That's just how I see it. Maybe add a fifth point....... We have players in the squad that haven't played yet and they have to be played in their favoured position to see how they fit, and with whom.

I remember the last time we won the GF and we were poor at the start of season and didn't improve till July then kicked on from there.
The comparisons with Leigh are a bit fatuous considering they are a settled side with good players and playing the Championship as a side who've been there and done that and at the moment doing it pretty well.
The Bulls are a new Team in most aspects with a steep learning curve to undertake and are doing it ugly which will be a better for them come the real business end of the season because promotion won't be about doing it pretty.
The CC game against KR will show that the Bulls will struggle to step to SL level for one game but will show us where the Team are as far as end of season prospects.

I suppose the main positive is that we are still managing to win despite not playing consistently well yet

WE HAD NO PROBLEM LAST SEASON.

It can happen.We won everything in a season including World Club Challenge but still thinks it's rare, even in the lowly Khaki league.

or Bradford go the rest of the season playing and winning games as we both are we will both have done very well indeed, and when it comes to the middle eight it will be even more difficult , good luck for the rest of the season guys.

When Wigan were the only full time squad, John Monie said they were always a bit sluggish during the first half of the season, prone to the odd setback. They used to flog the players, lots of endurance and strength work. In the second half of the season they cut down on the weights, concentrated on speed are were untouchable.

We do have a bit of an advantage over the SL teams in that its almost certain we'll be in the Middle 8's whereas they're doing their damndest to stay out of them. They cant really afford to aim to peak late on. Hopefully we will be much sharper.

Good point.

Let's hope SL is so close that no clubs fate is sealed until final week.

That is our main advantage, Cibaman. Maybe some of their best players may well be, 'flogged to death', trying to escape being in the bottom four. Main hope for championship teams is to keep our best 17 fit and raring to go. It will still be hard, make no mistake.

That's interesting.

So, your game doesn't get any better than when you pipped the mighty Keighley by 2 points?

Or that was also you at your peak when you scraped a win over Fax with one goal kick?

And you were on top of your game when you lost at Doncaster?

Weird!

And ripped Bradford apart 30-4 in 40 minutes not long ago.

WEIRD!

Hardly ripped us apart, we just stopped playing. Not something to be impressed with, bit if it increases your morale beating a superior team who am I to rain on your parade

We've already established why it happened. Surely you weren't reliant on your own ref to beat Keighley ...... I doubt he was to blame for Donny winning. How do the club decide when he is in charge or is it just down to chance. Is he going to help Leigh beat Salford.

Yeah, we outclassed you.

We had no complaints losing at Donny.

And for god sake, Stop this obsession with referees, it doesn't work.

And finally I'm off to the LSV to see the best rugby team In the championship.

I feel sorry for you leigh fans. you don't support the biggest, or by far the best team. Just a small club in a small town only known to a few thousand.

Then here are the bulls. Known across the RL world but have fallen on hard times.

Who can blame leigh for wanting to claim our scalp to dangle in front of the other small teams! We have had trophies and success to celebrate in recent years, leigh have had nothing in a lifetime! Leigh fans will be telling their children and grandchildren about that game for years to come.

Well done Leigh, for a few days you were noticed.

Well Weird, different season, I thoiught the discussion was about going through a whole season and playoffs etc etc, not about one half of the starting game of another season. or are you just being presumptive?

Is it really necessary to continue this "banter" about the relative merits of the Bulls and Leigh on a thread with the title Good Friday : Bradford v Halifax?

I think Halifax fans, or maybe even Batley fans, would have had a more valid claim to have said that they outclassed the Bulls.......maybe even Dewsbury fans today but not Leigh fans. It would have been extremely painful to have lost to either Fax or Batley with a neutral referee but they would have deserved it. The table shows that Leigh got the points....We can't change that but it makes it easier know why it happened. However, if Leigh can beat Bulls with a neutral referee then I will acclaim that achievement and hopefully Cobb will be nowhere near Odsal.......unless he's there as a fan.

We should feel complimented that leigh fans respect us so much that they have to remind us how they beat us against all odds, they don't seem to ignore that it was is that threw the game away rather than them win anything

I can't believe how your loss at Leigh is eating away at you so much. GET OVER IT. You'll NEVER beat us.

It's all a bit tedious this. I think Bradford are class in this division, but they are no better than leigh. I hope both go up as super league is no great shakes ! Best of luck in the challenge cup. I hope we both do em!

Don't be a silly boy, I suppose you'll want to boast as much as you can before you come to ours and we actually play 100% and embarrass you, see what a SL standard crowd looks like

I think this has run its course now lads.

Time to move on