I'm pretty confident we won't be the same all year. We started like a house on fire last time round, only to find the season stopped before it really got started. This season we've been awful to be frank, but I'm sure we'll improve and someone will 'cop it' when we do. Not sure that team will be Fax though, to be honest. Unlike us they seem to be firing on all cylinders and according to reports, playing like a team.

Maybe we'll dig in and they'll be found wanting? RL often goes to the side which wants it the most and that's what we have to do. I think we have enough quality in the side to challenge anyone but without the bit of 'dog' we'll win nothing.

Our record at Dewsbury is not that great and usually when we do win its a bit of a struggle. I don't see this game been much different and Bradford should be fired up after the appaling Sheffield performance. We had some important players missing against Batley so it was hard to read too much in to that result where as London were awful so again its hard to read too much in to that. What I did like against London is that we moved the ball around against London and even though the pitch is pretty tight at Dewsbury, if we do that against bradford I do not think they will have the fitness to cope going on what I have seen of them so far.

Last time out it looked like Nige had taken the chairman's role and the conditioning role with sessions held a Spicey Cottage not Tong. Can't see past another d1cking at this point.

Halifax have just signed Adam Tangata, so a bit more quality added to their pack.

It's said a few Championship clubs were in for him. I wonder if the bulls were one of them? I'm not sure about having a player back for a third time but he's certainly a stand out in this league.

Meanwhile we are sat here still waiting for the 3 Super Leage players that were joining us in time for the start of the season.

Who knows, we have just lost England from the squad but I suspect Ben Evans was brought in as his replacement with the knowledge that England was finished. I'm not optimistic there is much left in the budget for anything other than few youngsters from somewhere like Leeds.

For this week I’d go for:

Pickersgill
Sanderson
Hamlett
Oakes
Wallis/DFJ
Brough
Lilley
Crossley
Doyle
Fleming
Murphy
Gallagher
B. Evans

Jowitt/Berry
Nzoungou
Walker
Scurr/B. England

York have loaned Joe Keyes from Hull KR as well, among others. Plenty of champ clubs doing business, except for us of course.

Mainly 2 week loan deals though aren't they. Not really the solution IMO

If Keyes sets the world a light he'll just go back to KR and its more chopping and changing at HB York will have to do. I think York have a few injuries anyway which is why they've brought those players in short term. As much as I would have liked to change the entire team after the Sheffield debacle, we know too well using 40+ players rarely works.

Anyway signing one or two SL academy players won't change anything. It's how we prepare and turn up attitude wise that needs sorting. I'd have liked to have signed Tangaata, but won't make much difference if the other 16 players play like they did against Sheffield.

See what sort of attitude we turn up with this week.

We could certainly have used Keyes. It would allow Lilley to fill in at hooker to give Doyle a break and give us more options at halfback, providing someone who has a running threat. Tangata would have provided us with some real impact and coming from SL he'd have raised the fitness standard in the pack too.

Never mind though, we can see whether Walker can fit into his shirt this week instead.

That 17 you picked looks alright on paper Bulls Boy (apart from Walker that is) - it ought to be playing a lot better than it has been doing.

Gledhill says we have a new player coming in next week. I hope its Wildie. I would have him back in a shot and I see he hasn't got in the Leigh 21 squad for this week.

Wildie would be an improvement and can cover halfback too. I'm not getting my hopes up though.

I stopped reading after the 1st 2 words.

Wildie would be a fantastic signing but can’t see it happening!

With Fax and Bulls for a couple of years now result wise anything could happen and I will be going or rather watching the game completely unable to predict who will come away with the result.
For me that's just how it should be, give me the uncertainty, the nervousness, the if we play like this we'll get hammered but if we play like that we could just do it, any day of the week.
Where else do we get the game days highs and lows

You’ll hammer us this week.

Please please give me a birthday win bulls

Line up.

Pickersgill
Brown
Evans
Oakes
DFJ
Lilley
Brough
N'Zoungou
Doyle
Crossley
Rooks
Murphy
Evans

Jowitt
Scurr
Fleming
B. England

Very surprised Brown selected. Can't really single out anyone from the shambles against Sheffield, but he looked like a player who's confidence has been shot (not helped by us playing him in multiple positions and then made up positions)

What's happened to Hamlett, Sanderson and England? Poor team selection in my opinion if all are fit.

Scurr is so big they have to cut him in half to occupy 2 sub spots

Brad England on the bench.

Not a bad lineup but would have had Hamlett in for Rhys Evans (although Kear won’t drop Evans) and obviously Sanderson in for Brown. Only poor selection really is Brown unless Sanderson has a knock or niggle? And with Wallis gone we have no back up wingers now.

Well the stream works this week. May not be a good thing though

when is (im assuming limited) fans return? was it some time in May?

is the game underway?