I had my back to play looking at the clock counting down and then it stopped at 2 seconds I couldn't understand why and turned round to see the scrum had formed lol.

Absolutely immense today what a great afternoon! Superb defence.

As others have said great defensive effort from the team today, I think we still need to work on attack but all in all a great game to watch. My one complaint is our kicking, not just in game but when we go for touch after a penalty...why oh why can't we seem to make more metres? I remember watching the preseason games with Briggs, Herbert and thinking our kicking game had improved a great deal, I just hope when Briggs comes back in we pick up that form again.

As for the Cas fans who were chanting some racist abuse outside the stadium after the game had finished, well done you've dragged your town and club down a little today, I know it's the minority but it was a disgrace nonetheless.

I'm shocked to hear that. I thought they were great the ones I spoke to. No room for that at all bad form

Much improved performance especially in defence. Though BK and Heath were massive for us. Platt was a monster in defence and put some hits in. Big improvement from Paddy and Sykes.

Briggs back will be a massive boost for us, relieves some kicking pressure from Herbert who is slowly getting there.

Excellent game, really enjoyed it

I thought that we bullied them in the forwards to be honest - once we got on top, and certainly when Scruton came on, we dominated them in the forwards. That set the platform for some great 'go forward' - how good was Heath L'Estrange at making great yards from dummy half? We can obviously do that a lot more when the forwards are doing the hard graft down the middle.

I agree that Herbert needs to improve. His kicking was aimless. but I expect that Briggs will take a lot of that load once he comes back, which I assume will be next week. I also thought some of his passing was wayward - one at head height, the next one round the knees. Frankly I expected better. But, to be fair to the lad, he took a bang on the head so did well to even complete the 80 minutes

Sykes did OK - crazy pass into touch apart, and I thought Royston put in a good shift in a position that obviously isn't his best. He had to curb his usual 'follow the ball and back up' policy because of his need to cover out wide, and I thought he did it pretty well. And clearly Ah Van is better on the wing than in the centre, so maybe Royston will be in the centres again.

All in all, a stirring performance and a great win, a win that would have almost certainly have ended up being a loss last season.

great performance, much improved. we looked quite balanced today and I was impressed with our hand speed to get the ball down the line today.

Sykes had a great game today, who says his defence is poor?!

I'm looking forward to Briggs coming into the side, hopefully he will add another dimension to our attacking game.

I was chatting with my brother and he was saying we could do with a Brad Mackay style player back when it came to kicking for touch. He seemed to launch it miles IIRC.

Briggs does launch it.

And well done to Elima for getting his first Bulls try !!!

Complete rubbish. He had a decent game, 2 or 3 decisions I thought might be wrong but I was, probably like you, 50m away & would need to see them on the video to convince myself. The booing at the end was pathetic.

Despite the erratic dishing out of penalties I thought he got most things right with the only possible cause for a grievance being the knock on at the end that gave the scrum to Castleford but that should have been spotted by the touch judge.

What was the penalty count?

I agree, i think, but it happened so quick with the kick there is no way I could be sure either way. You said Bulls got panalised 8 times last week for not square at PTB, another 3 or 4 today is concerning.

Out of the 13 penalties given away at Huddersfield 8 of them where for not square offside at the play the ball.

Today it was around half that with the majority in the first half so it looks like Potter has addressed the problem today.

A quick look at my note pad says Bradford 7-9 Castleford.