The video referee is over used in super league yet this was the exact reason it was introduced and it wasn't used. It was a try.

All in all after watching that game I came away pretty happy. Despite losing, the lads put in a good team performance and played some nice rugby.

One of the main differences between the teams for mine was the Leeds looked like a team that had played together for a long time while Bradford still looked like the combinations needed a little more work to gel fully.

Credit to Leeds, they showed some good determination to come back and win and showed that they're a difficult team to defend against when they get a roll on.

Some good signs for the Bulls I reckon it'll come good by mid season and, with a bit of luck, we'll be firing on all cylinders come the business end of the season.

We need it too come good well before mid season.

A win would have been a nice end to CNY.

They've got it wrong over there though it's not the year of the rabbit this years is the year of the Wolf as it supposedly has been every year for the last five (according to Eddie and Stevo anyway).

thought your boys played well today unlucky not to come away with a win a good run out for a new team think a top six place is on the cards

Hope to god we don't have to wait for the year of the Bull

Get yer bets on for the Bulls to win the CC SL and WCC in 2021

I know one when I see one bigchris.

By mid season other clubs will also have worked out how to play against us. We might improve but we could do with a few wins before we'll lose the advantage of unfamilarity.

We look to be very solid and well organised, some big improvements from last season. Perhaps lacking a touch of class.

Generally very very encouraging from the new-look team. List any one of numerous individual events that, had they gone the other way, would have given us the win. That includes some silly penalties and the odd wrong decision at crucial times. Without the benefit of some key (and justified) penalties Leeds would never had have the possession and field position to claw so far back.

Most of Ganson's calls looked correct IMO, although two key ones - what seemed a clear forward pass for their first try, and what looked suspiciously like a knock on near their line approaching the end - looked to have been missed and were not examined by the sky muppetry. So we'll never know.

I suspect Silverwood's decisions were probably correct on the strictest interpretations of the rules - Leeds would have gone apoplectic had the penalty try not been given - but he did seem to be finding a way to disallow our tries wherever possible. The Walker decision seemed very very very harsh and indeed totally unfair to me, since Walker never played at the ball and it only touched him as a result of the other guy's actions. I feel that was a wrong decision, and it cost us the match.

I will freely admit that I very much doubt Leeds would have been under the same degree of scrutiny had the roles been reversed, and indeed I wonder whether Ganson would have even gone to the screen for a couple of the decisions. And I base that statement solely on my observations from previous Leeds-Bradford encounters at MM, before any tirades start.

All that aside, I think our lads surprised many people today, contributed to a great game that really should have been ours. Given its a new team still work in progress - and also given we have considerable space still under the cap (before Leeds bemoan what players they were missing) I think many reasons to be cheerful tonight!

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