Widnes break from their own half and kick through to the winger who is offside. He collects the ball and scores.

Widnes 12 Bradford 0

Foggin-Johnson goes in for the Bulls! Mini converts.

Widnes 12 Bradford 6

Connor Farrell goes in under the posts and the Bulls are back in the game!

Widnes 12 Bradford 12

Widnes back in front. The Bulls withstand repeat sets and stand tall. Defence much improved from the first 15 mins. 3 mins until half time.

Widnes 18 Bradford 12

Flanagan wins Bradford a penalty on halfway. Minchella opts to take the points with 2 mins to go. Bradford throw the ball around after the hooter looking for a miracle score.

Half time score: Widnes 18 Bradford 14

Decent first half.

We’ve looked fairly fluid to say all of our 3 halves are out.

Felt we let them off the hook a little bit, the momentum was with us at 12-12 but a couple of errors and giving a penalty away led to their 3rd try.

A very sloppy start but we have responded very well. This game is definitely there to be won. Big 40 mins coming up!

Agreed.

Shows the fight in the side to go 12-0 down against a good team away and not to let their heads drop.

We still need to work on our panic play. I don't know how many times it needs saying but we don't have to score every time we have the ball. Sometimes it's enough just to play a decent set.

Fair point.

I think having our halves fit would help with that but can’t fault Willie and Minchella so far.

Killing ourselves with our kicking game here. They’re starting every set on halfway.

God only knows how Gelling didn’t get sent to the bin for shoving Flanagan?!

Excellent last gasp tackling from the Bulls.

Absolute housery from the Vikings. How they still have 13 men on the field is beyond me.

Robbed.

Yep,shocking call to disallow that.

Bloody disgusting refereeing. Missed the offside for their second try and conned for the obstruction. Thought with the team we had out we were brilliant. Great defence and a tremendous attitude. Wildie was first class but we need him at hooker not halfback. Some of the distribution from the ruck was shocking. Onwards and upwards.

Very unlucky today. Widnes have gotten away with one there.

Some bizarre refereeing. Gelling allowed to commit a professional foul and escape the sin bin. Widnes a mile offside for their second score and Minchella has a match winning try disallowed because a Viking defender fell over when they were all at sea defensively. Very harsh call.

General assessment is a much improved performance from the Bulls. Very sloppy defensively in the first 15/20 mins but we fronted up with some heroic last gasp defending later in the game. Some of our play the ball passes to the first receiver were well off today. That needs sorting ASAP. Flanagan rattled a few cages of their more senior players and got us back into the game when it felt like it was slipping away.

Just proves that when we want it, we can match anyone in this league. Very bitter result considering the shocking call at the end of the game but we showed some great fight to claw our way back into the game.

Gutted.All that effort and we get robbed.

Really proud of our team great effort robbed by 2 bad calls defence great in the 2nd half

Entertaining game and I thought for the most part we played well even if we were clinging on at times. But we did cling on and and we deserved to win the match at the end but for absolute howler of a decision from the officials. The defender who was 'obstructed' hadn't even got back on side, truly woeful call from the touchie who wasn't so keen to wave his flag for the blatant offside for Widnes 2nd try. Or the professional foul by Gelling that would of been 10 minutes in the sin bin on any other day.

Great effort with the makeshift side we had out but you cannot help feel sour at the way it ended. Not heard what Kear had to say but I imagine he will he saying that SL can keep Hewer and take the touch judge with him.
Let's hope it's our turn for the rub of the green soon because we're doing it tough at the moment!

Hmm, I actually don't have a problem with that obstruction call. If it was the other way around I'd want the penalty. Some of the outrage on twitter about it (especially from Gledhill) was way ott.

Interested to hear why? The defender hasn’t even made it back onto his own line and back onside for a kick off.

Even though Owens was offside he still wouldn’t of got to Minchella given how deep in the line he was and he was clearly on the outside edge of the man so personally I think it was a very tough call given the above.

Im going to ignore the result and post just a few general observations

At 12 nill i thought we were done. Unbelievable effort to get back in the game.

Oakes was great against a top drawer super league let alone championship centre.

Connor Farrell, what a tackle!! His best game so far.

Mickey Wood, outstanding, best game in a bulls shirt.

Mini looked back to his old self, may be harsh but i think hes been slow to get going. Great goal kicker as well, who knew!!

Storton has to be in the 17 every week. The kid is set for big things

One little grumble, dummy half service. 2 many balls on the deck

Proud as puch today with the performance. Considering so many men missing we are only going to get better.

Same again next week please

The guys an embarrassment and I cringe with the stuff he puts out as it. He makes himself, and the club and our fan base look bad others associate him as being our club and fanbase.

On the game I thought we were excellent and really had Widnes rattled. Can't comment on their second try as was behind the sticks. Seen the obstruction call, for me (admittedly biased opinion) it's wrong call. Crossley doesn't move, Minchella isn't near him and Owen just runs into him. One of those where he's looking to buy the penalty.

We started off poor with one man rugby while Widnes were playing some super stuff. When we realised we could pass, we looked good. Cracking game. Good atmosphere. We need a repeat performance next week. The need to set that the level we aim for every week and we'll be OK.