Re: Toulouse (H) : Sat Feb 25, 2023 3:18 pm  

Biggest scalp we've had since the Leeds cup win a few years ago. What a result!

Re: Toulouse (H) : Sat Feb 25, 2023 3:32 pm  

That coach thats supposedly doing it on the cheap isnt 2 bad is he.....

Re: Toulouse (H) : Sat Feb 25, 2023 3:53 pm  

Very surprising but welcome result. This is a game I gave us no chance of winning so it's a pretty big statement from the squad.

Plenty of games to go, but it's a very good response to the York performance.

Re: Toulouse (H) : Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:17 pm  

Highlander wrote:

We were good. Intensity was there, aggressive defence was there. Toulouse started slow and expected us to crack. When didn’t, they applied some pressure and again, expected us to break. We kept going toe to toe, their discipline went, one of their yellows should have been red, we applied pressure and they cracked. Our kicking was on point, Dec controlled things but basically, our pack was on top for large parts of that game. COYB

Agree with all with that. And without the likes of Walker, Thompson, Butler. Toulouse looked like a team were who use to teams just folding for them. Was a very aggressive game with each side giving each other some. We stuck at the game plan, our competition rate was superb, and we didn't back down which is fantastic to see. We moved the ball well in atrocious conditions. Really enjoyed the game and the result is a real sweetener.

Re: Toulouse (H) : Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:29 pm  

Fabulous effort all round, great to see the team playing with some self belief. Terrible refereeing once again. I've no idea why Appo was binned. Patton back to his form of early last season. Rogers and Roby looking like two very handy loan signings.

Re: Toulouse (H) : Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:33 pm  

I loved it when the crowd saw the effort going in and realised the team needed a lift in the 2nd half and COYB started rolling down from the terraces.

Re: Toulouse (H) : Sat Feb 25, 2023 10:47 pm  

Well done Bulls

Re: Toulouse (H) : Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:00 am  

I said to my Grandson that we are going to win this,the passion and effort from the team was something that has been missing for ages. It's early days but what a result. From 1 to 17 it was a great team performance up there with the Leeds cup game and it's been a long time coming hopefully we can do it again next week.

Re: Toulouse (H) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 9:30 am  

I am still in shock...

As others have said, they came thinking they'd bully us but they just couldn't cope with being on the receiving end of what they tried to dish out.

Away from the playing I though Lawrence was magnificent channelling the teams aggression back into the actual game rather than loosing the plot. He was constantly in the thick of it, talking to the players defending their actions to the ref.

They stuck together brilliantly. 1-17 no-one backed down. Appo was visibly backed with hugs and back slaps when he was binned (questionable decision when he yellowed one of theirs for a trip - is that not automatic red anymore?).

The level of controlled mastery of being a wind up merchant that Flanagan Sr achieved was nothing short of spectacular and for once it was the opposition losing their tin and not us.

Honestly, forget the Leeds CC game. For me to see a team in red amber and black so determined to give another team a metaphorical black eye in such a way you have to go back to relegation year and where we turned over Leeds and Wigan after being relegated and we were determined to give the whole of the SL what for.

Also on questioning the ref, did anyone see them throw the ball at, I think, Lilley? I thought I did and couldn't work out why Holmes got binned for it last week but Toulouse were only penalised?

Re: Toulouse (H) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 9:52 am  

Thing to remember about the result as well, this wasn't a "response" performance. Where we've had a couple of poor results, everyone's criticising us and we turn up to prove everyone wrong etc

This was on the back of a great result against Widnes, we'd had our second short turn around in a row (which for a PT affects us more) and we still turned up hell bent on winning this one.