Perhaps one of the earlier penalties he had called for 2 pts but not got the message down in time. But after running it and then getting a few sets on their line, we should have chanced our arm.

He'll be fine then. He's got loads of ribs, one piddling cartlidge won't stop him.

Any news on Jules?

Does anyone know roughly how long he'll be sidelined for?

That could be a nasty one. Not something he can play through the pain with.

He wasn't mentioned.

It depends if it's a pull or a tear.

No news is good news then. Maybe.

When does his contract end?



In all seriousness I feel for the guy, he was surely in line for an extension until the end of the year. I hope it's nothing long term.

I know. At least we won't have to pay him sick pay.

Who really knows about the try decisions, but the main point was your two props. They were the only Saints players who could compete with an on form Bulls side. Unfortunately, they didn't just compete they demolished the Bulls. It was like rolling back the clock to when the Bulls used to win with power - today we must have the smallest pack in the league, whilst at Saints you seem to have about 7 props in your team, and two of them just enormous. The retirement of Joe V and Les V before that are the missing part of the Bulls right now.

Indirectly. Yes it did.
I think it damaged your sides momentum and self belief, that was present up till that point. Saints would have almost certainly conceded a try as i doubt we would have been able to hold out for a fifth set of six on our own line. We would then have been 18-4 down. The Bulls would have been rampant. Saints would have had to force play to get in the game, thereby creating errors, and more opportunities for the bulls to score.

As it was at 14-4 down Saints knew that 1 try would bring us right back in it.

At times today the Bulls looked like a top class outfit, you were tough in defence, fast and moved the ball around well.

According to the Saints players, the ball was stolen by one of the Bradford players as Roby went over, as the rules stated if it is stolen in the act of scoring it is a penalty try, that is what the IGJ said.He was only three feet away from it. You seem to only mention Kyle badly timed tackle, but, forget to mention the swinging of that thug Newton, followed by the Halley shot on Maurie. Amazingly, Thaler did not do anything, because, Maurie did not do a swan dive and rollover pretending to be injured, he got up and played the ball.

Yet again the referee costs us the game

Yet again you talk complete spheroids!

From where I watched it there were two significant moments in the game:

1) When Fa'asavalu came on in the first half and ripped us to shreds.

2) When he came back on in the second half and did exactly the same.

I don't agree. It is far from certain we would have scored. Knowing us we would have knocked it on. And even with the extra 2-4 points the game would hardly have been out of reach. So was that decision alone the reason we lost? Absolutely not.

I thought McNamara had made the wrong call, but then I remembered Paul Medley's speech, and realised it was the right decision.

Listening from afar, it seemed to remind me very much of Wigans tactics in the mid 90's when in a similar situation. Be continually off side, throw in the odd high tackle, allways early on in the tackle count. No sin bins were ever issued then and when the attacking team knocked on, a scrum given regardless of how much off side Wigan were at that time. As something similar seemed to be occuring today, was MacNamara anticipating the knock on/scrum event and decided 2 was better than none?

how the hell do you know? you couldnt be bothered attending - wally!

Poor old Mick he really does you lot no favours.

According to Radio Leeds you were going well at 14-4 when you had that"try" disallowed.
twenty minutes later you are in trouble 28-14 down instead of 20-4 up.
Did you drop off the pace or did Saints move up a gear?
Should be a good game this Friday.

A bit of both.

He ripped the ball out of Menzies' hands twice in as many minutes.