Clarkey has just mentioned an ambulance.
Everything Crossed that it isn't for Lineham!!

Radders will love that try

People saying we need another prop, seems like we might be ok in that department with the 6 props we have.

Rankin sounds like the business.

Bloody hell!

Rankin sounded very positive! And for his debut then we can't complain at all!
Him and Miller his year could be fantastic together.

Rankin scored, sounds like the real deal!

Well after a poor first half the second was much more encouraging. Paea sounded like he put himself about, and sounds like Bowden, Green and Tyson-Wilson played well. Good signs from Rankin aswell.

Anyone know if Lineham was on the bench or down the tunnel when he went off?

Knee in the back as he scored disallowed try.

Lee Radford says Lineham coming off was precautionary.

Yeah, but did he go down the tunnel or sit on the bench?

One try disallowed and held up about 4-5 times. Not a million miles away, just need to finish off better and tidy up defence to how it was last year.

Final score?

30-18.

Only listened. What I noticed was Bradford scored pretty much every 1st half try straight after sub and position changes by ourselves
Plenty of times held up and brad were not far away from full strength along with their kids and we still well shy of full strength. So I'm pretty okay with it. Finishing needs to be better although that was a pretty disjointed back line.
Both teams will be pretty happy with it as a run out I'd expect.

Sounds about right - unlike HDM "Black and Whites go down to convincing defeat in friendly"

Gateshulllol | January 19 2014, 5:01PM
Oh dear just got a text off my brother who was at the game and he said Rankin was awful looks like a long hard season.


Whenever I'm too fed up with life I just read HDM comments to remind myself that things could be much much worse and that thankfully I'm not this guy!

Nah. HDM don't get things factually correct like that.

30-0 after 76 minutes equates to a convincing defeat doesn't it?

How many points on offer.?????????.......only dopey tw4ts from across the weather can get a hard on for a friendly defeat

Just got back from Odsal (I live in west yorks)

Pretty poor showing in my opinion.

I was especially worried about the appalling tackling. Bulls were offloading at will and breaking lots of 1 on 1 tackles.

Also we really struggled to put any convincing moves on. It was only at the end when bulls made some changes that a few examples of individual skill created some tries.

Yes it is "early days" and no these games don't count, and I would still back us to finish above bratfud, but all I can say is that it was a VERY disappointing showing from a team that has been "training the house down".

The result wasn't important today. We were rocked by losing lineham and the resulting reshuffle of the back line cost us a few tries.

Plenty of positives....miller and shaul looked sharp. Bowden looked fantastic at times and Rankin reminded us of a young Horne. Fantastic step and pace with a wonderful try at the end.

Fear not guys, plenty to be positive about. Looking forward to next week!

He was straight down the tunnel mate.

Disappointing but no need for doom and gloom because we lost a friendly. We can only hope for a positive response next Sunday from a team which will be closer to our starting line up. If they serve up a similar performance that will be cause for concern.

Just back from The game, dissapointed with our defence and failiure to stop the offload. Looked like it was the bulls strongest line up possible but it shouldnt be an excuse as it was their first gamd too.

Lineham had a perfectly good try ruled out by poor postioning by the linesman who was brhind thecplay do how he ruled it forward god knows, to add insult to injury lineham got kneed in the ribs that the officials completley ignored.

The ambulance for a poor guy sat 3 fows in front of us who didnt look too well and had to be taken out

Positives were rankin, shaul, fash, bowden and stark on the wing