But your youngsters got a good hiding today at Orrell 34 - 6

I'd get Halley back from wakefield,

You'll win nothing in this game with youngsters.

I am not sure who was who for the Bradford reserves today but based off the performance at Orrell no first team players will feel in danger based off the performance from your reserves.

Maybe the fact that your first team players feel so safe in some way explains why you were so shockingly poor at the JJB tonight.

That could be one of the reasons, but our reserves still lost by less than the first team...

Oh my god have you heard these frickin pies !! They win a game or two and now they are gonna win the lot, they are a the worst fans in the sport, hate em ! back down to earth next week booty holes !

and at least they gave it a bit more of a go than the first team did. Your reserves shot themselves in the foot by making basic errors in your own end of the field.

Didn't you have Smith, Mathers, Goulding playing for the reserves?

Well what difference does that make we aren`t winning with the team we have now we might as well give them a go, we picked a large amount of injuries up again tonight Godwin, platt, newton and deacs looks like we will have to bring some youngsters in anyway.

Halley would make literally no difference whatsoever. He's the league's top scorer (or at least was) but the only one he'd have got with us was the one that Sheriffe got anyway. He'd offer nothing that our back three aren't already providing.

The kids got heart but hasn't got a great deal else going for him other than having come through the bradford academy.

Not smith but they had pryce, goulding, mathers and paul prescott.

OK.

I honestly think Kieran Hyde should be given a go at #6 next week, he has plenty of ability and we won't know if he is ready until he is tried.

He has to be an improvement on Jeffries.

I agree give Kez a shot, take a leaf out of Cas' book it did'nt do the young lads there any harm.

It would be good experience and also a big confidence boost to play first team rugby for him.

Jeffries looked a bit more like, I thought.

Fine thats settled then, ring Macca and tell him to let him go.



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hes better at full back coming in the line and doing what he wants hes a free spirit is kez

Could'nt agree more.

Given that we're going to need a hooker and it will probably be one of our current half backs then surely there's got to be an opportunity to get Hyde and/or Crookes in. Surely.

An immediate improvement on most of the wasters out there last night then.

Jeffries was easily your most effective back last night.

They certainly have added a bit of spark to our side and are keeping first team players out of the side so everyone is on their toes.

I'd not particularly thought effort was a problem before last night, but now I'd have to say that a kick up the backside from being dropped might do a few players some good (though would they be that bothered?).

Unfortunately, however brilliant these youngsters are, they are still going to come into a side playing to the same gameplan and tactics (ie none).

Just thought I'd butt in on your forum seeing as FC come to Odsal next week. As has been well reported since the beginning of last season our team was decimated by injuries from pre season onward so they had no choice but play plenty of the lads. Yes it was a struggle as everyone knows but we're certainly going to reap the benefits from now on. We still have five or six first choice players to come back into the side right now but we can hardly tell !! It proves that long term, youth introduction and development really does work we should have a good season hopefully. Best of luck for the season y'all except for next week obviously. Sometimes big benefits come out of adversity eventually !!

Maybe try a couple of the young lads - Crookes, Donaldson but not 5 or 6 of them - that would be suicide and as Asim said - same game plan