Quote ="mystic eddie"Odd. I posted last week that it was a somewhat arrogant view to suggest that we could play a weakened team against Workington.
Guess who was straight in to shoot me down.
You seem to change your opinions more often than your pants FA.'"
This exchange only happened in your head, though.
Meanwhile back on Planet Earth, broadybull87 suggested that a couple of players be given a runout against "the lower teams" to see what they can do.
You accused him of being "seriously arrogant" given our position, and I just corrected you by pointing out that the next couple of games (which he was obviously referring to) were against Workington and Oldham, the bottom two clubs. Which was and is 100% true and 100% fact.
If you want to add detail, he also said that these were games which we should win easily. They are, and they were.
If you genuinely believe that the comparatively mighty full-time Bradford Bulls, packed with supposedly SL-standard players and with ambitions of the big time, the team which only missed out on promotion by one goalkick last time round, should NOT firmly believe they should win easily against Workington then you are away with the fairies. We HAVE to beat Workington comfortably, every time, if we are to have any genuine ambition.
Also, I haven't and on't change my opinion, and it is silly to suggest otherwise. The squad we have should have murdered Workington, and it is a major embarrassment that they didn't. There were positives. They include that they found a way to not panic, and found a way to get in front, and then get in position for the crucial DG. And that the defensive structures under pressure were again a whole lot better. Also, that Rohan shipped in Charnock, who won the game for us.
The negative is that is that the team we fielded wasn't already 30 ahead. It should be, especially as a weaker Bulls team thrashed them 52-16 at Odsal not long ago. You know it and I know it. But we are where we are, and in what's left of the season, Smith needs to ensure (in order of priority) (a) that we win (b) we win (c) we win (d) we gradually keep improving, so that come the playoffs, we might at least have some shape and some self-belief back. It isn't his fault that the excellent squad we have was producing the dross that it was.
And, before you ask, yes, we should go to Oldham and thrash them too. We SHOULD be able to go there in a similar fashion to Leigh a few weeks ago, who went there and won 14-56. THAT is what a team with any aspirations for the main chance HAS to be doing against teams like that. It's not arrogance - they would have expected to be thrashed by Leigh, and they duly were.
