I thought our u20s (having alot of younger lads in) would have struggled to contain Feka & Roberts, but it was Wigan who struggled to contain Burgess.


Southernwood is getting better and better, and hopefully sometime in next season he will be properly ready for a new games.

Well done Duckman anyway, showing more people how our young players are coming along may get them more enthusiastic about our future.

U can have 3 overage players we had 2 playing.

Last I heard, Smith was on trial at the club. Obviously if a player is on trial, you don't want to throw him in the first team (if you think he's good enough for that, sign him, don't trial him). As RER says though, you're allowed 3 overage players in the team.

A couple of times it seemed to me Smith was caught slightly out of position, which may be why he wasn't given the chance ahead of Finigan in the first team (since most would have probably expected Smith to get the chance first before Vinny got his debut).

In, time it's something that may develop.

It's certainly something we've discussed.
As with everything, time is a huge issue.

I think he's been playing most of the season, hasn't he?

Personally I think his chance has gone.
Is it simply that we're short on numbers?

Yeah he has been here a while. I remember hearing he was on trial, but never heard anything after that, so either they've signed him on the quiet or he's still on trial.

The problem with him in his early days was always his attitude (allegedly). He always looked like he was gonna be a good player, but apparently his behaviour behind the scenes wasn't up to it, which is why he ended up bouncing between us, London, Halifax & (Rochdale was it?). I suspect the club, knowing we were short of wingers and that he would class as home grown, though it may be worth giving him a try. If it worked out, we get a cheap home grown decent winger. If it doesn't, we don't really lose anything.

Makes sense!

Great work Duckman another step forward for BullBuilder. Would it be possible and not take too long to put the team list on before the game and caption the try scorers and updatethe score. This is yet another reason to join BullBuilder and help us to build a better Bulls.

Another thing I noticed watching that, as well as the obvious quality of Southernwood, is how wick young O'Brien is. You can definitely see why the coaching staff are big on him (they put him in the first team squad when he was only 16!).

8 for us was good.
He looked like one of the Burgii.

I thought we looked ok in the forwards and the halfbacks. In the theequarters the defence was a bit off. Crookes looked ok.

I believe that's Tom.

For anyone who went to the forum, what was the name of the player that Paul Medley named specifically as being one to watch for the future? I think it was quite near the end of the evening.

I've forgotten his name, and was just wondering if it was any of the guys playing in this match.

That was John Bateman IIRC, who plays for the U18s and wasn't in this match (he was scoring a try for the U18s at Odsal on the same day).

He's big.