Forgive my ignorance but is it injuries why your coach played so many players out of position today you seemed very disjointed

Well, specifically today we had a couple of late pull outs due to illness

But, yeah, he does seem to like ....ummm... moving players around!

Apparently a bad stomach bug or something along those lines went through the squad all this week.

Our star man Gaskell has been out since Wakey game and we don't look same. Mullaney filled his role against Salford but has been In and out of injuries all season.

Not really. We haven't had a scrum half all season.

The one we do have was on the bench and didn't come onto the field until the game was over

One thing that struck me as an outsider is the former NRL "superstars" are no better than any other Brits running around in the championships.

A bad stomach bug? Well I can understand that as the term "drizzling sh!ts" seems to sum up yesterday's performance

Firstly, I haven't come here to gloat or mock, as can be seen by my previous posts here on YOUR forum, I had hoped for both our Great Clubs to be promoted to SL this season, though it looks unlikely that even one will achieve that.

Now there may be an 'element' of truth to what I am about to say or it could prove to be complete codswallop, but here goes.

Talking at the Eagles game last week a friend had been in a pub where Ex Salford Coach Harris was drinking, my friend had claimed that Harris had been sacked by Koukash as Harris had punched MK in the car park following a Salford match & also that in the lead up to your Salford match, MK had again refused to pay a number of Salfords squad.

The story went along the lines that the team had basically gone on an unofficial strike & "didn't turn up" in terms of effort, commitment etc on the day. This might explain the anomaly or again be a falsehood.

I don't wish to detract from a great result & performance by your boys at all, on your 'form' days the Bulls look a very exciting & formidable team.

I hope to see you all down at the LSV next week in massive numbers, you did yourselves proud in Round 1 & hopefully we can all enjoy a great, clean & hard fought match between two Great Clubs that are actually wanted in SL by other SL Clubs fans.

Best wishes.

[quote="Ste100Centurions"]Firstly, I haven't come here to gloat or mock, as can be seen by my previous posts here on YOUR forum, I had hoped for both our Great Clubs to be promoted to SL this season, though it looks unlikely that even one will achieve that.

Now there may be an 'element' of truth to what I am about to say or it could prove to be complete codswallop, but here goes.

Talking at the Eagles game last week a friend had been in a pub where Ex Salford Coach Harris was drinking, my friend had claimed that Harris had been sacked by Koukash as Harris had punched MK in the car park following a Salford match & also that in the lead up to your Salford match, MK had again refused to pay a number of Salfords squad.

The story went along the lines that the team had basically gone on an unofficial strike & "didn't turn up" in terms of effort, commitment etc on the day. This might explain the anomaly or again be a falsehood.

I don't wish to detract from a great result & performance by your boys at all, on your 'form' days the Bulls look a very exciting & formidable team.

I hope to see you all down at the LSV next week in massive numbers, you did yourselves proud in Round 1 & hopefully we can all enjoy a great, clean & hard fought match between two Great Clubs that are actually wanted in SL by other SL Clubs fans.

Best wishes.[/quote

Is this really the best story you're able to come up with to justify Bradford beating Salford? Is it so far beyond your comprehension that Bradford might have been the better team on the day? Bradford remains the only championship team to date able to beat a Superleague side in the qualifiers. Leigh lost 3 consecutive games to Superleague sides. How the final board will look is anyone's guess and whether or not any championship team achieves promotion remains to be seen, but please show some respect.

Spreading malicious gossip such as this is absolutely vile. The accusations you are making against Dr Koukash are ridiculous and could be libellous.

Supporting HKR I know what it's like to witness and feel the pain of a heavy defeat. Yours yesterday was made slightly less heavy by Josh Mantellato having his worst kicking display of the season. On one of his better days you could easily have shipped 60 points.

However even after a heavy defeat even the most disappointed fan needs to keep some sort of perspective. Bull Mania writes "Hull KR don't want this we're doing well but shooting ourselves in foot!" and "Hull KR were there for the taking today!" Sendei-Bull posts "Well cheesed off with this game. HKR were there for the taking but we've been poop."

We did not play all that well especially in the first half but I am sure I would have seen the match differently if I had had a bit of whatever Bull Mania and Sendei-Bull had got from their supplier.