Quote: tigertot "An advantage of being relatively impartial is I can sit back & view relatively objectively. There is no confusion in my post, it's completely factual. I wouldn't expect anything less from you than to search for the positives from the season so far, I genuinely admire you for your loyalty, but some more cold, hard facts are Bulls have conceded more points than all the teams I mentioned, apart from Cas (by 2), but that is likley to significantly worse after Friday, & your points for is still likely to be by far the worse. Very few teams continue to lose by just a few points, eventually the psychology will get to you.'"
Thanks for that, but you're looking for a rose-tinted one-eyed partisanship that really wasn't there.
Bradford Bulls vs Hull KR 13 - 13. Not many points in that one. In fact, 0.
Bradford Bulls vs Huddersfield Giants 12 - 16 . Not many points in that one. Call it 4.
Bradford Bulls vs Hull FC 24 - 36 . Not many points in that one, but I'll concede not a close enough game to 'count' in my general argument
Catalans Dragons vs Bradford Bulls - 24 - 30. Not many points in that one. But again, we ended up the right side.
Castleford Tigers vs Bradford Bulls 28 - 26. Not many points in that one. 2, to be precise.
Catalans Dragons vs Bradford Bulls 40 - 38. Not many points in that one. 2 more, to be exact.
Bradford Bulls vs Leeds Rhinos 10-6 . Not many points in that one, but we were on the right side again.
Wakefield Wildcats vs Bradford Bulls 24 - 22. Not many points in that one. 2, to be precise.
The way we have been shipping in points, points difference is the more relevant measure for us so far.
Of the above games that we failed to win, the points differences were.
These are cold, hard facts.
When you look at our points conceded, as you have, and indeed the aggregate points difference, the two unmitigated paggerings by Wire and Wigan obviously were a different category of loss altogether. We shipped over a century of points, FFS.
Bradford Bulls vs Warrington Wolves 22 - 58
Wigan Warriors vs Bradford Bulls 44-10
But bad though we were, they are not, on ANY view, what we have been doing [iall[/i season. This, let's be clear, is in no way positive spin, or [iany[/i spin, just listing the facts lest they be lost sight of.
On such narrow margins, an impartial observer would say it is fact that we could very easily have had four more league wins than we do, and still be in the Cup. It is fact that we have THROWN games away in some cases rather than having simply been beaten. It isn't good, but it is fact.
