That was too close for me!!! Well it's 10 games gone and we have won more than we've lost and we're ahead of the Rhinos so all is not that bad.

For the second time this week, who is your Man of the Match, this time versus the visiting Crusaders.

Top 3 as usual with points being awarded (3pts for 1st, 2pts for 2nd and 1pt for 3rd). Blah, blah, blah.

Voting for this round will end on Wednesday at 12pm.

1. Scruton
2. Whitehead
3. Donaldson

1. Platt
2. Hall
3. Orford

Not a brilliant team performance, but still a hard one.

Any out of Platt, Halley, Sykes, Scruton, Godwin, Lynch, Menzies, Whitehead, Hall & Donno could easily be in my 3 but....

3pts Halley
2pts Platt
1pt Lynch

1. Scruton
2. Hall
3. Sykes

Halley
Platt
Whitehead

ScrutonMassive effort from Scruton, he got through a ton of work in defence and once again made good yards when others were blowing.
Hall Really starting to find his feet at the club, if he can cut out the odd hadling error he'll be even more impressive, good effort for the try.
Halley Took try well after good passing from Orford and Nero and was unlucky to be penalised by the idiot with the whistle after a good break from the tap.

1. Scruton
2. Halley
3. Sykes

Very hard this week - usually 1 + 2 have picked themselves but not this time. No towering performances, but a lot of workmanlike efforts with some flashes of promise and a lot of grit to claw it back and grind out the win. With more than a degree of "perm any 3 from..." I'll go for:

Scruton
Halley
Hall

Could have easily drawn lots for those - not much in it from a bunch that also included Whitehead, Sykes, Platt, Lynch, Godwin, Donaldson...

Whitehead
Scruton
Sykes

Thank you.

Mike Worrincy


Nick Scruton -

England's best prop forward ATM - Fact! Before any Wiggin fans reply Feka isn't English.
Wayne Godwin - simply for the way he went round geeing up the troops when he came on in the second half.

Scruton
Halley
Platt

1. Scruton
2. Lynch
3. Whitehead

Top marks of the day must go to Mr Child, who like all of the other refs seems to play to a different set of Rugby League rules when he officiates at Odsal!!

Bulls brought back for a penalty when it looked to me like Halley had crossed the line!
Their 40-20 which led to a try looked pretty dubious!
They knock on and get a penalty!
Lie on for a month and a half and don't get penalised (unless you are Glenn Hall and then we can't wait to blow)
Gareth Thomas, with a force ten gale behind him, managed to knock on BACKWARDS towards his own line!
Forward passes, lost count!

But................after all that we still won and when all you can do after a victory is moan about the ref things can't be all that bad!

1. Scruton
2. Halley
3. Hall

No stand-outs today and few that made a significant difference in a pretty wishy-washy Bulls game.
So MOM to a player who continues to improve his own personal performance
1. Whitehead
2. Scruton
3. Hall.
Damned close for 3rd, there were so many others that were just above mediocrity

Halley
Hall
Platt

Shout out to Worrincy - he showed a big improvement today.

Scruton
Platt
Hall

all for hard working performances where we ground out a win.

Scruton 3pts
Whitehead 2pts
Lynch 1pt

Hall
Platt
Halley

Scruton
Platt
Whitehead

For the first time this season we have a tie in the votes. Nick Scutton takes 1st place and 3pts to move up the table. 2nd place is tied with Dave Halley and Glenn Hall both recieving the same votes so they both share the points.

1. Nick Scrutton - 3pts
2= Dave Halley - 1.5pts
2= Glenn Hall - 1.5pt

It now seems an eternity since Matt Orford and Jamie Langley won any points. Nick Scrutton continues his great recent form to move joint 2nd in the table with Langley and Brett Kearney. Michael Platt moves up the table and Glenn Hall wins his first points of the season.

1. Matt Orford - 10pts
2= Jamie Langley - 8pts
2= Brett Kearney - 8pts
2= Nick Scrutton - 8pts
5= Rikki Sherrife - 4pts
5= Steve Menzies - 4pts
5= Heath L'Estrange - 4pts
5= Andy Lynch - 4pts
9. Michael Platt - 2.5pt
10= Elliott Whitehead - 2pts
10= Paul Sykes - 2pts
12. Glenn Hall - 1.5pts
13= Dave Halley - 1pt
13= Wayne Godwin -1pt

You gave Dave Halley's points to Michael Platt.

Well spotted!!! Here's the revised table:

1. Matt Orford - 10pts
2= Jamie Langley - 8pts
2= Brett Kearney - 8pts
2= Nick Scrutton - 8pts
5= Rikki Sherrife - 4pts
5= Steve Menzies - 4pts
5= Heath L'Estrange - 4pts
5= Andy Lynch - 4pts
9. Dave Halley - 2.5pt
10= Elliott Whitehead - 2pts
10= Paul Sykes - 2pts
12. Glenn Hall - 1.5pts
13= Michael Platt - 1pt
13= Wayne Godwin -1pt

Jeez, at the moment the coaching strategy seems to be 'let's punish Andy Lynch by making him play twice the length of time either Scruton or Hall is required to do', yet in the meantime we all fawn over Scruton because he runs with some energy and gets the odd big hit in. Let's not get too carried away eh? Scruton is progressing well, he's still not Sam Burgess though, and we're busy murdering our best prop who is rapidly becoming ever more covered in strapping. I can't see that strategy lasting all season.