Last night Bradford Bulls came as close as anyone has to beating Sean Long’s Featherstone Rovers who sit at the top of the Championship at present.
Naturally then coach Mark Dunning was very pleased by the performance:
“There’s loads of positives from that, we’ve come up against a really good side and gone toe to toe with them for large parts. If we’d have been a little more clinical in good ball and kicked our goals then that outcome could have been quite easily different.
In fact it was a display where had things gone a little differently in terms of decisions the Bulls could have won.
Dunning lamented some “harsh calls”: “From where I was sat some of them were harsh calls. The penalty count doesn’t lie, it’s gone against us but there was certainly a couple of them that I thought were 50/50 calls that went against us.”
He also had his say on Featherstone. Impressed by them, he felt the Bulls missed an opportunity to beat them as he spoke to ViaPlay on TV last night: “We were confident coming into and excited about the challenge. I think this is the best team in the Championship so far this year and they’ll take some beating, but I think they were there for the beating tonight which makes it a little bit harder to take. If we’d have been the best version of ourselves tonight I think we’d be going back down the M62 with the points in the bag. We’ve got to learn if we want to be where we want to be then we need to be more clinical with the ball but we’ve got a great foundation to work off.
