It's going to chuck it down this evening so I'm not expecting any champagne rugby.

A strange evening at Odsal as the Bulls eventually ran out comfortable winners, but the performance left plenty of questions unanswered.

Despite making five changes to the side that lost at Barrow last week, we again looked completely out of ideas in attack for much of the first half. A flat and error-strewn opening saw us go in just 6-0 ahead at the break — a scoreline met with boos and jeers from the frustrated home crowd.

Our ball retention and attacking structure were unbelievably poor at times, and while we showed flashes of flair and class in the second half to pull away, it did little to mask the overall mediocrity of the performance. We are still massively off the pace.

On a side note, Hunslet are one of the grubbiest sides we’ve come across in some time. Slowing the game down and constantly pushing the limits, but we still should have handled it far better. The hit on Holmes was an absolute disgrace.

With in-form York up next, the second-half scoreline flatters a display that remains deeply concerning. Big improvements needed, and fast.

Hope we haven't lost Holmes to HIA or injury, the late challenge was very deliberate and not good to see.

Hunslet were pretty hopeless and Bradford showed a few glimpses of quality but it was a largely poor quality game. Definitely struggling for some form right now and tonight's performance will not cut it at York next week.

Doro as expected ran through brick walls for us and was the best player on the pitch by some distance.

I honestly think we could get a pasting next week. In fact I'm not even hopeful of a result next week. I really hope to be proved wrong but there needs to be the mother of all turn arounds. 


Hunslet are absolute garbage. Anyone who says we defended well is deluded. As I posted earlier, their aggregate score for the last two games was 130-6. They were no better than an amateur side, no coaching, but just act like thugs when game gets away from them. Yet we still toiled. 


The tries we scored, let's be honest, it was pretty weak efforts from Hunslet. Due to numerous penalties, we had nearly all the territory, yet didn't look remotely threatening. 


The message of errors clearly got through. Again Okunbor producing another howler. York punish that next week and won't let in tries as soft of Lilleys. 


Noble has a mammoth task in training this week.