24-22!!!! well its an improvement, too many penalties?? real shame we lost that one

I know why dont the RFL just do away with th rule of passing back like your meant to and just change the game to you MUST pass forward.



If Hull are going to complain about Childs then RP's got to complain about Albert.

we score and he still dont stop the clock when he could see the Bulls wasnt hurrying to kick off (yes i no they have a right to do that),but we have had Ref's in the past who have done just that when we have tried to slow it down.

final score 24-22.. Well done Pryce on your hattick.. Now just do that again next week against Wakey and hope we have a decent ref for that game.

Mr Alibert does not listen to his TJ's so when there is a fwd pass if he does not see it from his angle its never going to get given, but sounds like it evened out a wee bit, and you have to say its where you play the game, Bradford seemed to spend a fair bit of that last half in our half of the pitch and got the penalties in that part of the ground, and same happened with us, we got a couple in the Bradford half of the pitch!!! Lesson from that, get in to the opposition half!!!

On other scores what a wierd season cats beat Wire!!!

As per Stevo or Eddie last night, he doesn't stop the clock until the TJ's have returned to their positions from under the sticks.

Regardless of things like that, it sounds as though the penalty count was a considerable factor and they won't all have been wrong 'uns

If KR can complain about Childs then we have to do likewise about Terry Halibut, he's had a shocker (you should have heard Simon Fitjohn on the radio) - how forward does a forward pass have to be eh? One try came off a play where the ball appeared to go off the pitch (at least thats what Luke Dorn thought). I dont mind getting beat if the opposition have bettered us but I hate it when bad performances from officials cost us points! Referee performance manager to intervene please!

You guys scored a try off several forward passes. The officials missed that. We were pinged for holding down in the tackle for doing something you had been doing regularly all game. Your guy held our man back, off the ball, right near your line when a try for us looked a cert - no penalty try, no ten mins.

I could go on.

For every ill you guys feel Halibut did you, we'll have one to match. Maybe best just accept the officials are not up to the job since they went full time, which means there is no longer a place for competent officials who have a job outside of the game.

Thought Alibert was alright today TBH. Both teams were below par. Quins mistakes cost them.

I was at the game and feel the ref had a good game.
What lost us the game was the inability of the team to slow down the play the ballwhen Bradford got a roll on. It started from a daft offload about 30 mins in. It was inevitable from that point they would score.
Yet again the tries just before half time came when Andy Ellis was off the field.

Thought our goal line defence was a lot better today,but daft penalties and mistakes kept giving them ground.

Karl Pryce might be dangerous if he ever ran his weight.

Seen it on SSN and the Elima try was from a forward pass and the Sykes try was from a forward pass. Can't do anything about those, so the team will go away and look to control the variables than can control.

We took a bit of a hammering up the middle before half time and conceded 2 tries.

the Bulls are a big side but nothing special-Its a game we could have won-whether that would have been deserved is questionable

The defence was a lot better this week.

RP moved OC into the centres second half with Clubb in the 2nd row. Nick the Greek started the game but was injured and didn't play the second half

Pryce gave his opposite number a torrid time running of Randall.

If I can take positives from this game its that we almost turned a 14 point deficit around, or to put it another way we didn't collapse after going more than 2 scores behind. And a hat trick from Big Karl.

Don't take this the wrong way but do you know the rule when the ref is allowed to stop the clock at a kck off after a try.

red! it is mentioned when the clock can be stopped earlier in this thread so I think we know the rule! hey Bulls got the 2 points, its the RL fans joy to blame the refs but in reality its the blokes throwing the ball about the park that decide which way a game goes! Bad decisions balance themselves out.
Fwd passes are not that easy to call especially with this momentum stuff.
The TJ can only advise on afwd pass its down to the ref to decide if he wants to blow! if he does not blow the whistle then there was no forward pass! Pointless saying it was forward if the ref says no then nope it didnt happen you cant change it

Our U-20's lost again in another high scoring game, going down 38-30!!!!

The answer was: So that Clubb could be moved into the pack.

Melling went into the pack for a while then Clubb went in, both to accommodate O'C

The rotations yesterday were bizarre. Ward, Temata and Wilkes(started on the bench) repeatedly rotated. Thomas got one ten minute spell and Lamont a couple of short spells. O'C came on to replace backs to allow them to move into the forwards (Nick the Greek who started got injured).
The Bulls kept sending on big guys which took the gas out of us in the middle.

We still need a couple of big forwards to support the good work the 3 props are doing (Where is Ambler?) Ward is having a very good season and putting in long spells-probably to long

Ambler is injured, Easty (said so on Twitter the other day).

Did you see that Danny Ward was the top no 10 of round 7 ? According to the Frontline index malarkey, anyway.

Maybe the expense of drinking in London is having a positive effect on him.

Given we were going to release Wardy he has played his best rugby at Quins this year.

I'll second that !!!!

The biggest waste of space yesterday was Lamont Bryan - he can't / wont tackle - he did not make any yards when he had the ball

I really don't know why we keep putting him the squad - we must be really hard up for forwards

Indeed he did. He had Chev Walker in his pocket all the game. Utterly and completely.

That was as good as I have ever seen Pryce play. Your coach has achieved something that Bulls, Pies and Bath could not.

We were crap for the first 37 minutes. Found every way possible to spill the ball. And a few impossible ways too. Then we had a purple patch when we finally got our act together, and totally hammered you. Look to Bulls academy products Donaldson, Addy and Burgess for the credit there. They were bloody great. Then we went back to being pants yet again. Five more mins and you would have stolen it back.

Had we played like we did in the middle of the game, you would have lost by a cricket score. However, we seem incapable of stringing more than a few good sets together at the moment. You guys blew it by giving away some dumb penalties, although Halibut did his best to get you back into it towards the end. But I liked the look of the side, and was impressed with the effort till the end. You surely need another big prop or two, despite the efforts of Ward and Temata? Why don't you go resign Mills from Leigh?

We've suffered Mills before on 2 separate spells- Coach Powell seems to want dynamism (speed) in his team which is something Mac took out of the team-Ward, Wilkes, Purdo, Bailey do try to play the ball with a bit of speed. Mills doesnt offer that, in fact given his size he doesnt offer a great deal

LB is useless, I agree-He was like a turnstyle on his second spell-More annoying as we had them pegged back at one stage

Gloucester

I think Ward has been excellent all season.

We need two more big forwards, thought more loans were on the way? Thought Mills was better second time around, but............................. Why did Burnett not play?