No Jowitt or Moss in the squad so probsbly Ott in the halves.

Must be. Plenty of forwards in that squad now so should go alright up front. Just question marks over creativity.

Also, no need to play Hallas or GFS either.

Surprised Doro is supposedly fit again.

If Doro is fit (and it seems a gamble as he's barely 5 weeks into a 8 week lay-off) then id expect us to line-up something like below.

With us being adamant that we weren't going down the route of short term loans, and us now having 6 loan players (granted two are season long) feel like it puts a bit of pressure on the loan lads to perform and also EOC to get a result Friday.

McGowan
Myers
Arundel
Gill
Carr
Ott
Lilley
Doro
Souter
Lawrence
Wilson
Butler
Fulton

Davies
Appo
Green
Wood

Can't see how Hallas, Flanagan or Smith get in the team.

Doro can't be ready yet. He's got to be in the squad but not the team, just to put a ? in people's minds. So I would swap Smith in for Doro and Davies will start, so swap him for Wilson. But 3 short term loan players on the bench. Looks odd. I mean our homegrown middles who are possible would be Jamie Gill (?injured) and maybe Bailey Arnold? But the loan guys are proven at this level. You could argue that Wood doesn't look out of place at SL level.

Well heading into a Fax derby with an untested halfback pairing is far from ideal. Only bonus is that Halifax won't have a clue what to expect either!

I suppose if you're going to stick short term loan players in Prop and Wing are preferable positions. Wood is definitely class too I agree.

At least Ott has been training with the lads for a while (and hopefully at half bck with this in mind).

Just been watching the academy highlights from last night and the pitch looks very heavy.

Apparently club is cancelling all the juniors games they have planned for pre match and the LDRL game at half time. The weather has pretty much been as forecast this week, so surprised they have left it so late to cancel.

Last night was horrendous on that pitch. Really surprised they played an academy game on it last night, with a game on tonight as well. Didn't look great at the end at all.

Davies at stand off tonight. That's a bit out of leftfield

A bit leftfield but a good shout.
No Lawernce though

It's a strong looking squad and team, but just feel it's very disjointed and unbalanced. Loan players coming into the 13 and on bench. Davies in the halves? Debuts for Fulton and Ott how up to speed will they be. I worry for the creativity and attacking fluency to really test Halifax. They look alot more balanced with Widdop and Joufrett, Eden on the edges and Keyes on the bench as well as a good option. Not expecting anything pretty, but a win is vital and that's all that matters.

Doro starting despite looking like he tweaked something in the warm up.

Great result that, couldnt get to the game so not sure on the performance, but a vital and very much needed win.

Who do we think went well? And how did Fulton, Ott, Wood, Wilson and Carr look?

Very impressed with Fulton, he looks like he will be a real handful. Ott didn't get much time on the field but didn't let anyone down either. Thought the loanees all did well, especially the forward from Wire. Hope we can keep hold of him for a few more weeks.

Really impressive defensive effort from the Bulls, they scrambled back countless times tonight. Halifax on the other hand looked vulnerable in defence and I suspect if we'd had Gaskell on the pitch they might have been on the end of a bit of a hammering.

Side was more than a bit makeshift but they looked eager and played some decent rugby in tricky conditions.

Brilliant result considering all the disruption we’ve had. We didn’t give Halifax a sniff in the second half and defended our line exceptionally well.

A fantastic team win with lots of stand out performances. Davies in the halves. Eamon O’Caroll coaching masterclass.

Davies outstanding tonight thought he kept Widdop quiet and run his blood to water, Great selection by O'Carroll. Thought Smith had a cracking game as well as did the rest of the team.

Such a lot to digest from that game. First half discipline was awful and we had a lot of defending to do as a result. Second half was way better only one penalty and one 6 again I think.

Makeshift halfbacks and a lot of players on debut so a bit disjointed in attack but nonetheless some great performances. Thought Souter, Davies and Doro had really good games. Smith had his best game for us. Fulton showed some promising signs. Of the loan lads Wood was the pick, a real handful. When McGowan gets on a decent surface he'll do some damage, he lost his footing twice when making breaks on the Odsal potato field.

Thought Fax lacked much punch in the middle and cutting edge. Like us they had players out but a smaller squad and it showed.

I thought it was a committed performance. Not the well oiled machine, as you’d expect with that many debutants and players out, but everyone worked hard.

I just can’t believe we won against what is a far better team and club overall than us. Plus we are about to go bust (despite making a profit last year and new investors coming on board).

John Davies a stand off, who would have thought it.

Doro was/is an animal. Souter is class. When the season finally gets some consistency he's just going to get better and better. Dan Smith had his best game for us. Fulton looks a find, think he'll destroy championship when ground firms up.

One thing I noticed, was when we were setting up to attack their line, was how deep our attacking line was. Our winger was on the 40m line!

Still need to work on our discipline. Some frustrating 6 agains on the last tackle was the only reason Fax got in our half. When we tidied that up we looked a level above despite all our injuries.

Was it McGowan with the try saver in the second half? Thought that was the game breaker. We looked comfortable at that point, but it would have been a sucker punch against the run of play, suddenly Fax look confident and we're clinging onto the lead. Massive play!

It was McGowan and Souter that got back to make that try saver.

I don't know what EOC said at half time but it did the trick in terms of the poor discipline. In the first half we gave Fax tons of possession and field position with heaps of penalties and six agains, not to mention our mistakes. We looked a much better outfit in the second half.

Fax seemed to run out of steam and only seemed up for it when Doro was out there. Not sure why they had Keyes on the bench at all. Finn was given a coaching lesson.

Interesting side note George Flanagan posted pic of team feed on Twitter… I’m sure I can see Tom minns there

I've seen the same picture. It's definitely him. Interesting...

Full game on the both clubs YouTube channel, I chose to watch the 2nd half with Fax commentary..it added some extra saltiness!!

Thomas Minns rubbishing the rumours