Crossley and Burgess?

Tigers score again.....

Tigers 28 - Bulls 22
Sykes misses easy conversion..the season drags on...

Game over......another loss....Where is the next win going to come from?If we carry on like this we can kiss goodby to the Playoffs.

No direction, not tactics and no idea....

Can we have a new coach sooner rather than later please?

So is that 6 defeats on the trot now? Brilliant record for the current GB coach. Just p!ss off now SM, enough is enough.

Whoever we are up against we have to overcome too many of our own inadequacies
and inconsistencies.Our new training and coaching methods are certainly not impacting on our ability to progress,admit we are injury prone as well which is another cause for concern and some reflection.All in all ..nearly,but not enough SM.

It doesn't matter, it wasn't a must win game.

I think for us they are all must win games!.....

Tell it to Macca.

How many points do we need for playoffs usual, 26?

Cant see us picking up another 9 points.

From all your friends in the big '3-in-a row' city down the road.

I thought it was another poor performance today. It was a case of who would come out on top out of two very poor sides today. What I would say is that Cas took their chances and fair play to them.

Too many lapses of concentration, needless knock ons and miss opportunities. We should have gone a couple of scores ahead in the 1st part of the 2nd half but we conceded too penalties and gave cheap yardage to the Cas pack.

After going ahead we should have been pumping the ball down into the Cas half and making them work. Instead we had handling errors and unnecessary penalties. We need to move on some dead wood like Worrincy and Koppy but we knew that already.

We should have had enough out there on the field to get a result today. Either the tactics were completely wrong or the players just aren't capable enough to follow the instructions sent out. I thought the decision not to use Addy was ridiculous given the heat out there. He'd have almost certainly contributed more to the side than that big lumbering guy wearing 16. Jeez I hope I don't have to support him in a Bulls shirt next year. I try to support each and every player out there but he really tests my patience! Clueless, but unfortunately he wasn't alone today.

Result

Castleford Tigers 28-22 Bradford Bulls

Well done Castleford who deservedly took the two points despite playing with 12 men in the West Yorkshire heat and with that, they will make things very interesting at the bottom of the table as they narrow the gap to just one point on the 8th placed Bulls who today lacked any real concentration.

For me the gamebreaker was Godwin's dropped ball from the kick-off just after Kearney had put us 18-12 ahead, before the failed short kick-off which didn't pay off was the incident that put the nail and hammered the coffin shut.

Michael Shenton and Kirk Dixon were world class, who just about did a job on over shadowing a hard working Steve Menzies and Brett Kearney.

Plenty of 50/50 calls that both sides benefited from and despite at times the errors from both sides in the heat, it was a pulsating game from start to finish.

Pulsating? Low quality, scrappy and tight may be. I saw little from either side that got my pulse racing.

I don't know there was a few moments of skill, see Menzies and Kearney's tries and I thought Kirk Dixon despite having a few centimetres in height over Halley took his try well.

I would like to see the Chase try again on the replay.

Yes a couple of tries were good quality, however in the main it was well below the standard needed for a side who wants to win a game in the play offs.