Well the best team lost, but that's how it goes sometimes.

I just find it hard to believe that all the contentious video ref decisions went the way of Leeds. We only needed one to go our way and that would have been game won.

To cap it all they gave MOM to Jones-Bishop (he did have a good game), when the best player on the field was Elliot Whitehead by a mile.

Still there's a lot to look forward to for the Bulls fans, despite the disappointment of that result.

I cant belive Whitehead did'nt get the MoM. Best player on the field by a country mile.

He had the wrong colour shirt on though.

Gutted by the result but impressed by our performance.

Don't know who decides the MOM but they must have seen a different match to me. Whitehead seemed to be everywhere and was head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch.

Wonder if Potter will give Ainscough a chance against Wigan? I'd be tempted, I can't see him having a bad game against his former club!

Absolutely spot on. I don't know what more he could have done to get MoM

But it doesn't fit the Sky TV script does it? I mean could Paul Cullen and Phil Clarke possibly have been any more pro-Leeds? Even when we were 28-10 up it was all about how Leeds could come back, how Leeds just needed to click into gear etc etc - barely a word of how much improved we were.

That hatred by the the colour commentators towards the Bulls is pathetic

Yeah, Phil Clarke loves us! I heard he sent Danny McGuire a Valentines card as well!

Brilliant display from a group of players that will only get better. Elliott Whitehead was easily the MOM. Cannot wait for next sunday to welcome the boys back to Odsal. The best team lost today, we know it and the end of season table will prove it

My thoughts... for what they're worth...

Firstly, after throwing away a lead like that lets hope their heads don't go down for the next 12 games! It was a very good performance considering the number of new players who are having to get to gel together. It was very promising.

However... Whilst the overall performance was OK there were a few too many mistakes and silly penalties given away at critical times and in key parts of the pitch which contributed in letting Leeds back into the game. Disappointing but also to be expected during the first game of the season.

Was the ref poor? I thought he was very happy to blow his whistle and penalise players for laying on for both sides when it was a marginal call. I think the difference was that the the critical calls all seemed to go in Leeds favour but I think that was more the video ref rather than Ganson, a few 50/50 calls seemed to go in Leeds favour when I thought the advantage should have gone to the Bulls as the attacking team - if we didn't have bad luck we wouldn't have any at all and it was that which I was cursing after the game. Let's also put things in perspective though - we were lucky Ah Van didn't get more than a ticking off for his high tackle on Burrow.

Sky are terrible. I started to lose signal due to the rain part way through to the game and I blame Stevo. I don't think the Bulls have ever really been portrayed in the same was as Leeds/Wigan/Saints no matter what we did on the pitch - despite outstanding success they will never class us as one of the marque teams. In the early days of SL we seen as an underdog punching above their weight on the pitch and one of the first clubs to embrace SL and the whole matchday experience off it. When we maintained that success it was as if we were somehow breaking the rules and they've never really made a secret of the fact that they'd prefer what they see as the big 3 to be their instead. It looks like they're more than happy to write us off before this season has started so lets hope we can prove them wrong.

Well played Bradford. Thought you were the best team by a long way. Leeds did the same to you as they did to us last year in Edinburgh.

A good performance from our lads considering there are 11 new signings, a new coach, we lost our first choice scrum half and our leading metre maker and tackler.

The game could've gone either way in the end and there was nothing between the two teams. Leeds may have had the edge in class in the end but on paper you'd expect that. On the field we showed we're a different prospect this year.

Just a question, why wasn't Ah Van sin binned for his head high tackle on Burrow? When an opposition player makes a break and you foul him your in the bin, they call it a Professional foul.

we all knew it woas going to happen. when ganson and silverwood got together what else could have happened.
just wondering if the rfl are going to turn round in the next few days and appologise for the wrong decisions but stay on the story of refs make mistakes all the time.
why we have the same refs in big games when other clubs have different ones i dont know.
think the rfl need to keep them two away from our games and see what happens

He sort of pulled out of the tackle at the last second. Had he hit him with a stiff arm it would've been an instant red. Having said that I've seen a lot less get a yellow card.

Nobody seemed to be particularly incensed on the Leeds side and Ah Van apologised to Burrow straightaway.

All this whinging about the refs is pathetic.