Mon 10th Apr: Ch: Halifax Panthers v Bradford Bulls KO 19:45 (Viaplay)

[Pigeon Lofter]

Bradford in again, just over 10 minutes to go..Patton converts so 16-26.

[Pigeon Lofter]

Maizen 90-metre intercept, converted too, so Fax back in the hunt with less than five minutes on the clock. Interesting! 22-26.

[Pigeon Lofter]

Bulls down to 12 men coz of injury and no more subs, so 90 seconds left and high drama as Warmsley takes off....

[Pigeon Lofter]

....but the Bulls recover the pill deep into their own 20. And that's that.

Another dramatic end to a fantastic weekend of RL.

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

If they'd played this on Friday you'd have had a dry day and firm pitch, the sort of conditions the Ox craves. Such is life.

[Ovenden Grunt]

7 minutes ago, Jill Halfpenny fan said:

If they'd played this on Friday you'd have had a dry day and firm pitch, the sort of conditions the Ox craves. Such is life.

15 minutes to go and Bradford take off a Huddersfield player and bring on a Leeds player. 

[Mumby Magic]

Lol

[sentoffagain2]

  Bradford deserved to win probably a bit easier than the final score.Fax half backs totally outplayed by Bradfords.A few mistakes by both teams but that was expected in the testing conditions.The Championship has plenty to offer viewers and tonight's game was no exception.

[Wolford6]

Shocking weather; two teams gave it a good go. To be fair, James Donaldson had a really good game.

 

The other dual reg players were nothing special, but that's actually an improvement.  We lacked the coordination that Fax had and would have done better with our own boys.

[David Shepherd]

Poor game that. Only got interesting in the last 10. Score line flattered ‘fax. Thought they were really poor.

Workmanlike performance from the Rhinos reserves. 

[The Phantom Horseman]

Decent game especially considering the conditions. Bulls are Jeckyll and Hyde but the DRs in their pack helped stiffen them up and they were the better team.

[The Blues Ox]

8 minutes ago, David Shepherd said:

Poor game that. Only got interesting in the last 10. Score line flattered ‘fax. Thought they were really poor.

Workmanlike performance from the Rhinos reserves. 

Agree with this. Just posted on the Fax page that I can't decide if the 1st half performance was laughable or shambolic, you really could not make up how badly we started that game. Literally handed Bradford the game on a plate and despite that still managed to be somewhere near them come the full time whistle. Any coach who wants to give his players an example of how not to play conditions like that then the first 40 minutes is beautiful. Other fans will be happy if we have to play in conditions like that every week. 

[Mumby Magic]

13 minutes ago, Wolford6 said:

Shocking weather; two teams gave it a good go. To be fair, James Donaldson had a really good game.

 

The other dual reg players were nothing special, but that's actually an improvement.  We lacked the coordination that Fax had and would have done better with our own boys.

Walters was the best player first 20 imo.

[Ragingbull]

Fair play to Halifax.  They seemed to have found their level against joint bottom of the table Barrow the last couple of weeks but they really did up their game for their big cup final. 

Result was obviously never in doubt but the plucky little underdog had a good go. 

Edited April 10, 2023 by Ragingbull

[Chrispmartha]

1 hour ago, Wolford6 said:

Shocking weather; two teams gave it a good go. To be fair, James Donaldson had a really good game.

 

The other dual reg players were nothing special, but that's actually an improvement.  We lacked the coordination that Fax had and would have done better with our own boys.

I reckon Donaldson will play a lot for the bulls this year, Leeds are stacked in the second row, he’s got Bentley, Tetevano, Martin, McDonell, Gannon all infront of him.

[OdsalBull]

Commiserations to Halifax on their cup final defeat

[Fevrover]

18 minutes ago, OdsalBull said:

Commiserations to Halifax on their cup final defeat

First one in 5 apparently.

[Tippytoe]

10 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

Shocking weather; two teams gave it a good go. To be fair, James Donaldson had a really good game.

 

The other dual reg players were nothing special, but that's actually an improvement.  We lacked the coordination that Fax had and would have done better with our own boys.

No mention for Walters who got the scoreboard ticking, some people are so ungrateful.

 

[Wolford6]

13 minutes ago, Tippytoe said:

No mention for Walters who got the scoreboard ticking, some people are so ungrateful.

 

No mention of Ebon Scurr and AJ Walllace either. Good players who hardly got a game.

The constant disruption to the Bulls team shows in the lack of planned moves and offloads. Halifax had that last night ... even in terrible conditions. We didn't; we were back to five drives and a kick.

The weather suited our game much more than Fax's. Hopefully, the cup match will involve just Bulls players v Fax players on a dry pitch.Then, we'll both find out where we stand this season.

