Team announced:

Hardaker

Briscoe
Sutcliffe
Walters
BJB

McGuire
Burrow

Leuluai
Aiton
Singleton
JJB
Achurch
Delaney

R.Ward
L.Briscoe
Kirke
Minchella

It's bad isn't it. Hope proved wrong, but think the Bulls will get their desired win tonight, and probably comfortably.

McDermott is taking some risk - centres look a bit odd

Against London yes but I think Bradford must be in with a real chance tonight

Imo that team should still beat a poor Bradford side

Bench looks odder. Maybe Luke Briscoe to centre with Walters to backrow and one of JJB/Delaney/Achurch spelling prop? Will maybe need it because neither Kylie or Kirke usually give big minutes.

I wouldn't bet on it beating London. Hope I'm wrong.

Setting off now, but not with any enthusiasm.

Meh. Not disappointed to be spending the night on my sofa in front of the athletics.

A fittingly poor send-off for the airport derby.

Starting 13 looks fine although the centres are obviously out of position.dubious looking bench but hopefully the guy with the fistful of rings can prove his worth to the side,no hiding behind other players an option tonight.

Sounded awful.lets hope we go on and win the cup now and justify the resting of players because that is a real body blow with saints losing too.

meh, with the side we put out and losing BJB halfway through I'm not overly bothered about that result. Wigan draw level on points with us but we've still got a game against them, Saints defeat means a win against them will take us above them.

Welcome back Watkins, Moon, Hall, Peacock, Ablett, Sinfield & Bailey next week - hopefully they can put in another good shift and get us to Wembley.

Wigan will finish top. Us probably 3rd.

So f*cking irritating.

Brb lose next week and we played a weakened team for nothing.

When was the last time we played a game that wasn't a painful frustrating struggle?

Wigab ed it last night

Oh dear dont give up the day job

Terrible, terrible performance. At least it gives Bradford some idea of what to expect in the Championship, although the coaches there might use the bench better.

Would have been embarrassing to have gone top of the league playing like that.

Why? Did you see the word "should"? He's right it should have, but the team played terribly and didn't.

You are still down.won you're cup final....just,against half a team focused on next week so enjoy it.

Believe me had I known Bradford would be so bad I would never have said that.

Worst sides in a game I have seen. Worst opposition at Headingley this year, which shows how bad we were. Worst reffing ever, against both sides.

Just a thoroughly shocking match to watch. We are simply not coached. Our half backs were absolutely abysmal and completely outplayed by a guy who for some reason gets ridiculed in Gale.

Kylie and Singleton had great first halfs. Those, JJB and Delaney put in good defensive efforts. But the same players, and all were woeful going forward. What is it with running sideways all the time.

If you ever actually attended a match you would realise you should be bothered.

I'm with you that the forwards were ok. Not good, but ok. The backs didn't have much chance. The half-backs were and are the biggest problem (that and the flatness of the attack and general cluelessness in the opposition 20. Which isn't that different when the full team is playing, but where we have Ablett or Watkins to force themselves over the line).

The most damning thing was to have 10 minutes against a side as bad as Bradford, with 12 men, all in Bradford's 40, and come out of that period with no points. As well as looking "uncoached" that was down to the decisions and organisation of McGuire and Burrow who both really should know better.

Also, did I miss something or did two of our subs not get on?

How do you know he doesn't attend matches?

I dont attend too much anymore myself because of various reasons but i would like to think it doesn't make me any less caring as a fan as yourself or any leeds fan and am still capable of an opinion on things I would hope.

They just beat Leeds

Did I say anything about caring? How can you have an opinion on a performance that you didn't attend and wasn't on the TV? To just say meah not bothered when you have not seen is ridiculous.

Macdermott got a lesson in tactics. Lowest attacked in the centres all night. Good job I didn't pay to watch that garbage.
How bad was tom briscoe? Jesus, rather Luke played next week.
Any sympathy I had with bulls fans went tonight with beer throwing and racist comments aimed at JJB

Also forgot to add. When it was raised as a concern last week, Andy Gilder said a team has never lost a match because of low completion rates. It was a silly thing to say at the time, but completely shown how wrong tonight.

More worrying though is the pattern.

A poor Bradford team beat an even worse Rhino's side, resting six players was the wrong tactics as the youngsters can't really make that step up at the moment, with Sinfield being absent and Jones Bishop crocked after 20 minutes it was never going to be easy against a team which had nothing to lose and we're playing their cup final.
I'm a firm believer of taking a winning mentality into a cup semi final and it wouldn't have taken much to knock over this Bulls side by bringing in more of the first team. That said I've never seen as many dropped balls in one game by a Leeds team it must have been around 30 times in an 80 minute game. As for Roby.........well we won't go there he was shocking, he gave the Bulls a great deal of latitude with the 10 metres, Gale was probably getting back just the six metres, still you have to beat what's in front of you, the Bulls did that and fair play to them as for Leeds let's hope they're focussing on next week otherwise this week will just be a bigger waste than it turned out to be.