Get Bateman in for Elima/Burgess/Whitehead. Whoever misses the trip.

lose and I think we're gone. Desperately need the points. Cant see us beating wires or hull kr away. This season will soon turn into another write-off

Crossley
Bateman and
Sibbitt

All withdrawn from academy game today to provide cover for first team.

Err.. Loss by 20.

he was pure class against Hull and has been awesome all season - Robinson has him dominating the right side with good support from Farrar,Blanch & Raguin

his try when he just hung on to cross the line after an 80 metre dash against Tom Briscoe was one of THE great RL moments of recent times...

can't see us getting the win without kearney. worst defence in the league at the moment and our main attacker is out injured.

Catalan are looking pretty good and have dispatched infinately superior teams to us these last few weeks. I don't think we'll pose a problem.

Away from home, after a tough weekend and a flight. With no playmaker and lots of injuries. After a serious of embarrassing defeats, against a team on the up....




It's all set up for a Bulls win!

T&A suggesting that it will Sykes at 6 www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... stand_off/ If we're reduced to playing Sykes at 6 we might as well give up....

T&A suggesting that it will Sykes at 6 www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... stand_off/ If we're reduced to playing Sykes at 6 we might as well give up....

Poor coaching if it's true

Repeating myself I know but...

I think at the minute this is Connor's opinion based on the fact Briggs played yesterday. Unless he knows something beyond that I'm not that convinced yet.

Briggs can easily play in the u20s on Friday and still play on Monday. I'm hoping that Potter, like the rest of us, wanted to see if Briggs performance at Salford was a blip. Given it sounds like he played well yesterday I'm really hoping he plays. If he's still got problems with his knee then fine leave him out but otherwise he should man up and play.

I'm less violently against the idea of Sykes playing at centre or fullback than some but he's not the answer at stand off. Play Briggs while Kearney is out and find out if he is up to the job.

Surely it's more likely though that briggs won't play Monday because he played yesterday over cause he played yesterday he'll play Monday.

What is the team in the T and A?

Sorry to troll in but last season,didn't young Sam Tomkins play for England (against france ?) one day then turn out for W***n the following day ?

BULLS SQUAD FOR CATALANS ANNOUNCED

Paul Sykes, Ian Sibbit and Steve Crossley are all in Mick Potter's 19 man Squad to face Catalans Dragons in Perpignan on Monday.
Brett Kearney and Tom Burgess are injured and miss out and there is no place for James Donaldson in the 19 although he will travel to France with the Squad when they leave early on Sunday morning.
The Squad in full is:  Ainscough, Ah Van, Bateman, Crossley, Diskin, Elima, Hargreaves, Herbert, Kopczak, L'Estrange, Lynch, Olbison, Platt, Raynor, Royston, Sibbit, Sykes, Walker, Whitehead. 

Yes so di Sean O'Loughlin and Joel Tomkins, Darrell Goulding.

Looks like Connor was correct. Sykes at stand off. **sigh**

Ok then, I'm guessing

Royston
Ainscough
Platt
Walker
Ah Van
Sykes
Herbert
Lynch
L'Estrange
Hargreaves
Whitehead
Elima
Olbison

Kopczak
Crossley
Bateman
Diskin

My thoughts as well. I don't understand why Briggs was singled out in the Salford game, did he not just have the same nightmare everybody else did?

Add to that he'd surely be desperate to show fans and coach his worth, he would have had all the motivation in the world going into the Cats game. Sykes seems to me that he's had his time as a stop gap stand off, hope he proves me wrong if we go with him at 6, but Briggs would have been my option.

Well hopefully Sykes and Herbert will click and we can get something going. Long term I hope Briggs being left out is only down to his knee rather than Potter thinking he's not good enough. Sooner we get a settled half back partnershop the better.

On the plus side, if they play, Crossley and Bateman will have something to prove and bring some enthusiasm. Crossley especially should be keen to make an impression after the way Burgess has come into the team. With any luck it'll be like Quins where Koppy, Addy and Burgess lifted the pace of our game as soon as they came on.

Donaldson is a big loss I think, number of tackles he puts in will be missed.

Bateman surley on the Bench for this one, he's been 18th man in gods knows how many gmes now. Also hope Sykes has a stormer at 6. And hopefully Royston will actually play FB this week instead of defending at 6.

Why no Donno? Injured, rested or dropped?

We are driving up to Perpignan tomorrow from LLoret. It was San Jorge day yesterday and we got on the local news. We followed the TV cameras and a local political hotshot at the market and my 5yr old managed to get his Bradford Bulls cap in the background on 2 shots! COYB

Who cares that Donno is missing, he does nothing anyway.

Probably a tad overstated



He puts in a shift defensively if nothing else. But I must say he has yet to show me that he's the world beater that he was cracked up to be

Of course, at the moment, he's coming back after a serious injury. Hence, I assume, why he is rested this week.

Donno has had far too much expectation on him. I have been disappointed with him, but only really on the back of this expectation. He doesn't seem big enough to me. I'd imagine he's not quite fully fit to cope with 2 games in such a short space of time.

I also thought Whitehead was going to have a big season, but it's not to be yet.