Having watched the game again on sky recorded, it was Tim smith who gave the penalty away with the high head shot but the camera went on walker. But overall I agree that the forwards Mullally , scruton, Anderson and walker gave us the benchmark for the half to dominate the game. Same team next week for me with Johnstone coming in for Owen.

Fantastic first half performance blew Bradford away. Our pack were great today and set a platform for the likes of smith and miller to exploit.

Stand out performances for me were molloy and in Simon (particularly his first half stint).

Same again next week please.

Dans kev that's quite harsh. Wouldn't call it poop.

One of Bulls try's came from 3 consecutive penalties after what looked to be a dubious ball steal unseen.

For the majority of the game the defence was good I thought. There was some aggressive and dominating tackles in parts and some improvement seen in our sliding defence which covered well for the most part.

I think people are too quick to play Bulls down and say they were poor when it looked to me we made it so they were unable to play especially that first 30 minutes.

Yeah the defence wasn't perfect but by no way was it poop by a long shot today. And for the most part we did shut them down and kill the ball.

And Leigh are a better team but I don't think they are that much better than Bulls.

I expected today's game to be much, much closer and nerve wracking (although I was still nervous at 30-6 cos we are capable of throwing that sort of lead away).

For some reason, Bradford had a terrible day at the office today; I believe they are far better than what we saw and will probably recover to give some of the others in the qualifiers league a hell of a game.

However, we have done this in the past several years; played well enough to raise expectations and then to capitulate in a big game, so it's nice to see a team capitulate against us in similar circumstances for once.

I had us down to play the Bulls in the 4v5 play off, and still think that's a likely scenario; however whatever happens I would prefer the Bulls to get promoted than Leigh!

I have to say the Bradford fans deserve some credit. They turned up in numbers, brought the drum and shouted loud for their team.
But most of all they came to an away ground, for a big match, with big rivals, and attended a minutes silence impeccably for a player who had nothing to do with their club but respected ours in respected silence.
Credit to them for that. Not every club would have been so good.

I'm terms of the game, our forwards played a massive part in dominating the game but Gaskill going off so early can't have helped them.

The first 25 minutes of the first half were the best I've seen Trinity play for a few years they didn't allow the Bulls to play

.the second half they did really well as well. Tim Smith, Scruton and Anderson really led the way today...with Mullally at times unstoppable no wonder he was signed by Leeds...what were Huddersfield doing?....Lee Smith needs signing for next season.

Although only just under 4000 official attendance it felt like more and it was a great atmosphere. Made my weekend..fantastic thank you Wakefield Trinity.

Anyone who moans about that today wants their head testing, what do they want for goodness sake? The lads were up for that from the kick off, tackled their hearts out and gave their all for the red white and blue for the whole 80 minutes. I think the tackling has improved ten fold since Brian Smith came in and is getting better week by week. It's our biggest win over Bradford in years so I'm really gonna enjoy it, and hope we continue with the same level next week, a win at Leigh would be fantastic.

I can't say Bradford troubling any of the SL sides. They were completely dominated by our forwards who were superb. They just aren't big enough or fit enough to take on SL sides

Indeed, I had a little look back at the records this morning because my recollections of playing Bradford are mostly bad ones.

I had to go back to 1979, the season after we last went to Wembley to see a similar points margin. We beat them 30 – 5 in the Y.C at Bradford, when Bill Ashurst sold Mumby the most outrageous dummy to score a memorable try.

But to exceed the margin you’d have to go back to 1962 & a 45 – 11 victory at B.V, I’m sure one or two will actually recall, ironically the Rocky Turner era.

Even better, I remember seeing Trinity beating Bradford (Northern) by 73 - 5 in the early 60's, not sure probably 1962-3 time.

Neil Fox can't have been playing that day, as I'm sure Gerry Round was the goal kicker.

I was at the same game. In that era playing Bradford Northern was like shooting fish in a barrel. Things change over time.

Liked the look of Sio from game one.
He's a unit that doesn't mind where he play's and keeps going and going.
Could be one of the signings of recent years.

Agreed. I thought he pushed Scruton and Tim for the man of the match performance yesterday. He was everywhere.

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-7412036 First time in a long while I can remember us getting a decent write up in YP. Then again, we have been pretty dire for a while. Laughable comment - I assume by a Bulls fan - that Thaler was a biased hometown ref. I'd struggle to point to much he got wrong, and secondly I'm pretty sure he's a Cas fan. Additionally, I'd have thought most observers would have acknowledged that the gulf between the two teams on the day was really what swung it.

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-7412036 First time in a long while I can remember us getting a decent write up in YP. Then again, we have been pretty dire for a while. Laughable comment - I assume by a Bulls fan - that Thaler was a biased hometown ref. I'd struggle to point to much he got wrong, and secondly I'm pretty sure he's a Cas fan. Additionally, I'd have thought most observers would have acknowledged that the gulf between the two teams on the day was really what swung it.

Well - when we played HKR in the cup - the score was 50-30. So our defensive/your attacking effort is similar. Gaskell going off may have just been the difference between 3 tries and 5 tries for us. The result would still have been the same.

Best I've seen Scruton play. Your middle was great.

Any news on Owen? or Moore? - I assume he was replaced in the squad due to injury?

I think Moore was straight up dropped and replaced by Sio which turned out to be a master stroke because Sio was immense for us.

Tom Johnstone will probably replace Richard Owen but don't rule out a Craig Hall appearance instead.

Apparently Moore got an arm injury in training,

You would never want any player to be injured, but Scott Moore not been available played right into our hands, it forced Coach Smith to go with Sio and Godinet which is an obvious correct selection, I am fairly confident Moore was going to play, maybe Godinet was not 100 % and was not going to be risked. Sometimes its best when a coach does not have a choice, always remember Kear trying to get Drew, Brough, Obst, Rooney, Grix and maybe even Latu into the same 17.

Moore had to be injured. You can't change the 19 just because you change your mind. Has to be an injury......whether he was injured or not!

Godinet was a good addition but he didn't look 100% so I could believe we were originally waiting another week for him to be available to play.

Scott Moore has a torn bicep, freak accident in training. Godinet would not have played otherwise.

Godinet looked like he'd never been away.
Very sharp from the moment he went on and he'll cause any team problems.
There is an air of anticipation whenever he gets the ball.

Hope he has no reaction to being thrown in earlier than planned. Excellent interchange with Sio.