Before the season I had this game pencilled in as a defeat. When I heard we had no half backs and two injured props and a suspended prop I felt like not going to the match.

I was pleased that I did. I thought we put in an extremely hard working, committed performance. Aside from the first 15 mins or so I thought we kept Toulouse penned back, put in a lot of strong hits and tackles and made a good fist of it.

Attack wise I think we were always going to struggle, even more so when we lost Minchella but Wildie put in some good kicks that enabled us to have Toulouse start a lot of their sets in their own 20.

In the end a couple of dodgy moments cost us and whilst we never particularly looked like scoring, I would definitely blame that on the lack of personnel.

I enjoyed the game a lot more than I thought I would. We kept a team I expect to be at the top of the table to just 2 trys and welcomed back a couple of players from injury in Gibson and Bustin. Fingers crossed we get Chisholm, Keyes and Hitchcox back for Batley along with Green and Lilley from suspension.

We should have been in for him straight away. He's from Bradford too ffs!

Would’ve been a great signing for us given that Flanagan’s deal finishes at the end of the year and Wildie is our only other option that’s good enough at this level. I know Hallas can play there but I think he’s too slow and is better suited to the grafting loose forward role. We have Tom Doyle and Lochlan McGill in the 19s to come through but I think they’re some way off.

Blimey, after Batley its Widnes and then Leigh.

Unless we really get into gear soon March isn't going to be a great month to be watching the Bulls.

What was the attendance for this game?

3,751 according to League Express