SL, side not on this performance

Gaskell goes for the drop goal...and misses.

Danny Williams scores and finally kills off the Whitehaven fight back.

Whitehaven 16 Bradford 24

Williams in again. Bradford running away with it in the final 10 minutes. Shaw converts

Whitehaven 16 Bradford 32

Full time. Potential banana skin avoided. Played poorly and still won.

Whitehaven 16 Bradford 32

Be interesting what the fans say who went to the game. I fortunately got to hear it on the wireless !! I heard Jimmy on a post match interview, Poor performance Mr Lowes, possibly a shade worse than the team today

Didn't go to the game, but listening to it on the radio we did not sound at the races. Seems that we were as bad this week as we were good last week.

We've got two weeks until our next game now. Hopefully the team can go away, get refreshed and come out all guns blazing at Blackpool

You actually played well, Whitehaven were well up for it but ran out out steam in the end, full time training will always beat part time in the fitness stakes.

I am starting to think there is a lack of mental preparation when playing teams we should beat with ease, maybe Paul McKenna is needed

I thought Whitehaven did ok at Odsal until they ran out of fuel. Didn't go today but expected match to pan out pretty much as it did. It's not like we've not seen it before. This league could work well with a bit more financial support for some of the club's. Plenty of Bulls shirts at Lawkholme today.

Went to game.
Firstly fair play to Whitehaven. Thy really ripped in to the Bulls with some big aggressive hits. Also they played some good attacking rugby. Really gave it their all.

On our performance. First 20 minutes we got into the arm wrestle and went ok, then we scored 3 good tries. The third from Gaskell was out of this world. We then went a little sloppy, Whitehaven got some momentum and started to cause us problems.

Again in the second half we were really sloppy with the ball. Particularly Shaw and Purtell. Whitehaven ran out of steam. Another 2 points. We weren't great but like I aaid, Whitehaven really gave it to us. We will have a few sore bodies this morning.

Mixed emotions. We were really sloppy with the ball and we won't get into SL playing like that. But on the other hand Whitehaven were bang up for it, Cumbria is not an easy place to go and we have come away with 2 points despite not being at our best. But us fans shouldn't think we can just turn up and we've got the two points. We're not just going to run through teams every set. That said we need to start really hitting form in a few weeks to go into the middle 8's with some momentum.

On another note Jimmy said earlier this week he was going to play his strongest side every week as he doesn't believe players will burn out and used Chelsea/Mourinho as an example. Wasn't sure I agreed with him when this came out as the punishment an RL player takes in a game is a million times worse than a footballer.

But after watching today I do belive Jimmy could risk burning one or two out. Particularly O'brien who wasn't himself at all. Took yet another whack around the head and wasn't really doing much dummy half running. Not even halfway through season yet and he looked tired. Not surprised as playing 80 minutes every week, the amount of work he gets though and the hits he has on his body, not surprised it's taking it's toll.

Any fatigue the players may be feeling should be wiped out by the next time we play. Being out of the cup is a benefit for us now, hopefully they use a bit of the time between our next game to relax and refuel.