Souter unnecessary slid in when Jowitt scored. Jowitt might've thought that it was his knees. McGowen escalated it by running and and was lucky not to go as well

Looking at the video Jowitt half heartedly threw the ball towards Souter but It didn’t even hit Souter. L

Sin bin a bit harsh on both counts but McGowan was the one who kicked it off running in from some distance.

Not sure what Jowitt was binned for tbh.

Can’t see anything coming from that. Barely counts as handbags.

He'll have been sent for starting it. The handbags wouldn't have started without his action.
Needs to be better than that but I can't see any follow up issues at RFL.

I think Max is probably getting peed off with being targeted with head shots and late hits during most games this year.

But if the ball didn’t hit the player what did Jowitt get sent for?. He threw the ball half heartedly on the floor and it looked like McGowan thought it had hit his team mate and ran in looking for a fight.

Don’t suppose it matters much now though.

It does if Max gets a ban - stranger things happen.

Yellow card = matter closed, I believe??

They review it completely independently so they could upgrade it to a ban, but as you said before, I honestly can't see it. The yellow was stretching it a bit.

Well the bookies are probably taking a longer view rather than focusing on one match where Bradford had a lot of players missing. They will improve on last night's performance.

And to some others, if you think Bradford are 'niggly' and try to slow the game down.. you've seen nothing yet. And you'll see alot poorer refs than Marcus Griffiths in the Championship. Cannot blame those sides, its a mostly part time league working on a fraction of the budgets Wakefield have. I'm sure it'll be a more competitive match in the return leg at Odsal.

Yeah maybe wakefield will have some players vack too

Hopefully so, I think we all want to see the best players on the pitch.

I'm not really up on the Bradford team.
Who was missing?
Are they likely to be back for the 1895?

Of the players likely to be in our 17:

Blackmore, Arundel, Baldwinson, Scurr, Doro, Johnson and Davies. I think the club still have to solve the gap left by the long term absence of Tom Holmes after his devastating health news. We have a couple of new signings from Oz waiting for clearance in Ott and Fulton which should help in the coming weeks.

No excuse having players missing ,we had that problem for years .Think we should give Wakefield credit for the way they played ,and remember there is a lot of new players getting to no each other.so as the season goes on we should get better What ever we do we always get negativity.Read a post on this forum making a big thing about there were empty seats in the East stand so they could not be a crowd of 7,200 Knock of a thousand and it is still 2,000 give and take above what we have had for years in S L .6, 200 plus was some thing the last board could only dream of

Hmm. I'd forgotten about some of those.

I don’t know about the injury situations at the other championship clubs other than at Trinity and now the Bulls.

The soft surfaces at some grounds and rubbish weather at this time of year will certainly have contributed to teams having injuries…. Some worse than others….. however the amount of cup fixtures jammed into the start of the season before league games has also contributed to the list.
The 1895 cup needs to be put back to a straight knockout cup, and spread out a little more evenly to avoid teams starting round 1 will long injury lists…

I agree, 8 games before a ball is kicked in the season is too much. Though I think there may have been a friendly or two in that.

Seems a few championship clubs have picked up some injuries.

Either that or the cup games start even earlier and have 2/3 weeks between them.

Still the same amount of games some of which are in the mud.

Bradford seemed to have a lot of friendlies as well, not sure if they were aware of the 1895 Cup format before they were agreed. Injuries are part of the game though and Bradford are more equipped than some Championship clubs to cope. However, when facing FT opposition they are naturally going to struggle playing players out of position etc. losing further players within the game just compounds that.

Bradford haven't really found their rhythm yet but I'm confident they'll improve enough to give a better account of themselves.

I don't really understand this 'we had players missing' thing - if that's the case then you're saying outside your alleged first 17 the other players aren't good enough?
Clubs have squads if rotation in the squad is not up to standard then that's bad recruiting.
I don't even know what out first 17 is?

We recruit within our budgets. I'm not sure even with our best 17 all fully available if that's a side that can challenge Wakefield but I imagine our budgets are somewhat different.

I was responded initially after a poster commented that they couldn't understand how Bradford were 3rd favourites with the bookmakers.

I have Bradford down as 3/4th finish this season.

Think Wakefield, Toulouse, Featherstone and Bradford probably will be top 4. Outside chances of top 4 in Batley and York. Doncaster have made a few astute signings so could be a dark horse to slip into play offs.

In terms of Trinity starting 17 - think Thornley, McGillvray and Boothroyd would be in there. Maybe Bain once we see how he goes.

Overall though we do have some quality players to step in and a few quality young lads too who are likely improving all the time in full time training.

I can see us making a couple of additions through season but only if they are of a high quality that become available.

With players like Lawford and Smith though coming through the future looks bright indeed.

I don't know if the poster of that comment was particularly aiming at Bulls.

It's the same at every club in reality.

Full game replay is now on YouTube
Go on watch it you know you want to!

Enjoy