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| Not excuses just possible reasons. There are plenty but we'll never know. He was humble and showed you respect especially in the run-up. can't you just drop it?
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| Dropped.
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| First three Bulls tries were all directly after stupid penalties. No excusing that one, although one certainly looked like a forward pass from where i was in the North stand. Gaskell is going to be a huge player for you this year, but for gods sake, loose the scrum half - I honestly think he won us the game today.
Yes, Leigh have a couple of niggly (for want of a more acceptable word) players, but then we also had three players taken out off the ball, so I'd suggest that one could cut both ways.
I don't think anyone can go unbeaten this year, or even close, but we've seen the best battle it out today in one of the greatest games I've seen in 42 years of watching Leigh. It had everything.
Coming to the end, as we ran in our last but one try, I said to the bloke stood next to me "That's it, we'll score another here". You could see the body language change, and there was a little bit of what looked like finger pointing going on. That needs nipping in the bud.
But well played, and unlucky, Bradford, both your team and your fans were a credit to you, especially the fan in the services just before Bradford who opened the door to me with a "Are you buggers stalking us now?" and a grin as I drove home to sunny Shorpe :/
See you for the last game.
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| Enjoyed the game today. Great atmosphere and a huge Bradford following really helped in that regard.
1st half we looked nervous and played dumb rugby and you tore us apart at times.
2nd half we held our composure better and started to play more like we can and took control of the match.
Gaskell, Sidlow and your hooker all played very well.
Tough game, bit nasty at times (both sides) but very exciting.
Welcome to the Championship!
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| Quote dddooommm="dddooommm"Chev Walker has described Leigh's tactics as 'thuggish'.'"
It's ironic that I described his tactics as thuggish to my dad making up for his lack of speed and guile. Other than that Mullanny impressed me
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| Quote roger daly="roger daly"No I didn't listen to it on the radio Im on my way back now from Leigh. Almost every Bulls fan on here has said the best team won, myself included, but we didn't see the thuggerish tactics by us that you saw'"
I appreciate that, but a few indicating thuggish or dirty tactics as reasons for unsettling. In my eyes, both teams were to blame, we were dumber than you first half, you were dumber 2nd half and the scoreline reflects this. Add to this our expansive open rugby policy and pace throughout the team and thats where our victory came from. Disappointed to hear Chev Walkers comments (if true) as he really needs to get his house order before throwing stones. Can't wait for the return match.
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| Quote bullboy101="bullboy101"after todays showing I believe a petition should be started to get Leigh to replace one of the teams in the World Club Series.'"
Ha ha, nice one, but we've not prepared for it enough 
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| Bradford fans were great yesterday. Think the main difference was our team has been together longer and looked more match fit. Think we're going to be the top 2 by the end of the season. Gaskell, O'Brien and Sidlow looked good yesterday. As for the aggression by both teams I'm not biased or naive enough to think any of the players out there today are angels so enough with the finger pointing.
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Yorkshire post: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/ru ... -1-7108456
"To cap a strange afternoon, complaints were made to the match commissioner after members of the Bradford staff were allegedly verbally abused by Leigh’s head of rugby Derek Beaumont, who was seen taunting some of the Bulls’ squad members in the main stand."
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"To cap a strange afternoon, complaints were made to the match commissioner after members of the Bradford staff were allegedly verbally abused by Leigh’s head of rugby Derek Beaumont, who was seen taunting some of the Bulls’ squad members in the main stand."
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| I started reading the thread, but when it descends into petty arguing, I tend to switch off. So I'll just post thoughts on the game.
Positives: Adam O'Brien, who was simply brilliant. Constant threat with the ball, superb defence (see him grab hold of Moimoi on his own, stop him in his tracks and refuse to let go?). Gaskell in the first half ripped Leigh apart. Adam Sidlow looked like a different player, and has perhaps found the perfect level for him. Put in a lot of minutes and was our best prop. The first half in general was a huge positive as they played some very very good stuff when they weren't getting distracted.
Negatives: Discipline, Discipline, Discipline. Most of the team were guilty at times of losing their cool when they should have stepped back from it. Seijka more than anyone with two utterly stupid sin bins that he only has himself to blame for. Ulugia came off the bench and all he did was miss a tackle and give away a stupid penalty with hardly any time left.
Yeah there were a couple of dodgy calls from the officials. Purtell's try should have been given no doubt, and the "high tackle" from Uaisele when he forced the Leigh player in goal in the second half made you wonder what the linesman was looking at. And yes, the referee should have controlled it better and not been fooled quite so easily. But you have to play what's there in front of you, and we failed to do that. Had the team not got involved in the rough house tactics, they wouldn't have thrown it away so badly. As Lowes and Walker pretty much said on Radio Leeds after the game.
If they cut out those stupid mistakes, there's plenty to take out of the game. Especially when you consider it's half a new team and these guys haven't played much together. They'll only get better.
I do worry a little that with no proper cover for the halves, we could have a situation where Siejka doesn't have to play well to get his spot next week, like other positions do. Hopefully he will improve with game time though and cut out the stupid stuff.
Leigh will go well this year though. A lot of teams would have thrown the towel in at half time, they upped their game and did what they needed to do to win. And players like Brierley and McNally were superb at times.
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| It was a great atmosphere and Leigh deserved the result.
If I'm honest, I didn't think the match was great, too bitty, too much stop and start and I thought we'd have have more fluent rugby than we did. I know the championship is "harder" and more 'old school' than we've been used to but I wasn't really expecting [i:1t4he9enquite[/i fit and build up over this early season ready for the more important games down the line.
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