Which ever way you look at it the whole team was appalling, i bet Langley wished he had never commented on booing fans after that performance!! If LSH is the defensive coach he wants is Backside kicking we have been poor all season in this area and we are still not improving.
There are more than a few players there that should realise they will be gone at the end of the season if they don’t get a grip, MP has admitted he was partly to blame lets hope this is the turning point for us and not let it happen again this season.
COOOOM ON you BULLS

Quite a few of those 1 year deals were to plug the gaps for a season because the squad needed major work. That scale of recruitment was always going to take longer than one off season. Planning for next year is no doubt underway already, I just hope we have some real top quality additions to bring into the club to take the club forward another few steps.

We could do with a signing or two now but unless they're of the right calibre it's pointless wasting the cap space. The centres are a major worry right now, both missed far too many tackles yesterday.

You clearly don't!
Paternity leave with the family to watch the game!!!! Ahahahaha you joker. Shad was out of favour this week like Sibbitt, why spread crap about paternity leave!

Any news on the Tom Burgess injury?

We were poor today and again looked like we had nothing in attack and an inability to tackle. Unfortunately even when we've won this season we've not looked great. I keep telling myself that it's pretty much a new team and that it taks time for them to gel, but there comes a point when it starts to sound a bit hollow. I appreciate that there have been a lot of injuries but you'd expect some cohesion.

To be fair to Salford, they grew in confidence as the game, threw the ball out wide and went on to gave us a spanking.

To be honest, I don't think giving the players a rollicking will work. As the Sky Monkeys were more than happy to point out, the players on the bench looked shellshocked. The last thing we need is destroy their confidence any further.

Is one possible excuse that maybe the players had one eye against next weeks game? It's got to effect them if the club are pushing to make it the biggest game of the season.

Yeah, cos I'm so far up McNama... oops, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

23 years of watching Bradford be somewhere between sublime and diabolical, not going to start chucking my toys out of the pram now because we got a gubbing at Salford. If you're feeling brave, get on Twitter and tell the players how you feel directly. Otherwise, it's all p.sh and wind, no?

I take the point that a royal wooping can come out of the blue and you shouldn't read too much into it.

But in this instance it feels like a bit more than that. It has to be set in the context of a catalogue of crap performances. Even our wins against Quins and Crusaders were pretty dire. We are as bad as at any time under Macca.

Be honest, do you feel as calm about it as you make out or are you just railing back against excessive negativity?

I have elsewhere on this same thread stated that I think it might be the worst single result Bradford have ever had in my time watching them. Am I concerned? Undoubtedly. Despite being a SM defender till the end, I hoped that Potter would quickly rectify issues that existed and so we'd have an end to throwing away big leads, appaling completion rates and woeful defence out wide.

Ten games in (the magic number!) and we're wondering whether that has happened. Peter Hood promised me at Cardiff when I happened to run into him that we would be 'competitive' and he was right. Yesterday is the first game I thought we should win that we haven't, and the manner of losing is a grave cause for concern. But look at Eddie's comment. He seems to think that any sort of balance or perspective is tantamount to treason in a time of war.

This place after a defeat is always an echo chamber of impotent rage and self-pity. I only have so much to offer right now, being on the poor end of a Monopoly pub crawl, but when I do get my head back on, I hope to explain my position more clearly. And what I said is true (in vino veritas?). London h 2003. WTF happened there? Noble out?

Well I had a good day out and won 35 quid for picking the first try scoring.

Apart from that I think the trauma of standing there watching it has been erased from my memory as a coping mechanism. I keep having flash backs though.

I blame James Child though. Pulled us up for a forward pass when Hargreaves went over and that was the pivotal moment in the match.

Yep when all else fails blame the ref.

You bloody love it. That's why you've been a mod since 1948.

@mysticeddie is available, I believe. Get on there and give 'em it.

Bulls defintely were not at the races today a very poor game ! totally unorganised in every department, potter needs to make some some real changes very soon. By the way was shad injuried ?

nope. on paternity leave apparently. major mistake in hindsight. Either shad or platt have to replace sykes thursday.

I'd have them both back in, if they are available. Walker is not good enough for a centre, he's barely good enough to get in our second row.