Discuss the game here . . . . .

Our proverbial bogey side of recent seasons are next up for the battle hardened Bulls.

Again as was the case with the Leeds game it's a must win fixture where we should especially make home advantage count.

It'll feel strange having a Saturday afternoon kickoff at the request of Sky Sports.

The referee is Phil Bentham.

Must win game now with Castleford going through the cleaners down in Perpignan.

That game at the Jungle next Sunday is going to be of huge significance.

Brian are you free?

sounds like an REM song!

Looks like Catalans hitting form at the wrong time. Typical!

Don't have to win, though it would obviously help. Think we need at least one win off these, Hudds, Wigan or Wire tbh, even if we win all the rest of our games.

I don't think its must win, looking at the fixtures remaining if we win against the lower teams and cas lose the games they should we should be there I think. But any extra points are a boots and there are obviously weaker than hudds, wigan and wire.

They seem to like odsal though so I suspect it could be a win for the cats. We need to avoid injuries ahead of the week after more importantly

these are useful points rather than necessary points, but why the doom and gloom? aren't we starting to hit form ourselves now that most of the injuries are back and all those useless players only fit for the bin are suddenly performing eg Sibbit Herbert Royston? Recently have we not taken more points off teams higher than us than teams at the same level as us? Are we not praying that it will **** it down with a gale?

I do agree that it would seem that Castleford are the team to catch in the playoffs when you look at their next five games.

This is what I'm looking forward to this week:

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I hope he gets a hattrick.

Final score Bradford 36 vs 18 Catalans.

Kearney
Raynor
Platt
Crookes
Ah Van (Although expect to see them other way round)
Jeffries
Herbert
Lynch
Diskin
Kopzcak
Elima
Whitehead
Donaldson

Addy
Hargreaves
Scruton
Olbison (if fit) / Burgess

Why would you put addy in over burgess?

Addy's covering at Hooker?

He is a crap hooker anyways, take him 4/5seconds to get the ball picked up and pass.

Diskin (penalty sufficient) & Raynor (cautioned) are both available after being referred to disciplinary board.

Bk, crookes, pav, platt, raynor, bj, herb, lynch, disk, kop, bryn, ew, oli, burg, addy, scrut, don

agreed but Kops rather than Hargreaves 2nd row, the stats say it all, 4 tries, more meters per carry more tackle busts more offloads by Kops but Bryn much lower missed tackle rate so keep him in doing the business in the middle.

Koppy isnt a backrower by any means. He's a prop and prop only

I am not saying he is a 2nd row, just the better choice of a prop to play 2nd row against cats on the stats this season. at least we agree that as much muscle is required in the pack as possible.

I'd guess that Potter is more likely to play a prop at 13 than in the second row. He would still be defending in the middle 4 that way rather than putting a slower man on an edge. I'm pretty sure he played Hargreaves there earlier this year. My starting pack would be:
Lynch Diskin Koppy
Elima Whitehead
Hargreaves

Hargreaves played loose forward against Wigan

It didn't really work then, did it?

So, I guess the question we have to consider is why it would work now? This all seems to be based on the idea that since Catalans have a big pack, we should try and match them.An alternative scenario is to play a faster, lighter, fitter pack and try and run them off their feet. In other words, guys like Whitehead, Donaldson and Olbison (if fit) in the back row....

agreed, in B4C2010s team and my variation Whitehead and Donaldson are in there, Donaldson bench, for me that is to get at their forwards in the last 20 minutes and nick it by 1 point. shame Heath is injured as he would be the key to bring on, O'brien seemingly not in the reckoning.

Crookes deffo deserves to keep his place.

Like I say it'll come down to how much we have in the tank after last Friday's game.

we cnt play a small pack, theyl be run over and wont have enough gas to use any advantage in speed

I wouldn't disagree with the 5 prop option either. Herbert's kicking has to be spot on, which it was at headingley, otherwise a big pack can badly run out of petrol.