The injuries we cannot help, they're just part and parcel of the game and we've had a bad run just recently. I think you can point some blame at the club for releasing McNally without any sort of back up plan and then also releasing Chisholm when we still hadn't resolved our fullback problem.

I think when McNally went, we expected a replacement would arrive at some point. I know we have signed Brown but he is another young player in an already young squad. Let's hope we have identified some proven quality for next year to help bring these young lads on. We're still just about in the mix for a top 5 challenge but next week really will be crucial.

Its a catch-22 situation for the Bulls here. They are in no way able to compete with the other teams in the playoffs (despite having an enormous squad of underused, and probably sub-par players), but to admit that this season is about just holding our place would be tantamount to just not being bothered now we're safe. (Although it did look like that on the pitch at some points today.)

However, promising us playoff footy and then delivering THIS dirge is just as bad.

What a ridiculous comment about McNally. When he scored his breakaway try in the first half, as soon as he scored he put his hand up to the Bulls fans. When all his Leigh teammates jumped on him he again didn’t celebrate and again his held his hand up to the Bulls fans. Personally I would of celebrated a try with his team, but he didn’t, so what if he had. What part of that was you offended by????

Totally agree with you Roger, he put his hand up to the crowd as if to say sorry. He was the bigger man! As for game it wasn’t our best but Leigh are a good team and it didn’t help with all the errors we made. However, to see all the negative comments and the e all over facebook makes me feel a little sick. It must be upsetting for the players! I’m sure they didn’t set out to lose, but we are not helping as fans! I spoke to a couple of players recently and one said he has a few options for next year but he said he loves being a part of Bradford partly because of the fans. Wonder what he would think now?

I have to echo Roger there. He held his hand up to the Bulls fans when he scored in front of them in the first half. In the second he was in front of the Leigh fans when he celebrated. Thought he showed some class there tbf.

Now onto the game. Attack was much much better albeit 3 bombed chances. Kicking game shows exactly why we need proper halfbacks like Keyes. We still aren’t straightening up when taking the line on. And pass distribution is too poor at the moment. Too many balls at head or thigh height. End of the day just not clinical enough. Kirk scored it’s a different ballgame as they went up and got a repeat set them scored following his blunder.

Defence was good in parts. But the parts where it wasn’t good it was awful!! That second rowers try was awful. Yes Wood was lazy in the inside defence but Magrin wasn’t pushing him over from his inside either. I actually thought the nee faces like Magrin, Garside and Gibson didn’t do that bad. Although some may disagree. Not sure I like Minchella always coming back across the field, I prefer when he runs proper lines like Storton did for his try. DFJ was okay today but e’s been gret all season, god know what Grant was doing but the bloke has no pace at all. For the record I like Grant and his contributions for the past two years.

Leigh have built a very good side supplemented by a small Saints contingent and played better than us and were more clinical. They’ll be top 5 I think.

Totally different side when you get Keyes, Webster, Evans and Hitchcox back.

Well I didn't see him hold his hand up but if he did I retract my criticism of him. I did see him do an over the top superman dive to score, I just felt it was a bit of showboating that wasn't necessary given what I assumed would be mutual respect. Anyhow it's not a big deal either way.

You show me a club that doesn't have a Facebook group that criticises players!

So now we are offended by a dive???

Thought both teams were equally braindead when it came to discipline for the first 60 mins. Difference was Leigh seemed to be more willing to defend the line than Bradford, and got points when chances arose. (Still not sure how you bombed that chance in the first half when it was 12-2. Was as close to an open goal as you'll get).

Once the score went to 30-14, Leigh seemed to calm down and find some composure, and Bradford seemed to give up.

How many definite tries did Bradford bomb....3 or 4 ?

There was two or three in the second half, but difficult to see what exactly happened given how far away I was.

The bombed chance in the first half was inexplicable. Not sure there was anyone anywhere near him as he crossed the line.

3 definite bombs in Kirk, Peltier and I want to say Flanagan? Or was it Wildie? Then a maybe in the DFJ effort.

first of all mcnally always celebrates his try's in that fashion so nothing new there. bradford are not as good as they think they are and there was none of all this crap when you beat leeds. leigh are a good side and you saw that today by them ramming 50 points up against you. if you think not, when was the last time a team scored 50 against you?

