Brave effort fails to halt rampant Bulls!

Aug 4 2003 By Chris Roberts, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Bradford Bulls 30 - 16 Giants. Battered squad win proud salute from Smith

Deacon added his second goal and repeated the act six minutes later after Bradford had grabbed try No2.

But a minute earlier it could have been totally different.

Brandon Costin appeared to have chipped over the defence to perfection and clearly had visions of following up to score.

However, almost out of nowhere, Lesley Vainikolo came across, mopped up the danger and immediately turned defence into attack.

Before the Giants had been able to dwell on `what might have been' from Costin's kick, Deacon had raced through almost effortlessly to score.

An 18th-minute rib injury to March after an obstruction by Paul Anderson added to the Giants' woes and two minutes later Deacon again cut through to add another four-pointer.

By the 23rd minute Morrison had left the action with concussion and seconds later Vainikolo was over in the corner. It was 24-0.

Grayshon was the next casualty with a suspected broken ankle in the 28th minute.

But, thankfully, that was to prove the final act of this particular Huddersfield nightmare.

There was one more major downside just before the interval when Lee Radford capitalised on Matthew Whittaker's failure to collect a high bomb and scored near the corner in the 37th minute.