Very good team out today:

Pickersgill
Dawson-Jones
R. Evans
Oakes
Foggin-Johnston
Brough
Lilley
B. Evans
Doyle
Crossley
England
Murphy
Hallas

Flanagan
Fleming
Walker
Matongo

Not sure what it is about us and being able to deal with kick-offs

Massive win.

Not easy listening at times as it sounds like we're still making school boy errors and inviting teams back into games. But never easy playing York so great to come away with the win.

Great win by the Bulls today. Was that the strongest 17 we've fielded all season?

The game changer was Brough. We look so much more organised and cohesive with him back marshalling the team around the field. Barring his kick out on the full, I felt he played his best game in a Bulls shirt. His high bombs gained us brilliant field position in the first half to grab a couple of early tries. When York managed to claw their way back in, he kept us ticking over and controlled the game. A stark contrast to last weeks effort.

I also felt that our forwards won us the game today. The yards after contact from Fleming, Walker and Crossley laid the platform for our 1,6 and 7 to attack with an abundance of time and space. Some great finishing from Evans in the corner in the second half to kill off any York fightback.

I felt we gifted York a couple of scores with some poor individual errors. Cut those out and the game wouldn't have been as close.

Great atmosphere as well from both sets of fans. I was surrounded by York fans who had a few interesting comments throughout the game. At full time I gave them all a wry smile. York have got themselves a fantastic little ground. Wish we could have something like that...

According to the commentary on BBC Radio York Joe Brown will be playing for York next season.

Tough place to go get a result, especially given we are in a patchy run of form. Needed a result as we have a tricky run of games heading into the play offs.

Disappointed to hear Brown might be leaving, thought the whole current ethos was around retaining and bringing back local lads who have come through our systems?

21 comments on this game. Really? The build up and the game its self. ???

After a performance like that and no one has been here to talk about the game?

Sad to say it but i think my time of posting maybe coming to an end.

The discussion has completely disappeared from here. Its no longer worth checking in .
I think this page is reflective of everything at the club off the field. The lads put it in week in week out. But everything behind the scenes is so far away from being 100%, no one sees to give a toss we have drifted to a mid table champ side off the field.

Todays following was pathetic. So many people.have lost interest. Thats the worst following we have ever taken to York by a long long way.
Interest in the club is waning. There is a hell of a lot of work to do to rebuild peoples faith

i may check back from time to time but ill no longer be a regular.

This week has been the straw that broke the camels back for me.

We will all stay bulls fans im sure.

Goodbye and goodnight

That was close (possibly was) our strongest lineup. And it showed. Brough & Lilley work well together, we shook off an early injury and had control of that game. 2 errors invited pressure & tries from York after we had done the hard work and built a platform. But overall we had too much go forward for York, which allowed our halves time & space to dictate play.

Next week will be a cracker.
I know we’ve played Fev 3times and lost them all - but we only played one half back in all 3 of them. Also we lost a forward early on in the first 2 games which put us at a disadvantage. We’ve no excuses against the French.

Quote: Stockwell & Smales "I can't make it to the game so can anyone tell me where I can listen to it?'" All the games are on West Yorkshire Radio here: mixlr.com/west-yorkshire-rugby-league

Quote: Stockwell & Smales "I can't make it to the game so can anyone tell me where I can listen to it?'" All the games are on West Yorkshire Radio here: mixlr.com/west-yorkshire-rugby-league

I would say interest in the game as a whole is waning. I can’t remember the last SL game I watched and I couldn’t name the top 5 sides in the competition or is it top 6.. I couldn’t even tell you the current format for deciding the Champions it seems to change that often now.

As for Bradford and this forum, well I guess a fair few people who attended might be making a weekend of it in York which might include a few posters on here. I would agree though that the club needs to find a way to engage more fans.

1100 is an extraordinary number for a team 4th in Championship with only an outside chance of promotion. Did Fev bring 300 to Odsal?

Good grief, 1800 to a SL game featuring the top side in the comp is the end of the professional game. Anybody trumpeting the advancement of Toulouse take note. How do you re-structure this?

Really enjoyed that game. We won the game up front despite losing a man early on and Brough pulled the strings expertly. York only had a brief spell in the second half and we never really looked like losing.

Thought Brough, Doyle and Crossley were all excellent. Our right side was very clinical too. On the negative side the two errors that led to tries immediately after we'd scored were shockers but we can irradicate those with a bit more concentration.

The news about Brown is interesting. If Pickersgill is off to Fev that leaves us short of a fullback. Thought he had a good game today apart from the horror missed tackle for the Kirmond try.

What's the Brown rumour? Where did it come from?

I’m not sure how many Featherstone supporters came to the game at Odsal because people could use the cash turnstiles, so it’s always difficult to make an accurate account.

The point I was trying to make was that 1100 supporters going to York yesterday is excellent considering what is happening elsewhere in the sport and the York supporters should equally be congratulated for turning up in big numbers.

The main stand at York holds just over 3500 and was 80% full with a further 400 in hospitality.

Without wanting to turn this into a Super League vs Championship debate, the crowd at York yesterday puts the crowds at some Super League games to shame.

In response to how you restructure this crisis for the sport, I'm not entirely sure. I feel too much irreversible damage has been done since the Super League split at Salford three years ago and no matter what remodelling structure the sport decides to agree on we are still drinking in the last chance saloon with the potential threat of Sky walking away for good almost certain.