DIsappointing neither White or the ex Leeds lad are at halves.

Chapman-Smith is injured. No idea about White and surprised Brook is included as it looked like he was off out loan.

If you cant get to the match I have just copies this from the Bulls page. It a link for match commentary. mixlr.com/bradford-bulls-live/

If you cant get to the match I have just copies this from the Bulls page. It a link for match commentary. mixlr.com/bradford-bulls-live/

Spot on mate.our halves were awful and we got what we deserved.

Typical pre-season friendly really. Fans lose it because we lost a game, fans and players lose it because other fans have stated an opinion, Grix calls the performance "ordinary" and everyone seems to fail to pick up on it.

I thought Bradford looked ahead of us at this stage of the season but that was to be expected with them been mainly full time and it been their second game. Fitness wise I thought they had a few players blowing which may be a worry with the reduction in subs but again its still pre-season. They looked way better than us in attack.

For us we defended well at times and showed enough to say that our pack is going to be up there with the best once we get a couple more players back in. Fitness wise I thought we looked decent for where we are in pre-season. Attack was non existent, I think JWH will make a better centre than a half anyway and Brook's level is probably mid table League 1. Going in to a game without recognised half backs is always going to be a problem and there is no way to change our attacking structure in the off season if both are injured which is a worry as we can probably expect another low scoring season.

whites registration had not come through hence not playing. the difference was lilly and keyes in the halfs

Aye. When I saw your squad I thought it might happen. I thought we might have struggled in the middle with no Crossley or Peltier but luckily we didn’t. Us having Keyes and Lilley as recognised halves also helped us get around the pitch and gave us a few attacking options.

You lacked ideas without a halfback as you already know. But Murrel and Johnston will make a huge difference. Will be a different game next time around.

Best side won on the day.
Plenty effort from Fax with 2 or 3 having decent games but Bulls looked that bit further down the road as a unit and it showed with hardly any errors especially in the first half and a completion rate over 90%.
Still plenty more to come from both clubs.
Year in year out over last few seasons the Champ comp gets better and better to watch, certainly the case this time round as the season unfolds.

We often lacked ideas on attack when Muzza and Jonno were playing but as you say not quite as bad as yesterday.

Having said that yesterdays 6 and 7 have never played there together so can't be too critical up against decent opposition and RM can only find out what the answer is in the halves by trying combinations and asking the questions.

First blow out for the rest of the lads and they will be better for it.

How did our new lads go on?

Hard to tell as it was so fecking dark.Cooper/Kavanagh ordinary but James Green was best forrad on day...

Lol! Aye, Green was one of our better loan/dr players.

Sounds like someone forgot that we need to register a new player. Pretty big oversight really.

Thats exactly what happened.

think problem will be with him coming back from australia.

Just an oversight from the club. Sounds like they named him in the squad and the RFL pointed out that he wasn't actually registered as our player.

Player fully and correctly registered by the Club and the RFL however when a player has been playing in the Australian competition they need to be released by the NRL/NSW Governing bodies before they can play at all in the UK. As they close for 3 weeks over Christmas and New Year and apparently have a backlog there are at least 6 players that this issue is affecting in the UK at the moment.

He was never named in our squad.

Should have got the relevent clearance when he signed in October then if playing devil's advocate.It did however highlight again that Adam Brook should be allowed to leave.

100% this.

Does seem strange though that the first side of the story is coming from the horses mouth so to speak though.

Of course not. The system wouldn't allow it.

Looks like White's registration has luckily come through in time for this weeks game.

Not sure what's funny, GFB.



Team selection involves checking boxes on the computer list of registered players these days.

It's all high tech.

No jotting names down on the back of a fag packet any more.

Brook has joined Oldham on a season long loan.