Bradford's pack looked big & slow when i watched their game vs Fev the other week, by contrast, I thought our forwards were magnificent against London. We'll miss Bob's industry & aggression for certain but if we win the middle we'll beat them by 20+

That's a fair post and when the emotion has died down you could say we lost by one point in a tight, and very entertaining, derby game. As you say Fax could quite possibly have taken the points with better game management but they didn't and that's two points gone already. What does surprise me is the lack of blame towards Mr Grant, the referee. Despite the large penalty count in Fax's favour early on the big decisions certainly didn't go our way. There were a few but the try by bull's winger on the left in the 2nd half was ridiculous. How far forward does it have to be to get pulled? That was one really poor call from the ref in a game we lost by one point. Don't blame the ref/swings and roundabouts/it'll even itself up over the season, aye I've heard 'em all but it still dosen't change Sundays result.

Bring on Toulouse though and Up The Fax!

this is a very fair and decent post from you bull mania refreshing for these forums

no it is not hudd-shay it comes down to expectations for this season for me and i am not just judging simon grix on the 3 games so far this season it is based on how we have performed since he took over from marshall our win ratio is very poor we seem to play well once every 5-6 games i think we should be challenging for the top 4 this season with the squad we have and then give the play offs a real shake i can take losing if we do our selfs justice but i have rarely seen this under grix

Watching the game again the I don't think the ref will be happy with his performance. I do not think for a second that ref's are biased but just like players they can have bad games and this was one of them. He pretty much got every 50/50 wrong, obviously that comes down to the linesman as well especially that forward pass and the crucial ones like the missed 2 on 1 ball steal, the 6 again when our player did not play the ball, the forward pass, and then the offisde on our line that was not offisde, all that added up its going to hurt any team.

We contributed though, getting sucked in to the niggle when there was no need, a total lack of leadership when we were struggling which is a worry from our half backs and more experienced players. Another full length of the field try from a kick off the 2nd in 3 competitive games and down the same side, the total lack of direction on our last 3 or 4 sets and a coach that once again said that another team wanted it more. I think we will put up a fight on Sunday but Im not expecting too much and it would be a big shock if we won and I can't remember the last time we had a shock win.

the length of the field try did you see the space between the 3 defenders who tackled the bradford prop from the kick off and the next halifax defender it must have been about 15-20 meters i have rarely seen such a big hole in the defence lilly must not have been able to believe is eyes in the first 20 minutes we attacked the space which ever side of the pitch it was on but after that we seemed obsessed in the first half of going to the left when there was more space on the right and vice versa in the second half it made no sense to me