That incident (still looked more like a brain fart from where I was, but bigchris puts up a good counter-argument) aside, he certainly did not have a shocker at all - if maybe not as good a game as some he had earlier in the season. Quite a few in the side made serious errors, ones where a better team would have crucified us (see "Saints" a few weeks ago for examples...).

Exactly, with some players I feel fans only remember the mistakes and with Rikki people are just waiting for him to make a mistake each game.

As they did with Platt last season.

He's been much improved this season and i've been backing him. I just thought he wasn't even near his best today. Hopefully he'll get another chance to impress v Catalans.





Halley can't get dropped from the wing though, he's quality.





Why do people like to put their shoulder in Kearney's face?

Platt has basically thrown them off his back though. You can't ignore how well he's going atm and its down to (from what i've read in T&A) his hard training in the off season.





They used to call him dedicated Mike at Salford, and thats why!!

Very true, thankfully with his improved performances they've been shut up.......for now!

The poor bugger had no chance last year, when some strange "fans" booed him before he even touched the ball

no wonder his confidence seemed shot.



But he's proving those "fans" wrong now. And indeed as did Worrincy today - I was dreading seeing him but I'm pleased to say he played fine in the main.



Seems some people need to have a scapegoat?

It would never have made touch in a million years and there were two Crusaders attackers running on to it. He needed to challenge for it and did - just made a complete pigs ear of it.





A very good and satisfying win. Real character shown in the second half. James Child is a joke and Jamie Thackeray? What a loser!!! Dirty cast off nice one mate!

What do you feel he did wrong? You've described his performance as terrible, that must mean he made some glaring errors apart from the one already mentioned? Did he knock on several times? Lose the ball in the tackle? Give away constant penalties?



He had a solid game, made good meters when he got ball, he came inside looking for work when the forwards were tiring, he tackled well and tracked back to help save a couple of tries. If his was a terrible performance then I was watching a different game.

thats another game we wouldnt have had the composure to win last year. certainly wasnt a classic and the poor kicking made the scoreline flatter crusaders slightly.

Don't think sheriffe had a bad game as such, although he needs to watch the sideways running which seems to be creeping back into his game. Worrincy was better than his last performance but he seriously needs to get some practice in on the tackle bags, his technique is attrocious - he seems to bounce of tackles way more than a guy his size should. Fair enough using him for squad rotation but on that showing koppy will be straight back in next week.



on the whole well done bulls on picking up a win, against fresh opposition and despite some very poor reffing and a very blustery wind.

I can't be d to look at previous posts, but my take on todays game is thus.



Kicking game for goals we are seriously having a big problem relying on Orford or Awford if he continues to miss. ( yes I know Deacs was good but he was crap at what Orford does good ) Sykes and and a couple of others should be practising and stepping up for these kicks!

Despite Nobby's comments I thought the only reason Crusaders were in it was because th Bulls made stupid basic mistakes (Halley comes to mind for two in the 1st half) and the ref Childs was classically inconsistent! We are getting there, but boy its hardwork watching it unfold, no wonder Macca was as p!ssed off about it as we were,

Where abouts where you in the ground? From the angle I was watching it, my immediate reaction at the time, before he went for it, was that it was either going into touch or - unless the bounce was very unlucky - then given the speed on it it was probable it would be in touch straight after.



Anyway, we won and no-one died, so its largely academic.



He had the sun in his eyes too - was definitely an evil kick.