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.

It was a yellow, no doubt about it. If you illegally tackle a player when he is on the break it is at the very least a sin bin. But for the sake of the s posting on this thread lets forget about that shall we.

Whitehead for an oscar, he sold that interference penalty to Ganson, but lets forget about that one also because Leeds are nasty cheaters.

This^^^^

Well done to the guys and the coaching team.

fair call and i would agree. but a bulls player was clearly pushed back over the line for a goal line drop out and he was allowed to play the ball.
ganson is ganson, he wants to be the game.

all in all both sides have some optomism for the season ahead. i think you lot can look forward to a decent season on that display

A great performance by the Bulls which we could and should have won. I think two things contributed to our defeat..
Firstly we gave away too many penalties (Sibbitt and Diskin were guilty here)...
Secondly, Raynor kept coming inside instead of marking his opposite wingman. I think he gave away 3 tries by doing this. Leeds' inside men were well covered by other Bulls players, all Raynor had to do was to stay in front of the Leeds winger.
But all in all a very good performance.