I'm hoping this is a game that brings the best out of us. We haven't seen an 80 minute performance yet, but even while not looking great, we've still comfortably beaten some decent sides. And also served up some dross. We've seen glimpses of how good we can be. I'm just wanting to see the best out us from minute 1 and this has to be the game that really has us fired up, because rest assured, fax will be. 


They're playing some outstanding rugby under Eastmond who has proved many (including me) wrong. 


Meadows has to sort himself out. Giving 7 tackle 20 metre restarts on second tackles will see us well and truly punished in this game. 

Maybe you were just questioning if you really believed what you just typed. 

I really enjoyed that game dispite the loss for us and its the first time in a while we have had a really good crowd against the Bulls which always makes it a much better day. As I just posted on the Fax board, really nothing between the two teams, Fax inability to get more points on the board in the first 30 minutes when they were on top ultimatley came back to haunt them and then Bradford were superb after going in front apart from a couple of shaky kicks and were just banging out set after set while Fax were then the team that started making errors as they tried to force things. 

For me like I said at the start of the season, Bradford have the best squad in this division by some distance but for whatever reason it has not clicked and a loss yesterday would have put them in a tricky position but they dug in and given Fax's league position its a really good win for them. For Fax we missed Hansen badly and lacked a lot of direction and for whatever reason played the game with only 16 players but we still had chances to win the game late on so there are still plenty of positives to take away from it and although it would have been nice to be 4 points clear at the top of the league it still feels like we are dreaming been 6 from 7 and 2 points clear.

I'd agree with that. Halifax have made a great start and caught a few sides out playing some good rugby. The challenge for them will be maintaining that when a few injuries inevitably hit. I'm not sure where the big improvement comes for them without recruitment and maintaining what they've done so far for the whole season isn't realistic.


They look likely to be in or around the play offs though which would be an achievement in itself given the off season troubles.


Bradford are clearly not playing to full potential yet, but it's 6 games in for us with a pretty new backline, 6 & 7, starting fb out injured etc. The most pleasing aspect about yesterday was the desire to defend and keep them to nil in that 2nd half - even when we invited them back in with kick errors!

You deserved the win however; to say we can't get better is a little silly. We were missing our starting half (MOTM for the last couple of games) and one of our biggest forwards. 

Really enjoyed the game though and looking forward to more battles!

I was talking about the season so far. I'm struggling to see how Eastmond can get much more out of the side he has. I expect Halifax will gradually slip down the table over the coming months, but I don't think a play off spot is beyond them based on the bits I've seen.

And every side has to cope with players missing, Bradford had a few starters missing on Friday as well.

Fair enough! Will be an interesting few months.