No Leon again, what’s up with him? He pulled out last week with illness. Must be pretty bad. Keyes in squad? Yet reported in T&A to be injured. Baffling. Still no Thomas.


I’d go with

Campbell
Macani
Smith
Oakes
Ryan
Lilley
Keyes
Murray
Moore
Magrin
Roche
Larroyer
Bentley

Wilkinson
Kirk
Jordan Roberts
Caro

If the T&A are right and Keyes misses out, it'll be interesting to see what they do.

Does Smith go to 6 and Caro or Halafihi play in the centre? Or does Moore go into the halves with Lumb coming in at hooker? Either way, no really ideal situations but if you're missing Pryce, Thomas, Keyes & Mendeika, with a cobbled together squad as it is, it's always going to be a struggle to fill positions with players who usually play there.

Indeed.

Reading the report again it may be that Keyes isn't that badly injured. Could just be an overreaction or he is injured and Beattie is playing tjings close to his chest.

Pryce's knees are keeping him out this week apparently.

If Keyes misses our then probably best just playing a backrower there and smashing the ball up.

Let Lilley and Moore control play. No point really trying to fit somebody into the stand off role if they're not used to playing it.

Rumour doing rounds that he has had a fall out with our antipodean holiday maker,

Seen the rumours on Facebook but I don't put a lot of stock in those.

More likely his knees are knackered.

But that wouldn't facilitate him being dropped. Since said Antipodean is only on his jollies and has no say whatsoever in the team. It's all Leigh Beattie. Ahem...

Seems odd us naming Keyes in squad after t&a making such a big deal out of him being injured. Mind games or someone ready to come into 19 to replace 'injured' player?

Not really sure there has been any particular, 'big deal', tbh, well other than on here and facebook, which given the T&A's lack of specific RL reporter, means they may well have picked up on it.

He picked some injury and he may or, may not, be fit is the basic story. He's in the squad, so it would appear they are, at least, hopeful he'll play. I think the idea we're playing mind games quite funny, though I'm sure Oldham would be pleased to think it.

The Bulls social media guru has been very helpful this afternoon and put the address and postcode of Oldham's ground for the fans on Twitter & Facebook.

Sadly, the address they've put is of Whitebank Stadium where Oldham don't play. But I'm sure fans will forgive if they follow the instructions to the wrong place.

Out of interest, what is the post code of the ground?

SK15 2RT for Bower Fold where the Bulls are playing.

OL8 3JH for Whitebank where the Bulls' social media guy is heading.

Not a bad little ground at Bower Fold - hope the weather is better than last year, it hoiked it down from memory.

By the way, any clue on ticket price? Can't find owt on Oldham or Stalybridge websits

Tickets in Bulls shop were £15 for adults. Don't know if they go up on the day. And yeah it never stopped raining when we were there midweek last year. Thankfully most areas were covered.

Hoping it's the Stockport post code as that's where I'm headed tomorrow! Trying to bring the nephew with me (Liverpool father and living in Manchester so got extra work to recruit as a bulls fan). Sister is due tomorrow with her second and is wanting to keep her family close by. So selfish!

From talking to a player today. Keyes will be playing. Wouldn't answer any questions about pryce though

Good luck with all that

Any tips on where to park, looks limited from the map?

Lost 26-22. That's a hammer blow. We really needed two points here because with the size of our squad, I fear we will get found out over Easter

We was rubbish today. Ref wasn't great but first half we was shocking

Sounded like another poor performance in terms of completion. Judging by the twitter updates it was just handling error after handling error. Literally every try we scored was backed up by a mistake letting Oldham back in. To concede that try right on half time was criminal.

Swinton and Dewsbury both lost but we're 9 points behind Oldham now and that going to be very difficult to claw back.

What a terrible game that was. We never got going and coughed up so much ball in the middle of the field. The longer the game went on the more we looked like losing. We looked a little bit nervous and lacking in leadership near the Oldham line. Scott Moore losing the ball 1:1 was the icing on the cake.

Fair play to Oldham, that match winning try was great counter-attacking rugby. We have to turn things around next week against Sheffield. We can't let anymore vital league points slip away.

Wasn't there, but it does seem there's a need for reinforcements pretty soon.Toovey must surely be giving feedback on what is still needed player wise.