Kearney couldn't tackle a hot dinner

Be realistic, Kearney isn't going to get dropped.

But he'll probably get an injury at some stage and I'd like to see Kear given a run at full back in that eventuality

1. Kearney
2. Purtell
3. Lulia
4. Walker
5. Kear
6. Sammut
7. Gale
8. Scruton
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopzac
11. Langley
12. Whitehead
13. Donaldson

14. Diskin
15. Hargreaves
16. Burgess
17. Joseph

And here lies half the problem. Complacency sets in because we have too many players who look like they know they are un-droppable:-

-Kearney
-Scruton
-Hargreaves
-Langley

THey are all senior members of the team who are driving the culture of the team / club

or we could go with.

1. Kear
2. Ainscough
3. Purtell
4. Lulia
5. Crookes
6. Kearney
7. Gale
8. Langley
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopczak
11. Whitehead
12. Donaldson
13. Addy

14. Diskin
15. Burgess
16. Joseph
17. Hargreaves/Scruton/Ball

BB2011 I realise that your final 17 is a bit tongue in cheek though Kear does look a more all round full back than Kearney, but is Ball ready? much as I would like to see him in action, if hes only going to play 15 minutes that would not be worth it from the teams perspective.

I know Ball probably isn't ready I put him in as a joke

Is Sykes injured or dropped?

As I thought. It will be interesting to see how quickly he progresses, and generally how the U20's do this season, last 3 seasons results were 13 wins, 10 wins, 5 wins, so the only way is up. hopefully.

So the report in today's T&A article suggests Lulia and Pryce STILL won't be fit for the Cas game.
How can Lulia go from hoping to pass a last minute fitness test for the Catalns game last Friday, to still being unavailable for a game 10 days later?
Someone at the club is telling us a few porkies here.

he might well be fit, just keeping the opposition guessing. we did this all last season, no reason to suggest this year would be different.

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Pryce's recovery rate will be inversely proportional to Bulls lack of success.

TBF we do need to use every trick in the book.

Well Cas coach Slackjaw is a past master at that!

These are two Coachs who were both at Stains and know how successful that Clubs Style and Philosophy is.
We know how MP has struggled to change the way the Bulls have played albeit with a changing Squad and too many injuries.
It will be interesting to see how Slackjaw copes with changing the Cas one, though I don't think he will be able to do too much and will do a decent job, given that the Cas job is such that he can only improve things, MP has a weight of expectation on his shoulders and will struggle to get the Squad into a winning mentality
Both Coachs man management are clearly different in the way they approach the game, so it will be intersting to see who comes out on top this season

Quote ="Blotto"Boo Hoo! www.loverugbyleague.com/news_804 ... -boys.html'" Stop dishing up a pile of crap every week and show some effort perhaps?

Quote ="Blotto"Boo Hoo! www.loverugbyleague.com/news_804 ... -boys.html'" Stop dishing up a pile of crap every week and show some effort perhaps?

I think its fine for Donaldson to say this. He isnt criticising, but it is a little early to be booing imo.

The booing came at half time on Sunday. The Bulls were 20-0 down and showed no signs of that margin doing anything but get bigger.

TBH, I think we're well beyond the point were we should be booing after 5 years of under performing. The players need a kick up the backside and need to realise that the fans aren't going to stand for that kind of lack of effort served up on Sunday.

Given that Cas have finished above Bradford for the last 3 seasons I am struggling with that one.

I wasn't comparing the seasonal final positions but making a point that he has an easier job in improving Cas further, MP has a larger hill to climb at Bradford in comparison.

Think Donno and the rest of the players need to quit whinging and actually improve rather than just talk about it in the T&A.

Apprently some fans have very high expectations, well not on here they don't.

squad as expected, whitehead for Bateman, no Addy. so likely to be

Kearney
Kear
Walker
Purtell
Crookes
sammut
gale
scruton
diskin
koppy
whitehead
sibbit (hopefully the penalty free version)
langley

hargreaves
joseph/Burgess
Donaldson
lestrange

I think you will find its not the bulls players reeling off the same boring lines of "we need to step it up" it's that C9ck of a journo Ross, his headlines and boring articles make the lads look bad, he hasn't got anything positive to write so he lays the lads to be fed by the wolves

My expectations aren't high, I did however expect a massive effort from the squad to kick off the season. I wanted to see some passion and pride in the shirt, it never materialised.

IMO its not Joseph or Burgess its both of them drop Sibbit or Donaldson.