A bit difficult if you've a torn calf or a broken ankle!

No need to question it, it said it on the pricelist. Doesn't make it right though, I paid for it because we fancied a cider, wont be paying for it next year (if we are still in super league) will go to pub instead. £110 pounds in tickets plus £5 booking fee ffs, a reasonable price for a pint of cider isn't much to ask £3.40 for a half isn't reasonable.

Not reasonable in the slightest. A pint of bitter in the North stand restaurant is £3.40. It does seem strange cider should be double that price in another bar.

Thought both teams defended well, too nil any side is good in my book. Our offence was a bit better. Two struggling sides...but you have an excuse.

Taken from Duffy's facebook page;

"People moaning about the Bulls today need to get realistic. We were down to 17 available players including the three on loan. They absolutely worked themselves into the ground defending the line and to keep Hull KR, with their massive forwards, to 4 points after the break was incredible. We were down to two subs after 20 minute and at one time the props were Danny Addy and Danny Bridge. Two of our pack are only 20, both on loan and have only played about six Super League games between them. We are bound to have no threat in attack because the pack is not big enough to get us forward. Donno, BK, Adam Henry, AOB etc were immense. I was very proud of the effort of them all today. Whoever gets this club, when they stop messing around, is getting a very dedicated playing roster with a great work ethic from them all and the coaches and staff.
Just a few recruits quickly would turn this round and move us up the table.
Rant over!!!"

He's also been quite vocal on twitter, defending the team after abuse was posted at both Purtell and Gale.

Stuart Duffy ‏@DuffyPicker 1h
"@craigburn27 @cjcoulshed @Bulls1989 some people are complete idiots."

Feel for the players, and part of me is thinking that even if a new owner comes in and attempts to sign forwards to fill the gap - where are we going to get them from? No-one in SL will release players to a relegation rival, leaving us with young loan signings. Feeling pessimistic tonight!

Duffy has that one spot on. Unlike recently, we looked like we had some defensive organisation and cohesion, and given the almost suicidal lack of troops that score line, useless though the result is, is very creditable. Depressing times but nothing to knock today.

I'd contact the club in morning as a Pint of Magners in the North stand is £3.80 I'm being told. We don't however have any control of the bar prices as it's independently run by EMC catering. As for the tickets you could have bought them from Bradford saving £2 per ticket on the day and incurring no booking charge whilst your club would have also recieved 10% of the ticket fees

I don't mean to be blunt but if people like you are silly enough to pay it then they are going to continue charging that.

Duffy slagging off the fans again.

They say that nobodys' perfect but Duffy is almost the perfect ar$eh0le.

Can't fault the effort of the players this week, and in the current situation thats all you really hope for. And realistically we're not winning another game until the ownership is sorted and 3 or 4 players are brought in somehow.

Thought the spirit shown by the lads was superb, especially in the second half - goal line defence was awesome at times.

We were never going to win after losing two forwards in the first quarter. We were not only short of forwards before the game even began but we were then also then down to just two interchanges for three quarters of the match.

Both sides lost quite a bit of ball which, I guess, must be largely put down to the wet conditions, though that said, we certainly didn't create much but without some more 'beef' in the pack we were always on the back foot and never gave the halves any space to work in. Same with the kicks, Gale kept finding the man but never had a chance put his head up and look, to be fair.

Big respect to the lads for not giving it up, the determination to keep them out was obvious and heartening. I'd suspect that the Rovers coach was more disappointed with his team's performance than Franny - 60 minutes with the Bulls down to 2 subs and they only got 4 points?

Some stats to chew on.

Donaldson, second in top tackler list and marker tackles,
Donaldson, second for missed tackles,
Addy, third for missed tackles,
Henry, fifth for missed tackles.

Bulls:
Second for tackles made,
First for missed tackles,
Last for metres made,
Last for average gain,
Last for clean breaks,
Ninth for penalties conceded,
Joint first errors (80) with Hull KR and Hull FC.

If it is just based on number of tackles then I don't think that tells you much. All it suggests, without percentage missed, is that we made alot of tackles doing large amounts of defending and therefore missed more than everyone else numberswise as a consequence.

Ordered by percentage missed:

[code+----------+------------+------------+-------------+
| nickname | SUM(pp.TK) | SUM(pp.MI) | PERC_MISSED |
+----------+------------+------------+-------------+
| WAK | 1749 | 199 | 11.3779 |
| BRA | 1974 | 205 | 10.3850 |
| CAT | 1819 | 188 | 10.3353 |
| HKR | 1799 | 172 | 9.5609 |
| LON | 1933 | 184 | 9.5189 |
| SAL | 1945 | 180 | 9.2545 |
| LEE | 1977 | 172 | 8.7001 |
| HFC | 1551 | 133 | 8.5751 |
| CAS | 1708 | 129 | 7.5527 |
| WAR | 1897 | 142 | 7.4855 |
| STH | 1674 | 122 | 7.2879 |
| HUD | 1938 | 139 | 7.1723 |
| WID | 1299 | 93 | 7.1594 |
| WIG | 1529 | 101 | 6.6056 |
+----------+------------+------------+-------------+[/code

Pedantically, it'd need to be TK+MI=Attempted Tackles. MI/AT x100

Yeah, let's pretend that didn't happen.

[code+----------+------------+------------+-------------+
| nickname | SUM(pp.TK) | SUM(pp.MI) | PERC_MISSED |
+----------+------------+------------+-------------+
| WAK | 1749 | 199 | 10.2156 |
| BRA | 1974 | 205 | 9.4080 |
| CAT | 1819 | 188 | 9.3672 |
| HKR | 1799 | 172 | 8.7265 |
| LON | 1933 | 184 | 8.6915 |
| SAL | 1945 | 180 | 8.4706 |
| LEE | 1977 | 172 | 8.0037 |
| HFC | 1551 | 133 | 7.8979 |
| CAS | 1708 | 129 | 7.0223 |
| WAR | 1897 | 142 | 6.9642 |
| STH | 1674 | 122 | 6.7929 |
| HUD | 1938 | 139 | 6.6923 |
| WID | 1299 | 93 | 6.6810 |
| WIG | 1529 | 101 | 6.1963 |
+----------+------------+------------+-------------+[/code

I think we could say that many a time for the Bradford Bulls.

Also, I think SL (or whoever) add up the number of tackles made by players for the team, irrespective of how many are in each tackle.

That's what I'm doing there. It's added up from their individual Opta stats which I rip off the SL site on a Monday morning.

I think some people need more work to do....

How do they decide who made a tackle?

Sorry mate, no idea.

That's a fair point. In a three man tackle, maybe you get one third of a point, unless your bit is regarded as the main reason the runner was brought down in which case you get a half ant the others a quarter each...

I'd love to see their workings out..

I thought your defence was outstanding,6 times you held us up over the line,but with the injuries you suffered your pack couldn't give your backs anything to work with. A brave effort and good luck for the future.

It was a supreme effort by the lads in the circumstances, which get more extreme by the day.

Not sure how long we can continue to put in creditable performances with a mounting injury list, dwindling squad numbers and rising doubts about whether the club will continue.

There's some thrashings around the corner unless the club finds a buyer with pile of cash.