Isnt there club call this year?

Not in week 1.

Realistically now I can't see us making the 8 after Hull KRs result yesterday,one result won't end our season but looking at each others fixtures that really wasn't on their list of possible wins.They still have maybe 4 probable wins,which would be too much for us

Today is must win. Our home games are going to be key, especially Hull & Catalans.

I think predictions go out of the window towards be end of be season (who would have thought we would have gone to Wigan and beat them last year)

We have to take each game as it comes.

Agreed.

A win keeps our play off hopes alive.

A loss and I feel we won't have enough time to make up the ground.

COYB

18-10 at HT a vastly improved display from bulls, some dodgy tacking still lurking around.

Dodgy call from hicks saying Brown was dragged to touch he was tackled by Kearney who in the process of tackling took him over the line if anything it was a push, but he fell with the tackle out of touch don't know how he came to that decision or a drag.

Some work still to do attacking play seems to he kicking up a gear we have paniced once or twice in thir 20 but a massive improvement from what we saw last, just have to shore up defense abit but looking promising.

28-32 dire 2nd half just like we are used to platts try was the only highlight

Anyone else got deja vu? Remember as we plunged into the abyss with Mr M in charge and only began to climb out when Potter took over? Second half losses and lousy defence have to be down to the coach...

As soon as we went behind I knew the game was gone. Zero confidence in the Bulls squad at the minute.

Poor.

Why did we lose?

Well, the first point is that nobody in the bulls squad seemed to have noticed that there was a howling gale down the pitch from the Rolley end. Widnes regularly killed us with it all second half long.

The second point is what passes for our goal-line "defence", especially (but by no measn exclusively) in the area formerly known as Walker. You know that your defence is shiitt when you get a third of a century put past you at home by a team like Widnes, but the depressing thing is that, as so many times in recent seasons, you just KNOW that once the opposition is in our 20, they WILL score, and you just KNOW that they will basically WALK in, unchallenged.

Finally you just know that a couple of times at least the Bulls will be in pole position attacking the opponents' line, when they will gift long range scores. Those two pathetic attempts at last-play kicks would be risible by a 9 year old, but then to see Paddy have time to take the ball with nobody near him, get into gear, and stroll unchallenged for a hundred yards was really taking the mick.

Desperate times. Don't ask me how to fix it, there was probably much fine play to be admired by the Bulls but it counts for absolutely nothing when they lace it with so many pieces of dross. But if there was a place to start, it would be in trying to work out why our goal line defence looks like we have 3 men defending a line a mile long. Nothing new at all, sadly, but absolutely shocking nonetheless.

As I keep saying,guile at halfback and pace somewhere in the team FFS.

Widnes had Brown commanding the middle from half back and was different class and the speed of Hanbury from full-back.Widnes have pace and guile,something the BULLS need if they are gonna compete.Many players in that team are just not good enough.They have to stop kidding themselves.
Widnes are not a bad side though,far from it.

Let's see who they get rid of and who they bring in for next season.

Jeez,the sages on here can't even blame Elliot for thisicon_smile.gif

Glad I didn't go,season over before end of June

Christ. That has to be THE worst game of the season. With respect to Widnes, we should not lose a game like that from 18-4 up. Pathetic.
Wtf was Gale doing on those "kicks" to the corner. And I'm sorry, Paddy is no speedster is he, yet not one of our cart horses could catch him. Absolutely dire.

Still at least the season is over now, and I can stop giving a sh11t, and maybe enjoy watching some decent rugby from whichever team is next up to beat us.

We looked absolutely knackered with about 20 minutes still to go. Why? We've just had a two week break, if anyone was feeling tired it should have been Widnes after their game on Monday.

I'm starting to think that FC isn't going to cut it as a SL coach. The same goes for LSH but that's been obvious for years. Our sliding defence in general, our individual defensive reads and our overall composure under pressure just aren't good enough, and those things are all down to the coaching.

But this is all we have now, there's no way FC will be replaced because the funds just aren't there. We're set to lose a few more players from this already threadbare squad - plus the return of the loan players - and so far the only person we have been linked with is Carvell.
I honestly have no idea who FC is going to bring in, I have seen the list of ooc players and there really isn't anyone there that will improve us.

Next season will be an almost identical repeat of this one I feel, god knows how they are going to push season ticket sales with performances like the one we have just seen, FC already confirming there will be no marquee signings and some of our best talent leaving at the end of the season.

Completely and utterly depressed about every facet of the club right now. It just feels like practically every other single club in the league are making strides forward - both on and off the pitch - and we are just constantly backpedalling.