Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Paul Deacon shows unerring accuracy

Bradford Bulls 36 Wakefield Wildcats 22
Remarkably, this was only Bradford Bulls' fifth win of a fraught season but it at least lifted them out of the bottom two in the engage Super League. It was their first league success since they beat the same opponents during last month's Magic Weekend at Murrayfield.
Inevitably, with a side struggling for any sort of consistency, it was one blighted by errors and mishaps. They were fortunate, too, in encountering opponents similarly consumed by self-doubt.
Wakefield matched Bradford's five tries, including a sparkling first-half hat-trick by Sean Gleeson, but whereas Paul Deacon was successful with all the Bulls' conversions, as well as three penalties, Danny Brough was off target with four of his five efforts at goal.
Bradford have not finished outside the top five since 1996, but remain seven places and seven points adrift of those heady heights, while Wakefield are struggling to retain their top-six spot after losing five games out of six.
England must sweat on the availability of Sam Burgess for Saturday's international against France in Paris after the forward was sent to the sin-bin for throwing punches, along with Wakefied's Jason Demetriou, during a second half scarred by often pedantic refereeing. “It was a penalty-a-thon and an error-a-thon,” John Kear, the Wakefield coach, said.
Gleeson, deputising at centre for Ryan Atkins, who was rested before the England match, sustained Wakefield in a nervy first half with his 15-minute try spree. But second-half tries by Julien Rinaldi and Chris Nero, the latter his second of the match, allied to Deacon's marksmanship proved enough to see Bradford home.
Scorers: Bradford Bulls: Tries: Nero 2, Menzies 2, Rinaldi. Goals: Deacon 8. Wakefield Wildcats: Tries: Gleeson 3, Snitch, Grix. Goal: Brough.
Bradford Bulls: D Halley; R Sheriffe, P Sykes, C Nero, S Tadulala; B Jeffries, P Deacon; A Lynch, T Newton, N Scruton, S Menzies, S Burgess, J Langley. Interchange: C Kopczak, J Rinaldi, E Whitehead, M Worrincy.
Wakefield Wildcats: M Blaymire; M Petersen, T Martin, S Gleeson, S Grix; J Rooney, D Brough; R Bibey, S Obst, O Wilkes, D Ferguson, S Snitch, J Demetriou. Interchange: B Drew, J Stosic, T Leo-Latu, M Korkidas.
Referee: T Alibert.
Source:The times

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