Re: London vs. Bradford : Sat May 30, 2015 2:36 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Agreed,, although our recent fixtures have been a tough period (Sheffield at home, Whitehaven away, Fax at Blackpool and now London away) don't think this was the time to rotate the squad. All tough games those.

I disagree with that. All season Jimmy has had opportunities. Are you saying that the players who are fit and not in the regular weekly team are not up to the level required. The fact that they have had no game time holds the team and the players left out at a disadvantage. I would rather have a feeling of confidence of replacing players.

Re: London vs. Bradforde : Sat May 30, 2015 2:47 pm  

miketaurus wrote:

I disagree with that. All season Jimmy has had opportunities. Are you saying that the players who are fit and not in the regular weekly team are not up to the level required. The fact that they have had no game time holds the team and the players left out at a disadvantage. I would rather have a feeling of confidence of replacing players.

No. What I am saying is players like Petersen, Blythe, Davies have had long term injuries. Putting them in tough games like that, I would rather we went with our strongest squad, especially when we had a week off for the cup.

But i do agree we should have rotated more. Particularly over Easter. I would be concerned if the names mentioned aren't given a chance against Doncaster and in our mid week game.

Really want to see Davies and Blythe given a run out particularly.

But this game against London will be our toughest since Leigh.

Re: London vs. Bradford : Sat May 30, 2015 3:49 pm  

We may never know what a difference some of these
lads could make as I think a settled team will go into final few games and the time for experiments will have passed. Have Mullaney or Seijka shown enough to be shoe-ins and will Blythe, Davis, Peterson even get a decent chance to show they are good enough to displace someone else. We probably have too many good players in some positions when everyone is fit.

Re: London vs. Bradford : Sat May 30, 2015 5:42 pm  

I hope their up for this one tomorrow. This is one of the important win games as for the Bulls confidence as we go into the run in, we have to start showing the class now that will take us "noticeably" into the playoff.

Re: London vs. Bradford : Sat May 30, 2015 6:52 pm  

Given that Sheffield thumped Hunslet yesterday, I think Blackpool can be seen as a just a bad day at the office for them. London are still the only side, this season, to come to Odsal and not score a try. Even with Henderson getting backing from Noble we really should be looking to back up our strong defensive performance from last week and come away with the win

Re: London vs. Bradford : Sat May 30, 2015 8:20 pm  

Possibly. Although as you mentioned Henderson, he clearly is giving them comprehensive leadership that they may have been missing. Looking at Wigan's defense today that's how to do it. We can score that's a given, yes your right build on last weeks defensive performance and see how our kicking game is.

Re: London vs. Bradforde : Sun May 31, 2015 12:00 am  

Bull Mania wrote:

No. What I am saying is players like Petersen, Blythe, Davies have had long term injuries. Putting them in tough games like that, I would rather we went with our strongest squad, especially when we had a week off for the cup.

But i do agree we should have rotated more. Particularly over Easter. I would be concerned if the names mentioned aren't given a chance against Doncaster and in our mid week game.

Really want to see Davies and Blythe given a run out particularly.

But this game against London will be our toughest since Leigh.

I thought you were going to SL??..Surely your ardent test was against Hull KR.

Re: London vs. Bradforde : Sun May 31, 2015 10:17 am  

atomic wrote:

I thought you were going to SL??..Surely your ardent test was against Hull KR.

Yeah, we can't all face SL clubs who are on their arses. Some times, you have to play strong teams, and we still put 30 points past them

Re: London vs. Bradford : Sun May 31, 2015 1:01 pm  

Jimmy names an unchanged 17 for today's game, as I said he would back on page 1 of this thread

Re: London vs. Bradford : Sun May 31, 2015 2:08 pm  

One score down, kicked out on the full on the restart. Excellent start.