I thought it was generally a good performance and once we got a try on the board we looked a lot more coherent. Early on our physicality looked a concern, if anything Bradford were winning the collision, but perhaps we played the long game because from the 30th minute on we started to look stronger. Our shape in attack still hasn't reached the heights of last season.



Brett was a deserved man of the match and all of the backs had their bright moments. However, it was the forwards that asserted our dominance and an overdue return to form from Garreth Carvell. He really took it to them as we started to take control and resisted the stupid offload. I'm still not sure Woody is back to his best, but it was a bit better than we've seen.



Child totally lost control in the second half and was kidded a few times by the Bulls players, not least for the sinbinning where Hargreaves seemed to throw it away. He made a few gaffes for both sides, although the 'out on the full' was probably the worst.



All in all, 7/10 and we did what was required to win in relative comfort. In the hat.

can someone explain to me why he didnt let joel get on with it after defusing a bomb but in the 2nd he lets lee get on with it for doing exactly the same thing,,,baffling..

James child is the worst ref in rugby league , even the Ben jefferies knock went behind him from the kick off , penalising markers for tackling , the sin binning was laughable , tyrone mccarthy knock on facing his own sticks , i could go on

Thoughts from being at the match - James Child isn't capable of reffing my step-son's U11s, never mind a professional game. Rubbish for both sides, he seems incapable of remembering the rules from one play to the next.

I think the ref pointed out that Joel wasn't in the centre of the pitch, whereas Lee was.

bit pedantic if you ask me....just get on with it its not as if a great advantage was to be made from tapping it there

With respect to those who couldn't make it due to work etc, but 5500 crowd is very disappointing with a local population of 200,000, If you don't turn up whenever you are able, one day you won't have a club to moan about.

We're lucky to have a top flight sporting team in the town, you should go no matter how inconvenient it is.



Every little helps !

thought Ben Harrison looked strong today...ran very well along with big Gaz.

Was it only 5500? Looked more on the telly. South Stand pretty full, half decent away numbers, not that much in the other two stands admittedly.

5505, according to the announcer. I thought it was a shame - if the cup run goes all the way, no doubt everyone will want to travel to Wembley rather than watch it on the telly. It's a shame not to show your support along the way in person.

It was a very frustrating game though. With Child as ref, it's slow, inconsistent and really annoying. I'd hate to be someone unfamiliar with the game, watching on BBC and trying to follow the rules - JC was making them up!

We seem to have a habit of hitting teams just before Half time then just after half time,it can knock the wind out of the opponents sails can that!!



Still not fireing on all cylinders but in the Hat for the next round..

BBC coverage was poor, camera angles compared to sky were well off. team played ok, a win is a win.