Re: Bulls game : Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:21 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Well the bookies are probably taking a longer view rather than focusing on one match where Bradford had a lot of players missing. They will improve on last night's performance.

And to some others, if you think Bradford are 'niggly' and try to slow the game down.. you've seen nothing yet. And you'll see alot poorer refs than Marcus Griffiths in the Championship. Cannot blame those sides, its a mostly part time league working on a fraction of the budgets Wakefield have. I'm sure it'll be a more competitive match in the return leg at Odsal.

Yeah maybe wakefield will have some players vack too

Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:22 am  

Luppylad wrote:

Yeah maybe wakefield will have some players vack too

Hopefully so, I think we all want to see the best players on the pitch.

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Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:36 am  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Well the bookies are probably taking a longer view rather than focusing on one match where Bradford had a lot of players missing. They will improve on last night's performance.

And to some others, if you think Bradford are 'niggly' and try to slow the game down.. you've seen nothing yet. And you'll see alot poorer refs than Marcus Griffiths in the Championship. Cannot blame those sides, its a mostly part time league working on a fraction of the budgets Wakefield have. I'm sure it'll be a more competitive match in the return leg at Odsal.

I'm not really up on the Bradford team.
Who was missing?
Are they likely to be back for the 1895?

Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:15 am  

PopTart wrote:

I'm not really up on the Bradford team.
Who was missing?
Are they likely to be back for the 1895?

Of the players likely to be in our 17:

Blackmore, Arundel, Baldwinson, Scurr, Doro, Johnson and Davies. I think the club still have to solve the gap left by the long term absence of Tom Holmes after his devastating health news. We have a couple of new signings from Oz waiting for clearance in Ott and Fulton which should help in the coming weeks.

Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:19 am  

No excuse having players missing ,we had that problem for years .Think we should give Wakefield credit for the way they played ,and remember there is a lot of new players getting to no each other.so as the season goes on we should get better What ever we do we always get negativity.Read a post on this forum making a big thing about there were empty seats in the East stand so they could not be a crowd of 7,200 Knock of a thousand and it is still 2,000 give and take above what we have had for years in S L .6, 200 plus was some thing the last board could only dream of

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Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:53 am  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Of the players likely to be in our 17:

Blackmore, Arundel, Baldwinson, Scurr, Doro, Johnson and Davies. I think the club still have to solve the gap left by the long term absence of Tom Holmes after his devastating health news. We have a couple of new signings from Oz waiting for clearance in Ott and Fulton which should help in the coming weeks.

Hmm. I'd forgotten about some of those.

Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:08 am  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Of the players likely to be in our 17:

Blackmore, Arundel, Baldwinson, Scurr, Doro, Johnson and Davies. I think the club still have to solve the gap left by the long term absence of Tom Holmes after his devastating health news. We have a couple of new signings from Oz waiting for clearance in Ott and Fulton which should help in the coming weeks.

I don’t know about the injury situations at the other championship clubs other than at Trinity and now the Bulls.

The soft surfaces at some grounds and rubbish weather at this time of year will certainly have contributed to teams having injuries…. Some worse than others….. however the amount of cup fixtures jammed into the start of the season before league games has also contributed to the list.
The 1895 cup needs to be put back to a straight knockout cup, and spread out a little more evenly to avoid teams starting round 1 will long injury lists…

Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:01 am  

Belle Vue wrote:

I don’t know about the injury situations at the other championship clubs other than at Trinity and now the Bulls.

The soft surfaces at some grounds and rubbish weather at this time of year will certainly have contributed to teams having injuries…. Some worse than others….. however the amount of cup fixtures jammed into the start of the season before league games has also contributed to the list.
The 1895 cup needs to be put back to a straight knockout cup, and spread out a little more evenly to avoid teams starting round 1 will long injury lists…

I agree, 8 games before a ball is kicked in the season is too much. Though I think there may have been a friendly or two in that.

Seems a few championship clubs have picked up some injuries.

Either that or the cup games start even earlier and have 2/3 weeks between them.

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Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:46 pm  

Still the same amount of games some of which are in the mud.

Re: Bulls game : Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:56 pm  

Belle Vue wrote:

I don’t know about the injury situations at the other championship clubs other than at Trinity and now the Bulls.

The soft surfaces at some grounds and rubbish weather at this time of year will certainly have contributed to teams having injuries…. Some worse than others….. however the amount of cup fixtures jammed into the start of the season before league games has also contributed to the list.
The 1895 cup needs to be put back to a straight knockout cup, and spread out a little more evenly to avoid teams starting round 1 will long injury lists…

Bradford seemed to have a lot of friendlies as well, not sure if they were aware of the 1895 Cup format before they were agreed. Injuries are part of the game though and Bradford are more equipped than some Championship clubs to cope. However, when facing FT opposition they are naturally going to struggle playing players out of position etc. losing further players within the game just compounds that.

Bradford haven't really found their rhythm yet but I'm confident they'll improve enough to give a better account of themselves.