I'm not feeling the woe just yet because the injuries we have, and the specific positions they are in, means we were always going to lose this one in my opinion. Like someone else said I was very surprised how many tipped a bulls win. Not sure where that optimism stemmed from.

If we still look adrift and clueless when we are playing with settled halfbacks and a strong, fit pack, then I will start to worry.

I get people comments regarding injuries etc the props argument I don't buy as we had Margrin and Karsniqi sat out. Yes Krasniqis been rubbish and Margrin wasn't great against Sheffield but Kear brought them in. I would have preferred Margrin to come on instead of Oakes. Oakes is the better player but yesterday's conditions were obviously a stick it up your jumper and run hard type of game. Toulouse only beat Swinton by 2 points last week and haven't exactly started the season well.

Frustrating thing for me is while we do have players to come back, it won't make a jot of difference if we continue banging the ball dead to give a 7 tackle set, unable to complete a set and our FB being out of position and not communicating with his wingers. We're making the same errors every week.

The 14 point margin was just short of the 16 point margin I expected. With our halfbacks out and playing in terrible conditions it was never going to be easy. There was a lot of effort but we never came close to scoring and very rarely applied any concerted pressure.



I agree with this. We do have a bad habit of not taking our opportunities or maintaining pressure on the opposition. Our gameplans are very conservative too which means we're easy to defend against.

Muddy field, tremendous kicking game; dumb penalties and hand overs from us meant Toulouse had it sewn up in the first 15 mins. It's not all the fault of the FB but you have to ask about his confidence. On of the clearances he put boot to ball on, the ball was already out of play and as Eddie would say 'No-one in cooee'.

No doubt we have the skill, and pleasingly the desire (the show ponies of 2015 would have called it a day at 60 mins and leaked like a sieve) but gobbing off at the ref is beyond schoolboy and even more criminal when it's in their 20 and we concede on the set we handed them.

Wildie at 7 though.... there's a thought. If we had Theresa May's money tree I'd be in the hunt for an experienced FB and another hooker.

Indeed.
I had us down to probably lose this one long before the injuries/suspension so I'm far from surprised. For sure, we could/should have cut out some/most of the errors and definitely all the gobbing off but I still wasn't disappointed. Well only about the nil, I certainly didn't expect that, but not about the display as we were always on a loser with neither halves nor our best tactical kickers in the line up.

On the plus side I thought the effort shown by the lads was exemplary. We never gave up and many sides would have collapsed totally in the last quarter, so they get a big round of applause from me for that.

Liam Hood available on a part time deal.

He's off to Leigh it seems.

We should have been in for him straight away. He's from Bradford too ffs!

Would’ve been a great signing for us given that Flanagan’s deal finishes at the end of the year and Wildie is our only other option that’s good enough at this level. I know Hallas can play there but I think he’s too slow and is better suited to the grafting loose forward role. We have Tom Doyle and Lochlan McGill in the 19s to come through but I think they’re some way off.

Blimey, after Batley its Widnes and then Leigh.

Unless we really get into gear soon March isn't going to be a great month to be watching the Bulls.

What was the attendance for this game?

3,751 according to League Express