If we can keep scraping the wins, and improving, we may be top 6 soon enough.

It was scrappy today, but that's to be expected with only a couple of days rest. As long as the 2 points keep coming, I won't have too much complaining to do.

At risk of having it explained that if my auntie had got balls she'd be my uncle...had we won one more game than we have then we'd be 4th in the table now...

I get the feeling that the point we got at Headingley could be crucial come the play-offs.

i'm quite happy with how the season is going so far. my only concern is the lack of goal kicking ability in the squad. Orford isn't exactly prolific and Sykes didn't exactly do brilliant either. It very nearly cost us against Crusaders.

Agree and could have cost us the points at home to Wigan if the tries were a further out wide.

I think were missing Deacon on that note.

you don't say mick



thing is deacon wouldnt have created the trys that orford has so he wouldnt have anything to kick. Agree though that we need to look at the kicking and only option I can see is to give it to sykes fulltime and let orford concentrate on what he does best. I know donaldson and godwin can kick but they arent on the pitch for the full 80 and kickers tend to go better the more practice they get so we should stick with one person rather than chopping and changing depending on whos on pitch at the time.

A goal kicker can only win you a game, not cost you one.

Yes but the 80 minute kickers aren't performing, might be an option to try Wagga/Donaldson when on the pitch

So no tries in the first 20 pls, although most of second half should be fine

I think we've made a ok start to the season not great but certainly better than last season lets hope we keep it up.

At a base level that is true, at least in the sense that if one element is changed, then the whole game becomes a different match.

What is totally wrong is the ridiculous point that you are trying to make by saying that: ie Paul Deacon didn't create any tries. Deac's main shortcomings were that he probably lacked a yard of pace and the fact he didn't (imo) challenge the line often enough. His passing skills, the ability to put players through a gap, and the way he found players with the boot were exemplary. To pretend otherwise is an insult to a guy who was a terrific player and a great servant of the club, in my opinion.

Up until 2008 I would have agreed.

bulliac you've mis-interpreted my post. I didnt say that deacon didnt create any tries. just that orford creates a lot more. deacon may have created a bit more in his heyday but the stats for the last couple of seasons dont lie. last year deacon got 10 try assists and scored 3 tries in 23 appearances. this year hes got 3 assists and 0 tries in 7 appearances ( granted most of them off subs bench). compare that to orfords 7 try assists and 3 tries in 9 appearances so far. its pretty obvious orford is the more creative player at this point in his career. I'm not, and didnt, say that deacon wasnt a great player for bradford, just that I feel he doesnt bring much beyond his kicking game to the table now. Kicking apart I feel Ox is the better player now.