Hallas will be back in for Friday. That should stiffen up the defence through the middle 3rd.

Would have been at 13 id imagine but with Flannagan missing i guess he will take some preassure off Doyle. I suppose the alternative would be to have Jowitt on the bench to come on at 9 which would be a good move in my opinion

More likely Jowitt comes on in the halves and Lilley covers 9

Revised possible lineup - assuming the halfbacks and Ben Evans are fit.

Hall
Dawson Jones
Kear
Gill
Miller/DFJ
Patton
Lilley
Baldwinson
Doyle
Scurr
Murphy
England
Hallas

Crossley
Wallace
Jowitt
Kibula/Evans

I would deffo have Chester Butler in there.

Oh flippin eck I forgot him

Hall
Dawson Jones
Kear
Gill
Miller/DFJ
Patton
Lilley
Baldwinson
Doyle
Scurr
Butler
England
Hallas

Crossley
Wallace/Murphy
Jowitt
Kibula/Evans

A local derby, Sam Hallas back, a hopefully larger crowd than normal and a narrow defeat last week. If we don't come out of the traps from the first kick off and give it a bash it's curtains for Kear for me.

Hall
Dawson-Jones
Kear
Gill
Millar
Patton
Lilley
Crossley
Doyle
Baldwinson
Butler
Murphy
Hallas

England
Evans
Scott
Scurr

Baldwinson can drop to LF is Doyle needs a break to allow Hallas a very short spell at Hooker. Or Evans goes in at 13 for a bit.

Either way. Hall has to start, Butler keeps his place after last week. Scott to be eased off the bench as he’s just back from injury.

Didn't realise Scott was fit again, that's a boost

It is, dammit. When fit, we’re actually blessed with some good backrowers.
So, 2 starting back rows and a bench one from Scott, Murphy, Butler, England, Wallace. Unless Murphy in the centres again

Please not Murphy in the centres.

Why doesn't JK just play Hall at fullback and Kear in the centres?

Yeah, surely this is the most obvious choice? I think he will start Hall judging by his comments from Sunday, but I really hope he doesn't put Hall at 3 and Kear at 1.

Murphy has done well this year, won us the game against London with a huge defensive play, but he's definitely not a centre. I'd be even tempted to have him as a hard working prop.

Kear seems to be a "safety first" sort of coach and thinks about defence first. Murphy has plenty of experience of playing centre from back when he was young. It's a difficult position to play in defence as it's all about split second decision making and having experience helps that. Trouble is that he's not as agile as he was so maybe not as safe as all that against pace and in attack he's way too slow.

I'd go for Kear at right centre or MDJ. If Murphy plays it has to be as backrow or emergency backup at centre if the Kear/MDJ get an injury/

Kear at FB, Murphy at centre and Hall on bench...

If Kear doesn't get a result today then the knives really will be out with that line up. Don't understand it at all.

Hall isn’t Welsh unfortunately

Scott’s back. He’s been in the team for most of our better performances

Well if we don’t win now with an extra man for 79mins then the knives will we’ll and truly be out for JK.

I could be wrong, but is that the first time the opposition has had a red card since we've come down to the championship.

Wow

I think time is up for JK now after that result.
Halifax are a good side but we should have enough to beat them with 12 men for nearly all the game.

Kear has to go after that. The 5 drives and kick to Gill has to come from him. Halfbacks need to sort their heads out as there is no organisation or speed in the play.

When we signed Kibula I honestly thought he was good like he was for Swinton. But he’s fat, unfit. 3 soft tries again. Crap.

3 criminally soft tries from dummy half is shocking but nothing compared to 1 up rugby against 12 men and not even attempting to use the overlap. Amateur would be an improvement on this. Driving away the fans with this boring style of rugby and if it doesn’t get results it’s time to make a change

Well that was utterly dreadful. JK has to walk.

Credit to Halifax, they deserved that win for pure guts and desire.

Really low quality, negative rugby from Bradford though. Just awful.

You could tell what was going to happen when we decided to take the two to increase our lead from 7 to 9

. At no point did we try win the game. We just hoped Fax would tire.

Well played to them.