Yes, I think it will be something close to that. Possibly Crossley starting and Magrin off the bench - but surely it will be that starting 17

Squads are out

Bulls:
Dane Chisholm steve Crossley Rhys Evans Connor Farrell George Flanagan Matty Garside James Green Sam Hallas Jy Hitchcox Liam Kirk Jordan Lilley Jon Magrin Elliot Minchella Ross Oakes Brandon Pickersgill Ethan Ryan Jake Webster Matty Wildie Mikey Wood


Fev:Ase Boas, Brad Day, Calum Turner, Cameron King, Conor Carey, Danny Maskill, Harry Newman, Jack Ormondroyd, Jack Render, James Lockwood, John Davies, Josh Hardcastle, Josh Walters, Luke Briscoe, Luke Cooper, Scott Wheeldon, Spencer Darley, Thompson Teteh, Watson Boas.

Think Matty Storton very very unlucky to miss out. If Garside or Hallas are selected they have to step up and deliver the goods. Can't have any passengers in this league.

Fev have 4 Dr players. I think their back line looks very strong, so it will be a good battle with ours. From first look their pack looks slightly light weight as I think they have 4 props (is that correct Feb fans) but as I said earlier, we can't have players going through the motions. We have to come our firing if we want the win.

Damn, was really hoping Keyes would be ok for this one.

Based on how we have played in pre-season, Wheeldon, Cooper, Ormondroyd and Lockwood are all "middles", though only Wheeldon of those 4 is a traditional prop shape - Ormondroyd as I'm sure you know is tall and skinny, Cooper is squat, Lockwood is typical back-row shape but is very tough.

Brad Day will play left edge 2nd row and right edge 2nd row will be one of Hardcastle/Walters or Davies - it has been Davies for the last 3 years but the new coaching staff seem to have been playing him as a middle.

Interesting game and not easy to predict as none of the likely 7 Fev starting backs nor the starting hooker were even at the club 3 weeks ago.

Think Stortons got a knock. Guess at Hallas and Oakes to miss out

Storton is not injured.

It's a pretty strong Bulls team however you want to frame it.

Possible line up:

Pickersgill
Ryan
Evans
Webster
Hitchcox
Illey
Chisholm
Kirk
Wildie
Crossley
Garside
Minchella
Wood

Flanagan, Green, Hallas & Magrin on the bench with Farrell and Oakes missing out.

Very suprised quite a few have Farrell on the bench or even outside the 17!
Hes been great in pre season and absolutely immence in the game at Batley.
For me it a total no brainer, hes a certainty to start in the second row along side Mini

For that to happen would mean Garside misses out completely. He’s not a bench player. As the ball dies a lot with Garside I wouldn’t have minded seeing a Minchella/Farrell second row with Storton off the bench. But Garside/Minchella with Farrell on the bench works for me.

Yeah I agree Farrell starts for me. Garside will interchange with Wood and probably see Minchella go in at loose.

I think both the guys you got from us (Fev), Farrell and Wildie, are players you will appreciate more and more as the season goes on.
Nothing flashy about Farrell but he's usually pretty solid. Wildie has a fine rugby brain and will marshall you really well at hooker, he was one of the players I was most disappointed to lose at the end of lasts eason.

I agree. They both appear to be very good Championship players and have improved our squad.

Farrell defo in for me.

In case of any doubt.Game definitely goes ahead the club have just confirmed.

The sun appears to be out where I am so today may not be as glacial as I thought. Excellent work by the ground staff to get the game on.

Trust me, it is not a warm day in this part of the world.

Wrap up well folks.

anyone know where the game is online/streamed? ... got bcb open (please dont make me listen) mixlr open facebook open youtube open lol edit... looks like not on bcb .. on pulse 2 https://www.pulse2.co.uk/

anyone know where the game is online/streamed? ... got bcb open (please dont make me listen) mixlr open facebook open youtube open lol edit... looks like not on bcb .. on pulse 2 https://www.pulse2.co.uk/

Does not seem to be being streamed on FB. Maybe able to watch on YT on Wednesday.

yeah not streamed ... been trawling around the internet an hour before the game to find any commentary. not even on bcb (

but

) ... it was only on a hunch that i searched for pulse and got Mick with Pelts so happy days



proper winter style rugby, really attritional ... gonna be won on who makes the least mistakes .. 4-6 to fev ht

17-16 Bulls



real hard game but listening we ground out that win

i think until we find our championship feet, we are gonna have to grind out wins like this

interesting results already ... close at york, swinton getting a thumping, didnt think Batley would lose and a good win for Leigh

Will take that. Was certainly a grind. Both teams completion rate was excellent considering the conditions. Thought we had blown it when we were 16-10 up, ignored the chance for a DG, then conceded a pen on the 5th tackle for them to score under the posts.

Fev looked like a team that probably still need a few more games playing together. They will definitely improve. Having said that we will as well. We weren't great at certain points. But it's exactly the type of game we would have lost in the past.

Onto Swinton.

Not a classic by any stretch of the imagination but it wasn't going to be in those conditions. We really missed Keyes and his kicking, and in the first half the kicking from Lilley was poor, with the chase being non existant too. Fev looked value for money, and their kicking was much better than ours. And they made more ground in the tackle too. We missed our on a couple of scores with people not backing themselves in my eyes, but that confidence will come throughout the season hopefully.

What happened with the scrapping in the stand? We were stood behind some young Fev lads who were pretty lairy, sweary and looking for bother, and the shenanigans in the crowd happened not long after they joined the throng. We don't need that sort of behaviour in the game at all.

Couldn’t make the game due to work but certainly a great result against a quality Championship outfit. Looks like it was a mud fest from the pictures, this time of the season is all about grinding out results like this.