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Quote ="af"Dummy spit in progress here viewtopic.php?f=26&t=501316'" Guess there's not going to be a t-shirt for this game then?

Great Game - I think it was nearly 15 minutes before Huddersfield had the ball in our half (ball in hand that is).

Biggest improvement for me today was the decision making in attack. Reminded me of the old days where we either scored or got another set of 6 from a drop out.

People had been making comments all week on the fitness of the players and i think they may have had a point. When we're not defending the entire half (due to the multiple mistakes we usually make), we didn't look tired - in fact, can't remember that many occasions when the players were stood with hands on hips.

Tom Burgess is such an exciting prospect - if you compare his game stats to Fe'ka at Salford, they are pretty even (Fe'ka has more offloads to his game). The impact he is making during recent games, makes me think he will be the real deal in a few more years. If i was Potter or Hood, i'd be looking at handing a 3 year extension to what he currently has. Can't afford to let this home grown talent leave!

Best game i have seem from Whitehead for ages - well done that lad, and the backs were solid in defence, big hits by Platt early on. Raynor seems to be getting better every week, another big performance.

Not saying we are world-beaters but it goes to show that with 2/3 new signings, we should be able to compete with the big teams on a weekly basis. I was delighted with the win, but also soooooooo frustrated we had to wait until mid July to see this performance!

If we can gain confidence for next season by playing similar for the rest of the season, Mr Potter, just might be able to turn the ship around.

What an amazing performance. I couldn't believe my eyes! I kept thinking there was going to be a wobble but the dominance of the tackle was incredible.

We were a constant pain in the Giants backsides and never let them get a roll on. A truly super performance. Lynch led the props immensely and I'm going to be smiling for a few hours yet.

On a side note, when was the last time we nilled someone at Odsal? I can't remember if I've ever seen the Bulls nill anyone.

That was the most complete performance from a Bulls team I've seen in years. Tactically astute, the early kicking game in the first half and our willingness to tackle in numbers and with ferocity absolutely killed Hudds. Combine that with being able to control the PTB because we got numbers in and all of a sudden our backs could step up and begin to control things, which Jefferies and Herbert did excellently, even saw signs of Herbert organising things. We also played a if it weren't raining and made very few errors. I must admit that after brough's early 40:20 in the first half I feared a try back for them might spark a collapse, but the commitment of our defense was superb and Hudds coughed it up repeatedly. A big pack out today - Lynch, Hargreaves, Burgess, Scruton and Koppy meant we effectively played with 5 props available and wow did it make a difference, absolutely battered the Giants. None of that 3 prop nonsense Macca tried to get away with, and an imaginative short kicking game from Jefferies and Elliot! Worked a treat. Brilliant!

Astonished by todays performance. The Giants fans can say they were poor but our line speed, aggression and energy in defence constantly put the pass under pressure and time and again they cracked. One moment when O'Donnell who is a good player looked up before spilling the ball just said we were actually hurting them in defence instead of being passive. The big lads were excellent but a word for Donno who's had his knockers but his work/enthusiasm in defence reminded me of Mike Forshaw.

I winced when the centres were read out but both, Sykes in particular were superb. Jeffries had a cracker and after giving up hope I thought Herbert passed ball flatter, faster and farther than I've seen him so far.

Brilliant afternoon.

Superb performance. 1 - 17 were outstanding. Huddersfield won't poor, we made them look poor with aggressive defence and sound attack. Need to back up against Warrington though.

Excellent performance at every level, but special mention has to be made of the defense. Aggressive and committed defence clearly rattled Huddersfield to the point where it was them, not us, who coming up with silly errors and cheap penalties.

From the first kick off right through to the end there was a 100% committed attitude of 'we're not going to give this lot a sniff in this game. It really was wonderful to see. Almost certainly too late for the Top 8, but we're now building for next season - and with a couple of key additions, we look like we can build something decent. Optimism at last....

I am sure RTB will have a sleepless night tonight worrying about your comments Adey but he need not TBH.

FFS, it was a great result but the OTT reaction on here about a win against Huddersfield shows exactly how far we have fallen as a side.

People on the other boards will be laughing at some of the posts on here and rightly so.

Personally I would rather be a miserable sod than a pompous prick.

Don't beat your self up - for you, we could easily combine the 2 to make 'miserable prick'

Well MP's kicking certainly got the Team stepping up and being more consistent, someone mentioned that the kicking game was better, hmmm it was luckier than of late whereas Broughs kicking was consistently far better but our defence actually stood up to be counted! The tackling was a lot better than of late and they actually kept it going especially the second half when heads drop and mistakes are more common. It makes a differnce when the opposition are made to defend all the time, in fact Shudda players looked a bit knackered in the last 10mins of the !st half allowing Tom to make some impressive yardage. so why did MP send him out in the first 10mins of the 2nd half? when he was a lot less effective and then later on caused him to ball drop a few times which fortunately didn't have an adverse effect as would have been the case recently. We have Wire next who will despite what will be a tough arm wrestle with the Pies will be a test to see how good we could have been this season!! So it's better but should have better for much longer!

Laughing at your own "gags"??? How sad.

Who are you BTW?

Not at all, it shows the fair and indeed somewhat bemused reaction to an unexpectedly superb 80 minute performance from the whole team.

You disparage it as merely "a win against Huddersfield", but this was not about the opposition (though undoubtedly shellacking a top 4 side adds to it), it is all about how the Bulls played, on the day. However much you want to pour scorn, on this occasion, it doesn't matter, and just sounds silly. the team were superb, and deserve the very fair credit they are getting.



