Despite the Bulls early intentions and 12-0 leads after four minutes and forty two minutes, the capitulation came and with it the same dropped ball and ill discipline.
The defence was a embarrassing shambolic disgrace at times and the inquest must now start on another season of abject failure and the reality of a third season with no playoffs.

I Can't believe some people have slated Kopczak over the pile of crap that is Andy Lynch, he was terrible. Team has no fitness and died after 60 minutes as per usual. When we needed our halfbacks most they were non existent. Penalties cost us dearly as it seemed like every one of Cas' tries came from them. No lines no invention in those last 20 mins, poor result. Burgess is a powerhouse but i can see him being worn down the amount of work we make him go through. Next season's signings should be interesting as we definitely need an injection of class in that side.

Any news on Langley? Didn't come back on for the second half.

Would this be the same Marc Herbert, Marc Herbert the pivotal figure who had a hand in all three of the early Bradford tries?

It's horrible to say but despite him being our third top try scorer Lynch is a player very much in decline.

Our problem is self-belief, and character. I remember Potter saying our heads go down after making mistakes, and it was so evident today. The brand of rugby early on was superb, yet we let Cas into the game through silly penalties and we reverted to nothing rugby.

So, [url=http://bradfordbulls.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/losing-is-too-bad-a-habit-for-heartless-bulls/losing is becoming abit of a bad habit[/url for us at this moment. We don't seem to have the belief to win from behind.

Sad but true he is a shade of the player he once was. the amount of times he was tackled by one man today and put down with little effort was shocking. He must look at Burgess and think why can't i do that because the kid is showing him up. For all the criticism of Herbert he was pivotal in all Bradford did well today but sadly disappeared when we needed him most at the end as did Jeffries.

No, neither half disappeared. They didn't get enough ball!! Don't you realise what structure is? If we're playing one up rugby, the ball won't get the Herbert on the edges will it? You wanting him to go running around like a headless chicken? The distribution from DH towards the end was shameful.

I've never seen Diskin play as poor as he did today, and he knows it judging by his Twitter.

God, what a shambles. For the first ten minutes, we looked like a different team. Energetic and imaginative in attack and seemingly scoring at will. But after that, the same old 5h1t different day. Poor defence, poor decsion making, no team work, stupid penalties, etc, etc.
Painful to watch another season going down the toilet in such an abject way.

And FWIW, I though Herbert was our best player today, everything that we did good seemed to come through him.

We just dont have enough quality. How many more poor seasons will we endure ?

He has been for two years Mick.

The thing that needs to be discovered is how we go from playing at full potential, to playing nothing in the space of 10 minutes. There's no self-belief or confidence when they make mistakes.

You just hear Ian Henderson on SKY? Said the main reason Catalan are fourth, whereas they were bottom last year, is that they believe. They believe they can win when they're losing and they believe in theirselves. We do that, and we're top 8 comfortably for me.

Is it not a halfbacks job to demand the ball though? Both of them went missing when we needed them which was epitomised by Kearney having to come into the line as receiver and run from one side of the pitch to another to try find someone running a line. But i do agree that we play one man rugby way too much and it isn't good enough.

We need psychological help I think. As soon as we concede, it's like we give up.

As much as we hear about Bradford's youngsters they were shown up by their Castleford counterparts today. Arundel, Owen, Milner, Massey, Thompson and Davies looked a class above the likes of Whitehead and Addy. And we had Clarke and Walker missing.

Quote on twitter from Chev

'Gutted!! just seen the result!! I couldn't go!! stay tight lads catch you all Tuesday?'

Lets hope they stay tighter than in defence!

So he plays well for 40 minutes and he is forgiven for the dross he's serve up prior to this. Hope he is not offered a new contract and Briggs is given a go.

We've been very unlucky with injuries this season, yet again. However, some people were only too willing to swallow the idea that our crop of youngsters were the best going and this is where Macca's legacy would be demonstrated, that has been proven not to be the case, there are certainly some decent players emerging, but certainly no more, or of any higher quality than elsewhere. This argument was used to help sustain Macca in post long after he should have been out of the door, and the culture of failure and the lack of character that set in over those years is difficult to get rid off. Unfortunately some of the senior players seem entirely compromised by that culture and it may well be time to look seriously at getting rid.

I would also now begin to question whether Potter is up to the task of turning that around. Perhaps we need to look at the new breed of coaches and assistant coaches that are coming through the NRL system and give someone the chance to step up along the lines of Brown, Maguire and Robinson. Our defense this year has been appalling, and the ease with which we collapse is familiar from past years. Our attacking play is little better, it's poorly structured, lacks fluency and there is nothing which demonstrates any consistency. Most apparent though is a complete failure of leadership, stupid penalties and ill discipline, all now part of the clubs culture. I would have expected from Potter an improvement in defense, better discipline and the installation of a more robust team character and a desire to win. If that had happened, losing wouldn't be anywhere near as painful. My fear is that our failure becomes Potter's failure, this failure reduces his opportunities in Auz and he gets another contract and we're back in the Macca scenario again. I'd really like to see the same cutting edge that is applied to marketing get applied to coaching and playing staff, if you can't make any measurable difference after a year and indeed if we're going backwards (including the juniors) then either account for yourselves or consider your position.

I hope Potter's got a coherent narrative to explain what's happening, he's an honest guy who has had past success, but I would like to begin to hear how he accounts for the failure of this year.

Great post

Under 20's: 52-22 to Cas.

Hi

before i start i need to say i'm a cas fan but come in peace!!!

Just an observation from myself who obviously only get to watch your team when you are either on tv or playing us, but we were 18-6 down and i said to my friend we are going to win this my reasoning behind this was your lads looked out on their feet and had only played around 25 mins (sorry can't remember exact timings) they honestly looked like they were the team that had played the mid week game.

Anyway good luck for your remaining games and to those that travelled to cas today thank you for making the trip

Well all the soul searching doesn't help, fact is we don't have the calibre of player we had 5 years ago and just have to accept that we are a mid table outfit at best, we aint got money, a quality ground or a big name backer like all the top teams have now. We got caught up by the others, then got overtaken and we'll just have to live with it. I hope upon hope Potter can turn it round, he did at Catalan and look at them now. Time will tell.

And hows playing a half with a broken wrist going to help things?. Idiot!.