A terrible first 30 minutes from the Bulls today, it looked like they hadn't met each other until 5 minutes before the kick off. Far too many dropped passes and poor efforts defensively.

We then all of a sudden upped the pace with 10 minutes to go and were rewarded with two tries, the second of which was an especially brave decision. 40 seconds to go and a penalty in front of the posts, most teams would have kicked for 2 and trotted off for an orange and a tea... but we didn't and we were rewarded handsomely.

Bulls were on top for most of the second half and looked comfortable until Price's late try. Not a great performance but a win is a win and we are up to .500 as the Americans would say (4wins, 4 defeats).

Regarding the pull back on Ainscough, from my view it looked like Child walked on to the field at the same time as Alibert was blowing his whistle. How on earth it wasn't a sinbinning I'll never know.

Burgess looked good in his short spell and it will be interesting to see if he gets more game time, Whitehead, Donaldson, Burgess... if only we could make a good half back...

We made Karl Price look unstopable today. He was far too quick and powerful for our edge defence. If only he could fulfill his potential, it would be great for England. I didn't quite understand him being booed as when ever I've seen him he has always come across as funny and polite and not at all like his brother.

There really is a bad atmosphere problem at Odsal now and I'm not sure how it can be fixed. We were outsung all match by 20 Quins fans, an embarressment in both respects.

Fielden started in the second row too.

The numbers were issued back along with the others. The clue was there when they gave Briggs number 32 instead of the logical 26. It suggested there was 6 other players that had been issued squad numbers but not actually announced. Coincidentally, there were 6 players that everyone expected in there that weren't. (Burgess, O'Brien, Finigan, Southernwood, Bateman & McAvoy). Also the training video that was shown at one of the Pre-Season evenings (and temporarily on YouTube until the club realised and made it private), showed Burgess training with a number 29 on his training top, as well as Vinny Finigan with a number 28 on his.

He may have asked for it pre-season (although I think it's more likely it's just coincidence), but they certainly haven't just been issued with squad numbers now.

(Incidentally, none of that is "FACT", but I don't believe in those sort of things being coincidence!)

Besides, Adam O'Brien wore Number 27 at Huddersfield, so he couldn't have been given that.

No, you can't have Briggs 26 as it would lead to obvious confusion with the bus service to Brighouse from Bradford which has always been No. 26. They didn't want short-sighted people attempting to board him in the middle of a match.

Briggs being 32 does make it look like those numbers have already been assigned even if not announced.