3341 according to LE, about double what they got for yesterday’s double header

Ask the RFL to help you out

I agree ask the Rfl to sort the floodlighting out,,,, after all they are our landlords

Was pleased to come away with a win. Fax are definitely a step up in class, even with a weakened team.we played some good solid rugby, nothing spectacular but enough the get the win.

I thought the young ones did ok. Wilsons first stint in think was maybe a bit overwhelming. Looked to be trying too hard to impress and made some basic mistakes but much better when he came back on.

Webster was ok but I thought he looked a bit sluggish from the start. Was a bit of a pain in the refs ear and could easily have got binned for running back to confront a late hit on Lilley. Thought Oates looked the better yesterday tbh.

Trae O'Sullivan was out of his depth. Very flat footed he missed a load of tackles and whilst he runs hard and the effort is there I just don't see him getting even close to the Match day squad.

For me Bustin looked good. Very strong in both attack and defence.

Were Fax that much understrength though?. looks like apart from both halves only grix and grady were missing from their strongest lineup. We had a comparable if not larger number of regular starters missing in chisholm,crossley,peltier,hitchcox,gibson and hallas. Thought they'd dominate us much more down the middle with crossley and peltier out but was pleasantly surprised how ell we matched up after a shak first 10 minutes where they threw kitchen sink at us.

I think starting line up wise they were quite strong but the bench was much weaker which I think made a big difference.

I'm not saying they were hugely down on numbers but I expect to see a stronger line up when we face them on Good Friday.

Missing senior players
No recognized halfs. Brooks Is a mid table championship one halfback at best and woodburn hall is a . Grix will play all season unless injured, Muzza and jonnno all season. Whites registration had not come through. Had we had some half backs playing we would of gone ahead in the first 20 when we was all over you

Remove lilly and keyes from Bradford and you would of not got the result.

Both halves were missing for them which will be a killer. Probably both about same number of players out missing. Doesn't really matter anyway, its a pre-season friendly and result doesn't really mean much. Sounds like we're attacking better than last year.

What I will say is that our young kids seem to be doing really really well. Stephenson sounded like he had a good game and Storton again seemed to be getting hugely praised by a few in the media.

Not entirely sure about that (Keyes and Lilley). Ryan, Bustin, Flanagan, Wildie and Green all had good games too.

Like a previous poster said, we have some big game players to come back ourselves but I'm not getting too excited yet as I think it will be a lot closer when we play you at The Shay.

Early days yet for both sides

Fax will be a different side with Murrell in there, no mistake.

The most exciting thing about this team is the number of young players that seem to be coming through together and if we can keep them they have years ahead to play together.

We were missing senior players too, and we did have Keyes and Lilley so that doesn't wash. Don;t know why you are getting defensive it is a pre season game and will have no reflection on the games during the year