It's not that odd a selection. Smith has started Addy at hooker previously. Usually when he wants a big more muscle in the forwards.
However, it IS strange that O'Brien has been left out completely.

Still, let's see what the afternoon brings.

I have a lot of respect for Rohan but I think omitting OB is just plain wrong and I don't understand. Maybe I'm just thick but can't see the reasoning. OB running against a big part time Featherstone pack late on and on a hot day would be the right option in my opinion. Hope I'm wrong.

Smith doesn't rate O'Brien thinks he's a one trick pony.

normal ref decisions as normal

Game over by half time.

Going out with a whimper.

It sounds like the referee is giving us a hard time. but i count the two Whelham chances as our only real chances to score in the first half?

This is going well

Well, it's going as well as Thaler wants it to. He's penalised us out of this game

Twice for passing off the floor you go weeks with out those given.

Amazing discipline from Fev though. They've gone 65 minutes without being offside....

Awww bless

Yes, this pitiful performance is all the refs fault. Of course it is:

How the hell have we not scored a single point yet! Utter dogsh*t!

We've looked like a team with no forwards. Which is pretty close to the truth. Oh well, I'll just have to console myself with the fact I'm not from Featherstone. I feel better already.

Smith's team selection looking like a masterstroke now.

Just shouldn't be this far short when we are only fighting for 4th in the Championship.Even with dodgy refereeing we are way off where we need to be.Full-time professional outfit and can't compete..A clear out needed and an understanding of what is needed to be competitive in this division.Whether about ground share,further investment,changes in the management or recruitment of players..questions need to be answered..we cannot accept such abysmal failure throughout the 1st team setup.Amazing that we still have a youth set up that offers much hope.Although Diskin will be on his way...What a shambles.

Let's all laugh at Bradford

Just awful. I never mind that £2 to sit down; I feel ripped off by the Bulls now.

I doubt you feel better than I....

...Well it's NOT the fans fault...they are MAGNIFICENT!

See how you feel next week when Leeds recall your squad

Good luck to the Bull's marketing department selling tickets to the next half of the season.

You cannot begin to understand just how smug I am. This result has dented it a bit, but it's a drop in the ocean when I survey the post industrial blight I see before me.

It's hardly Smith or the fookin ref, Fev came ready to play, and we didn't. We haven't finished FIFTH in the Cgampionship by accident, and despite bright early signs under Rohan, all the teams above us have showed they are superior so today is no surprise.

The sad fact that the players may want to reflect on when playing in the Coconut Shield or whatever it is in front of 900 souls is every game that they have pis.sed away and blown particularly against our level of opposition, if they had won even a single ONE of those, they would at least have scraped 4th, although now the season is over, lets not beat about the bush, a 4th place finish for such a highly paid full time squad would in itself have been a disgrace and embarrassment.

The blame and responsibility is straightforward, Lowes's inability to make them play, and the pigeons of the "no halfbacks" policy inevitably coming home to roost.

Today's debacle, therefore, whilst not in isolation an acceptable effort, isn't the point, and although it has cost the club maybe three quarters of a million pounds, it has spared us from humiliation in the big boys playoffs. The Coconut Shield is what we frankly deserve, and I have zero confidence that we will even win whatever it may be.

I started this as the cretinous Haggerty got himself binned, and NOTHING has happened as I type, the team looks utterly despondent, clueless, dispirited and shambolic. And there's the hooter.

I fear the worst now, I really don't know where we go from here, but disaster looms.