If not moving up fast enough off the line is the issue then you would think someone of jK's experience would sort this quickly

yes, you would, and its been said so many times over the last few years.

Watched the video this evening and I thought our defence was mostly good especially on the goal line. Joe Keyes' kicking game was superb. He chased down his kicks well and tackled their backs to put pressure on the kick return. We were a bit unlucky for their second try. Atrocious pass from their player confused our lot and as the ball bobbled on the ground their centre did a great job picking it up and running into space. I imagine in terms of defence it's difficult to react to a poor pass that turns out to ricohet into the hands of the right player!

Great finish to the game. An absolute humdinger. Bet Proper Sports were licking their lips at that as their opening broadcast, although as someone else said that fella they had on was useless. He didn't offer a word of insightful material whatsoever.

Bulls did well to grind that one out. I'm sure our attack will improve. On the whole happy with the way we defended though.

Let's face it this squad is going to take some time to get to know each other so to get the win yesterday was outstanding. The spine of the team has some new players and our best hasn't played yet. I'm sure the attack will come in time.

The defence on the line was very good I thought. Elsewhere we could use a bit more line speed and intensity. Do that and the we'll force more errors. I'm sure it'll come good.

It'll be interesting to see how we go at Cougar Park. We know what to expect from them now.

Look after each other, play our own game and certainly not get involved in measuring our appendage with them.

From watching the video York looked technically smarter and physically had more energy, but the Bulls defence in general was good and as the game went on the Team gelled more. York can consider themselves unlucky but they didn't make the most of their superior advantages, and we had the rub of the green when it counted. Though I did think York wasted a lot of energy with three man tackles compared to the Bulls. While the Ref let the game sort of flow I was surprised there were not more flare ups with all the niggles allowed to go on!
Still it's 2 points in the bag and was earned because the Bulls hung in there against a very solid attack down the middle!

Agree about York. Adam Robinson is definitely the type of prop we could do with. But their confidence throwing the ball about was great to see from a league one side. The York press were making issues of our celebrations and saying it wasn't warranted against a part time side but to my eyes there was plenty of SL experience in there! All in all a fantastic game, Joe Keyes really took the game by the scruff of the neck, was greatto see as all we have really seen from his days at London too was a running game. The talk of Lilley needs to be quietened for me as I feel him and Chis will be perfect. The main thing is over the last 3 seasons we would not in a month of sundays won that game. The Kear effect bearing fruit already

WTF is wrong with celebrating? It showed how good the team spirit is. It was a hard fought game irrespective of opposition. It’s not as if there was anything unsportsmanlike

Agreed aboit Keyes taking the line on more. Didn't really see it last season (unsurprising considering the h0us3 shot he took from Walshaw) hope it continues from him.

Regarding the celebrating, i thought it was fantastic. Not the moment we won it at the end, you'd expect that, but the way we celebrated forcing a knock-on, Steve Crossleys tr my etc. We looked like a team full of spirit and is really in this together which we will need in this division.

Too right.

They deserved to celebrate. That York team was the better one for large parts of the game and they had a few current and former SL players in their side too. Our squad is mostly part time so not sure what the complaints are about unless it's a few sour grapes.

We have a lot of new faces in the side so it's good we got the tough game out of the way for a couple of weeks and we can now work on those areas that need attention. We've a long way to go and there will be ups and downs along the way but we're at least on the up again.

York Press need to let us know the formula for deciding if we are allowed to celebrate a win. Against superleague or championship teams plus Keighley and Workington we are, against York and Donny we can a little bit and against Coventry we have to remain utterly silent with a poker face. Presumably the fans better not clap either. Utterly moronic thing to say.

^This

The team we faced had three full-time Hull KR players in it, plus the likes of Cockayne and Horne who were, until very recently, full-time SL players.

How many FT players were in our starting 13? Perhaps 7 or 8? Not so much of a difference when you look at it

The team spirit is very good within the squad. A lot of them are very good mates

My lad goes to Keyes's house for tea as well, I never get an invite

You should keep an eye on the company your lad is keeping - ask Keyesy to join you at yours.....

Just a quick follow up to this, I have a couple of extra programmes left over (me and my partner bought a few extras), will do them for £1 posted. Just drop me a PM if you want one. Thanks and best of luck for the rest of the season - don't think you'll need it though!