{"id":453274,"date":"2026-03-02T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:08:07","slug":"kurt-haggertys-reaction-as-bradford-bulls-beat-toulouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453274\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Haggerty&#8217;s reaction as Bradford Bulls beat Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  All four tries in their 18-6 win over Toulouse at Odsal came from that side \u2013 Waqa Blake scoring first before Ethan Ryan weighed in with a hat-trick.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Haggerty said: \u201cThey are rugby players &#8211; you get them the ball, you let them play, you give them a couple of key principles to play off, and then let them do their thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBoth are fantastic players. They\u2019re both big bodies, both carry the ball strong, they&#8217;re both gifted rugby players, and ultimately you&#8217;ve got to have a philosophy to get the ball to them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhen you do, you see the best version of Waqa in particular because he&#8217;s getting service with the ball in good areas, and he&#8217;s showing class at the moment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was not a classic between the two promoted sides but Bradford had no complaints at a first win in six attempts against the French side.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt was long, scrappy, messy but it\u2019s good to come out the right side of those games,\u201d added head coach Haggerty. \u201cWe showed a version of defence where we were resilient and tough.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cYou\u2019ve got to pay respect to Toulouse as well. They&#8217;re a really dogged and gritty team, so we had to be patient.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe probably didn&#8217;t move the ball as much as we have done, or we planned to. But ultimately, I thought the work we did off the yardage laid the platform for what we did when we executed.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Defence played a big part for the Bulls as they followed up the first home win over Catalan Dragons with another. But Haggerty knows there are testing visits to come now at St Helens and Wigans.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe&#8217;ve got to continue that now, we&#8217;ve got a big two-week coming up, which we just spoke about as a team, so we&#8217;ve got to continue to keep doing that all the way through the season.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Haggerty also confirmed that prop Ebon Scurr faces six weeks out with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All four tries in their 18-6 win over Toulouse at Odsal came from that side \u2013 Waqa Blake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}