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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 7:31 am 
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Bully_Boxer wrote:Wonder if the club have considered doing a season finale and play off elimator ticket package? Otherwise I fear quite a few might decide to save their brass for the following week.

Good idea! On a side note, I'm surprised that the club hasn't launched season ticket prices for 2025 yet. :?:






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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 8:09 am 
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Really need to win. Feels like it would be a bit of gut wrencher to lose to our rivals. Get the win then take it to the last game of the season, finish comfortable third and in good form for play-offs.

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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 4:40 pm 
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Well the game played out pretty much how I expected. Fax were just that little bit more desperate for the result and it showed. Too many opportunities wasted by the Bulls.

Big improvements needed if we want to avoid an early play off exit.

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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 4:59 pm 
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Death, Taxes and Bradford bottling games.

Yes, we had already secured a playoff spot and today was technically a dead rubber, but Halifax were always going to be up for it and I thought we’d give them more of a game than that. We marched them down the field easily enough, but once again looked clueless when attacking their line. In the first half alone, we bombed three tries from poor handling.

In the second half, we got sucked into the niggle and never really looked like regaining control. I’m not sure what’s going on with Zac Fulton, but his late-season drop-off is alarming. Souter had another brain explosion, getting sinbinned and sapping a lot of energy from the team.

Next week, we’ve got another dead rubber against a side fighting for survival. I just hope our season isn’t coming off the rails at the worst time. Massive response needed.






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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:26 pm 
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Lowest crowd of the season incoming next week unless the Bulls have something up their sleeves.

Usually would look at resting a few bodies but the current form must be a concern for EOC so he will likely want to keep some continuity.

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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
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It’s a weird one. Do you go with a stronger team in hope of bouncing back after a poor game today or rest your better players in preparation for the play offs.

I assume Doro and probably Lawrence will be given the weekend off. I’d also be tempted to sit Souter and Fulton out in the hope that a week off could freshen them up a bit. Franco should also come in for Lehmann who was poor today.






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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 6:35 pm 
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Gaskell was poor again today and I would rather give Sammut a go. Gaskell seems to not want to get involved anymore.
Lehmann shouldn't be at Bulls next year.

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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 10:04 pm 
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Getting bored now of O'Carroll's excuses saying we will fix it for next week and the boys are gutted.when you have 2 halves who can't run your going to struggle.He keeps going on about game management which comes from your spine players who have the ball most of the time and ours are poor .Gaskell waste of space lilley no pace so preditable.Also more errors and naive decisions than an under 11s team.looking like we're finding scoring as hard as Catalans are .is this anything to do with eamons coaching skills .

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 Post subject: Re: Halifax (A)
PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 6:03 am 
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As ever the comments on social media are over the top and a lot of finger pointing at individual players. In truth you could go through 80% of the team and highlight something they could or should of done better, collectively the team just didn't match Halifax energy.

Although everyone likes to win a derby in the bigger picture this game doesnt change anything, we still have a chance of having a successful season. I think a realistic measure of success would be two wins in the play offs and getting to the final where in likelihood somebody will lose to Wakefield.

The result is less disappointing than the predictability of the Bulls performance when we come up against a desperate but in truth fairly limited side in terms of ability. To me it once again highlights the lack of game management quality within the squad. On a positive note, I thought Keyes showed what he will add in 2025, just a shame we couldn't bring him in a bit earlier.

3rd spot now confirmed, all focus now on play off rugby and we need to use the Swinton game to find some momentum as the last two performances have been below par.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 7:59 am 
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Bulls fans losing their minds on Facebook that's for sure. Seems to be the thing nowadays to have a meltdown every 5 mins.

My own thoughts were that Fax played exactly like we expected. We had heaps of chances but didn't make them count. Both Gill and Okunbor should've definitely scored in the first half. In the second half Lehmann's mistake and the Pele one in particular were bad. No composure or recognition that we needed to build pressure. Whenever we lost the ball over the line (at least five times) we gave up a seven tackle set.

We really missed Taufua. Lehman's not the same standard. He made one great kick return and dealt with the high kicks well enough but got caught over his line plenty of times where Taufua would probably have made a bit more ground. The incident in the first half where we made an overlap and Gill passed into touch would've been a try if Lehman hadn't been day dreaming and been up with play. He was another that had trouble holding the ball near the line too.

Still not using Pele properly. We need to get him taking the ball at speed not stood still. Scurr at least looked more his normal self after an injury hit season. He was our best forward IMO. Gaskell marginally more involved than last week but kicking game wasn't as good as Keyes who really pinned us back in the second half. Lilley running too laterally again and dropping players off too far from the defensive line isn't committing any defenders.

As we got more and more frustrated we made more and more mistakes with Fax then feeding off it. Disappointing display but there is still plenty of potential in the side - just need more patience.






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