I take it that you've seen a lot of Lulia, Purtell and Manoukafoa then to make that judgement?

Maybe you should try some of them, you might win a GF then.

I struggle with opera tbh, so you lot would have absolutely no comprehension.

Kear and Kearney wouldnt but Gardner and Wellens does!!!

Funny how Hargreaves did get in that side and was your best prop against Leeds

and im sure he played against Wigan in 2010

Just watching the game over again, as much as every body is over reacting, most the trys we conceded are preventable with a bit more focused training, especially the ruck, everyone agrees the forwards were dominated but we did some good things and will only get better. Still hold good hopes for this year when we get some pack members back, but Scruton for me is a liability he is still miles behind the speed of the game. Also Langley is a PROP not a 13.

Maybe you should trying to sign Tom Burgess then.

Sums up my thoughts. When the Catalans flung the ball out wide, we coped pretty well. It was just the defence in the middle that let us down. The disappointing thing for me was the breaks were not even a set piece, just a straight running prop.

First 10/15 mins, i actually thought we were the better team, making good meters and looking dangerous.

The one thing that did concern me was that in the 2nd half, when our heads were down, we had 3/4 sets on their line and we were out of ideas. Back to last year when we let the forwards drive the ball in for 5 plays. It would be nice to see the players attempt to execute a set play, especially when their heads are down!

Pretty much, bit of strong coaching and getting forwards off the floor, too many times a prop would be left on the floor leaving Henderson to tear us apart. Thinking about it, there was a no try, also of Langley had let the ball go behind him insteadif thinking he was 10 men abd letting Kearney pick it up round back we had a overlap and a score, submit dropped the ball on the break. That's 18 points depending gales boot. Few less errors with ball in hand and a quicker more solid ruck and its a different game totally. Judge them after 10 games time

Doubt you'll get relegated this season though, you'll be OK.

is really as bad as people are making out at bradford

The league table does not lie...

No, knee jerk reaction after a poor season last year

And the year before that.. and the year before that...

But.....Catalan are everyone's 'dark horses' this year.

Think everyone ought to hold fire before going off at the deep end.

Visits to Cas' and Wakey will tell us so much more later this month.

Like I said last year, a 50/50 success rate should earn a top 8 place, and so this is what I'm looking for. If in 3 weeks time we've picked up a couple of wins (Cas and Wakey) then we're on target for a top 8 place which should be the goal this year.

Catalans look pretty hot this year so a defeat to them isnt a massive suprise.
Only 1 game into the season I still think Bradford will win more than they lose.

Some mass over-reacting going on (mainly from opposition supporters)

Bump

We've not lost to Wakefield, London, Salford or Widnes..........Yet.

This is what I said 3 weeks ago....and it's gone as I thought.

The Bulls will beat those teams around them on the table but can't match it with the big boys. 8th or thereabouts depending on injuries. Whoever predicted wooden-spoon knows zilch about the game.

I'd agree with that.

The likes of Cas, Wakefield, London, Widnes, Salford we should be looking at getting 4pts from these games. then depending on injuries to the top teams and ourselves we may scrape a few suprise results too.

I'd much rather we were still a top team in superleague but unfortunatly the fact we let go a lot of our young player means now we have had to buy players like Sibbit, Platt, Jefferies, Walker etc

I supose this mean that we are technically still in the rebuilding stage, Hopefully we can keep hold of the likes of Kopzack, Whitehead, Donaldson, Bateman, Kear (okay so we bought him but he is still a talent)

Then add to that its taken us this long to replace Deacon!

All 6 of the so called "experts" on Sky went for a Wakefield win last night, even though the bookies had the sides evenly matched.

The media either completely underestimate us or think we are totally crap.

Was quite funny listening to them once it was obvious we were winning

Did she know something right at the start of the season perhaps ?

no, why bump this?