Nobody said he wasn't a good player. But both Shenton and Burgess have far more potential -and imo- brighter futures in the game than Chase.

Shocking defensive display by the Bulls and we deservedly lost in my opinion. I thought the challenge on Semi at the start of the 2nd half was in the air and the Cas player fooled the officials that he had any intention of catching the ball. I look forward to the replay of that particular call but we once again laid out the welcome mat for the opposition.

If you repeatedly knock on in your own half and throw suicidal passes out to be intercepted then the result will always be a defeat.

If we go into next season with Deacon as scrum half then we may as well not bother. The guy has been great for the club over the years but he is shot and simply isn't good enough anymore. He is a passenger who offers very little nowadays. His kicking is no longer one of the best in the league and I'm losing count the amount times players just run around him as if he isn't even there. Sykes was again like a turnstyle in defence and I would be quite disappointed if we cannot do better than him for next year. I'd take Evans back to be honest.

Newton was abysmal and is another who's legs look to have deserted him. It's seems his flat pass close to the line is about all he offers nowadays and he won't be badly missed if he decides to move on.

On the plus side I thought Halley was outstanding once again. He seems to be improving all the time and is a joy to watch right now. I also thought Worrincey showed up well and worked his socks off whilst on the pitch. I think we would be silly to let BJ go as well unless we have some top quality players lined up for next year. He has been pretty consistently our most dangerous playmaker this year and deserves a new deal.

In the right hands Sam could be a world beeter but at the moment he far to big to play anything bar a prop but thats down to very bad coaching and i dont mean first team coach it the fitnes team who obsesed about getting bradford to a stupid size. on Mick Shenton he is a little bit over rated when he good he is very good but he can not do it every week yet.

I left the ground today seriously wondering if I can be bothered forking out for any more home games this year. The last two losses were disappointing but at least the team looked as if they were up for the game. This afternoon they seemed undercoached, undermotivated and shambolic.

On today's evidence I'd keep Halley, Scruton, maybe a couple of others, and let the rest fight for their places with some youngsters.

I was going to bring a Spanish mate to his first game today but in a way I'm glad he was ill and couldn't make it. Perhaps in two weeks' time I'll have forgotten the dejection (again) and will persuade him along to the Wigan match. Whatever the result, I sure hope they aim to give a better account of themselves.

And why not award MOM to the away team now and again? Perhaps Halley did deserve it today, but sometimes I feel the only deserving recipient would be one of the visitors.

That as Sykes he shouldn't play again this year.

Rangi Chase is sh**e Fact

Agreed with BB in opinion that Deacon simply needs dropping and offloading.

He was cleanly skinned 3 times today (and probably more). 2 led to tries and the other he laid on the floor in a heap.

Sykes seems unable to take a ball in when he's been put through a gap, again knocking on a few times today when doing so.

4 minutes for the academy lad today (can't remember his name). What is the point - even the crowd mocked those 4 minutes with a huge cheer when he came off the bench.

I've said it all season, do we not coach in defense? We allow the other side to offload way too easily and for me it's not good enough.

Oh, and Newtons pass that led to the intercept could be seen all the way back from 1950, it was that predictable.

and let's face it, Wire fans know a $hite player when they see one.

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It's something we can't do.

James Donaldson. You were stood a little infront of us.

I thought both our first two tries were forward.

The problem is and has been over the last few weeks, despite playing some not bad rugby in patches against the two best sides in the league, we seem to have a tiny little spell where we just don't show up. It was just before HT against Saints, at the start against Leeds, and today just after HT. We aren't an 80 minute team at the moment.

I'm just dismayed with Deacon, great servant for this club but that doesn't warrant a starting spot at 7 next year. Jeffries needs tying down to a new deal, he's carrying Deacon through long periods of the game. I thought Newton played well, barring the intercept obviously. The side look lost and lack direction when he goes off the field.
Becoming increasingly worried with the performances of Jamie Langley and Paul Sykes, who's defensive performances are getting torn to pieces.

Donaldson looked hungry for the farcical few minutes he was given, wanted to take the ball and ran some nice lines.

Not happy with the fans around me who seem to pint everything on the referee.. sigh. Tadulala was terrible in the air and under the high ball today, but our fans seemed to believe he was taken out, which I disagree with.

Kudos to Cas, who played their rugby and probably deserved the win. However, one thing which stood out today was the performance of Dave Halley. Almost faultless, and one woman had the gall next to me to say he was p!ss poor! Shocking, in my opinion.

Surprised nobody has mentioned the lack of sending off of Westerman. Should be banned for the rest of the season. He clearly went with shoulder intentionally to back of Deacon's head when laid on the floor.

The ref also missed a professional foul flop after one of our breaks ran (as usual) into the only defender around. The flop was clearly done to stop a quick play the ball.

But overall our inability to tackle and ability to turn clean breaks into nothing were the reasons we lost to a team that played even worse than we did.