Batley's defence FINALLY collapses! Ross Oakes in again.

Bradford 28 Batley 22

Batley still down to 12 for another few minutes. Hopefully we can grab another quick score.

Bradford going close again.

Next score wins the game I think.

Bulls going for 2. Come on Oscar!

Bradford 30 Batley 22

Bradford looking to kill off the Bulldogs here. Come on boys!

Stupid penalty from the Bulls gives Batley a chance at the Bulls line.

JONNY CAMPBELL! Game over.

Bradford 34 Batley 22

Oscar Thomas you beauty!!!! Game. Set. Match. Bradford hit 40 points!

OT converts his own try.

Bradford 40 Batley 22

My favourite quote of the afternoon from BCB:

"Ross Peltier, he's like a wrecking ball on acid"

Dane Manning sent off.

Jonny Campbell goes in at the corner to seal the victory. Ethan Ryan goes up to take the conversion but misses.

MOTM: Oscar Thomas.

MASSIVE win for the Bulls! Well done boys.

Full time:

Bradford 44 Batley 22

Halftime talk must have been great well done team -6 COYB

Big game against the Rovers in the cup next week!

That was pleasing. Never thought we'd have made this much ground up by now.

Excellent stuff! 3 wins behind Dewsbury now and we play them 3 times, almost getting survival back in our own hands.

When I mapped out the wins needed before the season started i had us in -6 at this point, but beating Rochdale and losing to Batley, still, on course. Really need Dewsbury / Sheff / Oldham to keep losing whilst were getting back to zero.

Top stuff today, proud of the team.

Whilst it'll show us where we are, big game it isn't. Has absolutely no bearing on our season and honestly I'd rather get on with playing Dewsbury the week after.

Great result that today though, wouldn't have expected it in a million years. Thomas played well but thought Leon was the MOTM by quite some way. Thew out some lovely balls.

We are better than we had a right to expect, but still fragile and some soft defence and naive errors. We've used the loan system very well but Oledzki (for example) isn't our player and we won't have him all year. He was immense today, and on the back of that, the pack gave as good as it got and ended up well on top. On the other hand, Pryce is our man, and while he doesn't do that much, he does do the things that win games, like earning crucial penalties, and like the sweet pass that opened up Batley for what I think was the key score. Very please for Campbell, and Thomas, who have taken some stick, and is there anything Ethan can't do to score? Like a bleedin salmon today.

I hope the performance builds the confidence that you could see flooding through once the game was won, and they deserve the plaudits as there wasn't a poor performance today, if you don't count Smith's tactical kicking, which was gash. Well donez all.

Nah he only got a yellow.

Whilst Oscar won MOM, and he did play well, my MOM was Scott Moore by a mile. He was in at everything, running, tackling and passing. Will be missed if he goes down. Best game of season so far for Leon and our props ran very hard today.

I really hope Keyes missed out through injury and not just tactics, because Lee Smith at 7 did not work. At all. We won that game with only one halfback basically.
Also yet another game where we have an unused sub. Why put him on the bench if you aren't going to use him?

Having said that, I thought we won the forward battle today by some margin. We've actually managed to scramble together a pretty good set of front rowers now, all five of them who played today made good yards, although Kirk was probably the weakest of the bunch.
Campbell had a great game, and has probably played himself into the starting 17 with that performance.

Keyes is injured. Lee smith seems to be carrying a knock. That setup today had our 3 least injured pivots on the pitch.

Several strong candidates for MoM, Moore and Pryce did what they should be doing at this level. Pack played with plenty of energy and Roche was playing very well before the injury.

I'd go with Campbell - hungry for work came inside and took the ball in plenty of times, injected energy at vital times and showed great awareness for the intercept try.

If Thomas gets on Pryce's shoulder every week he'll score a lot of tries this year!