Same to you Bongser and yes I would be very surprised if it wasn't on Bulls TV on Tuesday or Wednesdsy

Worth mentioning this again. The club have also posted that there are expected traffic delays.

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Well I enjoyed my fix of Rugby. Solid but unspectacular as you'd probably expect for our first game and on a heavy pitch. And I didn't spot any outrageous waist lines apart from my own so that's progress!

Entertaining game. Players looked fitter. The Walker and Lawford tries were highlights. Thought Lawford, Holmes, Foster, Wallace and Butler looked decent. Lilley always looks better at dummy half as well IMO.

We looked well in control when we had first teamers out there. Obviously it got a bit scrappy when we made a bunch of changes but that's to be expected.

Yes a decent game of rugby league especially for £10.

I was a bit worried about the lack of impact especially early foot but we had the quality to carve them open. Hopefully with some players to come in who didn’t play today we will look even better but I suppose it does highlight the need for a prop or two more for when injuries bite / when we come up against the bigger sides.

Overall looked a better attitude and desire which is all most of us want to see so well in. Happy with the performance and to get back onto the terraces

To be fair, we were missing Lawrence, Thompson, Scurr and Baldwinson who will possibly be the four starting props

From what I saw today Green and Rogers look a bit off 1st team level.

I would agree but I think the bloke behind me screaming at bulls to get a grip when it was a team full of kids felt a tad out of order

A decent hit out for Mark Dunning's men. I felt that we controlled the game from the early stages of the first half and played some good stuff for a first game back. It was great to see Walker and Holmes play, an improvement on what we had last year. I felt that Wallace, Butler and England did well getting yards on the edge with Holmes, Lawford and Walker providing that creativity. We scored a couple of nice fast tries from deep, which was good to see on such a heavy pitch. Having Lilley at 9 is an interesting statement from MD. I assume he will move between the hooking and halves positions when needed this season.

I felt that the scoreline flattered Dewsbury in the end as they scored 2 late tries when we had our Academy players finishing the game. In conclusion, a game that provided some good rugby and builds some level of excitement under the new regime.

MOTM: Lawford

I agree. It's still very early in the year and I wouldn't want to write them off after one pre-season friendly. If we lose some of our middles to injury I feel we may be lacking some real quality going forward. Hopefully they prove me wrong this season.

To be fair I felt green grew into the game

I only heard the game on the radio and I know he only played half a game but Blackmore was only mentioned a couple of times. Can anyone who was at the game tell me more?

He had a bit of go forward from the back to be fair

He also only played one half

Runs hard and fast and with Arundel as his centre he could score plenty of tries this season.

Green and Rogers are only young lads and have a lot to learn. But with Baldwinson, Scurr and Lawrence as out only bona fide props (Thompson is a second rower who's moving up to prop apparently) we may have to call on them so I hope we're looking at recruiting another.

Blackmore is bigger than some of our forwards. He took a few carries and made a handling error. Didn't do much but got some stick from the Dewsbury crowd. I'm on record as not rating him and he's got other baggage too so I'm not his biggest fan.

Our instinctive shift is to the left so we got it out to DFJ repeatedly. We didn't move it right often enough to get a feel for Blackmore in my opinion. On DFJ, his willingness to take up the ball is relentless. Perhaps I'm being unkind but I'd sometimes question just how effective that is, but he's got work ethic for sure!

I thought the looped passes to DFJ didn't really work in the first half as the cover had no problem shifting across. Trying a block play would've created more space for him as it always puts a defender in a bit of doubt whether to cover the player on the short pass or not.

Blackmore is a big lad and will be useful on the kick returns judging by his size. He doesn't look the most agile or quickest though. If I were in the opposition I'd be putting kicks in behind him for wingers to run onto.

DFJ is a busy player and did a lot of carries and got some good quick PTBs. Would like to see him backing up more in the middle.

Think we're going to need reinforcements on the wing to cover for injury and loss of form

I totally understand how the backs need to help out the forwards. I just feel a little cold about the ineffectual little scoot (like every single Elliott Kear carry). Probably after being spoilt by Vaikona, Vainikolo and other monsters over the years, the sight of DFJ buzzing around like a rabbit and making 6 centimetres seems meh.

We were spoilt with Vaikona and Vainikolo that's for sure. So much is expected from wings nowadays. You need to be athletic enough to dive in at the corner and to be safe under a high cross-kick so being quite tall is useful. You need to be big enough to help your forwards out with the ball in hand on kick returns and/or elusive enough to make ground and get a quick PTB.

Getting someone that ticks all those boxes at our level is nigh on impossible. We could do with a bit more depth though.

James Clare would fit most of that criteria.

He would be a good addition.

It was good to see Lawford play well yesterday I thought he stood up well in defence after being tested out early on and with ball in hand he looked good - the try he scored was impressive. There were few mistakes but for the first pre season game I thought it was good stuff. It'll be useful to have genuine competition for places at halfback next year.

Decent performance against a team likely to be in the top 2 of L1.

Some pleasing signs, Walkers try, nice to see good back up play. Been a massive issue for me has our support play (or lack of) last couple of years. Nice try from Lawford too which will only give the kid more confidence. Plenty to work on with much tougher tests to come.