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.

Also, am I the only one who thinks we aren't playing with enough depth when attacking? We always seem to be too square on when we are moving across the field (hope this makes sense to someone!).

Off topic slightly, anyone know the score/scorers in the U-20 game played before the main fixture????

Really? Has he improved since the pre season friendlies?

Yeah, that was the main reason for the majority of dropped balls in the 1st half near their line. You give yourselves no room to move and the Quins defenders had nothing to think about.

I can't wait to see that first half completion rate mate. I think it could be under the 63% we had at Huddersfield.

Im sure I can remember 11 dropped balls at least off the top of my head so that'll be somewhere nearer 50%. I was going to do an error count too but it slipped my mind. Im actually glad because i'd have run out of ink

I think I know what you mean. Similar thing occurred to me. On our ball you could have covered 3/4s of our team with the Bulls banner that goes across the terrace.

Its the other ankle apparantly. Doesn't sound like a long term injury.

Exactly, we need players standing further back to give some space and to cause the defence to think.

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Well maybe not like that, it's not meant to be a literal representation but something with more depth!

That didn't look like that before I posted it!!!!!