i would be worried if it was that team

If you play that team you will get beat worse than last night. You were poor against Wigan but you still have some quality players. Keep the faith.

Who do we have on the injured list?
Tupou
Lynch
Langley
Solomona
Godwin
Newton?
Burgess not 100%
Platt carrying an injury?

Macca was asked at the fans forum about players underperforming or injured. He stated that this year he would only play the form players and only when fit. If that's what he's been doing then god help us.

sorry double post computer playing up

how do you guys see this game going?

Could be a long day at the office

All I'm worried about is that the scoreboard will break by the number of points we're likely to concied

We'll be lucky to get nil.

Unless there's a big improvement from us we'll get stuffed again.

bulls will come good have a bit of faith bulls are a good side you seem to feel like we did last season

I fear we're heading for a season like yours last year but without the cup run

WILL be a long day at the office. What Bradford will end up doing is moving players to play out of position when what they really need to do is either blood new youngsters or work at what you have playing in there right positions (Injuries Permitting obviously)

Bradford looked resigned to defeat pretty early on at Wigan and they need to not do that come Sunday. One thing I also noticed with Bradford is the amount of tacklers they we're putting into tackles. On many occasions it was 4. At one point it was Menzies, Morrison, Scruton and Newton all in a a tackle againt Thomas Leuleui. Thats 4 forwards against an half back. Its no wonder your team look tired doing this. Its therefore also no wonder you had boys like Paleisina(Spelling probably Wrong) and Hock going through gaps left because players were returning from past tackles. Bradfords defence had been ok up until Sat and your offensive and finishing had been the problem. It seemed on Sat it was a whole package problem....It'll be interesting to see where you will get a win because Hull, Catalans and Leeds are coming up soon and I doubt you'll beat them

add to above nero and semi both playing on with knocks against wigan.

then it makes sense to recall Halley and put him and Crookes into the team against hull as no doubt semi and nero will still be carrying their knocks

but i expect to see no change to the selection or the tactics

Think Halley picked up a knock yesterday.

One change I'd seriously consider would be to give Crookes a chance. Sykes hasn't set the world on fire so far, and if Tadulala was to be injured Sykes might play on the wing.

I'm sure McNamara said that if players weren't playing well others would come in, lets see it.

What about giving Sykes a shot at playing in the halves? He did it a couple of times at Quins and it can't get any worse for you than it already is.????

I remember commenting on that throughout the game. There's no wonder the defence got tired and Wigan could break the line at will. Presumably they were trying to be tough and hit hard in defence?

TBH Hudders managed to do that to us and they didn't get tired. They slowed us down sufficiently to negate anything we had in attack. Most teams get at least 2 into the tackle to do this, sometimes three.

It stands to reason if we slow down the oppositions ptb we get more time in defence so conserve more energy.

Im not too sure whether they are being told to shove men into the tackle and slow down the play of the ball, but in the middle of the park especially there we're bradford tacklers piling in on mass. Cue a gap behind the ruck area to be exploited. Im not a Bulls fan but I see alot of there games so I'm pretty impartial and what they seem to be doing doesn't make sense. As a kid when I was growing up (And admittedly it was at amateur and basic level) I was always coached "you run in pairs" and Bradford didn't seem to be doing this. it was always one man rugby. I was always taught that your two alf backs, hooker and Full back we're your thinkers and planners when your on the field. Its always been they have called the plays and these have been the architects of your ofensive moves. Bradfords halves hardly look like this do they??? Either way I recognise I'm not a coach but thats my opinion. I don't think there is as much as some people suggest wrong at Bradford but I do think where there is something wrong is in Key Areas???

Its been recognised something needs to be done with an approach for Bird...Its not been followed up though and look at results......I hope bradford can sort it and get moving in the right direction; with maybe a slip up on the 10th of April

The trick is to pull of one by one and fill the gap behind the ruck so that when the guy plays the ball the defensive line is set. If you can get the attacker on his back and facing the wrong way even better.

As you say it's no good getting bodies into the tackle if you're going to let the guy up before everyone is ready so that the attacking side can steal cheap yards behind the ruck.

This particular area has been a problem for us for years. Even during the glory years we sometimes struggled to contain Saints around the ruck as they had good technique and good dummy half runners. Now any SL team seems better organised and has better technique!

Sense?
When does that come into it? Don't be silly.
I for one won't be surprised to see Halley stay at Wakefield, have two injured players play on, hopefully not in their normal postitions, a scrum half move to hooker, a second row to prop, a loose forward to stand off and a stand off to scrum half. We can them put some second rowers on the bench so thry can fit in anywhere, and a youngster to take the last bench spot but then obviously not play them.

Not sure there are enough second rowers featuring in that plan

did you see sykes efforts on the wing in the world cup? atm sykes isnt performing point blank and assuming nero is fit then sykes should be dropped for crookes. Halley in for semi if he's injured. If semi's fit then difficult choice who to drop to accomodate halley as sheriffe and semi are pretty much on a par at the moment ( cos neithers getting any service) and much as I hate to say it Platt was probably the only back to be able to hold his head up after saturday ( although if he's injured then obviously halley slots in at fullback)