Just been talking to one of our suppliers who comes from Bradford. His Dad a life long Bradford fan and season ticket holder, says that if this court case is as bad as it appears. The new owners might just walk away.
As it is they are just about getting by. Card payments in their shop have had to be made through a third party. Their coach still has no visa. Recent results are awful. Reliant on loan players from Leeds. A court case that they could lose. Not a very good outlook.
Can see the RFL having to take over until the end of the season, then fold the club.

Not that surprised, it's a real shame but it looks like it's only going one way.

As we are on the subject of Toronto, looks like the Paul rowley influence is setting in there, 5 players up in front of the discip board, sounding all very much like Leigh. Would rather watch rugby league played in the spirit of the game rather than trying to use thug tactics.

agree Bosty. Few of the SL teams use thug tactics and a couple of championship teams to boot.

The expectation of Bradford fans does not appear too high for Sundays game. I know that they have bought in these players from Leeds, Lilley appears to be the best of them, but the club is in a mess and the team is all over the place. So we should come home with two points.
Away numbers will be down this week, as a lot of the regulars are going to Newcastle for the Magic weekend. However there still will be a few of us there to cheer the lads on. I bet it will be raining.
I do not think I have ever seen us win at Odsal, so a victory will be nice.

We beat the Bulls at Odsal in 2009 & 20013, or every 4 years, which means a win up there in 2017 is a foregone conclusion

It must be our year then !!!!!

Got my tickets today, not been to Blackpool in years

Lack of communication is the key, we're skilled & experienced now at picking up indicators that things are not good, and they're racking up again.

Shop has been accepting only cash for the last 10days



The Visa excuses are wearing thin.

I would argue that results are only awful [iwhere we have no props, or only 18yr old props[/i. When we have 4 adult props, the results are comfortably midtable.

Don't know why you qualified the loan statement with "leeds". We're reliant on loans, full stop...

By definition, any court case has a possibility of losing.

And finally, most Bradford fans think the RFL actually took over in January as Chalmers & Lowe are doing what the RFL want. They just have deniability at the moment.

well on top at half time... hopefully will be clinical 2nd half and rack up 60+ again 2nd game in a row, which will put us in a great form for Bash at Blackpool

Anyone at the game, feedback would be good, encouraging stuff worrying stuff

I'm guessing the "worrying stuff" will be minimal.

Fantastic performance given the numerous injuries.
Can't wait for Fev next Saturday! Should be good.

Looking at the Bradford site, looks like we were still giving a fair few penalties away

Ye Gods! 56 points away from home and someone's found something to complain about!

Can't see anyone complaining? Merely asking what are areas for improvement. If we win by a 40 plus margin but are still giving away a shed load of free mtrs it's not good for the upcoming games, fev and Toulouse will not let in as many points. I also asked for encouraging feedback, what they did particularly well.

A great win, With Leon Pryce on the pitch we cut them apart, Dixon took full advantage. They improved once he went off to a chorus of booing, never to return.
Bradford attack was as poor as its defense, having at one point three sets of six on our line and failing to score.
Channing was a bit off his game. Rocky though was immense, Dixon outstanding. Really it was a great team effort Hendo must have been pleased.
Oldzeki the Leeds player who ripped us apart at Featherstone was poor today and we will not face him next weekend.
We go to the Summer Bash with our confidence high, and we should give Featherstone a good game.

Pleased to hear Rocky had a good gane

The only 'blip' yesterday was the sin-binning of Daniel Harrison for a tip-tackle 3 minutes from the end so am hoping that he doesn't receive a ban if it goes to disciplinary.

Also, and even though he did a fine job with is 8/10 (and 3 tries), I was slightly surprised that Dixon was the goal kicker over Sammut. Perhaps Hendo is trying to give Sammut less responsibility, therefore getting him to play as more of a team member rather than the individual one he was before.

Maybe it's the other way round and giving Dixon some more responsibility. It's a fine balance with Sammut reign him in too much and you stifle him, let him have free run and yep sometimes the rest of the squad lose him. But when he is on form and running rings round the opposition it's a joy to watch and has been seen he can be a game changer. Dixon first few games he made mistakes and then went into his shell, giving him more to do now he has started performing and scoring is a good idea.

Two firsts for me yesterday. It was the first time I have seen us win at Odsal and the first time I have been there and it has not rained.

Dixon has kicked last couple of games, and has done pretty well isn't that the explanation?

Bosty you want to try being at odsal middle of December before that club house was built, 30mph horizontal snow blowing straight down the pitch! Oh those heady days of winter rugby

No. Api started as the main kicker against Swinton but when he missed the first 3 attempts he passed the duty to Kieron. Sammut started on the bench that game so was overlooked. Sammut & Dixon (Api didn't play) started against the Bulls which is why I was slightly taken aback that Sammut didn't kick. Hope every conversion, whoever does them, makes it count against Fev in Blackpool on Saturday.

Your right of course, but my point was that Dixon took over and kicked pretty well, ditto the following week, so if "it ain't broke, don't fix it"?

It seems that our demolition of Bradford and the fact that the Bradford fans were on his back, have convinced Leon Pryce to retire
It is a shame that such an illustrious career, should end in such poor circumstance.