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Looks as though Tomkins has a bit of a glass jaw, wasn't a massive hit.

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I think what I'd be wanting to say has been said plenty of times on the thread already.

Great effort by the guys, right the way through the 17 there were massive performances. Certainly for around half of the team that was their best game of the season so far.

Really pleased to see the Briggs rammed the words of some of the people on this forum back down their throats with an excellent performance, especially on attack. Yes, he needs work on his defensive technique but we hear that Mick Potter has already identified this and is working on it.

Thought Whitehead put in huge shift. He was basically covering the wing and centre territory in the second half. And in the first half he's been nipping back into the pack to help out. Reminded me of Paul Medley in his pomp.

The big test now will be whether we can take this form into next week. We simply have to. It will all have been for naught, if we end up putting in another abject performance against Salford.

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Thought Whitehead put in huge shift. He was basically covering the wing and centre territory in the second half. And in the first half he's been nipping back into the pack to help out. Reminded me of Paul Medley in his pomp.

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Absolutely agree. Thought he was immense. He did the work of two players in the second half, nothing got through him and when they were all pretty much out on their feet with five to go, was still taking it up as if it was the first five mins. And he was playing out of position. Some performance.

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Good solid effort today, we managed to do the basics for most of the game. Still a lot of work to do, especially defending out wide.

Good to see the halves working well together and surely will get better the more they play together. Pleased for Briggs because I rate him and his kicking game is good.

Add in the missing players and the commitment from today and we'll be ok. We need to back up and perform next week.

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It's not often I disagree with Kingmonkey.

And today won't be one of those times either.

Spot on.

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Is that because he's really Stuart Duffy? icon_wink.gif

I agree too, thought Jefferies and Briggs made a nice combination, good to see the ball being moved from side to side. I also think that combination will make more of Royston's support play and both Whitehead and Platt played similar roles in covering for the man down. All in all lots of positives, although still plenty of unforced errors that cost us field position, cut those out and if we can stay fit and build some confidence from now on then we might end the season with some pride.

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Anyone know the attendance?

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Quote: anarkik "Is that because he's really Stuart Duffy?
What an amazing thing...

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5,828 attendance

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Quote: purplechick "5,828 attendance'"


3000 Wigan maybe? So less than 3000 Bulls fans? Very disappointing but understandable I guess.

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Around 2k-2.5k Wigan I'd guess.

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As great as the effort was, we still lost. Luckily(?) it was in the cup which we were unlikely to win anyway and we can't lose any further ground in the table because of it.

I've mentioned in the past that we needed a little bit of needle to get us going. The Raynor sending off (only saw it on the ground and the big screen from quite a distance) I won't comment on, other than I was very surprised they let him walk off considering how long he appeared motionless on the floor. One may have expected that they would have carried him off if they had been as concerned as they appeared to be.......

Effort was great, felt as though I'd gone back in time to the early nineties with the 6k crowd, backs against the wall, playing champions Wigan on a blustery day. In that way, I thoroughly loved it!

A few areas cost us the game (other than the effect of the sending off). Wigan managed to retain the ball from kick-offs a lot better than we did. Why didn't we go for a few 40/20's? We also threw more than a few passes to ground in promising positions. A few times we lost the ball late in the tackle count under little pressure, but that is very pernickity of me.

I felt that the guys have done quite a lot of soul searching this week and the general attitude was much better. Did anyone else note the lack of quotes about Nandos Tuesday???? I think that they understand how frustrated we've been over the last few weeks and have closed ranks a little until they pick up a few wins, and maybe we have now hit rock bottom and are slowly moving back up off the floor?

Numbers wise we're probably due Herbert and Addy back in the next week or so, leaving only the long term Kearney, Scruton and Walker (?). The lack of the cup run should lessen the risk of further injuries and give one or two a weeks rest when carrying a knock or two.

Great efforts from Elima and Whitehead, trying to shore up the left hand side with no real pace to help them.

Platt was superb in the second half - man possessed.

Briggs had his best game for the Bulls (that I've seen).

Royston looks as though he's been working with Briggs and Jeffries in training - watch the tries come in the coming weeks!

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As a neutral I just want to say that your match with Wigan was a belting watch. I was hoping that Bradford would win but you were just not quite there once Raynor had been sent off. Did a terrific job though with 12 men. You would just be finding your mojo now that another game against Saints is within sight!

Anyway, tough luck on the loss. You looked the better side in the second half but those quick two tries while you were trying to adjust to 12 men hurt you I think.

I wonder where Bradford have been keeping that performance?

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Pretty much all I wanted to say has been said.

Briggs - quality, we need his long kicking game. (the one he put on show today, not the non existant one at Salford)

Platt - like Badger says, a man posessed.

Whitehead - got through a mountain of work, covered 2 positions basically and kept popping up in the pack for work too.

Langley - god we've missed him. Runs the ball in harder than our props, tackles everything and on top of that he's a leader. Please stay fit!

Royston - can't see why he hasn't been in SL for longer. Not suggesting he's world class, but doesn't make many errors and his positional play is excellent.

Overall very proud with 1-17 and pleased with the performance. (gutted about result though)

We need to kick on from this and fight our way into 8th come the end of the season!

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Quote: SaintsFan "I wonder where Bradford have been keeping that performance?'"


That question with considerably more swearing is my current facebook status!

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