I thought the delay was more to do with part time players needing some time to negotiate time off from their 'proper' jobs if they want to attend Red Hall and defend themselves at the hearing.

Obviously not a problem in SL as all players are FT but in the Championship 2 days notice isn't enough for the part time players.

Hopefully we get a strong ref on Saturday as Mr Sweet (who?!) was useless yesterday and lost any sort of control of the game in the 2nd half.

The players on report should be ok to play but Martyn Ridyard is in doubt. Suffering from serious facial injuries and one of his eyes is completely swollen shut. Would be a huge blow for us if he is unable to play at Blackpool.

I reckon it will be a 'high scoring' draw !

I think Joe Cobb should be ref, with Child and Hicks running the lines. The 3 most competent officials in the game today

Joe is a 'Leyther' though Roger !

Ref: Chris Campbell Touch Judges: Crashley and Craven Video Ref: Robert Hicks www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/ref ... pointments Could be better, could be worse...

Ref: Chris Campbell Touch Judges: Crashley and Craven Video Ref: Robert Hicks www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/ref ... pointments Could be better, could be worse...

I know, I was at the LSV first game last season

He's a joke

Bradford under Chris Campbell:

Played 2
Won 1
Lost 1

Dewsbury 31-30 Bradford
Bradford 52-16 Workington

From what i've seen of him he's pretty tight on foul play and infringements around the ruck. Definitely a good thing to have should Hock et al bring their usual sh*thouse tactics...

Leigh under Chris Campbell

Played 2
Won 2

Leigh 37-30 Batley
Leigh 42-12 Swinton

Agreed.

I think the reason is that they prioritise the SL games, which is fairly natural I guess.

Referee is now Sam Ansell according to the [url=http://www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/referee_appointmentsRFL Website[/url.

Yep Chris Campbell is now doing Leeds V Warrington.

Don't think Ansell has referred us yet. Don't think he's that experienced. Remember what happened last time an inexperienced referee reffed us and Leigh...

We've certainly never had him in a competitive fixture before.

Who would Hock et al be?

Ansell is one of the FT refs, hopefully gets pace on the game

Sam's a good friend of mine from his early BCB commentary days and fully deserves this appointment after quitting his media commitments to fully concentrate on working his way up the referee ranks.

Having a referee from Bradford has been a long time coming, let me tell you.

I'm going to see if he fancies doing an interview

He's done eight Bradford Bulls U19s games in the past three seasons.

Great appointment for him.

Does that mean Leigh have an interpreter for not understanding Yarkshire gibberish.

How can two sets of opposing fans create a partisan atmosphere?

That's just not possible.

In their own respected stands. Should be electric come 6:59pm on Saturday.

Are they respecting their stands from their respective stands?

Come on it's Bradford by the sea. The Bulls contingent will be doing the conga again.

One hates to make a habit of this, but not only does that have fsck all to do with anything but Morecambe was Bradford by the sea.

Don't forget the Circus, we do Matinées at the week end with reductions on producing your Match Tickets.Charlie knows.

Bradford and Leigh are having a bit of a ticket wars on Twitter.

Less than 400 tickets remain in the South and West stands, whilst Leigh have tweeted they have less than 80 seats in the North stand.

Last year 8,650 attended the Summer Bash. I think we can safely say that figure is going to be surpassed this year.