Defence is going to be a key discipline certainly for the first few games and Toovs will be concentrating on that, the playmaking side will take a little longer to develop, its going to be a struggle to bring some decent or even half decent forwards in and get a platform for whoever the playmakers are to do the biz!
The result tomorrow should be irrelevant but how the Bulls perform is!
While some on here expect us to get a hammering first few games of the CL I tend to disagree I think most early games will be close (hopefully the RFL have told the Refs to give the 50/50 calls to the Bulls for a change

Cougars to lift the Trophy then. Look forward to Cougars v Bulls in the Championship (and Middle 8s!) in 2018!

A mate of mine has signed for your lot Nathan Kitson from Oxford, what you make of him so far? He scored against Whitehaven

Not had much game time yet. VERY quick to back up & finish try v Whitehaven. Competing for a place with Ritchie Hawkyard and Harry Aaronson - but hope he can really progress under Cougars' top new coaching team and make a name for himself. Is in Cougars squad for Sunday.

Bulls ahead after 5 mins. Roche over by the sticks after good work from leon and Keyes.

What's the latest?

12 - 18 just before H/T. Commentary, not there myself; mixlr.com/rugby-league-live/

12 - 18 just before H/T. Commentary, not there myself; mixlr.com/rugby-league-live/

Yeah 18-12 at Half Time.

The Mixlr feed works - sounds good

Finished 25-24 to Keighley

Last minute drop goal won it for them

How did they play?

Team played ok, need some forwards bringing in. Peltier looked good, as did Roche. Oscar Thomas was poor in attack.

As a Cougar fan. I am going to say the best team won.
Good close game. You will struggle without Price. He ran the show for you today.
What the hell have you done to Peltier. He looked a shadow of himself.

Peltier was doing ok until he got spooked by that goose. It seemed to turn him into some sort of shivering wreck after he ran away from the bloody thing.

I would agree better team won. I think I would also say the fitter team won as a lot of the Bulls players were struggling towards the end, which Keighley weren't so much.

And Oscar Thomas should be shining in a team full of kids. Unfortunately he stood out for the wrong reasons today, he was very poor when he came off the bench. We are definitely going to struggle if Pryce or Keyes are out and Thomas replaces them.

On the plus side, Oakes, Bentley & Butterworth all looked good to me. Butterworth has a hell of a boot on him and played briefly at scrum half. Him and Pickersgill seem like better half options than Thomas to me.

In the end it was the lack of size upfront, combined with a lack of experience that cost us. I was happy with how we dealt with their big men, but it took its impact on energy levels late on. Going the other way we lacked the impact to create space, and relied too much on our backs to break the line.