When first saw the title of this thread, it made me cringe.

I now have to admit the possibility that the OP might prove to have been a lot smarter than I was.

Perhaps building team spirit has been helped by some of the OTT criticism of the side from the game vs Wigan? FWIW I thought the defence simply looked disorganised in that game, leading to some horrible looking efforts. Personally I want to see as many sides as possible being competitive, so its great that the Bulls might be running into some form with injured players still to return.

great away from home, need to win games at odsal now

first win at home next week against saints, then salford, then first away defeat at kc would be fine by me

I dont think any saints supporter would argue with that.

Obviously cant write saints off against anyone but this is the first season where I have felt saints will not be there or there abouts at the end.
They dont look like a top 8 side.

Chill. Saints are simply a little bit off the boil at the mo, and will be well in the mix come September when it matters.

Bulls are certainly looking something like, and that was an awesome comeback yesterday. Hell, I'm even thinking we could get a decent run out against them this year!

you mean like last year when the bulls beat you at headingley?

Do you know how many times Mika has been subbed this season?

For a second rower, he has been subbed far too much IMO. How many times were Galea and Newton ever subbed?

no, why should i? first time ive seen rovers since the pre season friendly, after the first 15-20 minutes, you hardly heard his name for the rest of the game!

Meh, we were saving ourselves for a big finish......

So, it kinda makes your comments about Mika irrelevant. He's played the full 80 some games this year.

He's played for 80 minutes in alot of games. May well change when we get arguably our most influential forward back for the 1st time this season.

He's only played 5! He must have been subbed in at least 3 of them

Agreed. When I started this thread, it was after bradford had played wakefield. The week before they had played wigan at home and taking a thrashing, bradford copped alot of stick from all angles after that game. So they go to wakefield, and in the first minute of the game wakefield go straight from the kick off and score.

Bradford teams in recent years would have collapsed. But bradford fought back for a comfortable win. That showed balls.