Maybe you would, though I don't really see any obvious reason why either unfortunate condition is more desirable than the other. But as we often see, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

As I don't go week in, week out anymore that was probably the best Bradford performance I've seen since 2006 (not that I think I've missed many good ones).

It is slightly annoying that a long overdue good performance comes when there's no game next week to keep the momentum from it going.

Would agree more if hadn't been to NIL today. We would so have been crowing the same way if we'd nilled a top 4 side in 2003.

It is frustrating that its taken till now to put a complete performance but hopefully its a good sign for next season.

Maybe if there were more Huddersfield fans living/working near you who've been dishing it out since the away game, you'd be more enthusiastic!

didnt go but i would suggest that people may be getting excited, not because we beat hudds, but dominated a top 3 team. it is while since we played a team off the park at all, let alone a genuine top 3 team

Top 4.

I'm delighted for Bradford.

Great result. Huddersfield are a good side.

It really is rather sad when some people make it so obvious they obtain little enjoyment out of a long-overdue outstanding Bulls performance? They make it far more obvious than they seemingly realise that they are much happier when everything is going wrong, so they can tell anyone who is prepared to listen just how right they (think they) were. I fear the professionals could easily put a name to such a condition?

Anyway, the crowd at the end knew, and made clear, what they had just witnessed. Can't see they were all wrong? And what made it especially sweet was that it was against the team most of whose supporters keep rubbing our noses in it as a result of their good fortune in acquiring a rich owner. And a team far above us in the competition. I so hoped we would put on a show like we did today, I really did. I did not dare to believe we would, and feared the worst. Never have I been more proud to admit I was wrong.

Can I just draw everyones attention to a few years when we won the last 8 or 9 games, still missed out on the play offs but everyone thought we had turned the corner, and that the next season was our year - and what happened?

im sorry but today means nothing if we get mullered by Warrington.

From the first set we had to defend you could see we were up for it, we pinned them down in their 20m zone.

We played smart today, always looking into the corners to see if the wingers were back making sure we cold put a little grubber through. Through this we forced drop outs. Lynch was outstanding, always making metres and made no mistakes. Tom Burgess is making a name for himself, ripping up their defence and his first run from the kickoff was immense. Also the battle with Crabtree was fabulous to watch. And when Crabtree got sent off, we let Scruton, Koppy an Lynch wear the team down for 5mins before bringing Burgess back on to rip them up which I thought was a smart decision. Also taking the 2 at 22-0 up was a good desicion then to go 26-0 up (5 converted tries) was smart. And we continually took the tap to put pressure on them which paid off. And no collapse what so ever.

Hardly any mistakes, only person was Ah Van knocking on fromthe scrum and trying a stupid drop off with Jeffries (but we will forgive him).

The kicking game was supurb, especially when we grew some brains and Jeffries kicked on the 2nd tackle. Herbert's kicking was great too, except once he always found the floor or turned the fullback around. Elima put in a nice grubber or 2, Whitehead did a couple of good kicks as well.

Defence was excellent, and it showed we have some passion left when Keith Mason looked certain to score then boom Jeffries comes out of nowhere to knock his arm. We were determined that Hudds wern't getting over our line. Some monster hits from Whitehead especially when he kicked it through, chased it and absolutly creamed the Giants player. Sykes smashed a few into next week and Elima's hit on Grix was a beauty, looked like Grix was through the line and Elima threw himself into Grix.

The tries we scored wern't 'easy' tries but well worked, Ah Van's was a beauty, who threw that last pass?? Kearney's was excellent and Sykes' 2 tries were excellent lines run by Sykes. Jeffries was great backing up, and Platt's showed that even in the dying minutes he was committed.

Couldn't help notice that Huddersfield didn't opt for the short kick-off, maybe they thought they had no chance of coming back, maybe confidence was low, maybe they were focusing on next week who knows??

Anyone else think Sykes was gunna take off the Huddersfield players head???

Going to stick my neck out and say that is the best we have played since the 2005 Grand Final, even better than the 2006 World Club Challenge, absolutly amazing 80 minute performance, still buzzing now. Sorry about the long post

Plenty of so-called "better" teams have been mullered by Wire.

On a day when, for the first time for a while, Bulls fans have something to cheer about, I find it disappointing that the negative brigade can't at least button it for one evening. Just one fekking evening, ffs?

Tomorrow is another day, but I suggest it takes a special sort of individual to set out to rain on everyone else's parade on a day when the sun shone, metaphorically if not literally.

But nobody is saying we "have turned a corner". Nobody is reading anything into the tealeaves. Nobody is claiming that we have suddenly been transformed into the best team in the world. Everybody who was there, and cheered the team to the rafters at the end, is taking it for what it was - a resounding victory, and amongst our best 80 minute performances in years.

And whether or not we get mullered by Warrington is just so totally irrelevant to today that I wonder what you are actually on about? Let me follow it through; we have a great win against one of the leading sides in the comp' but for some nutty reason we have to wait and see if Warrington muller us before we can say what this outstanding performance "means"



Why should it "mean" anything?

Last week, I don't recall you posting "I'm sorry, but that defeat means nothing if we muller Huddersfield". Why would that be?

Sure, we would all [ihope [/ithat the result might turn out to be a turning point in our fortunes as well, and that would be great, but whether it is or it isn't, why the fsck can't some people just enjoy it?

I don't think anyone is thinking we're going to now go on and win the GF for goodness sake.

Just celebrating what was a great performance today.

Eorl Crabtree got sent off??

Are you serious?







Despite his size Crabtree is about as mean and threatening as professor Steven Hawking brandishing a feather duster.

What did he do?