www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/442 ... AN%20SQUAD Paul Sykes, Jamie Langley, Rikki Sheriffe, Craig Kopczak, James Donaldson, Nick Scruton, Steve Menzies, Ben Jeffries, Wayne Godwin, Matt Cook, Dave Halley, Chris Nero, Andy Lynch, Semi Tadulala, Glenn Morrison, Sam Burgess, Michael Worrincy, Michael Platt, Paul Deacon.

www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/442 ... AN%20SQUAD Paul Sykes, Jamie Langley, Rikki Sheriffe, Craig Kopczak, James Donaldson, Nick Scruton, Steve Menzies, Ben Jeffries, Wayne Godwin, Matt Cook, Dave Halley, Chris Nero, Andy Lynch, Semi Tadulala, Glenn Morrison, Sam Burgess, Michael Worrincy, Michael Platt, Paul Deacon.

Was told earlier in the week that Halley's injury was a dead leg. Wasn't sure if he was gonna be ok for this match or not, so we'll just have to wait and see I suppose.

IF, (yes in capitals) Halley is out - who goes to Fullback?

Do we entrust Platt or Sykes?

The easy option is Sykes, but is Jeffries fit enough to play a full game and defend with Platt and Sheriffe down our right side?

Halley best be match fit is all I can say - I've very little confidence in the other options as the Platt option means moving four or five players. Sykes option probably less so but still not great.

IMO Platt should go to FB in the absence of Halley, he's had a few good games under his belt now and his confidence is returning.

He looked to moving ok last night at Queenys training.

It was Monday morning when I was told, so sounds like it might have cleared up. Good news if so.

Didn't they say his removal on Sunday was precautionary

If Halley is fit then I would leave Jeffries and Worrincy out.

Halley. Sheriffe. Platt. Nero. Tadulala. Sykes. Deacon. Scruton. Godwin. Lynch. Morrison. Langley. Menzies. Subs: Kopczak. Burgess. Donaldson. Cook.

Say what they want, it was a dead leg, I assure you.

Worrincy played well last match, and has a knack of getting in the right place at the right time, we may need that.



Halley
Sheriffe
Platt
Nero
Tadulala
Sykes
Deacon
Lynch
Godwin
Scruton
Morro
Langers
Menzies

Koppy
Worrincy
Burgess
Donaldson

Besides his awesome track back to deny the guy that try he was his same usual self which is pretty poor. He only played about 15 mins anyway. Didnt do anything for me.

I know, but I think his extra pace in the pack, plus his bigi game scoring record would seal it for me. That was quality though, gotta admit.

Agreed. The track back was quite superb, but as someone pointed out, they only got through in the first place because of the gap Worrincy left (although I myself didn't see who left the gap admittedly).

I'd rather see Donaldson in there, but as long as Worrincy doesn't go shooting out of the line leaving stupidly big gaps, I'm ok with him for the moment.

It was, him and Platt that fannied about at that tackle.

With Donaldson you know that you're going to get a good defender because he gets into good position to make the tackle and then makes it count instead of being brushed out or being caught short.

Apparently Worrincy is struggling to be fit so more great news.

Whats wrong with him ?

He went off holding and stretching his lower back if that's any indication.

He looked to be in considerable pain when he came off. I hope he makes a full recovery, but we could do with a safer player in the squad on Friday.

Looking at [url=http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/2058Saints 19 man squad[/url it doesn't look like they're taking the "Millward" path into the final and resting all their top players.


1. Paul Wellens, 2. Ade Gardner, 3. Matt Gidley, 5. Francis Meli, 6. Leon Pryce, 7. Sean Long, 9. Keiron Cunningham, 11. Lee Gilmour, 12. Jon Wilkin, 13. Chris Flannery, 14. James Roby, 15. Bryn Hargreaves, 16. Tony Puletua, 17. Paul Clough, 18. Kyle Eastmond, 23. Maurie Fa’asavalu, 24. Andrew Dixon, 28. Matty Ashurst, 31. Jake Emmitt.

After Stains performance at the Whinos last week I think they need to field as strong a team as possible to get used to their game plan tbh they looked a bit out of sorts against Leeds.