On the game itself, expecting a tough afternoon. Newcastle pushed Halifax all the way last week. Be tricky for us on the 3g pitch. Hopefully the week off will have done us good though.

Sloppy defending after taking a 14 point lead. Don't seem to be able to turn the screw when we are ahead.

Decent win in the end. Sloppy period towards the end of the first half. Think that all but confirms our play-off spot.

Amazed how little comments on this post after that performance.

Absolutely dominated the game. 5 sloppy mins at the endd of each half but an absolute great win and performance

Shout outs to :
Rooks. MOM and his best game in a bulls shirt so far
Flanagan. fantastic
R. Evans defensive effort was immense
Brown. Try savers!!
Hallas. Best game since his come back from injury

Players to come back. Definitely finish 4th and a home game in the playoffs .

Pretty well agree with the above. Never been that sold on Rooks but IMO he was very solid yesterday. A good win considering Newcastle pushed Fax very hard last week and it was very apparent after a few minutes that Lilley was the only half back, rarely attacking to the right during the first half.

I think Anthony Walker is on a one year deal, very much hoping that will be extended.

On a side note on the basis when they are mentioned it usually negative, I thought on the whole the referee was very good.

Very good result. I was worried we were going into self destruction mode in those final 5 minutes of the 1st half. But the 2nd half was very strong and clinical to take the game away from a Newcastle.

Sounds like Kear is going to manage these next 5 games with the play offs in mind. Seems a sensible strategy given we need all our key men fit to make an impression at the business end of the season.

Agreed, with a bit of luck (and we're due some) we should have our big name players fit, fresh and ready for the play-offs.

Makes a change from Jimmy's tactics of just hammering key players in pointless games so they were knackard for the crucial part.

I remember different resting players against fax and losing the home advantage against wakey cos of it

That was one of those games where the scoreline is a bit misleading. We dominated the first half but again with no goal kicker didn't convert any of our 3 tries and then with us in total control managed to get a player sin binned for a late tackle which gave Newcastle a sniff but they really never looked like winning. They are second only to Swinton as the worst team we have played this season, they really offer nothing in attack which is a little surprising considering some of the players they have. Its going to take a big drop off in form to remove Fax and Bradford from those 3 and 4 spots now and going on form the best route certainly looks to be London at home then Fev away.

well im pi$$ed .... saw the ko time at 5pm (12am here) but neglected the actual day/date (was assuming sunday)

half term report, chinabull needs to pay attention more in class especially with dates!!

i also remeber this, was thinking the same.... we had a great opportunity and should have won that game (but basically threw it) and would have had the home game against wakey. cant never underestimated home advantage. another shuda couldas lol

True but I was more referring to Jimmy flogging the likes of O'brien every game throughout the season against teams like Hunslet when we were pretty much guaranteed second place finish.

Only thing I'll say about that Fax game is I don't think anyone expected Wakey to lose to Sheffield the day after. If Wakey had to win that to get home advantage I fully expect they'd have won that game anyway IMO

If the squad list is still correct - we only have Brough, Murphy, the Evans brothers and Brad Gallagher for next year at the moment.

I would love to have the Newcastle centre Gill playing for us. That lad knows where the try line is. Great scoring record.

Just what my girlfriend(s) used to say...