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[Tommy The C5t]

Discuss the game here . . . .

[Tommy The C5t]

The worrying lack of motivation from yesterday's game doesn't leave me as confident as I would have hoped to be going into this game.

We really need to start the game by taking it to Castleford and not ending up being on the back foot as we did yesterday.

It's was so frustrating seeing us stand back and allow the opposition to come to us in the defensive line rather than us being motivated and going to meet them, and I have slight concerns about our fitness levels (see below).

In the second half yesterday we had four repeat sets of six (two from penalties and one from the GLDO forced) to attack the Catalan line.
So while we sustained this onslaught on the Dragons defensive line for a good three minutes and ended up throwing a forward pass before Millard knocked forward with Crookes open to the line, we came away with nothing.

But the worrying trend was that after the visitors efforts in defence it was us who looked unfit as from the 10m scrum Henderson and Dureau attacked us down the middle as we struggled to get back the required 10m.

In this possession the Catalan Dragons went from defending four sets of six on their own line to going 60m up field and then on the last tackle 30m out from the Bradford line, Dureau once again attacked through the middle on the power play before showing his astuteness with the boot to provide the cross field chip over Sammut for Millard to score out wide.

On a side note: Sky Sports News last night they put the Margin Meter to the test by feeding it all the stats from the opening fixtures and it's prediction for the Castleford vs Bradford game was a Castleford victory by 16 points.

But we all know it can be wrong, but I'm saying Castleford to win by 20+ here.

[terrywebbisgod]

Bradford will be 0/2 after the Cas game

Edited by terrywebbisgod, 07 February 2012 - 09:59 AM.

[jackknife]

Cas by 20 if weathers good and cas can through the ball about but could be close if its really bad weather like snow or heavy rain and it ends up been error after error

[NEIL FOX IS GOD]

Cas all the way 20 plus

[Wolford6]

Bulls by 10.

I'm keeping the stupidity faith.

[1976PMJwires]

terrywebbisgod said:

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0/2

Been watching NFL ..... Very American TWIG

[Konkrete]

A pepped up Bulls to surprise us all with a tight win.  Steadman to get a brace

[Konkrete]

A pepped up Bulls to surprise us all with a tight win.  Steadman to get a brace

[ParisSurtout]

Bradford cannot win against anyone other than Widnes and Salford without the presence in the team of the inspirational second rower Olivier Elima.

[Amber Avenger]

ParisSurtout, on 06 February 2012 - 11:26 PM, said:

Bradford cannot win against anyone other than Widnes and Salford without the presence in the team of the inspirational second rower Olivier Elima.

That actually did make me laugh (not that you are  totally wrong, mind)  

[Kenilworth Tiger]

I think this one could go either way  - we don;t often win our first 2 games fo the season so think Bradfod could win this one.

All things considered I will go with a draw

[Just Browny]

I predict the sort of banter on here that would be better suited to Facebook/the playground.

[Kenilworth Tiger]

Just Browny, on 07 February 2012 - 10:48 AM, said:

I predict the sort of banter on here that would be better suited to Facebook/the playground.

It was actually going on alright until yuo posted that oh mighty one

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Cas' by 6, on the grounds that Bradford surely can't be that bad 2 weeks running.

Edited by Chronicler of Chiswick, 07 February 2012 - 05:39 PM.

[Konkrete]

Chronicler of Chiswick, on 07 February 2012 - 05:39 PM, said:

Cas' by 6, on the grounds that Bradford surely can't be that bad 2 weeks running.

You are Peter Hood and I claim my £5.

[Amber Avenger]

Chronicler of Chiswick, on 07 February 2012 - 05:39 PM, said:

Cas' by 6, on the grounds that Bradford surely can't be that bad 2 weeks running.

Last year we were that bad 30 weeks running  

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Konkrete, on 07 February 2012 - 08:24 PM, said:

You are Peter Hood and I claim my £5.

[Odsal Outlaw]

Just read comments from Potter on the Bulls website with his view of last weeks game:

"They [Catalans] didn't have it all their own way but they certainly, overall, performed better on the day as far as winning the ruck and controlling offensively and defensively for most of the game"

They didnt have it all their own way, but they performed better and controlled the ruck offensively and defensively ....... sounds like they did have it all their own way!  Although to be fair I wasn't at the game, only seen the Sky highlights, but they did back that statement up.  Ever since we signed Potter as coach I've said he was wrong man for the job and took it for all the wrong reasons, and he has done nothing yet to change my view, although not yet quite at the point of wanting Mcnamara back (!).

Anyway, fingers crossed we get off the mark on Sunday!!!  Come on you Bulls!

[Konkrete]

Odsal Outlaw, on 09 February 2012 - 10:19 PM, said:

Just read comments from Potter on the Bulls website with his view of last weeks game:

"They [Catalans] didn't have it all their own way but they certainly, overall, performed better on the day as far as winning the ruck and controlling offensively and defensively for most of the game"

They didnt have it all their own way, but they performed better and controlled the ruck offensively and defensively ....... sounds like they did have it all their own way!  Although to be fair I wasn't at the game, only seen the Sky highlights, but they did back that statement up.  Ever since we signed Potter as coach I've said he was wrong man for the job and took it for all the wrong reasons, and he has done nothing yet to change my view, although not yet quite at the point of wanting Mcnamara back (!).

Anyway, fingers crossed we get off the mark on Sunday!!!  Come on you Bulls!

In the after match interview he was actually citing the Dragons' tactics of diving to the ground in the tackle as cause for concern.  His point being that by attemting to dive to the ground at the tackle in order to speed the PTB gave them the advantage, implying that it wasn't really in the spirit of the game.  He went onto say something like... if that's what we've got to do to win matches then we'll look at it.

So I guess that means we got the two points as it was a moral victory.

Ethics were not mentioned.  

Edited by Konkrete, 10 February 2012 - 01:15 PM.