Whats up with Gale?

Possible ankle ligament injury after ten mins.

Embarrassing....

It just sounds like we have been steamrolled after half time? Im not a negative fan and actually felt the bulls could pull of a win and i would of even been happy if we lost and the players showed some heart but for teams to come to Odsal and put 50 points on us is a disgrace

Just shy of 90 points conceded in two home games.

FT Bulls 16 Wigan 54...


S**t.

Not as disappointed as I should be. Wigan were awesome in the second half, we couldn't cope, most sides in SL couldnt.

I clapped them off. We were bad but there wasn't lack of effort, you could see how pis$ed off and disappointed koppy, disko etc were.

Wasnt a lack of effort? Thats ok then because when we finish outside the top 8 yet again at least they will have put some effort in

When did I say it was ok? A squad can only do what its capable of, we can only dream of having a player like tomkins. We were always going to struggle and when you lose your creative player its even worse.

I would be more annoyed if they didn't put the effort in. If they tried and played as well as their abilities allow it ain't there fault they did there best.

No matter what you think of effort levels or how good the opposition were. Conceding 50+ points at home isn't good enough.

I just don’t understand how when the opposition come to your home and put 54 points on you it cannot be described as a lack of effort? That’s exactly what it is. You could sit here all day long and say "well we don’t have the squad" or "We've got too many injuries" but that isn’t the point if you’re a professional player you should go into each game wanting to give your best and I don’t see that.

I do understand where your coming from because Wigan are one of the top sides and have some fantastic players but if these group of lads have no pride in pulling on that shirt then we aren’t going anywhere

We had a lad of Tomkins' quality. He was even called Sam.

You can't look at the performances from the likes of Koppy, Langley and Walker and say they weren't trying. Langley never stopped today.
The difference is in the quality of players, simple as that. They have world class players and internationals, we don't.

It's hard to know what to say about today really

I don't think it was 'lack of effort', but obviously you need more than effort to win many games. It's one thing going to Castleford and putting in a heroic 100% effort and getting a win, but that simply doesn't cut it against a team like Wigan does it...?

The harsh truth is that Wigan beat us at something of a canter. They bombed a few goal kicks and clearly eased off at times. They could have had 70 if they'd been bothered enough to keep their foot hard down for the full 80 minutes.

In the end I was pleased to 'get away' with 54, which tells its own story about where we are as a club at the moment

We could always try tackling, not kicking penalties to touch, not kicking the ball straight to the full back every time, not just running straight up the middle for 4 tackles, etc, etc.
But some on here seem to think they did ok today, and tried hard. Must have been watching a different team to me.

On paper our squad is not that bad, i think its time for Potter and his conditioner to go, before the season is over. Bring back Nobby.

Absolutely agree, we lack the star quality to compete with the likes of Wire & Wigan.

There were some tries scored today that were pretty undefendable to be fair to the Bulls. There were also some soft tries that were not excusable and we need to tighten up our defence if we expect to make the 8. Kear had a bit of a mare defending against Pat Richards. Before the game I worried about having 2 new centres defending out wide and my fears were realised. We simply cannot cope with teams running at our line at pace outwide. Everytime Wigan went wide they seem to have numbers and we were stretched.

Not making touch from a penalty is now becoming a bit of a joke with the Bulls. Twice again today from Sammut, ffs just tap the bloody ball if we're near the centre of the pitch. It is embarrassing. Not quite as embarrassing as the stupid trumpet or whatever it is they play over the speakers after every kick off. When we're getting a tonking at home.. it really isn't amusing or entertaining. Somebody at the club do us all a favour and bin it.. PLEASE!

Losing Gale is a real sickener, I just hope it's a case of weeks out rather than months or even the entire season.

Second half an absolute joke! Gonna sound like a broken record but to put it simply we are a laughing stock. Don"t expect us to win every week but when we simply can"t even compete with another super league team at home its a complete disgrace, especially seen as we are supposedly spending the salary cap limit. In the second half we were championship quality at best. Hope to god Gale not out long term or our season will be over before its begun!

The squad on paper seems an improvement on recent years but some people think that display showed effort? Ermmmmmmm well maybe we can just stroll through the rest of the season like that and hope not to bump into any "Internationals" or "World class players"

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wait i forgot the league is absolute full of them

If Gale has got a season ending injury then we might as well write the season off.

Not good enough, end of story. For the first 15 minutes we coped with it but a collection of things went wrong (Gale's injury & Sammut's kicking/dropped ball) in the space of 10 minutes which set the scene for the rest of the game.

The most important 10 minute period of the game was immediately after half time where we really could have pulled our way back into the game but Wigan came out and scored 3 tries in 8 minutes and the game was dead.

Big performance next week against Wakefield. 50% win rate after 4 games isn't too bad and it's something we should be aiming for.

Is it really? Let's hope all other teams and coaches in the league are happy with 50% as well then. In that case, lets rest the first choice team for the big games, and play the kids.

For a team hoping to reach the play offs that is a realistic target. Look at Hull FC last season. They won 13 of the their 27 Super League games (losing 13 and drew 1) which gave them a 50% win rate.