Mixed feelings for McNamara

Bulls boss concerned over 'erratic' performance

Last updated: 18th May 2008

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McNamara: 'Spectacular' tries

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Bradford coach Steve McNamara admitted his side was guilty of inconsistency despite scoring a 46-24 victory over Castleford.

While delighted with what he described 'spectacular tries', McNamara was also unhappy that on occasions gave themselves a harder time than necessary.

"It was a really mixed bag but I'm really pleased with them for coming to a club like Castleford, that has already taken two major scalps, they were always going to come out all guns firing.

"And we came here and got the job done. Of course there are areas for improvement but we are pleased that we have come to a tricky place and got the job done.

"I thought we scored some pretty spectacular rugby league tries and played some really, really good stuff, but we really hurt ourselves on occasions.

"We're disappointed we got a man in the sin bin but we came through it okay. Well, we haven't come through it okay because we've got Chris Nero who may have fractured his collarbone.

"We put ourselves under pressure. I thought we were very good defensively but we put ourselves under pressure on other occasions. It was a very up and down erratic sort of game."

Castleford counterpart Terry Matterson blamed a leaky defence for a defeat that could have been avoided.

"I'm very disappointed because we scored 24 and again we had opportunities to score more tries but we just found ourselves chasing the game and our defence wasn't good enough," he said.

"The first three tries all came off mistakes and all of a sudden you find yourself 16-10 down.

"They're too good a side if you give them too much room the will punish you. They played up the middle and they were too big and strong in the end."