[Nigel Fax]

Thought Bradford were the better team tonight and deserved the win, Again fax making too many errors gifting Bradford that first try, Walters and Donaldson for me were the 2 best forwards on the pitch.

 

 

[Tippytoe]

1 hour ago, Wolford6 said:

No mention of Ebon Scurr and AJ Walllace either. Good players who hardly got a game.

The constant disruption to the Bulls team shows in the lack of planned moves and offloads. Halifax had that last night ... even in terrible conditions. We didn't; we were back to five drives and a kick.

The weather suited our game much more than Fax's. Hopefully, the cup match will involve just Bulls players v Fax players on a dry pitch.Then, we'll both find out where we stand this season.

It all comes down to money in the end.

[The Blues Ox]

3 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

No mention of Ebon Scurr and AJ Walllace either. Good players who hardly got a game.

The constant disruption to the Bulls team shows in the lack of planned moves and offloads. Halifax had that last night ... even in terrible conditions. We didn't; we were back to five drives and a kick.

The weather suited our game much more than Fax's. Hopefully, the cup match will involve just Bulls players v Fax players on a dry pitch.Then, we'll both find out where we stand this season.

Agree with all that. Bradford played the conditions perfectly last night, high completion rate, nothing fancy and just try and win teritory. Fax on the other hand tried to play dry weather football in the first half and completion rate was down below 50, you don't even get near teams with that sort of error rate. If we play the 1st half like we played the 2nd half then I think we likely win the game but inviting pressure on to ourselves must have taken so much energy out of the team and you have to wonder who is to blame for that whether its the coach or the players. The coach doesn't drop the ball but when your backs are throwing 20 yard passes on kick returns in howling win and rain it does make you wonder.

Seems to be a lot of hysteria by a lot of Fax fans at the moment but im still confident we will come good, there is a good team in there somewhere like even last night despite as bad a 40 minutes as I can remember for unforced errors in all my time watching Fax we still were in a position to get something out of the game despite Bradford fans saying how well they played.  My main worries for this season is Grix's insistance that we have a prop on the bench who only plays 20 minutes each game in Will Maher, and does nothing in those 20 minutes. Also the arrogance that he thought he could come in to the season without a recognised centre after letting Worthington and Arundel go. That is the big decision that bites us on the bum pretty much every week having two wingers at centre and the best centre at the club is our fullback who hasn't played that position in at least a couple of seasons.

[Ragingbull]

14 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

Shocking weather; two teams gave it a good go. To be fair, James Donaldson had a really good game.

 

The other dual reg players were nothing special, but that's actually an improvement.  We lacked the coordination that Fax had and would have done better with our own boys.

Not sure which game you watched, Walters scored 1, assisted one,  and saved one with a great cover tackle.

All that in addition to the tough stuff down the middle of the park. 

[georgeb1]

2 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

Agree with all that. Bradford played the conditions perfectly last night, high completion rate, nothing fancy and just try and win teritory. Fax on the other hand tried to play dry weather football in the first half and completion rate was down below 50, you don't even get near teams with that sort of error rate. If we play the 1st half like we played the 2nd half then I think we likely win the game but inviting pressure on to ourselves must have taken so much energy out of the team and you have to wonder who is to blame for that whether its the coach or the players. The coach doesn't drop the ball but when your backs are throwing 20 yard passes on kick returns in howling win and rain it does make you wonder.

Seems to be a lot of hysteria by a lot of Fax fans at the moment but im still confident we will come good, there is a good team in there somewhere like even last night despite as bad a 40 minutes as I can remember for unforced errors in all my time watching Fax we still were in a position to get something out of the game despite Bradford fans saying how well they played.  My main worries for this season is Grix's insistance that we have a prop on the bench who only plays 20 minutes each game in Will Maher, and does nothing in those 20 minutes. Also the arrogance that he thought he could come in to the season without a recognised centre after letting Worthington and Arundel go. That is the big decision that bites us on the bum pretty much every week having two wingers at centre and the best centre at the club is our fullback who hasn't played that position in at least a couple of seasons.

To be fair Arundel did nowt last night and was poor at trinity , barrow fans reckon Worthington is a turnstile, maizen is a good centre and Mcoombe has played centre for years Plus you've got young tibbs to come back ?

[Vyvyan]

Not sure why the grumbling about dual reg.  Seems like a combination of sour grapes about the result, envy of a club getting something positive out of the arrangement and sadness about needing it in the first place.   

Apparently Bradford were down to those 17 players that were picked on the night.  So nobody left out.   The rest had knocks.

It looked to me like Scurr played his normal amount of minutes as he's an impact player.