. Length wise it's no different to many RL grounds.

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Not sure how you get that.
Valley parade is reported as 64 metres wide

It's shorter than it was when we were last there apparently - and that needed a dispensation then.

No idea what the answer is for Bradford , given the financial pressures facing the game, ground sharing needs looking at more widely in the sport.

Share a ground with Halifax? Share the new Ken Davy ground, Share Headingley, I know this will bring Bradfordians out in hives , would probably do same for me.

On our game, 1,310 in attendance is abysmal and emphasises the game’s income challenge, see above share costs suggestions