If the Bulls win the rest of their games, they at least will be in a position to take advantage of the other top 5 dropping games, so it's still possible and JK will surely emphasise this!

I wouldn’t be all that surprised to see us lose our next two games if I’m honest. I suspect the players know deep down that the play offs are a long shot and perhaps our intensity will drop off. Barrow are fighting for survival and Dewsbury always seem to lift their game for our visit.

I think the hammering makes points difference irrelevant now. There's a 27 point difference and for us to qualify we have to win our remaining 4 games (which includes Rochdale) and York have to lose all 4 of those. I still think the play-offs as I cant see York losing against Fax. Even then is there anything more Bradford Bulls than loving up today against Barrow?

I see we're starting with Sam Hallas at prop again

Yeah, that'll strike the fear of God into a big Barrow pack....



Green and Wood on the bench, no sign of Peltier.

It's a great team performance so far though.

Yeah, it doesn't sound like lack of muscle up front is making any difference

32-6 to the Bulls at Half Time

i thought maybe how swinton have been going they might cause an upset at fev (28-6 atm to fev) ... so it just boils down to us winning our last games and York losing to fev, leigh and fax

barrow in just after half time .... we had a good performance first half but with the wind, 32-12

oakes in .. keyes misses ... 36-12

barrow in again ... 36-16 kick to come ... feel a score fest coming

try disallowed to barrow after bradford concede a pen

grr curse my vpn ... bradford reply with another try

i think a win but we still need to post points ... all lot of play the ball pens, barrow concede a pen and first tackle we concede in posession ... barrrow go close again

Great game for rugby fans. Not so good for fans of Bradford defensive efforts.

17 to go ... barrow interchanges used ... i feel some more scores from bradford

pickers mistake ... barrow go in with 8 to go 42-22

with the wind and an arm wrestle .. 16-12 to barrow ... pickers goes in

16-16 after half time ... time to go the length of the field .... 46-18 atm .... oh wow they said 1 minute to go and the hooter goes ... final score 46-18

Job done. Can't really complain about winning by 20+ in Barrow as its never an easy place to go and they're fighting for their lives.

But I do think a bit of a mentality change is needed for next season. From being 32-6 up, thsn letting in another 16 points in the second half is disappointing. We need that killerinstinct to keep them down and us to kick on and rack up a big score. It sounded like we had a strong wind to contend with in the second half, but our poor points difference tells a story. It's an area for improvement next year IMO

But I'd have taken that at the beginning of the game. Let's have a strong finish to the season now lads.

as Mick G keeps on saying, we've had 13 games where we have won or lost with a less than six points diff ... we are still knocking on the top 5 door but those games do define a season, put them right we are contenders

Still don't understand the strategy of starting with one average prop only (Crossley) and what does Kear say at half time, given 2nd half of last 2 games better if it was nothing!! Very poor second half defensive efforts.

How many teams have a big lead at halftime and a poor 2nd half you see it every week leigh did it today it's hard to keep it going and the losing team have nothing to lose so they raise their game

May be that's why we're mid table and average championship team.

It was a better result than I expected, I honestly thought Barrow might turn us over yesterday. No shock results elsewhere though so 6th spot still looks to be the realistic highest finish possible. I've read that the sliding scale for funding is approx 15k per position so I guess the club will be very keen to ensure its in our pockets rather than Sheffield.

As Kear said, if we accept that then we'll have to accept being a mid championship team. If we want to be a top championship team, we have to start being more ruthless.

For me it's an attitude. I'd love to see the stats for tries we've conceded in the first 5 mins of the 1st half or second half this year. It's like we're coming out not fully focused. We should have come out with an attitude they're not going to score a try that second half. 1st set they have, they score. Same again last week. Week before we come out against Swinton, we're 4 tries down before we've passed a ball in anger. Its sloppy IMO no good patting each other on the back at scoring a hat-trick when you've made 3 howlers to conceded 3 tries.