I'm just wild about Harry.

Sheffield Eagles ready to up their game for Bradford Bulls test - www.thestar.co.uk/sport/other-sp ... -1-7239899

Sheffield Eagles ready to up their game for Bradford Bulls test - www.thestar.co.uk/sport/other-sp ... -1-7239899

Blimey that was a surprise today I really thought you would get close and possibly beat Bradford today, shows how bad we were last week then!

As did we! No excuses but...... Briggs and Misi not fit to take the field, Don off after 5mins never to return, walker a lame duck from frairly early - Q off 10mins from end and a few more limping around. I was thinking half way through we should learn out to hold on to shirts so it looks like holding down and ensuring that refs award penalties for ripping when we drop the ball - but I don't really want to watch that sort of rugby. Apart from that we weren't at the races today!

Poor, poor, poor. Thought we'd give them a game today but evidently not. Dom going off in the early stages didn't help and maybe if he was on, we'd have got some points from one of those two GLDO's. But it's an 'if' and only that.

John Whaling made a great point on Twitter about if we have the same set of results in the final half of the season we'll be in the middle eights. True, but yet another 'if' and teams will be wanting revenge.

Time to get back on track next Friday.

Kudos to Bradford, though. Just too good for us today and their defence was way more solid than what it was against Doncaster.

Ah - we'd have won if it hadn't been so wet.

I agree with the first part of your post - the 2nd,highlighted part in bold seems the thoughts of the 'Fax supporters.I disagree because I thought your coach had got the side just a shade away from being very good (in a short space of time.)

As you seem to take a result in isolation as something of significance,I should point out that you had a larger score difference in your win over Doncaster today,than Bradford did last week.
The results later in the year will have significance for me.

The game at your place,in July,will cause me problems for attendance,which made the lack of acknowledgement by the Eagles players for the hardy band of Eagles followers at the end of the game just the cherry on the top of the cake as far as a disappointing day is concerned.
They really had little to cheer about.

As the disappointment abates I recall the experts stating that a coach learns more from a defeat than a victory and a good side doesn't become a bad side overnight.

Good wake up call and a test of bouncebackability with a local derby.

Hurry up Friday...

I did not get to the game but it looks we were well beaten no excuses unfortunately we cant compete with the full timers and i just hope we dont get embarrassed if we get to the middle 8's if we do i can only see us getting one or two wins if we are lucky

Bulls Too Strong For Sheffield - wp.me/p3JxPK-xe

Bulls Too Strong For Sheffield - wp.me/p3JxPK-xe

Surely that's the massive flaw in the competition structure, duggs. There's not enough money in the game to properly fund an under-competition.

If we make the middle eight, no doubt we'll be the poorest funded club in the competition. That's not to say we'll finish bottom.

How is Dom?

and how is it that Bulls can charge super league prices in a Championship comp when they got so much parachute money - no wonder the game is so uneven. Hope Leigh and the super league teams stuff them and they have to have a second year in the championship without parachute money!

Can't a club charge what it wants?

It seems you can and you do.


What was more galling was the MoM Dale Ferguson,a player who was sold by Wakefield,presumably sold to prevent them going into administration,signed by Bradford when they were in administration;and by a coach disgracefully criticised,once he had gone.

If it does come to a challenge between Leigh and Bradford than I am on the Bradford side;they can win with dignity.

The Bradford press even impressed me [url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbulls/12929359.Rampant_Bradford_Bulls_are_top_ten_smash_hits_in_Sheffield/?ref=rssHERE[/url

You Yorkie should stick together , looking at the Seagulls recent games against the Mighty Centurions and Bradford I would say you have reached your place as 3rd spot is your Own.Though given a choice I would pick Fax over you every time.

Interesting you think we can sign players when we are admin? Not sure it works that way, not heard of many administrators saying yes please, sign him and increase the wage bill. Assume we paid a few aswell!

I don't want to appear bitter.I ain't,and the better side won by a country mile.

But as you mention the administrator it doesn't seem to be whiter than white ever since the RFL got involved with iconic Odsal and their micro-management.

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11826621.UPDATE__Former_Bulls__owner_wins_court_victory_against_administrator/Man Of The Year 1[/url

Not like you, Charlie.

There's a long way to go. Fev are two points behind us. We're not even halfway through the league season yet.

Post-match interview with Mark Aston - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RU6cT128cQ

Post-match interview with Mark Aston - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RU6cT128cQ

Firstly, we signed Dale Ferguson from Huddersfield. Secondly, we were not in administration when we signed him.

I don't want to make an issue of it - nor make it a long drawn out affair:a bit like your administration!

I know Ferguson signed from Huddersfield.My point was that Wakefield sold him to prevent themselves going into administration.( A club with honour and standards;if you like.)

Bradford went into administration [url=http://metro.co.uk/2012/08/02/super-league-announce-shock-bid-to-buy-cash-strapped-bradford-bulls-519842/26th June 2012[/url AND [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/2633919631st January 2014[/url

It was between those 2 dates [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/23143153July 2013[/url that Ferguson was signed.

Well played Bradford Bulls on Sunday.It is the players that I go to see - and a little bit of that plagiarized from Keighley,with the matchday experience - and I have no interest,or influence,in off-field matters.

But it did seem very unfair in the favour of Bradford in recent years.

Hopefully you will see a more competitive opposition on 12th July.Huge respect to your supporters for your financial input to your club during the recent troublesome period .....and hope you beat Leigh by a larger scoreline then the one you enjoyed on Sunday.

Also, all Bradford's player contracts became void when we were relegated. Ferguson signed a new deal to play for Bradford in the Championship, as did the rest of the players who stayed on.

Eeeeeeeee, those Lemons taste Bitter.

Yer what is the deal with Odsal and the RFL????
That was a real no, no for me a sports governing body getting involved in a member clubs ground, it sets a huge precedent and what exactly do the RFL pay???