HT. Safari Sagudi. Keep it up Bulls!

Blackmore and Arundel helped off the field with injuries. Hope it’s not too serious!!

God we make it hard for ourselves! Comfortably the better team for 79 mins.

Great derby. Well done Bulls. Bragging rights!

In SL, Rivals Round was pretty much a resounding success:

Two scores in it as Cas beat Wakey;
Eight points separated Wigan & Saints;
Same for a Warrington win at Cats;
Salford edged Leigh by 2;
Leeds edged Hudds by 1.
The only outlier being KR’s trouncing of FC on the latter’s own midden.

The fixture fixers tried to do the same in The Champ, but there are so many rag, tag and bobtail teams therein that it was virtually impossible. There were examples though:

Barrow lost by only 2 against Whitehaven;
Fev beat Batley by just 8;
…and, of course, Bradford nicked the spoils by 4 at Fax!

When does the current Sky deal end? IMG should be getting all these games available to view on various media including (importantly) some more on terrestrial TV.

Bongser followed The Bulls match tonight by hopping twixt The Beeb, Flashscore and Bulls Twitter looking for updates.

Gotta say that whilst B&B does not suffer from either of the below conditions, your Twitter feed’s Bradford try “celebratories” could be harmful to epileptics and migraine sufferers - and possibly be a danger to shipping!

Then again, I’ve just seen Leigh Leopards’ 2023 Magic Weekend shirt!!!!!!

Good win, lads. Enjoy.

Ŵhat a f*****g win!!

Great entertainment from both teams in monsoon conditions at times.

Excellent win away from home and 1st one of the season to boot. I thought it came down to quality and we just had that little bit more than Halifax…

Still we nearly blew it by gifting the blue sox some points at the end, but full marks for effort and discipline over the 80 mins. Just hope there is something left in the tank for Batley..

What a win! Never mind Jesus Christ rising, Billy Jowitt rising to collect that bomb was biblical. Incredible take that won us the game.

I felt we played the conditions really well and won the arm wrestle. Patton and Lilley both produced some fantastic tactical kicking to turn the Fax players around. 2 of their scores game from our mistakes. Cut that out and the game isn’t as tense and close as it should have been. As somebody stated earlier, we were the better team for 78 mins.

Walters and Donaldson were a handful and kept causing problems for the Halifax defence. If we ask nicely can we have them back again next week, Rohan? I felt that they targeted Appo quite a bit tonight but he handled himself well after his early error.

Quite a few that could have taken home the MOTM award. Patton, Lilley and Jowitt played well alongside Donno, Walters and Thompson.

Pack was really good, Donaldson runs it in far above his weight and has still got a great workrate. Patton in the form of early last season and Holmes was solid again.

If Donaldson's SL career is at an end after this season, I'd be doing everything we can to get him back here permnantly.

Spot on

Especially if AJ is on his way.

Bewdaful

Cracking game, score line flattered Fax a little I thought. Defence and enthusiasm were excellent. Middles were dominant for large parts of the game and I include Appo, Baldwinson, Scurr as well as Bibby, Donaldson and Walters in that. Keyes had an uncomfortable game which, along with Holmes’ positioning negated a lot of his tactical kicking. Well done boys. The other interesting thing is we’ve won 5/8. Only 2 of those are against teams in the bottom half of the table. We’ve now played everyone in the top half