It was fairly comfortable. I'd have liked to have seen us looking a little more organised in attack at times, but given the amount of laying on that was going on it was hard to gain any momentum.

The usual bollox from what I heard, describing Bradford as "very, very poor" and massively missing Orford, no mention of us being without our form player and losing our only winger early on. A solid professional job done in poor conditions IMO.

Long was non existent tonight, needs to up his game or it's a Turner and Horne combo for me.

Very poor quality game. Glad we were playing bradford and not a decent side or we'd have really struggled. Very disorganised for most of the match. Kicking was rubbish and long may as well have stayed at home in wigan.

Hi Gwyllym.

Poor quality game agreed. Kicking was a lot better tonight though splitting winger and full back on most occasion and a very rare 40/20. Long looked good in patches but he has and always will be a big game player anyway, he missed Horne tonight thats for sure but a marked improvement on his performance against Wigan.

you won, stop moaning

Agreed, would have liked to see more points but always thought we was in control.

Wouldn`t quite put it like that myself.Maybe not one of his best games,but he never stopped talking to players all night,at least trying to give some leadership,and encouragement.
Mind you,I admit I am biased towards him.

Yes,but we didn`t 100 -0 ,and Bradford didn`t roll over.



Mind you,don`t get me started on Thaler...........................

Tonight wasn't the weather for a flashy half-back display but he was sound going forward and pretty solid in defence.

I think it was a good performance in difficult conditions with an incredibly lenient referee at the ruck and with an injury to Calderwood that meant a big switch around in the line-up.

What was good was that we weren't frightened to try to throw the ball about because we backed up dropped ball with solid defence. I, for one, was very happy with the display - we never really looked in trouble.

As for Bradford being poor well, they'd have to be for us to beat them wouldn't they? We've only beaten poor teams this year...

At least gwyllym and I attended the game so can comment on it having watched it



long was practically a passenger, stood out in the centres even when we were in posession.

Most of our kicks seemed to be caught on the full by either the FB or one of the wingers

To my recollection, most of our positional kicks found the ground. I can think of many examples in the second half alone - we forced two forty-twenties, one kick went dead for a 20mtr restart, a kick into the South West corner for a scrum. I can remember a couple going to hand but certainly not most. Where I would agree with you were the bombs - I thought they were terrible and way too easy to field.

In the first half Turner put a couple of great kicks in (even from deep) and of course we had a forty-twenty as well. I think that you and I need to swap glasses for a couple of weeks - you can have my rose-tinted ones and I'll have your half-empty ones

didnt see much pressure from the hull players when bombing balls

Weather was crap,game a wrestling match,not very high scoring,but HEY!!,WE WON, I will take winning ugly at times.

whiting caught a lovely high ball though to get us of our line

Not so IMO. I thought we bisected the winger and FB quite well, had some that went dead, forced at least 2 goal line dropouts and made a 40/20.

Totally agree Mrs B, our kicking game was good imo considering the conditions, I was impressed with what Turner offered to the kicking game as well.

He did what now to the fullback and winger? sounds painful

2 forty twenties in the 2nd half? Must have been watching a different game then

Quite enjoyed the game considering the conditions. Thought we kicked well on the whole, Turner exceptional at times and looks a real find, who, with a decent run in the team will grow in confidence and take the line on and team forward. Thought Long was quietish when we had the ball, good 40/20 and some decent defence to shore us up, probably prefers the drier grounds. Fitz, does he ever need a breather during the game? O'Meley solid and made his presence felt. Both Whiting and Tansey (had a shaky start) were held the back line together. Good second spell from Radders, Yak had one of his better speels, ran with a bit more grunt and Manu hit hard all night.

The referee? well its all getting to be about them nowadays, not the job you would want but the game will lose bums on seats if thats the standard that Cummings keeps churning out. Its now getting to the stage in the game when its not the teams who dictate who wins but the referee and thats a sad downhill slope were heading on. Surely Cummings position is untenable by now?

You won easily with plenty to spare, never in danger and they only crossed the whitewash with the last touch of the game.

A good nights work i'd say

Yep. It was never going to be a high scoring game with the conditions an' all. We looked fairly comfortable throughout - even when they were dominating field position.

Some of them dead but not most of them.

Anyway game over so this thread gets locked, cheer folks.