Hopefully we will be better than the cup match early in the season

Bradford 8 Leigh 48

Listening live on Mixlr.
0-22 up but sounds like we haven’t really played our best stuff, with a few errors. That said, I’m very happy with the score at the half and that I can listen live.
Looking forward to the second half.

Excellent win. Inu with a hat-trick and 6-56 is way beyond what I expected.
Also hearing that Chamberlain and O’Donnell are both not serious injuries.
Job well done lads.

Another far from perfect performance which nonetheless was pretty brutal and effective and which overpowered the Bulls in their own backyard - I have not been able to say that many times over the years, if ever!

Great result, although tinged with worry over the injuries that we picked-up.

I have heard Lam's post match interview which indicates that Chamberlain is probably out for about a month. O'Donnell however was the real worry given that he was obviously in distress immediately following his injury and given that he did not get up and stayed prone whilst the game was stopped and for full head/neck precautionary treatment to be provided on the pitch before the poor lad was carted off on the stretcher. The real worry was that it looked at the time like a season ending injury.

In the post match interview thankfully Lam indicated that the treatment was more precautionary and that the extent of the neck injury will have to be assessed. I have to say that I am concerned that he will end up being out for a while. I really hope that I am wrong because O'Donnell has been great for us and we need him both this season and next. He bombed a couple of chances today but he made huge yards with every carry and is dynamite in the tackle. He was having another great game for us until the injury occurred.

Stone also took a knock and was hobbling when he went off. Wardle as well had running treatment during the game. We could end up being a few players down next week. Hopefully Green is very near being recovered and fit to play because we are likely to need him.

All in all, the injuries just took a little bit of the gloss off a great away win.

Thanks for the updates Jack.
All the best for quick returns for Kai and Ed, Hope the rest are good to go again.
Green and Charnley to come soon hopefully.

At work today. Twitter feed a tad sporadic. Saw that Chamberlain had been interchanged early. Obviously delighted with another large away win but not happy with the news posted above.

It's a hard game but Leigh are back to three points ahead. Looking at the fixtures coming before The Bash....

Leaving it there!

I think we will see Lam filling in the “……….” you left off B&B.

Stone knock was in his privates he’ll be rite

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That’s easy for you to say
Hope Stone’s stones are ok Dick (a sentence I thought I would never type )

Pity the poor physio!

That’s a handed over ice pack and verbal advice treatment.

I wouldn’t have minded being the physio

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... r-24437838 Brian "Nobby" Noble, thinks Bradford should be parachuted into Super League. Personally I believe they have squandered Sky money and mismanaged the entire club for years. There is a certain karma to the club being a mid-table Championship club, with an average team, playing at "The Devil's A-hole" aka Odsal. Concrete motorway dividers at the side of the pitch, binoculars required to view the game and the long walk plunging into the bowels of the earth. I feel aggrieved with Bradford, Wakefield and Castleford who all took the Sky money, lived beyond their means and stayed in Super League and had facilities which did not meet the criteria for other teams to get promoted. Odsal maybe part of Rugby Heritage, but it should not be part of it's future.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... r-24437838 Brian "Nobby" Noble, thinks Bradford should be parachuted into Super League. Personally I believe they have squandered Sky money and mismanaged the entire club for years. There is a certain karma to the club being a mid-table Championship club, with an average team, playing at "The Devil's A-hole" aka Odsal. Concrete motorway dividers at the side of the pitch, binoculars required to view the game and the long walk plunging into the bowels of the earth. I feel aggrieved with Bradford, Wakefield and Castleford who all took the Sky money, lived beyond their means and stayed in Super League and had facilities which did not meet the criteria for other teams to get promoted. Odsal maybe part of Rugby Heritage, but it should not be part of it's future.

I feel sorry for the Bulls Fans who clearly feel that they are being short changed by their set of current owners.

Looking at their comments, they have been completely underwhelmed by the appointment this week of Dunning as their new coach. It has taken the club 10 weeks to appoint a man to the coaching position who was already there at the club when they sacked Kear. That timescale for that appointment simply beggars belief.

The owners have palpably lied to their fans by indicating that they had interest from high level overseas candidates and that in appointing Dunning, he was the standout candidate. What utter tosh. Clearly, they have struggled to get a 'big' name replacement and have fallen back on Dunning because he was the only available option whom the club could afford to appointment and who was still interested in the position. Good luck to him because he has picked-up the proverbial poisoned chalice. Last night's walloping away at Newcastle has not helped and I see (from the Bulls' forum) that the knives are out for him already, one game in to his appointment..

Nobby Noble should know better than making comments like that and he should be sensitive to the offence he causes to fans of so called 'smaller' teams like Leigh, Fev, Halifax, Batley, York who are all better run than Bradford and who have much better teams and who are being far more successful on and off the pitch. His one-eyed Bradford centric comments mirror those of Jamie Peacock from a few years ago when he moved to his director of rugby position at Hull KR when they were in the Championship at the time when we had one our temporary forays into Super League. It went along the lines of, we (Hull KR on this occasion) are a bigger team than Leigh and we should be automatically in Super League and we should automatically be getting the money that Leigh are getting this year. Great player, halfwit comments. Nothing is as of right in this game or in life. Get real Peacock and Noble.

What exactly gives Bradford the God given right to remain at the top table of the game when they are run so badly. SS, I agree with everything that you have said on this point. No team has an automatic right by way of 'history' in the game to guarantee being able to permanently trough their snouts at the top table of the sport..

Bradford, just like the rest of us, now have to earn their place in the top tier. As Widnes fans are also beginning to realise, a team with a great recent history means absolute zip when the owners have no money, you are not propped up financially by getting SL/Sky funding and the playing staff is of average standard and are also part-time. Welcome to reality. Club history means nowt and guarantees you nothing.

Anyway, back to us and on to Workington on Sunday. I cannot see anything other than a walk over. Due respect to Workington but this Leigh team is one of the best I have seen at this level. They are monsters and they will steam roller our Cumbrian cousins on Sunday. Unlike most years this will not be a tricky away trip to sunny Cumbria where a defeat is always on the cards.