credit to you guys for throwing the ball about in the final stages of the game. the fans you brought deserved it for staying to the death. i think if you target the right games youll pick up enough points no worries. it might mean taking some heavy defeats along the way. but if you keep going for each game week in week out with your skinny squad you might find you burn out and keep coming up short. just my opinion. good luck this year, especially against rovers.

Yeah, i think it is clear that we need to be realistic and target certain games as must win. That said, the team has to play to win every game, its the only way to build any momentum and all "big teams" can have an off day.

99% is probably a tad exaggerated tbh

Well if it's less than 99% then I am ashamed of our supporters to be honest.

I can only assume that a lot of people weren't around in 99 when we went through this ourselves? Not to mention a club the size of Bradford going to the wall would be terrible for the game.

Agreed but I would say 50% of fans only really care what happens to their own club and couldn't give a hoot about anyone else's

Four games in and we top the league for missed tackles! Yay!

Too many players going high. Olbison and Addy seem incapable of bending their backs.

Tackling technique has long been a problem for Addy but disappointed with Olbison. Obviously technique is at fault. There's too much around the chest and often they get in the wrong position to effect the tackle and get brushed off easier. That could be down to a number of reasons but some players are better than others in this dept so I don't think it's always a team problem, more of an individual one.

Some misses will always happen when we're on the back foot, which with our lighter pack we will be a lot. Then again we seem to miss easy one on ones a bit too much IMO.

I nearly said back to the training ground but do we still have one?

Why can't Donno just round them all up and give them some pointers? If our squad all had his tackling technique we'd be laughing!

Just to add, Donaldson is still the league's top tackler, but he's also second for missed tackles and the top Bradford player in both departments - he must've missed a fair few against Hull FC.

Bradford Top 10 for tackles and misses - ordered by missed tackles

Donaldson; 186, 18
Kearney; 26, 15 (FFS!)
Addy; 91, 15
Henry; 58, 12
Gale; 50, 9
Olbison; 72, 7
Kear; 15, 6
Sidlow; 125, 6
Purtell; 42, 6
Bridge; 129, 5

Oh and as a team we're second in the most errors made behind Hull KR.