Swinton take the lead with 2 quick fire tries.

Swinton 10 Bradford 6

Bradford concede a couple of penalties and Swinton opt to take the 2.

Swinton 12 Bradford 6

Bradford not at the races today. Bulls still trailing 12-6.

Ethan Ryan gets the Bulls back in the game!

Swinton 12 Bradford 12

The Bulls are awarded another penalty as the half time hooter sounds. Chisholm adds another 2 points and the Bulls go in ahead at half time.

Swinton 12 Bradford 14

Minchella goes in for the Bulls.

Swinton 12 Bradford 18

Jordan Lilley lands a drop goal and the Bulls extend their lead.

Swinton 12 Bradford 19

Captain Crossley bags the Bulls another try and the win.

Swinton 12 Bradford 25

Rhys Evans adds another score for the Bulls and Chisholm adds the extras.

Swinton 12 Bradford 31

Hell of a second half from the Bulls there.

Bulls and Swinton's Twitter accounts said that try was Hitchcox.

Massive response from the Bulls. We have killed the Lions in the last 15/20 mins.

Final score
Swinton 12 Bradford 31

Great second half performance from the Bulls.

I wonder if we'll see a few changes for Friday's game given the short turnaround.
Magrin, Garside, Krasniqi, maybe Storton if he's fit?

It sounds like we made hard work of it today, the final score flatters us a little I think. It was 18-12 for a long time and only Lilley's drop goal helped settle our nerves and break Swinton's spirit. We can't afford these slow starts against better sides, and I include Sheffield in that group. Wouldn't be surprised if they turn us over on Friday.

Jy Hitchcox MOM for me by some way. As good as our halfbacks were last week I thought they were very poor in the first half today. Chissy seems to drift between genius and brain fart. He needs to be more consistant.

Think the score flattered us. We were sloppy today. If Kear had any hair left he would have torn it all out the amount of times we dropped it on the first tackle. Chisholm ran down too many blind ally today and his passing was sloppy. Our defence was good but we need to sort it out at the back. Again far too many balls been allowed bounce. Horrible game to watch with a referee easily conned by play acting from both sidesm

Massive improvement needed for next week.

A game of two halves for us, imo. We were quite sloppy in the first half after the early score - I don't know what JK said at the interval but it definitely worked. Thought Jy Hitchcox had a great game and Elliott Minchella was far more influential when he worked the middle more in the second half. I still think he's our best No.13 whatever the number on his back.

At the end of last season kear had a second row on the bench and would move minchella to loose after weatheing the early storm.storton was impressive in those games as he was pre-season.feel he's going with oaks on the bench as he's worried about our 35 year old centre.difficult call as oaks is good and garside is also sat in the stand.

So what was going on with more scuffling in the stand and stewards ejecting a bulls fan(s) - two games in succession?

Not too sure. I was stood behind the sticks and it happened in the same place I believe trouble happened last time we played Swinton. A Bulls fan in his 50s walked passed me with a bloodied face. Rumours on Facebook (yes I know) were that his son was goading the Swinton fans and it all kicked off.

As you said it's twice in 2 weeks and I don't really care who threw the first punch or what but a small section of our fan base need to grow up. The goading from the same lot is cringe worthy. I'd rather they create an atmosphere with chants getting behind the team rather than their childish goading of "you're all one family" and "what's it like to see a crowd" reading the comments on Facebook it was relieving to see the vast majority condemning the idiots and saying it needs to stop so hopefully we can put the small section of idiots back in their box. I half expected a load of comments saying its Swintons fault.

From talking to other bulls fans on the way outbthey are starting to find that group tiresome.

I was at both the first two games and whilst I didn't see what kicked it all off what bothers me a little is that the common denominator in both instances is some Bulls supporters. It seems to me that those involved (on both sides) need to take a good look at themselves and try to avoid getting into confrontational situations which only besmirch the good name of Rugby League in general and Bradford Bulls in particular.

Nice to see the Bull's copy writer is back... 'Bulls Taim Lions'. Good grief.....

"Taïm" means "tasty" in Hebrew. Maybe he meant we had em for breakfast?

Just watched the highlights.
We've conceded five tries so far this season and four of them have come from us being unable to deal with grubber kicks into our in goal area. One of those Jy was out of position, but the other three were complete clangers that we should absolutely have dealt with.
I suppose in some respects you can take this as a positive in that for the most part our defence is pretty solid. But the flip side is that we need to tighten up in this area before teams start to pick up on it and start kicking us to death.

Hitchcox was excellent.

We ground out a win. Thought Minchella looked a bit more his old self. Green worked very hard.

Overall in attack we didn't make the most of the opportunities. A lot of our last tackle plays were poor resulting in nothing kicks. We seem unable to move the ball through the hands quickly. Ryan hardly got a pass. Pickersgill needs run straighter, he seems to run the players outside him out of space as he heads towards the touchline. Not a good day for either halfback.

Defensively we were never threatened with ball in hand. Just a couple of brain farts clearing kicks again.

Swinton aren't much cop but we were made to work for this win.