Low on quality RL game but nice to see the team score a few points at Odsal.

Sykes in defence was great. Unorthodox with about 50% of his tackles but got the job done.

O'Brien played well, maybe not quite MoM performance but I can see why he got it. He has now played 3 SL games in a row and improved with each one. Perhaps a missed opportunity for Potter to give another of our youngsters a few games in the first team. And Ah Van with his losing the ball in the tackle 3 times on the bounce - did we not have any way of getting someone else on the wing from that squad instead of him?

I thought that the 400 or so Crusaders supporters were a credit to the players and club today.

It was heartwarming to see so many supporters who were all very vocal from start to finish and to see the Rooley Lane end draped up with the numerous Welsh national flags.

The game in question felt flat and really did mirror the end of season billing as a shoot out between two poor sides who have underachieved in 2011.

But for all the negative observations there was some good Rugby League on show at times with Crusaders Tony Martin having free reign down our right hand side edge, in which he set up two tries for Stuart Reardon via some truly clinical intricate passing before he went over for a try himself in the final seconds and the emergence of Adam O'Brien (who once again put in another solid performance and was unlucky not to score on more than one occasion).

What really killed the game as a contest was Ben Flowers rush of blood to the head which saw him sit down for ten crucial minutes (he stopped Ainscough from taking a quick tap on the 20m by holding him back in clear view of all three officials) because during his spell in the bin, Bradford ran in two back to back tries to extend the lead to twenty points (30-10) and any hopes of a Crusaders comeback were firmly extinguished when following a schmozzle in the Bulls in goal area Widnes bound Pattrick Ah Van picked up the ball to go over from 90m out leaving the sprinting Crusaders players for dust.

I said at the time when it was announced that he would leave Odsal that he would move on to better things with his new club and still stand by that view backed up by his twenty point haul today (although the less said about those first three carries).

Special mentions for Adam O'Brien (got the supporters MOM), Kyle Briggs (was my MOM), Shaun Ainscough and Andy Lynch (those rumours of a big money move to the KC stadium were certainly doing the rounds in the press box) who all gave the healthy crowd something to be happy about.

All in all a low quality game of Rugby League that featured thirteen tries and plenty of suspect defending but then it was always going to be a high scoring fixture when you take into account that both sides have been conceding 30+ pts a game.

Couldn't agree more Mick, I thought they were a credit to their team and Rugby League in Wales.

In fact I think I'm going to pop over to the Crusaders board and say so.

Agreed with your other points too in the main - a poor quality game that felt strangely flat, despite there actually being some good tries scored.

Ah Van took his try very well but I don't think he did much else. Early doors, him and Paul Johnson were having a knock on competition.

Briggs stood up very well for me today and I was listening to Radio Leeds on the way home and O'Brien played on after breaking his nose. Big respect, especially as the performance didn't drop after he did it. Lynch was our main prop although Kopczak actually took the ball in a lot harder than I've seen him do recently. It was nice to see O'Brien feed Kopczak and then Burgess some ball. Our future front row on show and they worked well.

Not a fantastic show but it was nice to see us get the biggest score at Odsal this year and to end with a convincing win. I still think we attack too flat and that some forwards don't run on to the ball as they should. Taking the ball stood still won't gain us too many yards.

It's a shame I didn't take any pictures on my phone of them at the end all cheering and clapping the players efforts.

The most pleasing thing about today is that before kick off when talking to Mick Potter he said that the players have really tried hard the past two weeks to work on the communication skill aspect of their game and while the lack of focus was still pretty noticeable with the cheap penalties and errors, you could see things starting to tick with the players openingly communicating and orchestrating the set plays (see Kearneys first try as a prime example - he called for that crossfield chip kick on the 4th tackle).

I know it's starting to sound like a broken record but I really do have renewed optimism ahead of 2012 and the arrival of Lulia, Purtell, Gale and Sammut to bolster the backline can only increase my faith in the club.

I just hope it has the same effect on the 6,000+ supporters who have still to pledge.

I hate to be pessimistic but if our pack isn't improved or worst still is further weakened by the loss of our top Prop then those signings won't make a huge difference to our fortunes for 2012 IMO.

Aren't the club targetting another 8k memberships?

Hand on heart we won't get 12,000 so it's going to be 10,000 and £90 for the terrace which is still bloody good value.

I thought the game was flat. Not the best game ever and not the best performance from the bulls but I have got to say adam o brien and tom burgess were great.

Crusaders brought a lot as well do well done to them.

13,998 great attendance 2 away from 14000

It would be interesting to compare pledge figures to last year at a similar stage. It still feels like we have an awful long way to go, I just hope we can at least achieve the 10k.

Off memory two days before the pledge 10k announcement the pledge counter stood at 7,800.

On the night of the announcement we got 10,600.

Agree with the above in that Adam has a massive future ahead of him within the game going on his game time since his Super League debut back in March (against Huddersfield) and a continued spell in the first team will only continue to help the development of his game, which going on his peformance today looks pleasingly good.

The way in which he was servicing and getting the ball to Burgess, Lynch and Koppy is just what we need to give the pack the direction and forward momentum.

It was good to see our out of position full back put a second rower on his booty too. He was also out of position when scoring 2 tries I see. Sack him.

That hit was right in front of me, bloody walloped him