What score are we thinking?

Half time or full time?!

This is a game we have a habit of loving up. Hope we don't fall in love with our selves and come out with the same attitude and intent as the Whitehaven game

Absolutely agree. We need to come out and start with the same purpose and intent as yesterday. Put the game to bed by half time..

Knowing us it will probably be a 14-13 win with a last minute drop goal

I'm hoping for the same as yesterday. As you said pit it to bed by half time. Then a draw between Featherstone and Halifax would do nicely oh and London to beat batley.

We stuffed Oldham on their patch with effectively half a team. I would expect a similar result to that one this time around, considering the players now available to us coupled with home advantage, which should offset the fact they were part timers playing three games in a week.

And they had a team that most of them had done a full day's work before the match too. Yes, we should still be stuffing them, but the midweek game isn't one to judge it by.

Agreed.

However, this is a game we CANNOT afford to stuff up. Promotion or not, for the sake of our income next year we have to finish in the four and with all that in mind we can't go into the game in any kind of half d, we only need to turn up, sort of manner - not even if that is, to some extent, true. We all know what happens to basically 'good' teams who don't turn up for the fight; they get beaten. We certainly should know, 'cos we've been following such a team all season and seen it too many times already this year.

I'm not suggesting for a second we treat it as a cup final, but we MUST turn up determined to win the physical battle, and treat it more or less in the same manner we do against Leigh. Last weekend's results seem to have thrown us a lifeline and we must try to take it, so no complacency, get stuck in and if we're 50 points up by half-time I really won't care about anything else.

Also Oldham have been competitive in pretty much most of their games this year. It will be a scrap early on. I hope Rohan's hammering the point home that just because we put 60 passed Whitehaven, we shouldn't be trying to score on every play. Get in the dog fight, complete our sets and let Chisholm and Moss produce the magic.

Well, we won't know until kick-off what mood we're in, but they have got Barry Manilow doing the pre-match show with "Could It Be Magic"

To be honest BM, I wouldn't expect any side coached by Scott Naylor to be anything less than competitive. If we match their physicality we definitely have the class to put plenty on them - but we won't do that if our pack is going backwards. We should be physically fitter and hopefully, if we're at least their equals mentally, then we should win easily. Which is all very easy to say...

But you all know that we will murder poor old Oldham, they're playing us at just the wrong time, and should be quaking in their boots. Stop beating around the bush and tell it like it is.

Providing we win, can anyone see either of Batley or Halifax slipping up this weekend allowing us to take into our own hands in the final round??

After this weekend Fev could also have a top 4 place in their own hands

Big games this weekend.

Think if we beat Oldham, London beat batley and fax beat fev it should be down to us and batley for the last spot then all we need to do is avoid a loss at fev dead easy right. Provided barley don't rack up a record in their last game.

So if we win, Feathestone and London both win, won't that mean that Featherstone and Bradford will only need a draw in the last game to both qualify?
That could be interesting. What's to stop both teams sitting down on the pitch for 80 mins and having a cup of tea?

All them dirty Leeds dual reg players Fev will be full of.

Depends on points difference.

3 Halifax RLFC 21 13 7 1 573 419 154 27
4 Batley Bulldogs 21 13 7 1 496 441 55 27
5 Bradford Bulls 21 12 7 2 673 414 259 26
6 Featherstone Rovers 21 13 8 0 551 364 187 26

Fax + Batley would need a big score in their final game if that where happen, imagine the total uproar if it did, seen it in football and i dont have a problem with teams doing that.

If Naylor has a good look at the 2nd half Bulls performance, he won't be that worried especially if they get another naïve Ref and can get away with laying on and get in yer face also the occasional lower body massage, the Bulls lacked the gnarly leadership needed to get them through a poor patch when momentum was lost, someone with a gnarly type character like ............Jimmy Lowes!

Phil Bentham in charge of Bulls/Oldham this week.

Couple of other Super League refs also reffing Championship this weekend. Wonder why?

Ooh have we a new tea lady? I'm a bit behind on such matters?

Well, yes, we both know it's true, but the one thing to prevent it is if [iour team[/i go into the game believing it.

Not that I'm so narcissistic as believe that a single one of them will ever read anything I write, or even if they did, take a blind bit of notice... Just don't want to be a hostage to fortune

Are those sponsors amongst us meeting up in the Coral Stand? FA pls can you confirm?

Has anybody heard if any of our injured player are due to return for this one? Gaskell was mentioned as targeting the Oldham game but it's all gone quiet on that front. What's up with Ferguson?