Well this fixture has got us all talking hasn't it?

Kear will have some selection headaches. Three halfbacks to fit in and he still seems to be persevering with Hallas at hooker so three hookers to fit in too.

It's a bit of a swing from 12 months ago with no hookers and no halfbacks. I think for a coach, they'd rather be in the current position than the former.

Well Kear has said Keyes will play. So is it Keyes Chisholm in halves with Lilley and George at 9?

I suppose you mean 4.5 each?

Well, somewhat bizarrely - having been to very few games this season, I am actually going on Sunday.

The mother-in-law lives near Wrexham, so we are combining the game with my annual 'duty' of visiting



Looking forward to a good win!

Bulls 19 man squad:

Chisholm, Crossley, Egodo, Flanagan, Garside, Grant, Green, Hallas, Keyes, Kirk, Lilley, Milton, Minchella, Oakes, Peltier, Pickersgill, Pownall, Ryan & Wood

Dane Chisholm has escaped a potential ban for his kneeing incident: www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/disciplinary

Dane Chisholm has escaped a potential ban for his kneeing incident: www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/disciplinary

Not really surprised, given the lack of reaction from the Whitehaven side at the time. it did look 'dodgy' though and was still a daft thing to do and just inviting trouble.

Ha Ha, rotating rather

Well, the hooking headache has been solved as Vila doesn’t make the 18.

Vila has picked up an Injury.

York are eating into the points diff in a big way this aft.

68-0 at half time.

We’ll have to aim to go and get a few points ourselves.

They’ve cancelled out the points difference today. Thank god we play them and Hemel towards the end of the season.

130 points is what I meant a week ago when I said I felt that "at this time" York seem to be more fluent than us. We are still struggling for large parts of the game and not wiping the floor with teams. Luckily, we do have two so called easy ones near the end but how many on here think we can do a 130-0 score in those games.
I can still see us finishing second which would be disappointing and leave us with a couple of very nervy games playing knockout rugby. Hopefully it will still work out fine and there is nothing to worry about.
I can't even think about being in the knockouts and then having a mare of a game....surely not. Us Bulls fans have been through far too much to have that served to us.

130-0 To me this is just not right. It's not doing anyone any good (although York might disagree). Raiders are obviously not up to this level of rugby. They only put out 14 players today, this may be down to injuries but I fear it's down to players being pi**ed off with being humiliated in this way week after week. These results could ruin a promising club.

I heard they were having trouble with players no showing at training and on game day which is dreadful if true.

Yes, their team sheet shows only having 14 players today which lets be honest is not good or fair to anyone. You would hope (with no confidence) that the RFL are aware and prepared, there has to be concerns that they won't be able to field a side at some stage.

Sorry but this post is ridiculous. How can you possibly know how many we would have put past West Wales today?
I'd say it's arrogant and borderline disrespectful to be expecting us to 'wipe the floor' with the sides we face week in week out.

There's only a 38 point difference between us and York.

Given that we beat 7th place Whitehaven 46-0 last week and that we're playing 10th placed Crusaders tomorrow, I wouldn't worry to much about us overcoming that difference and regaining our place at the top of the table come Sunday night

Who even posts this garbage.
Yeh no chance we would beat them 130 nill I mean Christ we only beat them 124 nill last time we played them. 130 nill is so far out of range.

Going on the coach to see the game with the Grandson. Hoping for a good win. Let's see who's top of the league tomorrow night.Don't panic Mr Mannering.!!!

York was only playing against 14 men too as they only had one substitute

Indeed..as long as it's a level playing field and we come up against likewise.

You're totally correct to say that his doing no-one any good, but the thing is, that when mentioning 'this level of rugby', in reality this IS their level; this is the division which was set up specifically to allow 'development' clubs to get into a higher level of RL a bit above amateur. It is us and York (and one or two more) who are the aberration in this league, not WWR.


Once again the RFL has shown its own amateur level of administration, AKA incompetence. If it's correct that they only had 14 players yesterday then I can see problems coming up and I wonder what plans the RFL have if they can't complete their fixtures? It may be just injuries and maybe holidays - let's hope so, but if the problem goes deeper the there is a right old mess brewing. It wouldn't exactly be a shock for players at some clubs to become disillusioned given the difference in playing levels between the clubs.