Not even angry anymore. Just sad. Sheffield have been poor all season and were one try away from shipping 50 passed us.

Lowes has completely lost it.

First 15 mins - workmanlike, not grEat, but looked well in control, and scored the two tries ominously comfortably.

Then, Purtell gifts them a try with a complete brainfart, and it was like he'd lobbed a grenade into all their brains. That was it. From then on, we started off at the bottom of Shambles Hill, and did our best to climb all the way to the summit.

What's the problem?

1. We aren't good enough to play in this league. The players we have are, individually, but the combination of selections, tactics and on-field leadership is so bad that it consistently makes them look like clowns.

2. We have spells where we just lose every collision, and even opposition as poor as the Sheffields, Batleys, Dewsburys and Halifaxes of this world are made to look like attacking juggernauts, making 70 or 80 meters easily every set. EVERY set.

3. When in the opposition 30 (as we were for our fair share of the game) we look almost totally devoid of ideas. Any of the SL teams we saw on TV this weekend would have from that position score hatfuls against Sheffield, yet we never challenge the defence. We just stole up several one man plunges, and either mess up along the way, or else have some sort of last-play panic attack that invariably ends in tears. What do we practice? HAVE we got ANY moves? We could have been in Sheffield's 10 for several hours and not scored. WHAT IS THAT ALL ABOUT? Did we force a single second set of six or a dropout? Against SHEFFIELD?

4. If we make a mistake, that's it. We are supposed to have some pace, but actually haven't. Every time we gifted yet another length-of-the -field attack to Sheffield, we looked woefully slow. In fact, we were made to look like fools, like second-rate mugs.

I didn't boo, but if the players think that was good enough then they are mad. It was a total and utter shambles.

Unfortunately, for me that was Lowes's last chance. I believe he'll be gone by Monday. If he's not, then we are royally fscked. He clearly has to take the responsibility for the abject level of our performances in the last several hours of rugby, and despite the criminal failure to play with a scrum-half, a decent coach should not have his team serving up dross after dross after dross like Lowes is doing.

The club is dying on its feet, and pis[size.[/sizesing off the diehard support, and it can't go on. The trouble is, I think it is too late whatever they do now.

If you're a man Jimmy Lowes you'll do the decent thing.

Sign a five year extension?

WTF was that?

At least.

I have just emailed the hygiene department at Bradford Council warning them of an expected breach of hygiene laws in the local Coop window due to the Bulls losing to Sheffield today.
We should all demand a picture as evidence from a certain Bulls supporter to prove he has done what he said he would do if we lost. I also believe this supporter should put his son up for immediate adoption as punishment for a certain act he carried out (very professionally I should say) today at Odsal resulting in four points being added to the Sheffield score.

That was one of the worst defensive performances I've ever seen at odsal.

Frustrated?angry?dejected?

Very simply all I feel is we have to change something. Starting NOW!!

Also did anyone else see Ferres losing it at Thaler at the tunnel at half time!!

Looked like a man on the edge!!

Had his finger about an inch from Thaler's face as they entered the tunnel and I don't think what he was saying was check out my finger!!

Absolute shambles of a game today. Had Sheffield been even slightly on form, we would have had even more put past us. As it was, they didn't need to show anything much to make us look like complete amateurs. Our final play of the set is totally uninspiring, with little imagination in the kicking; our players are being busted by enthusiastic opposition attackers ( Caro pushed out of the way like a 10 year old for example ); errors all round, leading to break down of attacking plays; one man forward driven rugby rumbling up the middle as per the past 5 games; and an all round impression of complete lack of enthusiasm.
All this with SOME of our injured players back. What's worrying is that I can't see the situation improving any with the others fully fit.
Something's clearly wrong with this team, as they have added to their playing compliment since last season, but they are just not playing as a cohesive team with a winning mentality. Subsequently, we're making other teams look much better than they are. I really don't subscribe to the notion that teams in this division have improved immeasurably ( with respect to both full time and part time teams ) to the extent that they're able to roll us over with apparent little problem.
Positives ? I find very little to be upbeat about when watching the team. Even the crowd were very quiet today, and only the Sheffield supporters made any atmosphere at all.
Supporting this team is now beginning to become a chore, and i'm a die-hard fan of over 20 years.

Utterly clueless today. Yet again we came up with more suicidal individual errors that cost us points. Maybe it's time to pull the plug on Lowes.

Green and Ferres headed straight to the changing rooms after the game. Perhaps to tell the squad that JL will be gone in the morning?

Not according to Mick Gledhill sounds like Marc Green backing him (of in other words he can't afford to sack him)

Lowes is done..if he truly puts the club first he will resign.

I have no enthusiasm for this team whatsoever, utter dribble.
If I'm not mistaken did't we trial the Canadian player in the Eagles team today and were told "He was not what we were looking for" so we let him go. Clearly JL and SF are not what we are looking for, JL need's to go now whilst there is time in the season to sort a poor team out.

Jimmy Lowes on Radio Leeds just quoted as saying that "I'm clearly not doing my job well enough to make the team mentally strong".
" Something goes wrong (break away try) and we start to lack self-belief"
"Could be a short week".
"I'm clearly not handling the psychology of this sport correctly"
"I take full responsibility for the lack of mental strength within the team"

He really sounded like a man who knows his game's coming to an end.....

Well we hit rock bottom at times there. We are so mentally weak it's unbelievable. As soon as we hit a bit of adversity the bottle goes and we play like a bunch of individuals.

Lowes interview on radio Leeds was interesting. He took full responsibility but sounded doubtful whether he could turn it around.

His time is now up.