It was bad enough the Bulls trying this misguided philosophy of trying to get by without a leader, but seems they are now trying a similar experiment on the country

That was a truly woeful second half.

Addy should never kick a ball in play again - I keep whinging that we have no ability to put an attacking kick in anymore. How often does this team kick for a repeat set, or even put the opposition defensive line under some sort of pressure? I thought Charnock was doing an ok job at this for once the other week, and now Addy strolls back in the team and takes over the kicking duties, a job that is not within his rugby league skill set. To be honest at the moment, I'm not sure what is in his skill set other than missing tackles.

evenly matched packs but Halifax half backs and bradford half backs chalk and cheese

Agreed. I do not get the hate for the Bradford pack. I thought they won the collision quite often and got lots of quick play the balls, much quicker than us for most of the game. We probably just had that little bit of extra quality around the park compared to Bradford.

When people talk about the gulf between FT and PT it is more the gulf between SL and Championship which is evident but take yesterdays game with no disrespect to Bradford but it were just about the worst of the worst full time players against a lot of the very best part time players. A win for the FT time is in no way or form a given.

I thought their props made much more ground than ours and on defence we kept leaving huge gaps in our line which Fax exploited to the full. We didn't seem to be using a man for man marking or a sliding defence consequently we were all over the place.

I can't really remember our props taking the ball up in the second half. It was scoot after scoot after scoot from the wingers. Our defesively line speed completely fell to pieces.

Kirean Moss, Ethan Ryan and Jay Pitts are only ones who can hold their head high after that.

Yeah I thought the Bradford defence was very poor. We had a chance to take 2 in the first half and Bradford had been putting us under a lot of pressure but when we had the ball we were making half breaks so when we ran that penalty it was clear we were thinking we could bust through eventually.

I'd be interested to know what your assessment of our pressure is, though. Mine is that while we can get in opponents' 20, we are pretty easy for a determined and organised defence to repel. We seem to be lost for any ideas of how to score.

You're being a bit harsh on Deacs there FA. Shame on you.

Pretty much that you had a ton of ball in dangerous areas, admittedly a lot of that came more on the back of the lop sided penalty count rather than clean breaks, but even so Bradford did seem to have a lot more of the ball. Halifax's scrambling defence was superb though as was Bradford's to be fair. I think it was just a case for the majority of the game Fax's first line of defence was more solid than Bradford's as we seemed to be able to find gaps a lot easier.

Couldn't agree more with the last sentence. Our last tackle options particularly are dire, and have been for ages. The lack of craft is staggering, but that's what you get with no halfbacks. I would think the Halifax 6 & 7 would want to play us every week. We just stood and admired them run the show.