As good as they think they are? Who’ve you been listening to.... certainly no one on here!

Haven’t seen anyone suggest Leigh aren’t a good side either, although I think they’ve still plenty to work on given they conceded 20 points against a below average championship attack.

Not offended, just thought he could have handled it better.

He wouldn’t have been playing for Leigh today if he hadn’t been granted a release on compassionate grounds.

Anyway, not important really, the really irritating thing today was our defence so let’s focus on that.

Not quite sure what your problem is but I’ve explained my take on it. It seems he has held his hand up after so it’s really not much of an issue is it.

Another low turn out from us regarding an away folowing. Thats the least we have taken to leigh since we have had the joys of playing there.

Its becoming a trend this season, poor maybe a touch too strong but the away support this year is no where near the same as years gone by.
Why arent we travelling in good numbers this.season?

Why? I never said clubs don’t have Facebook? I just said it made me feel sick and sorry for the players who didn’t set out to lose!

My point being that wherever they sign or play they will likely have to deal with criticism on social media. I think it’s very much in the minority of our support base though.

Odd game. We created about 8 chances I think, but only converted 3. That's down to composure. Usually with our normal defence, that's enough chances for a win.

Along with their discipline letting them down again, we should have been in that game. Should have, could have - this has been our story for longer than this season. Still a problem. Still frustrating.

Leigh also created (themselves) about 8 chances and we gifted them 4 or 5 more with dumb play and they converted 9.

The only silver lining I suppose is we're still 1:1 with Leigh for the season.

Attitude will be a serious focus for this week I think. We need a Leeds level of intensity against Halifax. We need this win to finish the league 2:1 vs Fax.

Where to start with that game?

I thought in attack we looked ok at times, we created enough chances. It was our inability to take them that was frustrating but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen that this season. We’re one of the least clinical sides in the division – just look at the “points for” column in the table. Kirk’s knock on was abysmal. The other missed chances weren’t much better.

The defence on the other hand was just awful. This has been our strong point this season but since the Fev away match it seems to have gone to pieces. Unfortunately a lot of the misses were down to attitude and there I think is the problem. Against Fev and Leigh players started defending as individuals. This began as early as the first half when Leigh created an overlap despite being a man down. That try down our left in the corner should never be scored. The right side was even worse. I counted at least 4 tries down that side that were almost walk ins. The players on that side need to take a look at themselves.

It’s all very well fancying your chances with the ball in hand but if you aren’t going to bother with defence then what’s the point.

Some players like Grant and Flanagan are L1 standard. Others like Hallas aren’t much better. Some seem to play as if they’re on a training ground. Take Grant’s overall performance, that was a joke, he ought to be ashamed of that. Some players like Hallas and Flanagan seemed to be more intent on niggle and personal battles rather than playing as a team. They lost their focus and it spread to others with the last 10mins being a waste of everyone’s time.

The problem may be that once we lost in the cup too many appear to have a "season over" attitude. AS for drop in crowds it seems similar. We won't make top 5, won't get relegated. Couple this with the -poor rugby we are playing and the premium prices at the turnstiles make you feel you have better things to do with your money.

You’d think with 20 players in the squad having contracts that run out this season they’d be trying to win new ones. From yesterday’s performance it looks like some aren’t that bothered. Perhaps they’ve been told they’re not wanted? I expect a few to be shown the door.

Didn't Leeds notify Lilley that he would not be retained because of some deadline or other. Is that the same in the Championship. It could explain a lot all though not many will pick up a contract on yesterday's performance.

Yes it is and its something that tbh I've had at the back of my mind when watching the last 4-5 games. Some have "checked out" already which is a big problem for us, especially if they already have deals lined up elsewhere.

Anyone else remember this happening a few years back with Gaskell, Clough, Clark etc etc???

Craig Harrison seemed to think we have some news awaiting to be revealed which would make fans happy. That can only happen if players are on the way out and with injuries in certain positions, we dont have much option to play those who have no future at the club.

Can't see the rest of the season being much fun with the current attitude.