I'd also like to see Fox get more of the ball, also would've liked to have seen a kick from the scrum near the end, rekon he could've got to it and scored.

Would like to see the drop goal again, Thaler certainly took his time signalling it has gone over, it was a very good kick considering the pressure from the Bradford players aswell as Dobbo being slightly off balanced, took a fraction longer than he obviously wanted to but still got the kick in.

I actually thought it had gone under the crossbar.
Thaler did take an age to signal it but thanks heavens he did.

Me too!

If he hadn't of, I would have feared(?) for his life. There would have been all hell let loose.

Ball went over 100%

who got the 1st drop goal u or bulls??

1st game of the season, and half of you are blaming the ref already!!



imo, its a point gained rather than a point lost listening to the game

Oh dear.

Wishing for a KR defeat no doubt

and, not bein a rovers fan i wouldn't have been ther would i? do you kno what i m o means??

Yes.

How can you gain an accurate opinion listening to that dire commentary that's on offer

one more time IN MY OPINION, going on the radio report

Bulls through Deacon with just over 2 mins left!

not a fan of KCFm than are you ?

Edited.

Before the game I would have taken that, but not at half-time.

Ditto.

Absolutely couldn't agree more Sir.

how did fozzard play on his debut ???????

Not bad, nothing amazing, just a solid performance not many mistakes.

Sums it up for me too.

Bradford's pack is gonna be a handful for any team this year though I thought their half-backs lacked creativity (considering the amount of time they spent camped on our line) and their backs are woeful.

What was the penalty count anyway?

heard 10-4 on the radio but i only caught snippets. Sounds like it was a good game and a cracking following as well.

edit 10-4 on the pen count

Thaler had a very poor game, kept Bradford in it with some very strange decisions!

We deserved both points on offer and not just the one got.

Bradford - they were exactly what I expected from them, good go-forward from their pack but pretty clueless in the backs.

Our defensive display was a credit, we defended our own line solidly. Although Thaler gave plenty of confusing penalties we didnt help ourselves out with a fair amount of handling errors. I thought our kicking game could have been better yesterday.
I thought Newton was rock solid in defence but MOTM for me was clearly Briscoe, he made one error all game and if he was another yard closer to the Newton(think it was him)break in the second half, he could have easily added a try to his game.

I think both teams will be pretty happy with the result, Rovers more so as Bradford will be a difficult place this season to get any sort of result. Both teams also have plenty of improvement in them.