A bad stomach bug? Well I can understand that as the term "drizzling s" seems to sum up yesterday's performance

Firstly, I haven't come here to gloat or mock, as can be seen by my previous posts here on YOUR forum, I had hoped for both our Great Clubs to be promoted to SL this season, though it looks unlikely that even one will achieve that.

Now there may be an 'element' of truth to what I am about to say or it could prove to be complete codswallop, but here goes.

Talking at the Eagles game last week a friend had been in a pub where Ex Salford Coach Harris was drinking, my friend had claimed that Harris had been sacked by Koukash as Harris had punched MK in the car park following a Salford match & also that in the lead up to your Salford match, MK had again refused to pay a number of Salfords squad.

The story went along the lines that the team had basically gone on an unofficial strike & "didn't turn up" in terms of effort, commitment etc on the day. This might explain the anomaly or again be a falsehood.

I don't wish to detract from a great result & performance by your boys at all, on your 'form' days the Bulls look a very exciting & formidable team.

I hope to see you all down at the LSV next week in massive numbers, you did yourselves proud in Round 1 & hopefully we can all enjoy a great, clean & hard fought match between two Great Clubs that are actually wanted in SL by other SL Clubs fans.

Best wishes.

Is this really the best story you're able to come up with to justify Bradford beating Salford? Is it so far beyond your comprehension that Bradford might have been the better team on the day? Bradford remains the only championship team to date able to beat a Superleague side in the qualifiers. Leigh lost 3 consecutive games to Superleague sides. How the final board will look is anyone's guess and whether or not any championship team achieves promotion remains to be seen, but please show some respect.

Spreading malicious gossip such as this is absolutely vile. The accusations you are making against Dr Koukash are ridiculous and could be libellous.

Supporting HKR I know what it's like to witness and feel the pain of a heavy defeat. Yours yesterday was made slightly less heavy by Josh Mantellato having his worst kicking display of the season. On one of his better days you could easily have shipped 60 points.

However even after a heavy defeat even the most disappointed fan needs to keep some sort of perspective. Bull Mania writes "Hull KR don't want this we're doing well but shooting ourselves in foot!" and "Hull KR were there for the taking today!" Sendei-Bull posts "Well cheesed off with this game. HKR were there for the taking but we've been poop."

We did not play all that well especially in the first half but I am sure I would have seen the match differently if I had had a bit of whatever Bull Mania and Sendei-Bull had got from their supplier.

Halifax doing us a favour

A big big favour!!

Looking like 5th place is now yours to lose.

Looks like Halifax home game will be the hardest

If we beat Leigh next week and Fax lose their next game (think they're playing Wakey) doesn't that garuntee us 5th place? We'd be on 6 points, then Leigh and Fax will be on 2 points with 1 game left.

Edit: unless Sheffield win all their remaining games

Well I don't think it's changed our target too much, we still need to beat Leigh to ensure we make the £1M game. Lose and we need to rely on Widnes not fielding a weakened side, whilst needing to beat a confident Fax side with little to lose and perhaps something to gain if they beat Wakey too! Next week is still a big one and Leigh will be even more desperate now, because they simply have to win to keep their dreams alive.

It'll be just our luck if Salford have another round of can't be d and get taken to the cleaners by Sheffield

I agree it doesn't change much, though Halifax winning margin has helped us a bit. It could come down to points difference for 4th or 5th which was always likely. I don't really get why Lowes was so dismissive about point difference in the post match interview last week. Even when it's clear we are going to lose, every point matters. Our heads seem to drop a little too easy.

Fax have done us a favour but we still need to perform in two league matches.

Even if we get to million pound game could you see us doing a job on Wakefield away.

I don't want to sound too dismissive I just don't think we have what it takes...

I hope I am proven wrong more than anyone.

It's not set in stone we'll be away to wakefield. Win both our games and wakes losing one would see us at odsal. Would fancy us in that one provided we get a decent ref tbh.

Either way round we need to perform in all the remaining "winable " matches...

Fielding a scrum half and stand off would be a good start.

Yes. Wakey were shocking by all accounts yesterday and looking at twitter, chairman, players arguing with fans is never a good situation.

IF (a BIG if) we did get Wakey in the million pound game, and we had all out players fit (An even bigger IF) i can't see us being taken by surprise with a Wakefield blitz. It would be a much closer game and we have more than enough to beat them.

But this is Bradford and i can see Gaskell being out for the season, Mullaney pulling another hamstring, Clough or Sidlow getting injured leaving us with 3 available props and us losing to Leigh and Fax

Rumours that two star Wakey players been arrested for drink driving (see Wakey board)

AGain won't do out chances any harm

Kevin Locke and Tim Smith apparently. Not been a good weekend for Wakefield.

The problem remains getting the players into the right mindset at kickoff.

It was the case that our key game was Wakey away, and we never turned up. We blew it. They were and are there for the taking, but we instead were garbage and were lucky to get only the thrashing we did.

If we had beaten Wakey then just have a look what the table would look like now. I knew that result would come back to haunt us.

Anyway, as it stands, talk of winning the big game is academic if we aren't consistent or committed enough to do the busines on both Leigh and Halifax. Leigh have been a good team for a couple of years, Halifax not so hot though they are finishing the season strong, but any team with genuine belief that we have the makings of a SL side must beat other Championship sides while we are at their level. If we get beat by either Leigh or Halifax then we genuinely do not deserve promotion. They are not easy games, but they are games we simply can't lose if we think we are good enough to go up.

Agreed. We've won 1/4 of the games against SL clubs and are currently 1/1 against Championship clubs. With 2 championship clubs to come - aiming for 4/7 Middle 8's record. Which I would have taken at the beginning of the season....

It's been amazing really. We do our level best to kill [i:sme4zjobourselves[/i.

anyway, onwards and upwards, next stop Leigh!

Some talk of Lauaki getting 8 games, which is nuts, what did he do? He pushed the guy in the face, that's it, not good and not clever, but he didn't gouge and he certainly didn't make any movement across the face despite what the red signalled. One of their players did almost the same thing yet for some reason nobody has said a word. Weird. It isn't worth more than a 1 match ban.

If he gets more I think it's a favour to us as the cameos he puts in are too short, and he's a penalty machine at the moment.

It wasn't a malicious gouge, it was just dumb.
But he's a waste of space anyway so if a ban is what it takes to force Jimmy's stubborn hand, so be it.

Agree with that.

It was stupid, to be honest but no "gouge", he pushed his head back, that's all. If Luaki had been the ball carrier it would just have have been called a "hand off" and not even commented on. It will be a hard decision finding someone to do the 15 minutes per match we'll lose if he's banned.

If we lose him for a few games it's no great loss. In fact I'd say it's a bonus since he's a waste of space.