Looking forward to seeing the new guys.

Lets make plenty of noise to welcome them to gods rugby pitch

I do hope they bring a competative team

Doubt it, Robin Hood and his merry men will be in the counting house cavorting with their recent ill gotten gains.


Probably take them quite some time to count out a "[iseven figure sum[/i" when they are giggling like little girls over what a wheeze they have pulled off.








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You bad lad

Quote taken from the dulls website;

"Meanwhile, Kyle Briggs, Danny Addy and Sean Ainscough are all included in an otherwise very young Bulls Squad to face Keighley at Cougar Park tonight at 19:30."

I wonder if a certain Jordan A will me making a return to Cougar Park?

It's not about them thought, it's about the Cougars. I am hoping for a more polished performance and seeing all the signings playing together in readiness for the NRC.

I thought generally that was a good game. I think the team has looked the most cohesive so far. There seemed too many errors particularly in try scoring positions. But The team made some brilliant covering tackles and made up a lot of ground fast. So an improvement but more needed. Any comments?

Anybody catch the attendance?

Strange game last night, some good flowing rugby for our tries but we are still giving away posession to easily. To be fair though, some of the players still need time together.
Thought the young bulls side played better than I expected, credit to them.

950ish

I thought I heard it as around 900, but there didn't seem many more folk there than against Batley so I could may have misheard.

As for the game, I agree an improvement, but marginal. I'm not sure the players put 100% into that and I wonder if, given the dulls teamsheet, it was used as a bit of a training match to try some moves out. Our completion rate in the last 20 of the first half was dire. I thought when the dulls came back into it it was in no small part due to time we were given Briggs to get the kicks away. Our defence looked more cohesive, but there's more to come I'm sure as we approach the NRC.

The attendance was 970. I thought there was more. A good game i thought. Dont forget the final preseason game against Rochdale is a week on Sunday. Looking forward to this game.

Agree with that, there seemed to be no enthusiasm until the dulls scored. Our very first try seemed to come too easily, which may have added to the disappointment of seeing young team.

I expect Rochdale will put out a strong team. Hopefully we will show the gap we have created since we last played them. Looking forward to that game.

It was refreshing to see our wide men being sent over for tries.

It's obvious to see that with the combination of players that played Super League and Championship 1 last season that we are struggling to get our timing right. We're dropping a lot of ball and there were times where 1 more quick pass would have put a man through a gap.

I thought our defence looked pretty good yesterday. Their second try was an absolute fluke which made it look a little worse than it really was.

My Analysis on the game

Firsty It is the first cougar game ive been to this season


I actualy on whole thought the match itself was poor, it was slow and slugish - Maybe Ill put that down to being a pre season match and players still getting fit.


Ill start on the positives

In attack the partnership between Semi and Ritchi was very good I must admit and yes we had some fruitation there but I do feel that the Bulls defence on that side was good to hold us out on other occasions

Sam Obst looked very fit and defensivly quite a good tackle you could tell he was a cut above everyone else in the middle of the park.

The Link between Obst and Jones at times was good, and I feel that is the way to go it could become a very good partnership but what I found is that most of the time it broke down after Jones and that is the make or break pass.

Parrata he wasnt on the pitch long and looked actualy a little tired in defense not chasing back etc but that can be put down to jet lag however good signs are there he took his try very well took 3 guys over the line with him he looked to have very good upper body strength (one thing though as always with Aussie signings they are buit up to be Giants he was a chunky guy but no Giant, reminded me of the the time when we signed Mick Durham a moster of a back rowe yet when he came he was the smallest player we had lol, ok Parrata is not to the same extent lol but you get my drift

Rawlings was the pick of the Forwards he made some good clean breaks I feel he just made some poor choices after the breaks as play broke down all 3 times. He was pretty decent in defense too

Also still one or two guys to throw into the mix one namely figure in particular


Negetively

The play the ball was dreadfully slow along with the play from dummy half, it only ever sped up when one of the outside backs were taking a scoot and especialy Hawthorwaite, but in general this is a worry it must speed up

March - Sorry for me Ive never rated him, If had done some kicking Id say its a Chris Robinson clone, in Attack you could just read everything he was doing and I do feel sorry for some of the Forwards as he got Some of them real cream crackered,

I hope it was just the fact of the high floodlights but all our backs strugled under the high balls come day time games I hope that is eradicated

On defense its hard to tell as yes we yet in two tries one was a total fluke so call it 1 were our defense totaly broke down, I think it was a case of the Bulls did lack ideas near our line rather than our defense being top notch so I think its hard to say it will surely be tested better when we start playing in the Championship


So in general It was OK but we should have put that Bulls team to the cleaners, taking nothing away from them, some of the young lads got through allot of hard work and they deserve credit. Briggs was their lynch pin and that was plain to see, probably the best player on the field and although he was hardly in the game Ainscough caused havoc every time he got the ball

Not going to read to much into the game. Seeing as it was a pre season game.

Would love to see Obst and Coleman play together.

One thing i will say is, that team from the Bulls played very well.