I agree with a lot of what has been said. Thaler seemed very one sided in his policing of the PTB. If the penalty count is anything to go by Cas were squeaky clean for the majority of the game whereas we were serial offenders. From what I saw there wasn't much to choose between the sides.

Obviously we had a plan to slow the ruck down to negate the influence of Milner and Clark and it worked. So we were always going to give a few away - it was a calculated risk. However I don't believe Cas were were completel innocent of the same thing.

One thing, I may have missed something here but in the second half we had a kick charged down which we re-gathered on the last tackle. It was as blatent a charge down as you'll see yet Thaler didn't wipe the tackle count. Why?

At the recent NRL All Stars game they revised the PTB penalty by the defence by zeroing the tackle count and it made for a better free flowing game.
Applied yesterday the Bulls could have been run ragged by the sound of it

Would we ever have the ball appart from the kick-off if Child/Ganson/Silverwood was the referee?

Hmmm, think the game is quick enough without trying to speed it up even more.

I know playing Leeds is always a cup final for Bulls fans, but why was MM 2007 a massive game?

Because it was the first MM game, would have been excellent to win our first one. The other 2 are bigger though.

The 99 and 02 GFs were perfectly correctly refereed. The 07 involved a cock up but was a game the Bulls shouldn't have been in anyway due to a previous refereeing error.

Notice you don't list the scandalous 03 Challenge Cup final ...

Not our fault, you should have taken the 2 on offer. Player mistake cost you that one.

Also 99 was a debatable decision. Many fans from teams such as Leeds and even Saints have said that it wasn't a knock on. Others have the opinion that it was which fair play to them as it was a difficult decision.

02 was reffed well until the final minute when Joynt dived on the floor just inside the halfway mark. We left him for several seconds, the ref failed to give us a penalty (which it should have been). Henry Paul would have had a very good go (probably kicked the 2) as he kicked them from halfway regularly which would have give us a 20-19 win.

I'm fully aware of the circumstances - dear God I lived through the original JVT thread. That, as does this, proved only that Bullies retain a long but misguided grudge. The 03 CC Final followed straight on from 6 months of ceaseless Bradford whinging and Russell Smith gave you everything you wished for during the course of that 80 minutes.

No, we got penalized quite a bit. The problem lies with your management at the time.

Didn't take the 2. Our defence was on form and you knew it yet you tried to take us on.

Didn't play McGuire even though he got you to the semis, would have made a big difference too but you played Dunemann instead -_-

Deacon would have taken that kick?

My apologize, Deacon would have kicked them as he was in his prime.