Can you afford to lose that and make the 4? How would you look in 2017 with £500k less funding?? Next week is the biggest game in many a year for you guys.

We're not making the 4. That's clear as glass.

And on today's performance, we're going to get murdered by Leigh.

By all accounts we were exceptional first 40m today, then just played the game out. 28 nil up at HT.

Leigh by 60+

We always have a good game against Leigh. You know it, they know it.

Usually it mattered. This year it doesn't

Meh. We'll probably put in a decent performance and lose. Back to normal the week after where we will make Whitehaven look like world beaters.

Leigh dislike us, I don't think that's news to us. They know a big enough score and it destroys our points difference which could be the difference in the end

I realise that you are most likely feeling quite low & very let down by your team right now, but that prediction is just ridiculous.

You will raise your game, the atmosphere *if plenty Bulls fans travel* will be electric & your players will require no external motivation.
Leigh were very, very good today but are also capable of being quite average.

Leigh 28 Bulls 10.

Ste, if you'd seen what just happened you wouldn't be fancying a travel across to Leigh

Just seen one of your other posts HAPE, so OK I take your point, but as fans you can only do your very best to lift your team, regardless of how your team are performing, because although it might only be sport it matters to us.

We'll lose next week and then we will effectively be relying on other results to get us back into the top 4. When you consider the amount of money we're spending on the playing and coaching staff compared to those part time clubs around us, that is nothing short of a disgrace.

I hope Marc Green has some sort of contingency plan in place for if we end up outside the middle 8s, because that is one hell of a cash shortfall that will need making up elsewhere.

Incredibly frustrating to see your club slowly die in front of your eyes like this.

You're probably right. We'll come out fired up and give out all but just lose out to a better team. But that's the problem..the players are choosing what game to get up for!

They will be up for next week, next years salary scale depend on it

You have clearly never seen us play.

Unfortunately the overheads at Odsal are such that we needed SL after one year in CH. The prospect of a third year mean turn out the lights, lock the door, thank you and goodnight.

I wouldn't hold your breath for a big following. I was planning on travelling to the game but after today's shambles I'm not wasting my day risking taking in another gutless performance. The home games are already paid for so I feel like I have to attend but I'm struggling to remember the last time I felt entertained watching this side. Probably Blackpool, to be fair.

Apart from the first 60 minutes at Odsal, this season, there hasn't been anything between our two teams this past couple of years. I honestly don't see next Sunday being any different.

Form book is in favour of Leigh, but we under estimate Bradford at our peril.

Don't think yesterday has much to do with next weekend to be fair, other than, hopefully, geeing the side up a bit...well, OK, geeing the side up a lot.

Maybe we'll get more of the 'first choice' players back and the newcomers will, at least, have had the advantage of a game before we play Leigh but the defence will need to sharpen up by a good amount. The defence is really annoying though, as it has actually been very good on occasion but is wildly variable. We definitely need more time for the halves we have to gel before an appearance in the eights, but time is fast running out.

Time for the halves to gel? We don't have a scrum half to gel. Charnock looks crocked for a few weeks at least and have we even extended his deal with St Helens anyway? This side facing SL opposition will be hugely embarrassing. Doesn't look like that is likely to be an issue though as things stand.

We've just signed Joe Keyes from London, on a 3 year deal, so hopefully that should help.

Yep, hopefully we should have a nice HB partnership formed to rip up the championship shield



3 year deal would suggest we could build a squad around him and is a long term plan. Unfortunately, us looking like we're out of the M8s would suggest we're unable to build long term

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To be honest mate, I gave up on this season some time back, certainly as far as doing well in the 8s, though I confess to being more than surprised at how we're apparently falling short of even making the qualifiers. I've said many times that I don't think any team will be promoted under the current system and I've yet to see anything to make me change that opinion.

All that said I'll be back next year, hoping for better - simply out of habit. AnywayI think we may be due one of the better showings at the LSV [it is [i:1zf4m2i3purely[/i but I'll be there for this one out of habit too..

But will the Bulls still be here and in what form? This is why i'm so angry and upset still The long term effects of yesterdays results could be catastrophic for this club. If it was one bad season and we could still come back next season and rebuild, then i would be more annoyed about this season rather than angry. But the inexcusable effort of some of this team have left us in a position it's not a case of us having the M8s this year, it's a case of we might not recover from this season due to the lack of financial funding in future years.

Then the players are tweeting about it being a disappointing result for the upteenth time this year and we'll come back stronger. It's almost like they don't grasp that they are on the brink of playing in the championship shield and what that will do for this club.