Voluntary tackle.

A player in possession shall not deliberately and
unnecessarily allow himself to be tackled by
voluntarily falling to the ground when not held by an
opponent. If a player drops on a loose ball he shall
not remain on the ground waiting to be tackled if he
has time to regain his feet and continue play.

I think the most inportant part of that is 'if he has time to regain his feet and continue play'.

He had time to have a cup of tea.

Obviously the only person in charge of the game for such matters dissagrees with you or he would have awarded a penalty to The Bulls.

Platt has been better recently. His problem now will be playing on the same wing as Sheriffe. I would argue that had Platt been dropped earlier instead of just ignoring his problems it would have been better for him and the Team and he would probably be a better player now. Trouble is we've left it a bit late to sort Worincey and Sheriffe out with spells in the reserves.
Suggestion for next season. Anybody cosistantly underperforming gets spelled in the reserves sooner rather than later. Crossing fingers and hoping they will get better doesn't work....

Come on tigs, show us your love for Super Deacs as well. Unlucky no-try for mine. Bossed the show from start to finish.

No reserve team next year.

That unfair on Sheriffe IMO his finishing isn't there but he makes a lot of ground on the first or second drive last night, This is invaluable as it saves the forwards for shirley bashing.

When he gets abuse for walking onto the field etc I do often shout loudly that "he's done nowt wrong". Trouble is he often makes up for it minutes later!

Joking apart he gets dogs abuse for mistakes that are seemingly allowed for other players.

I agree with that. If Sam or Menzies knock on they get Unlucky etc. When Platt knocks on it's "What's that idiot doing on the pitch"

If Sheriffe made as many meters forward as he does sideways he would be the best winger in super league, unfortunately he doesnt.

At least two of those sideways runs were part of setting up tries last night.

Did you ever have a problem when Robbie Paul, Leon Pryce or Vainikolo did that to create opportunities?

Looks like the scapegoat hat has been passed from Platt to Sheriffe?

Yup.

I'm no fan of Sheriffe. In fact, I don't think he's nearly good enough. But I don't get criticising him for things that helped set up tries last night. Two of those sideways runs resulted in the ball coming in off the touchline and being switched to the left side for tries.

While I agree he sometimes does it a bit too much, I don't think it's right to criticise if last night when it clearly worked.


Right up there with criticising Platt for missing a tackle when he made some very good ones and had an all round very good game.

Not at all they are both rubbish, both didnt do much wrong last nite but they are still not very good, and always will be average players.

tevita vaikona was also very good at sidewards running to get the defence more broken.

Its all the great Iestyn Harris did at Leeds

and Stuart Spruce and Mickey Withers.

Ricky isn`t a Vaikona or a Vainikolo but he`s busting a gut to be the best Sheriffe he can be. He`s a much better player than the one who started the season which shows he`s putting the effort in, and on that basis he deserves our support imo.

Come on, you guys cannot be serious with this thread. The guy has had two ok games at best!!!

He came to Odsal with very good potential but unfortunately has shown himselve to be a bloody idiot (he looses his head far too much for very little reason imo) with a very average game!!!

well, just for a bit of information.

according to the [url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?season=2009&stat=errors&hs1=2009&hp1=1720&hs2=2009&hp2=206Super League Website[/url the top offender for errors for Bradford this year is.........


Steve Menzies. He's 5th overall with 32.

He is a right loser that Menzies. I don't know why we signed him.
Waste of space.

I feel embarrassed for the Bulls. Steve is a legend in our game but Bradford have signed a dinosaur here. He was released by Manly because of salary cap restrictions, but if they thought he was still worth something he would be sunning himself on Manly beach today.

Whooosh!