I think this is a particularly harsh take. If it was true about Fax , then the scoreline would have been bigger than it was.

Close to the line generally (IMO) Fax never troubled our defence too much especially in the first half. They had to rely on some good play on the break further out but it was hardly scoring at will.

Our failure to capitalise when they had one in the bin ultimately cost us IMO even that early in the game.

Hard to disagree with the end result for sure, however had we nicked it at the end it would have been a total injustice either.

I'm not mad, just a bit disappointed!

Give it a rest Northus. If you're blaming Lilley for the defeat. How about the captains appalling read in defence yet again. Ryan was anonymous today. FB is almost as crucial as your HB in attack. If you think that's this is the most abysmal side you've seen you can't have been watching us long. Are we dull, yes. But we've made a quarter final, beaten Leeds and are a couple of points of the play-offs in our first year back. We're A frustrating side right now though and need to be better.

Our defence, particuarly around the middle is the biggest worry right now. How many times have Fax scored that type of try against us! Crossley again the culprit. Things need freshening up.

Well done Fax.

I'd expect to see the following play at Barrow on Wednesday:

Roche
Pickersgill
Ricketts
Stephenson
Gibson
Bustin
Milton
Hodgson
O'Sullivan

yup agreed and Milnes is costly loss for us, an extra game we could have done without. The start of the game we had one half and basically, we have been relying on the only true half, a 19 year old. do we have academy/u16 that could fill the roll now? a pun of course but i hope Keyes pulls through. We had a huge squad with 4 halves at the start and cruel luck has us at zero? still dont see lilley as a half.


I'll stop saying 'half' now as my chinese beers need topping up lol

This is complete nonsense. Are you seriously suggesting that the publicity and media exposure gained from reaching the semi finals means nothing to a club, especially a Championship club. It's that sort of exposure that increase sponsorship and commercial interest. Nott to mention the obvious ticket sales and some extra merchandise sales.

He likes to moan!

Why should I give it a rest? Do you think Lilley played well?
I've been watching Bradford for decades and yes this team is up there.

For what it's worth I don't think Ryan should be playing fullback, but that's just another baffling decision by Kear. At least we've signed Brown so it looks like they're trying to rectify the situation.

Lilley s fine as an organising half back, he needs someone alongside him who can produce something on attack. Anyone know anyone?

You need stock in your shop for there to be merchandise sales



Nah you're right, but it's over now anyway.

Well,so much for the Cup. I’m glad we don’t have the distraction of a shellacking by Saints. Although it grates to lose at home to Fax, beating Leeds was great, and some much needed brass in the bank.

But the serious injury I feared from games we don’t need is a blow.

The problem is that while we have resilience in defence, and a good attitude, we are a frighteningly one-dimensional style of play with ball in hand, and it’s not difficult to counter. We can’t come up with any last tackle plays to put the pressure on (the perennial punt in the air is as predictable as Monday mornings), and we must never hunt in fast packs with the threat of offloads, instead it’s one man plunge after plunge.

Too easy to defend.

Our main players are all off the boil but then we insist on playing players like Ryan and Minchella out of position, so maybe that’s a factor.

I actually enjoyed the game in some res, a to and fro cup tie, which could have gone either way, but was also frustrated at our failings which are not new. I fear we have been rumbled.

As the saying goes 'at least we can concentrate on the league' (assuming we play a shadow squad against Barrow and lose on Wednesday)

Although you can correctly say that we could have won, or at least forced golden point, with better goal kicking, the truth is that two of our tries came directly from mistakes by them. They were still valid tries, but you can hardly say that we created them through good play. Only the Milnes try was actually 'made' by good play.

And there is the problem with our team right now, we simply don't look like creating tries. Somehow we've got to do more than wait for errors, get lucky on the end of a kick, or a scoot from dummy half. We must be the easiest team in the Championship to defend against!