Really poor 1st half and it was the performance I feared for this fixture. We have given away too many cheap penalties and given Widnes some confidence to play.

Hopefully Nobby and Greenwood can talk some sense into the players. They need to be patient now and get into the arm wrestle with Widnes. We have enough quality to score some points if they stop gifting Widnes position and points.

Good test of this squad now, hopefully the leaders in the squad can pull us through.

Come on!

Awful performance. Blackmore gifted 3 tries to Widnes but the overall performance and attitude from the players just hasn't been good enough.

Not surprised by the result but bitterly disappointed with how easy we've made it for Widnes.

Awful. Not one player switched on. Old issues rearing thier ugly head. I'll-discipline, players trying to win it on their own ever play. So frustrating as when we went set for set we looked a level above. But we either gave a penalty or knocked-on.

Awfully disappointing performance. Onward & Upward!

Discipline.... Its even been the same when we have been winning. That needs work because regardless of what players we are linked with or signing, we will get found out when it comes to the play-offs and even after tonight I would say even a spot in the 6 is up for debate.

The thing that infuriates me the most though is the fact that a win tonight would have put some breathing space between ourselves and everyone below but in typical Bradford style the slightest bit of pressure and we crumble.

That’s up there as one of the most frustrating games I’ve seen us play for some time.

Discipline was an absolute joke from start to finish. Ball retention was also extremely poor. We allowed Widnes to piggyback themselves up the pitch time and time again through our inability to compete the fundamental basics of the game.

After the battering we gave Keighley last week I always thought this game was going to be another example where we think we can just turn up and win. Widnes are a poor side but they did the basics right and won the game.

Big response needed in Whitehaven at the weekend.

Some errors and penalties maybe but the recent loss of forwards meant we could not handle their bigger pack. The ref's failure to penalise Widnes at the ruck was abvsmal. Pack is an issue.

A contributing factor perhaps, but how many times did we hand the ball to Widnes in our own half with really dumb plays? Credit to Widnes, they took their opportunities but it was really poor stuff.

Interesting dilemma re Blackmore, he was absolutely shocking and whilst you cannot blame an entire result on one player.. his mistakes were massive to the outcome. If he avoids being dropped it can only be due to some credit from previous weeks when he has been very good.

Sadly this came back to haunt us last night. 2 many forwards missing. Boddies needed urgently.

You could have the best pack in the world but if you have players not dealing with very ordinary kicks, falling asleep in defence and trying ridiculous offloads on your own tryline it is always going to be a tough night.

We had enough quality out there to get a result last night but we played dumb rugby and slipped back into old habits of trying to take shortcuts against a determined Widnes side. Just one of those really frustrating nights where you'd back any side in the Championship to beat us playing like that.

Results like that make top 4 aims look very unrealistic now, we are fighting to stay in the top 6 now instead.

Despite this being an unpredictable league and almost everyone being able to beat anyone on their day it's clear that we don't yet have the consistency to be a serious top four team, never mind anything else. The old faults of overplaying, making errors, compounding them with penalties and then overplaying to make up for it causing everything over again reared its head again.

If we'd scored again at 12-6 I have no doubt we would have cut loose. The sheer effort that took to lose that game is staggering. It needed sustained brainfarts to achieve.

Generally the forwards played ok, the backs had a nightmare. All the dropped balls and errors, few teams could recover from that.

Deja vu from the York game where it's took some effort for us to lose the game. As Greenwood said, don't think we went more than 3 minutes without doing something ridiculous.

I know it's hard to single players out from that performance, but was really disappointed with Foster. He was constantly struggling to get back in the line and looked to be blowing all game. Falling off tackles including one where he'd just come back on.