Well...

So that's Cup games sorted for me. Instead of paying £20-odd I will stay in the pub and walk in for the last 10 minutes, for free. Turn up at the same time as the team

UN-BE-LIEVABLE !!!

Exactly as I predicted.

Well that was fun, wasn't it?

I'm now going to go defrost myself as I can barely feel my fingers

I’ve said this before, there is a massive difference between loan and d/r. Loan you have to take them for a minimum 28 term, d/ r allows you to effectively get a SL 18th man if the Champ side plays on a Sunday! When we had the Leeds lads they clearly weren’t in the plans of Rhinos as you’ve seen with Lilley & Hallas, one has been allowed to come for 18m no cup tieing or anything the other was released after been sent to us on loan and signed for us permananetly. Massive difference between DR and loans

How in the hell have we won that game?!

Great spirit shown in that final 10 mins to claw back the game. We were dreadful for 70 mins and played some unbelievable rugby in the final 6-8 mins to put ourselves in a position to win the game. We were helped by a monumental collapse from Fev.

Minchella and Lilley with some incredible individual plays. Wow, what a game!

Any news on Flanagan's arm injury?

Broken thumb

Not bad....not bad at all

Can I have next weeks Lottery numbers please?!

It's funny, I read this post earlier and have a memory of some of those numbers being much lower....

I see your trickery Mr. Moderator with the power to edit posts without the "edited" suffix

Stunned by the finish, however we really were poor for 60 mins of the game and need to play that last 13 mins for 80mins.

Well done BULLS

Well it’s papered over some cracks, but let’s not be mistaken, those cracks are still well and truely there. Will need a massive improvement if we want to do something this season.

That being said it is a cup game and the result is the only thing that matters, not the performance. Fantastic last 10-15 mins to take it to GP and then to get the win. When Lilley was lining up for the DG I was screaming to take another two tackles to get closer but alas he did it! Fev probably paid for it in those crucial moments having a prop in the halves. Minchella’s two touchline kicks were unbelievable too!!

Next round I want Doncaster at home (on paper easiest tie). Or Leeds Home or Away. If we can’t get any of those three. I’d take a big SL away purely for the split gate for the attendance.

Unbelievable finish. Especially as we were utterly dire for 70 minutes.

We can score points when we take a few chances. Please can we start doing that more rather than in the last 10minutes as an act of desperation.

Ha ha. You got me.

Wow



Edit: I've just read the previous two posts. Sneaky.

Almost a shame that the incredible comeback and result will mask yet another terrible performance from us. Hard to pinpoint exactly where our issues lie but for whatever reason we've just not been at the races at all yet this season.

Perhaps this level of performance is actually our level. Too often we say we're better but then what the better looks like we're unsure of because it never or rarely comes.

I'm quite happy with where we're at. Too easy to focus on the negatives.

Well, what a last 10 minutes. Certainly need to improve on the first 70 minutes, but I suppose it’s not how you start it’s how you finish.

I had a pound on Elliot missing the last kick to draw level. Didn’t mind paying out

Feath fans must be gutted. Bulls fans were going home, radios turned off and Twitter closed. Not for the first time either. I remember when we came back from the dead to draw at home to Leigh. I'd stopped paying attention long before the fight back. Or when we thought we had only to turn up against York and tried to mount a miracle 2nd half recovery. It feels very us. Quite a rush when it works out but not turning up until it's nearly too late is a habit we should break.

It'll be interesting to watch the video back of the entire game, to see just what it was that made the difference in the last 10 minutes. Yes, I know we threw the ball around like mad men and took chances which under "normal" team instructions we wouldn't have, but there must have been something tangible which suddenly switched the team on. I couldn't believe I'd been watching the same team for the previous 70 minutes.

For the amount of money we're spending on this squad (and charging at the gate) these performances are not acceptable. I'd guess there's probably only Toronto and Toulouse spending more than we are currently. And yet we've been outplayed by York, Sheffield and Featherstone recently and almost lost to Keighley a couple of weeks ago. Alarm bells should be ringing.

I do think our performances should be much better with the players we have. I wouldn't say alarm bells should be ringing as we're winning and have grounded out some tough wins in some really difficult fixtures.

I do think Kear has instilled a mental toughness Bradford sides have lacked since 2012, which is huge for this league and especially come play-off time.

We do need to start performing for 80 mins though. To be 26-8 down against a side that had a Prop at 6 isn't good enough. If we can sort it out, then I think we'll be a real dangerous side if we make the play-offs.

Performances do have to improve but this side really seems to have grown some balls this season.

Any ideas why he played the best centre at the club from the bench and the best back rower at the club in the centre?

Baffled at that one me.