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.

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.

Kearneys misses are alarming. Might as well not have a full back as they just walk passed him. His positioning for kicks is woeful. He stands far too close to the line, thy just kick it behind him with ease and he ends up havin to run back to get creamed as soon as he touches the ball or doesn't get there in time and concedes aTry. I like Kearney but this needs to be rectified on the training field urgently.

I remember before one game in the Brian Smith era, he had IRRC Neil Summers teaching him tackling technique. he was actually getting hold of his feet & putting them exactly in the correct position. I had never seen anything like it at the time. Maybe Franny should get Smithy over.

186 tackles and 18 missed......I think we can let Donno off for that! That is a hell of a lot of tackles for 4 games.