Hate to put a downer on this ahead of tonight, but can anyone really see us pulling off a win against Fev?

The win (and most importantly the attitude) against Toulouse was excellent to see after the last few years under Kear, but I couldn't see us winning that game had it not been for the meltdown and total lack of discipline during that second half.

I can't see the same happening to Fev and as a result don't see anything other than a comfortable win for the Rovers.

So long as we make Fev work really hard for it I'm happy. Have they been properly tested yet? Every team wins some it doesn't expect to win and loses some it doesn't expect to lose. We have a better chance than last year that's for sure (could hardly be worse).

https://west-yorkshire-rugby-league.mix ... ts/2104991 Sounds like Mick's sat right in the middle of the Fev fans. Hard to hear what's going on.

https://west-yorkshire-rugby-league.mix ... ts/2104991 Sounds like Mick's sat right in the middle of the Fev fans. Hard to hear what's going on.

Decent effort. Fevs quality showing. Not getting a lot from the ref. How Pickersgill (I think it was) wasn't sent to sin bin for a professional foul. Poor from Roby.

Only Patton's boot between us, he must be on Fev at the bookies....

I don't know if its because I'm in Tenerife but I can barely hear a word that Mick is saying

It just got a little harder, but Bulls ain't being taken for mugs. Bongser would love you to derail them early doors in the season. Go!

Great effort that. Execution letting us down. Lost Thompson and Lawrence during the game as well. But they never gave up.

Bum.

Decent effort from the Bulls tonight. Felt the game swung in Fev’s favour when Roby was sent to the bin. Losing Thompson and Lawrence late on didn’t help either. Last years team would have rolled over and died but we stuck at it and defended well.

I’m hoping the injury to Lawrence isn’t a bad one.

Whoops! Not directed at you, Bull Mania.

Your lads look like having a good season. Plenty of credit should be given to Dunning.

Lacked a bit of direction and quality in attack but the effort was there in abundance so hard to be overly critical. Suspect Dunning and co will be disappointed we didn’t do better with some of our opportunities, with a bit more pressure applied I think they would have been there for the taking.

Just not quite good enough on the night. Plenty of positives to take away and improve on though.

Thought there was opportunities to win that. Ref was shocking, I know we got one with Holmes offside but how Pickersgill wasn’t binned for a professional foul I’ll never know. Briscoe’s knock on from the kick (which they scored on their set) went unseen. If Roby got a yellow, how wasn’t theirs a yellow especially after he followed through with it??

Thought Patton and Holmes was poor with ball in hand today. Patton absolutely cacked himself when Leilua shot out of the line which is poor. Catch the ball take the hit. Patton unusually poor with kicks but he’s normally quality so chalk that as a one off.

Some shocking, dumb errors again today. Things like being caught offside at the scrum etc. Although holding the ball in the scrum is a crap rule anyway.

Scramble defence was class. Goal line defence was great as well. Some good tackles going in.

My only concerns with defence is that we allowed the offload numerous times with 3/4 men in the tackle. And the big one for me, is line speed. Every team we’ve played gets over the advantage line quite easy. Too many times we give up yards in sets.

We still look devoid of options in attack. Too slow to spread the ball and to predictable.

Thought the pack were great today. Really stood up to Fev. Rodgers, Thompson and Johnson were great today. Thought we missed Butler.

Why didn’t he put Appo on in the first half going downhill?

Roby was great when he was on the field! Flanagan needs to stop trying to be ‘Mr Big’. He never gets in their heads. Just focus on the game. Again, he does stupid stuff, then rips the ball on the 4th. I’d drop him and play Lilley there or start Roby.

Thought the effort was there today. Could see that in the scramble. 26-12 is respectable there. Proud of the effort but Fev could have been beat tonight and its a shame we couldn’t quite do it. Looking forward to them coming to Odsal!

Two concussions in two successive games for Thompson. Hope he's OK.

Always felt that Fev would come away with the win but again fair credit has to go to the team for the effort and determination put in. Last year that would have been 50pts plus. As it was it ended up being a great game between two decent sides. Long and Pryce seem to have a better connection to the squad than McDermott did so I think they will be a different beast by the end of the season.

Didn't go last night as I refuse to go back to POR due to the vile abuse the supposed Rovers fans dish out. Friends who went have said it was worse than ever... disgusting chants (which could be clearly heard on the radio), fans being challenged to fight by groups of flat cappers (classy to call out a dad with three kids under the age of 12 at his side) and reports of cars and coaches being stoned as they left.

Its all well and good the chairman calling out people for not attending games, but if he really wants crowds to increase, he needs to sort this awful behaviour as its surely going to put off both local families from attending, as well as a good number of away fans.

If you look at the on-line exchange between the Fev chairman and one of our supporters on one of the Fans Facebook groups it's clear that he's just as bad as the scum who behave so badly. I feel sorry for the decent Fev fans, although they seem to be in denial and constantly dismiss the complaints of other club's fans about their club.

Which fans' Facebook page was this? The only thing I have seen was when a Bradford fan contacted Mark Campbell via what appears to have been Facebook messenger (ie he went looking for Campbell's FB page) making a general comment about the club's "absolutely vile" fans, even though this was around midnight Campbell replied in a very courteous manner asking for more details and the rough time of the incident, at which point the Bulls fan replied stating he wasn't even at the ground! Unsurprisingly he was given very short shrift by Campbell after that and quite rightly so.

I am categorically not defending any Fev fans if they have done anything wrong and the RFL will no doubt investigate, but it's perhaps not surprising if some Fev fans seem to "constantly dismiss the claims of other clubs' fans" when you've got people making accusations who weren't even there.

Can't argue with that.

However, I thought Campbell's interaction with the fan would've been better if he'd kept it more professional. "Thank you for raising this issue, it will be looked into" would be better than getting into a slanging match.

Yes, you're probably right. But reading the message, do you think that's the response the Bradford fan was looking for? To me, he was just showing up to throw insults.

All the more reason to shut the conversation down professionally.

Whilst you're (sort of) on, PH (Happy New Year), is Kheirallah still crocked or has he left Fev?

This Bulls fan received a message saying if he attends the game, the group of fans will get him in Car Park so he didn't attend, hence his post to Mark Campbell. We also had a group of Fev fans go to the York/Bulls game trying to cause trouble.
Credit goes to York Stewards who kept a close eye on them.

Last I heard his recovery was going well and he's hoping to be back in early May.

I've seen enough of that fan's social media posts to know that he clearly has a longstanding agenda with Fev and is no choirboy himself, and I'm not buying this stuff about Fev fans going to a Bulls v York game without evidence.

Just watching the coverage on Viaplay of the game and if I was the TV Host or RFL I wouldn’t put a Fev home game on the TV at this time of year. the floodlights are embarrassing for the sport