Boxing Day - Team

[Fumper27]

Score? Crowd?

Lost 14-20
Crowd 3,306

[MrRugby123]

Gave it a good go the second half with a very young team, once again I wasn’t impressed with Turner he looks lost at every single position he’s played for Cas.

[braytontiger]

To put things in perspective Bradford are a part time team that’s been put together in the past 6 weeks with a few journey men and some decent youngsters, they will struggle to make the play offs in the championship.

We had a starting 13 in the first half that should have been good enough to open up a 10/16 point lead for our youngsters to defend. That said Bradford had just as many youngsters in there team as ourselves, again our young players don’t look neither fit enough or tough enough,it should be very worrying that we get good quality youngsters at 16 but by the time they are 20 they haven’t improved a jot.

[old cas lass]

No enthusiasm first half, let down by the senior players.
Jesse did his best, Eden safe at full back.
Turner no half back.
Olpherts, Clare hardly saw the ball.
Richardson a debut try but his long passing was off. Kicking out of hand was good.

Second half youngsters showed more enthusiasm than the senior players did first half.
But the Bradford forwards dominated the kids.

Disappointed that we lost , but the cobwebs have been blown off with half the squad.

Forgot how cold boxing days games are.
2/3 hours now to thaw out.

[classycas57]

Sounds like a flop

[HuddsTigers]

Bradford's side is still largely the same one as it was last season. They know each other inside out and have recruited former SL players like Anthony England too.

We started taking off first team players from about 30 mins and a lot of them coming on were kids. Cannot read anything into the game or the result. I thought the kids did extremely well and our forwards were pretty good in the first half too. Poor execution but that's to be expected with out full spine out and players playing together that don't or won't ordinarily.

Context, we had missing: Rankin, Feki, Blair, Shenton, Trueman, Watts, McShane, Cook, Moors, Foster, McMeeken, Holmes, Massey, Milner, Griffin. Practically an entire team.

[tigerfeat]

Bradford's side is still largely the same one as it was last season. They know each other inside out and have recruited former SL players like Anthony England too.

We started taking off first team players from about 30 mins and a lot of them coming on were kids. Cannot read anything into the game or the result. I thought the kids did extremely well and our forwards were pretty good in the first half too. Poor execution but that's to be expected with out full spine out and players playing together that don't or won't ordinarily.

Context, we had missing: Rankin, Feki, Blair, Shenton, Trueman, Watts, McShane, Cook, Moors, Foster, McMeeken, Holmes, Massey, Milner, Griffin. Practically an entire team.

How on gods earth do you get that Bradford team is the same one as last season ?

[tigerfeat]

To put things in perspective Bradford are a part time team that’s been put together in the past 6 weeks with a few journey men and some decent youngsters, they will struggle to make the play offs in the championship.

We had a starting 13 in the first half that should have been good enough to open up a 10/16 point lead for our youngsters to defend. That said Bradford had just as many youngsters in there team as ourselves, again our young players don’t look neither fit enough or tough enough,it should be very worrying that we get good quality youngsters at 16 but by the time they are 20 they haven’t improved a jot.

Spot on mate as per...

[on side]

Miles stronger squad then last season for me.

And me

You still think we have a strong squad lol

[Dixie D]

Disgrace, Powell out, Richardson is a dud, Jon Wells is a joke and we are getting relegated. Am I doing this forum thing right?

[on side]

Miles stronger squad then last season for me.

And me

You still think we have a strong squad lol

[on side]

[AstralPancakes]

Apparently Luke Gale looked great today against Wakey. Did Richardson give any clue as to whether he is going to aqequately fill Gale's boots?

[on side]

Apparently Luke Gale looked great today against Wakey. Did Richardson give any clue as to whether he is going to aqequately fill Gale's boots?

Hard to tell yet

[HuddsTigers]

Bradford's side is still largely the same one as it was last season. They know each other inside out and have recruited former SL players like Anthony England too.

We started taking off first team players from about 30 mins and a lot of them coming on were kids. Cannot read anything into the game or the result. I thought the kids did extremely well and our forwards were pretty good in the first half too. Poor execution but that's to be expected with out full spine out and players playing together that don't or won't ordinarily.

Context, we had missing: Rankin, Feki, Blair, Shenton, Trueman, Watts, McShane, Cook, Moors, Foster, McMeeken, Holmes, Massey, Milner, Griffin. Practically an entire team.

How on gods earth do you get that Bradford team is the same one as last season ?

I didn't say same. I said largely the same. Of the 20 players, only 6 were making their debut. 4 new signings including former SL players Anthony England and Greg Johnson. 2 academy promoted players.

Rest played for Bradford last season. It's hardly the new squad put together completely random and overhauled as made out to be.

[Smudger]

14 v 20
Crowd was 3300 ish


Edit - sorry bit slow posting, I was answering an earlier post which has been addressed by others.

Great to be back down the lane anyway... Could be our last year there if they get the new ground done for 2021 season.

[corvusxiii]

Disgrace, Powell out, Richardson is a dud, Jon Wells is a joke and we are getting relegated. Am I doing this forum thing right?

You've nailed it!!! Top effort.

[braytontiger]

Bradford's side is still largely the same one as it was last season. They know each other inside out and have recruited former SL players like Anthony England too.

We started taking off first team players from about 30 mins and a lot of them coming on were kids. Cannot read anything into the game or the result. I thought the kids did extremely well and our forwards were pretty good in the first half too. Poor execution but that's to be expected with out full spine out and players playing together that don't or won't ordinarily.

Context, we had missing: Rankin, Feki, Blair, Shenton, Trueman, Watts, McShane, Cook, Moors, Foster, McMeeken, Holmes, Massey, Milner, Griffin. Practically an entire team.

How on gods earth do you get that Bradford team is the same one as last season ?

I didn't say same. I said largely the same. Of the 20 players, only 6 were making their debut. 4 new signings including former SL players Anthony England and Greg Johnson. 2 academy promoted players.

Rest played for Bradford last season. It's hardly the new squad put together completely random and overhauled as made out to be.

In all due respect there were only 2 academy players making there senior debuts today because 5/6 others played 1 game in the 1865 cup last season in a heavy defeat to barrow.
I’ll say it again the Bradford team had as many kids in as us most of which played a lot of minutes compared to ours.
Yes it’s not our first team and we are at a stage of the year when these results can happen. It will not have any bearing on our chances for the year but it does highlight that the squad isn’t quite as deep as some people have suggested.

[Casmania]

To put things in perspective Bradford are a part time team that’s been put together in the past 6 weeks with a few journey men and some decent youngsters, they will struggle to make the play offs in the championship.

We had a starting 13 in the first half that should have been good enough to open up a 10/16 point lead for our youngsters to defend. That said Bradford had just as many youngsters in there team as ourselves, again our young players don’t look neither fit enough or tough enough,it should be very worrying that we get good quality youngsters at 16 but by the time they are 20 they haven’t improved a jot.

It was a friendly, however the above post sums it up perfectly.
Could I just add that Bradford had a much smaller squad on duty today and did suffer a major injury early on.

[Fumper27]

Miles stronger squad then last season for me.

And me

You still think we have a strong squad lol

Given we had 15 first team players not playing I’d say so. The players coming in are, in the main, better than the ones they’ve replaced.