Gale waving his hand manically to be first receiver at every PTB near their line was a bit of an indication where the ball might go, and no-one at dummy half seemed to take the initiative other than to go where he directed or throw the usual flat pass to a forward, most of whom weren't coming on to the ball with any speed or desire. I was really disappointed in Gale's performance full stop, whilst Wire were putting us under pressure with high balls, he repeatedly kicked low - more often than not in to an opposing player's head. His passing, including the no look - or should I see the fling it out without any idea where it's going pass - mislead most of his own team and generally he executed very poorly. We had plenty of chances in the first half close to their line and in front of the Bradford fans, but managed to either knock on, get it intercepted or play the ball to nobody, requiring Kearney to kick it across the field. Execution overall was lousy and that was before the rain. Second half, no idea how one sided the penalty count was, but we didn't help ourselves at all, and despite some moments of spirited defending we fell apart at the end.

Ratchford looked very dangerous with the ball in hand and had far more time to play than Wire allowed us. Atkins was his usual narky self, with a real dumb penalty in front of the touch judge in the first half, which we again failed to capitalise on. He and Gale were chipping away at each other throughout but Atkins had the last laugh scoring in front of the Bulls end. Overall it wasn't as bad as the score line suggested and if we had taken our chance to even things up before the end of the first half rather than gifting them a try wide we might have been in with a shout the second half.

Anyone else think that Lulia looks a bit fed up. Like he doesn't want to be here? Seemed he couldn't be bothered to try to stop one of the try scorers in the second half

I'm not sure if defences have figured him out or his mind is elsewhere but he isn't the same player as last year so far. Still fairly sound in defence but the hand offs and quality offloads seem to have disappeared from his game. Hopeful that Matty Blythe is finally passed fit for the derby, he was our most dangerous runner before his injury.

Warringtons defence was rock solid today, ours wasn't. most disappointing thing is we still had a shout with twenty mins left but ccouldn't up our game... a hard shift for the lads.

One of the reasons Lulia has struggled is that our attacking structure from right to left has been badly disrupted by the absence of Gale, Jeffries and often Bateman who was at his best in that left channel last season. Sammutt is great but doesn't have a great pass.

If Gale gets fit and our line gets settled we should move the ball left quicker and give Keith something of a running chance which he's not getting.

Thought we were better than the score suggested, though there's no doubt Wire were deserved winners. We defended very well for most of the game but were undone by some quality attacking skills, which we didn't seem to have along with a strong defence.

It wasn't the best day for handling to be fair and Wire dropped a few themselves, though generally had more time and didn't need to rush things as we did. Once again we looked a bit 'lightweight' up front and it showed with the quick ptbs that Wire were getting. That said, as with the Wigan game, we need to start taking whatever the ref will put up with when getting out of the ruck, other sides seem to be pushing the envelope [and getting away with it] far more than us on that one.

Overall, I'm disappointed with the score and some aspects of the performance, but as I never really had it down as a match we were likely to win, I'm not desperately unhappy about the result.