Hope Donno has been held back for this game and is fully fit now, he's an absolute machine in defence and we've missed his workrate.

Massive game for both clubs who will be confident they can get the result. Home advantage might allow York to settle faster so we might need to just hang in there for the first 25 minutes or so.


Atmosphere should be superb, any word on officials? 

Biggest game for the club since the Million Pound Game away at Wakefield a decade ago. Massive away following heading to York. 2 teams in great form. Should be a cracker and I hope we can grab the win!

Bottle jobs. 

Same old every year from Bradford. They talked it up at the beginning of the season that this competition is a must win. However, what we see time and time again is the soft underbelly of this team that cannot handle the moments when there is any form of pressure applied. 

We saved our worst performance of the season for the most important game of the season.

We just can’t win these big games and I’m really starting to wonder when the last time was that we actually did. Today was another example of being completely out-enthused, outplayed, and out-thought. We didn’t build pressure. We coughed up possession. We fell off tackles. We were lazy and cut corners. We couldn’t finish sets. It was a flat, frustrating, and frankly unacceptable performance.


The fans turned up in numbers, again, and were served up a performance that was well below par. York kept it simple, stuck to their structure, and never once looked like losing control, even when they went a man down. They showed heart. We didn’t. The better team won on the day.


Individual performances? Meadows has offered little this season. I wouldn’t be starting him next week if Keyes is fit. Waine over Mason made no sense. And Gill… after talking it up all week in the media, that left edge got absolutely torched. The try that York scored at the end of the first half was an embarrassment from a defensive perspective. Gill just got swotted away like a fly.


This was our biggest game in a long while, and we bottled it. Morale? I dread to think. I know teams don’t become bad overnight, but that was one of the worst performances we’ve put in and is a hammer blow after what has been a fairly decent opening to the season.