Apparently a member of the media put the question to Potter 'are the Bulls just a bit soft'. Potter angrily denied that his team are soft. What do RAB posters think?



Personally I wouldn't label anyone who enters a RL field 'soft' but I think the media man has a point in there somewhere. We have been beaten up in the pack in our first two home games. Will our injured forwards returning solve this problem?

The point is that other teams now regard us as soft. I'm sure its been commented on by the likes of Barry McDermott and Terry O'Connor on Sky, and when you look at other teams forums its a common perception that Bradford are now a bit of a soft touch.



In terms of what we've seen this season and last, its clear that most of the opposition teams can knock us out of our game with relative ease. There are exceptions, of course - the Huddersfield game last season was an (inexplicable) game when we totally beat up the opposition, but that was a rare (unique?) event, and most of the time we simply get battered by the other team in the forwards.



Will returning forwards help? Hard to say. The return of Elima will add a degree of bite to the pack, but lets not forget that he was playing in many of our abject performances last season. As for Manu, we simply don't know enough about him yet.

if and when Elima and Nas take the field, we're relying on them staying fit to keep the bite in the pack. We simply don't run hard enough into tackles at the moment.

I think they are absolutely soft. They have been for years at this club, the majority of players that are brought in are soft and the youngsters are soft. I mean, who the hell lets somebody slap then and just toddle back in the line like Whitehead did when Hock slapped him? He's always having a go at Whitehead, he needs to stand up and give him one back.

Indiividually they're not soft and it would be insulting to say they are. But we do have a physically small squad completely lacking in the sort of physique and mongrel we used to posses in abundanc. And it makes a massive difference.



The smallest team I've seen in the SL era was Cas in the year they were relegated (2004?). When we played them they tackled their socks off but couldnt stop us from offloading. I think we won about 60-0

I saw that i would have thought the team would have got involved, see him in wigan all the time struts about like he owns the place.



We need abit of unity any other team would have run in to defend each other

Totally soft. We let other teams get away with everything. I am not condoning foul play, but it would be nice if for once we stood up to the opposition's "bullies" and gave them one back.



But then symptomatic of the whole club really with lots from board down to fans happy to accept humiliating defeats as long as they tried a bit. The players obviously feel the same, not worth getting stuck in, as it doesn't really matter.

No player should take anything illegal like that from another. Does anyone think there was a player on the Manly side who Rob Burrow would not have belted back? Hardly ever does any player take a one on one beating from another player. Everyone rushes in after a couple of seconds. Psychologically you should never take a back ward step. Jamie Peacock is the most unlikely scrapper you would come across, but especially when he is up aginast Aussies he doesn't allow anything, because he knows as captain or pack leader he has to set that example.

They are.



Wish we had a Bailey type in our pack.



Elima will help, but he can't do it on his own.

When was the last time we saw a scrap (on the field) at Odsal? When we were successful it would happen every five games or so.



Maybe an indicator of the type of player we now have?

They are soft. I'm an old man with one lung and I'd be confident of running over Nick Scruton or Bryn Hargreaves.

Fine. If the Bulls players are not soft then that just leaves option 2. They're lazy