Welp, that was utterly awful. Awful weather (I can not feel my toes still), awful attitude from the bulls, Odsal looks awful, crowd numbers (unsurprisingly) awful. It was just awful. I cannot think of anything good to take from today. It was dire. I suppose the only good thing to take from it was that it was Sheffield: had it been a better team we world have been thoroughly hammered. Is that a good thing? On second thoughts, no...

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Was it a case of poor attitude? Or a case of not playing the conditions? On the radio it sounded like effort was there just very poor in game management and playing the conditions (which in still inexcusable in my eyes).

Very poor result. Expected a win here. Can't see us beating Leigh on Monday. But I hope we beat Barrow and Batley at home followed by another tough test away at Workington.

What's up with Scott? Why isn't he playing at all at the moment?

The both picky up hamstring injuries in training

About as bad as it gets. The decision to take the 2 after spending 25 mins in our own 20 metre area has to be the worst call by a coach I've ever seen. The only other time in the half we'd been in Sheffield's half we'd scored and he decides to put us back on our own goal line where we'd failed to come out of for the previous hour.

There were sets of six today where our defensive line did not advance at all. Just stood, passively. Pleased for the lads Kear let go but it's past time he followed them.

This type of result is precisely why we are still miles off challenging the top couple of teams in the league. Hugely disappointing opening home game against a fairly ordinary Sheffield outfit.

Early signs suggest it will be a similar season to last year.

As much as I like Kear I am begining to doubt his antiquated coaching methods. Very rarely any attempt for a repeat set, he would rather turn ball over in oppositions 10. His strong point has always been motivation but that effort today was woefull. Terrible line speed, no kicking game and no depth to our attack, just passing the ball flat along the line. We missed a real opportunity today to build some momentum but failed again.

I can't think of a more classic Bradford response to last week's win. Let's be clear, Sheffield are mid table dross. The question is was it last week that was the anomaly or this week? Because it might well be that we are mid table dross too.

Thoroughly outplayed in every department for about 65mins. Sheffield looked miles fitter, faster, better organised and more enthusiastic. Some awful decision making from us, passive defence, poor kick and chase.

Positives are hard to think of. Plenty of effort from Miller and DFJ. That's about it. The fitness is a big concern of mine as was the lack of enthusiasm. We lost the arm wrestle and that meant we lost the energy battle. Well played Sheffield.

All I can say about that was at least the seats were clean !

Think that's the most deflating result for a long long time. A great win last week, chance to back that up against a team we shouldn't need any motivation to beat, 1st home game of the season and we bottle it. Instead of getting the win and building up a big game against Leigh next week, we're now likely to be 1 from 3 after next week.

Well in terms of competitive games the last example was only 2 games ago against haven.

This sums it up perfectly. Last week we were very good and today we were exceptionally bad. We've been brought back down to earth with an almighty bump!

I felt that we fell in love with ourselves after last weeks performance and all we had to do today was turn up and we'd take home the 2 points. We lacked go forward, our discipline and attitude was very poor and we looked absolutely shot to pieces in the final 10 minutes. We never seemed to win the arm wrestle and just let the Eagles march us back down the field time and time again.

Sheffield played the conditions perfectly and their kicking game and go forward in the second half had us pinned in our own 20 for large periods of the game. That area of the field was a mud bath and we couldn't get ourselves out of trouble. The game plan was all wrong and we tried to play fast expansive rugby in terrible conditions. Lots of individual errors stunted our limited attacking threats. Patton tried his hardest but became frustrated and ended up in the bin because of it. After we scored in the second half and got ourselves back in front, I said to myself, "Who's dropping it from the kick off then?" and Crossley goes and makes a meal of the restart.

A very bad day at the office for JK and the Bulls.

Leigh weren't really given a run out last week in a one-sided game against 'Haven. Still relative strangers to one another though the left side seems to be clicking nicely.

All eyes on Postage Stamp Road tomorrow. That will be a better litmus test.

Still, Bongser's left eyebrow was permanently lodged near his receding hairline as he watched the second half score progress on Flashscore (don't tell his boss). Ouch.

Early doors.

Any travellers for the game a week on Monday will find Bongser in Tom Burke's ('Spoons) from about 6pm.

Couldn’t agree more with this. Fell in love with ourselves after the dewsbury result. Scoring very early against Sheffield and I think we started to think about Leigh next week. Before we knew it we were in a game and by half time we were only ever going to lose.

As someone else mentioned, even with the bad weather I was surprised how empty the terracing was. A good win today might have encouraged some back. Todays performance will have encouraged people to skip Leigh away (although I’ve already agreed to go )