Yet again you talk complete spheroids!

From where I watched it there were two significant moments in the game:

1) When Fa'asavalu came on in the first half and ripped us to shreds.

2) When he came back on in the second half and did exactly the same.

I don't agree. It is far from certain we would have scored. Knowing us we would have knocked it on. And even with the extra 2-4 points the game would hardly have been out of reach. So was that decision alone the reason we lost? Absolutely not.

I thought McNamara had made the wrong call, but then I remembered Paul Medley's speech, and realised it was the right decision.

Listening from afar, it seemed to remind me very much of Wigans tactics in the mid 90's when in a similar situation. Be continually off side, throw in the odd high tackle, allways early on in the tackle count. No sin bins were ever issued then and when the attacking team knocked on, a scrum given regardless of how much off side Wigan were at that time. As something similar seemed to be occuring today, was MacNamara anticipating the knock on/scrum event and decided 2 was better than none?

how the hell do you know? you couldnt be bothered attending - wally!

Poor old Mick he really does you lot no favours.

According to Radio Leeds you were going well at 14-4 when you had that"try" disallowed.
twenty minutes later you are in trouble 28-14 down instead of 20-4 up.
Did you drop off the pace or did Saints move up a gear?
Should be a good game this Friday.

A bit of both.

He ripped the ball out of Menzies' hands twice in as many minutes.

I assume you are a "comedy" poster. Very good.

Right then, lets have a bash at this one.

The one thing that was the key factor was Fa'asavalu's (I'm not even going to attempt to spell his name correctly, that'll do) spells, which turned the game to a certain extent. He was magnificent, a joy to watch even from a Bulls perspective!

However, I think the Bulls had a couple of good chances to put that game to bed. I certainly didn't agree with taking the 2, we had all the momentum and Saints were on the back foot. Also, Deacon's "try", of which I'm not sure why it was disallowed (haven't read the previous posts on here), but that could have certainly done some damage psychologically to be that far in front.

Saints had two very good spells, and justified for me why they're the best team in the comp. I personally aren't too downhearted from that, and look forward to Leeds on Friday. Kudos to Scruton, who had his best game for the Bulls I thought. Non-Kudos to Deacon, who again looked lost, and justified our need to sign Wing, or any other 7 that looks capable of leading a line and backing up the work our ever consistent players like Lynch and Menzies do week in, week out.

Keep the faith!

P.S - Eastwood's much criticized hit on Jeffries was perfectly legal in my opinion

both teams got away with a few cheeky shots ... it happens in rugby, its not tiddly winks!

without being derogatory to bradford (i still thought you played well!) the space was there, you failed to exploit it - that has nothing to do with what the opposition were or werent doing

Seems to me some on here have benn infected with lets-blame-the-ref-itis and im probably not going to be able to change your mind