I'VE FIGURED IT OUT. BY LOSING TO FAX BY THAT MANY POINTS THEY CAN FINISH ABOVE LEIGH AND LEIGH GET LESS MONEY AT THE END OF THIS ALL. Sign him up for a lifetime Mensa membership, genius

I think hes a Wakey fan! hes definitely not one of ours...

Apparently he's often found either insisting that Qantas never crash, or that he's an excellent driver.

Wouldn't have rested 9 players....have to see if it was worth it next week.

Yet another inspirational half time contribution from JL. Abject failure again and many who are picking up pay cheques for merely wearing the shirt. More effort by many of the under 7s than that collection - can't use the word team. Preparing for next week is simply not good enough as an excuse.

Glad to get that out of the way.

Poor effort from a lot of the lads who will have wanted to give Lowes a selection headache for next week. Well that isn't happening. Defensive attitude was that of a friendly game.

Halifax played well, and deserved their win. Probably a lot easier than they thought it would be.

I take it all back, the result leaves Leigh centurions crying in 7th needing to beat Widnes by 4 tries to get back to 6th. Anyone heard that they're moving Heineken to Leigh ext year because they're the best bottlers in the uk

Whats Bulls fans opinions of fielding a weakened team today? As a fax fan I was amazed Lowes didnt want to play for home advantage for the big one.

Best of luck next week

I don't mind about resting players to be honest, but I am surprised at the way the replacements went about their business. As I've said earlier they've clearly demonstrated why they can't get game time.

Fair play, I just think home advantage in such a massive game is so important.

There never was any chance of a home tie and this always was a dead rubber. Lowes has got us to the big game by picking his matches and this one was not targeted. The poor performance of the stiffs that did play is of course quite another matter, if ever they had an incentive to bust a gut then that was it, instead... But yes, he treated it correctly as a pointless game, to get out of the way and test some reserves. They failed

Not that bothered. Home advantage was for Wakefield to lose. It was never in our hands before today.

The disappointment isn't in the players being rest, it's in the players who came in and massively underperformed. We have a big squad but the difference in quality is huge. That's just down to salary cap restrictions for me.

WE might finish 8th yet ....won't find me crying. Been in the 'lower leagues' for 19 of the previous 20 seasons...no big deal (250K Prize money or not) You probably enjoyed typing your post, but I really don't care. We will be in the 'middle 8's' next season, like Bradford Bulls will be also. Whether it be as a SL club, or championship one....I'm guessing at the latter. Though I won't be on here laughing if you don't beat Wakefield, not my style.

So do I, but that was decided when Lowes didn't care about points difference in a seven game competition where winning is being slightly better than the middle group. Lowes not caring about this specific game hasn't really been a factor. We needed to blow you away and rely on Sheffield to do the business against Wakefield.

Besides, this way everyone wins. Lowes knows people ignored since June don't play like they're part of the team, you get your money and Leigh have more ammunition for their Yorkshire conspiracy theory.

Well most of those replacements obviously didn't care about today's game either. Abysmal 2nd half "effort". I don't expect to see many of them in a Bulls shirt next season.

Don't think 4th place was on after our early capitulations gave us a such a bad points difference.

I does sort of emphasise that we will need at least 8 or 9 additions to the squad if by some miracle we go up. Our current back up players are way below SL standard.