There certainly is not a quality coach beating a path to Peter Hoods' door within Odsal at the moment.

i was at the game last night i thought we were borin why did we opt to kick 3 penalties only mins into the game when they were on the rack they had nothing to throw at us, they threatned our line once in the first half and scored wot a joke we should have put the game to bed early on, looks like wigan will get thier 1st win of the season next week

I didn't see the game or listen to it. I did see Wakey, without their recognised half backs, slaughter Wire. They've also done it against Salford and Wigan. That is down to coaching and spirit.

All the comics on here and you delete my post? Jeez put the dummy back in.

rlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/7897667.stmrl

Bradford coach Steve McNamara:

"We had some disruptions throughout the game which threw us off track a bit but we needed to do a bit better to win it.
"They tried very, very hard. I can't fault the effort at all. We still look a bit rusty offensively but I'm very very confident and optimistic about the season."

and Nathan Brown says

'The other team had enough penalties and enough ball to win three or four games but yet we still scored three tries to one."

I'm getting tired of hearing the same things and seeing no results!

T&A rlreportrland rlMc interviewrl are both online now.

How many pages of rubbish posted by bulls fans. Give credit where its due!
I think you have to realise Bulls are not what they used to be and Giants are not what they used to be.

You scored 1 try to our 3 and you had every chance but our defence was awesome. Every time you got a penalty you went for goal, now that must be showing us some respect as many moons ago you would have took another set of six.

Your forwards dominated us last night but we had Eorl & Griffin out and it showed but you just did not have any creativity on the pitch. Christ knows what penalty count was last night but you had ample chances to get over the line but you looked clueless.

Like I said we are not the Giants of Old we went to Catalans and won we nearly beat St Helens 6-12 with 5 Min's to go but ended up losing 6-23 which flattered them tbh and we beat a you.

Good luck for the rest of the season. See you in the play offs!

PS: all you fans that deserted Giants to follow the Bulls , the ship is sinking come and join the revolution at the Galpharm!

Hello and welcome to the point.

Pains me to say it

Solo wud of forced himself over the line from close last nite! hes renowned for it!

Our backline is crap. . . as we all know! We need halley over sheriffe defo!

As soon as deacs pulls his hamstring again this season, we will always play like last night! I can believe macca didnt sign a half back!

Jefferies didnt play that bad he was under pressure!

Beaver made some awesome hits! we have the best forwards in the league imo.

We are sure to win games! but probably not the close ones like last night!

Even if we sack macca we dont have a backline! Semi is solid n nero good in defense! Effort was there from the team! but after we had pressure in the second half n didnt score i knew we wud be knackered and they were! fooked!

We should be tapping going for the try especially when we had momentum in the first half!One it gives us confidence ball in hand. 2 it makes them defend there line n knacks em out! A disjointed game with a team of poor confidence like ours is suicide! Macca is a tactical nightmare! Deacs should just boss it on the field!

Is that the same Cullen who underachieved woefully with a very talented Warrington team?

He comes across as a nice guy, but he has done no more than McNamara in the game and has had a lot more time to have done something.

just to add a little perspective to things. Weve played Two games.

a draw against a side that have since come very close to beating the reigning champions and beaten saints.( edit typed leeds thinking saints )

a narrow loss to a side that have beaten catalans away convincingly and very nearly beating saints.

the fact that these sides are called hull kr and hudds and are 'lower table' sides is totally immaterial. Fact is they have decent sides this year. We've suffered from a disrupted pre-season and lost key players in both games and yet all people can see is that we havent won

There are still some obvious problems within the team but otoh some of the problems from the hull kr have been addressed. there was some genuine improvement between the two games and with a bit more luck and consistency from the ref we would have won last night.


ps anyone else think jeffries looked a lot more comfortable at scrum half once deacon went off?. If as it seems, the bird deal has fallen through, then we should be using the cap space to sign a genuine stand off asap.