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Lance was appalling in the first half, the crowd around me were really getting on his back. He has played so many matches in the NRL and at international level, but he plays the game like he started last week. He was throwing hospital passes round, dropping off tackles and giving away utterly stupid penalties time after time. Three times in the first half we had the Bulls trapped in their 20 after a solid set and good kick and he went and gave a penalty away and wasted all that effort. He's really starting to annoy me now.
I was utterly bored at the game tonight, I'll admit that. The game was surreal, absolutely no intensity on the field and no noise at all from the supporters. Langtree Park is turning into a bit of a graveyard in terms of atmosphere, not that the match helped. If I were a Bradford supporter who had travelled down the trail I would be livid with the effort the Bradford players put in tonight, they didn't want to be there at all. That dragged us down to the same level and although we did the basics well and defended superbly we were going through the motions for large spells of the game, just trundling through sets and kicking, with no real intent to do anything.
In terms of who played well it's hard to single players out given how poor and disinterested the opposition was. Lomax looked very lively and was cutting through at will, Perry went well as did Sia and LMS impressed when he came on. Jones did well for his third but the outside backs could have all had a hatful as Bradford weren't sliding or numbering up properly at all. It was good to see Makinson having a rare gallop down the wing for Lomax's try, but still didn't get to see him pin his ears back and go for it as he spent half his run timing the ball inside to J-Lo.
I've had Premier Sports this season so have been watching the NRL. It's the same sport, but it's worlds apart from Super League. I've seen more intensity in an uncontested training match than tonight, several times I had to move position and give myself a slap or I would have fallen asleep.