I'm happy that Sykesy doesn't seem to be in their squad, since he always seems to save his best games of the season for us. I know I don't see him every week, so I base my assumption that his best games are always against us on the basis that, if they weren't, and that was his normal level, then he'd be in the England squad...and he isn't!

Wasn't the best performance, but a win is a win.

Grinded that out, but how often have we been unable to do that in this league?



Defensively we were excellent as always, but in attack we looked out of tune. (to he expected with probably our 9th different 1,6,7 combo). Never really felt we were in danger of losing though.



Happy to take the points. Hopefully Evans injury isn't serious or long term.

I was probably only a matter of time before Evans got injured, what with his track record. The squad depth is good in this area, as it is across the board actually. The depth has been impressive all year to be fair. I didn't think Grant would get much game time but he took his chance well today.



Overall, solid performance. We didn't look like we' throw that away once we went in front.

I hear Evans has done his shoulder. Looks bad.



We ground it out. Dewsbury are no mugs. At times they were the better side, particularly in the first half.



Our attack was slow and predictable as per usual. We improved 2nd half but 1st half we were pretty awful.



Still, it's 2pts.

Another patchy performance from the Bulls today. Dewsbury are always up for it when they play us so I’m happy we’ve come away with the points. It was very stop start and neither team could get any type of flow going. We did enough to win it in the second half and did some good defensive work throughout the game.



Gutted to lose Evans as he has been one of our better players so far this season. Big improvements needed again if we are to overcome Fev next week.

Fev did well at Toulouse. Even without their duel reg they'll be tough next week.

We were slow in attack and looked a bit short of ideas, Evens out for at least 6 weeks

Another game that was painful to watch. You can hear the exasperation from people around you in the crowd. I am convinced that we focus solely on our defence during our training sessions and don't bother worrying about attack. This can be the only reason for the continued shambolic efforts we put in with ball in hand.

Starting a set in our own half and it will be five drives, or five individual efforts and then a kick, every time. Nobody supports the ball runner in anticipation of an offload, they just stand and watch as the next bloke drives it in with his head down. The two tries that Grant scored were probably some of the softest tries Dewsbury will concede all year, literally just passed along the line until we squeezed in at the corner.

We have our most potent attacking threat in Jake Webster over on our left stood with his hands on his hips most of the match because our players are obsessed with passing right every time instead of left. The one time Jake got a decent pass he put DFJ in the clear, a faster winger (Ryan) would have scored from it.

I made a joke when we signed Webster that he'd never see any ball because of the way we play and here we are. Most of the time Jake has to come in field looking for the ball and ends up driving it in towards the opposition pack - what a complete waste of his energy.



We are missing Chisholm and Keyes big time, the latter most definitely. Lilley just isn't good enough. He tries hard but it's just not enough.

It must be that we don’t do much practice when it comes to attack because we seem to lack any idea. We had two young and experienced halfbacks out there today and a makeshift fullback so that’s going to have an impact but even so we look very lacking in ideas at times. We’re not getting the best out of our players.



Reading between the lines of Kear’s post match interview I’d be surprised to see Keyes back this season, if ever. Chisholm being allowed to go on his jollies seems to suggest he’s not in the coach’s plans either.

Agree with Nothus about our attack. I thought we started off well enough with some decent shape but once Evans went off we just seemed to pass it down the line and all running in the same direction. But to be fair to Kear I don't think he'll have had to cope with as many changes in the back line in his career. Mainly forced due to injury and performances etc



I dread to think the amount of different combos we've had for our spine. Even in the back line we've struggled for consistency there. Can't be easy having different players inside/outside you every week. Having to put your 13 in at centre is bound to disrupt things.



We're winning ugly which we've not been able to do for a good number of years. I quite enjoy how good we are at defending out defensive line. The attack does need to be more slick, hopefully this will come with some consistency to our spine.



Also agree with Bullseye about Keyes. From listening to Kear I'd be very surprised if we saw him again this year and unfortunately it sounds a real possibility of being a career ending issue.

I find it quite concerning just how satisfied JK appeared to be with yesterday's performance. Hopefully that was just press conference talk and behind the scenes he knows that we're nowhere near as cohesive as we should be.

The injuries have definitely hindered us, there's no denying that. I was genuinely optimistic at the start of the season because I thought then - and still do now - that on paper we have a decent squad, and if we had everybody fit and available for selection then we could name a very competitive 17.

Unfortunately we've never been able to do that and now JK is saying that Joe Keyes is 'nowhere near' coming back, it doesn't look like we'll EVER be able to name our strongest 17 and that is a real shame.



My main worry from all of this is that we're going to end up signing Jordan Lilley permanently. I can see it coming a mile off. The club will make a huge song and dance about the announcement and I'll just be sat with my head in my hands.