Which Bulls will turn up? Sheffield mode or Fev/Workington mode?

I'll stick my neck out and put us down for a win by 32

I am going to go us by 12.

Dewsbury always seem up for it against us. However I think (hope) the Workington game came at the right time to give our boys a swift kick up the backside that if they get complacent, they'll end up embarrassed.

On paper, we should be beating any of the teams left in the competition. However it's not played on paper. If we play like we did against Sheffield though, we will beat any of the remaining sides.

Can we ask to move the final to Old Trafford or Wembley to accommodate the massive crowd.

Have Dewsbury been subbed for a Hull Team??

Oh, I remember those days FC [ialways[/i used to bring over 45K and as for Rovers, well I'm sure we made all their games at Odsal all ticket, didn't we?

TBF KR always did bring a sizeable mob though. Noisy too.

Both Hull clubs brought good support, true enough. It was just that even[i their[/i, admittedly large following could never match the numbers claimed by their fans on the forums!

All part of a weird phenomenon. The main symptoms include a genetic ability to "know" what the size of a crowd is, just by looking at it. The innately divined attendance is invariably much less than any figure published, unless a case needs to be made for a tax fiddle, in which case there were obviously many more there than officially claimed.

A good frequent example of this is the figure for how many "own fans" were in attendance, where the published figures are perversely always several factors less than the thousands who actually attended. However the reason for that is not financial, but to disparage and do down the travelling hordes. Obvs.

But there are times when something odd IS going on. Our announced crowd at Batley for example was silly, and was subsequently revised upward. Even the revised figure was curiously low. The accompanying explanation from Batley basically amounted to "We lost count, probably over a 1000, dunno really".

You could be forgiven for questioning whether that's all a result of ineptitude or cunning.

Didn't see Diskin last weekend? If the u19's season is over, do you think we've let him go already?

If we win is the final the week after?

Maybe, when are you available?

Diskin has left the club I think - I'm pretty sure I read on the club website that his last game was the last academy game

Very true, FA.

One thing I will say is that it is much easier to guess the crowd in an all seater stadium, where the stand capacities are known, than in a standing area where crowd density makes it very difficult to make any kind of estimate.

Ha ha, just trying to gauge when it is





Got my boy next couple of Saturdays so will be able to make the semi and final if its next couple of weeks. Although might have to sample hospitality again was in there for the Halifax game as a friend of mine does the entertainment was a good afternoon

19 man squad unchanged from last week

9. Adam O’Brien – sponsored by The Monro Family
10. Adam Sidlow – sponsored by Gareth and Ruth Rider
23. Alex Mellor – sponsored by The Top House
25. Ben Kavanagh – sponsored by B.M.G Leeds
12. Dale Ferguson – sponsored In Memory of Helen Butterworth
7. Dane Chisholm – sponsored by 39 Steps Consulting
13. Danny Addy – sponsored by Bear Boating Canal Boat Holidays
5. Danny Williams – sponsored by Phoenix Gates and Metal Fabrication
29. Ethan Ryan – sponsored by The Red, Amber and Black Forum
44. James Bentley – sponsored by Aim To Learn
14. Jay Pitts – sponsored by John Fountain
43. Joe Keyes – sponsored by George Timberley, Amelia and Jayden Cuffe
39. Kieren Moss – sponsored by Helen Smith and Catherine Kendrick
4. Kris Welham – sponsored by Stuart Readyhough at Maclean and Company
40. Lewis Charnock
46. Liam Kirk – sponsored by Fabtek Installations
20. Mitch Clark – sponsored by Bradford Bulls Supporters Group
37. Ross Oakes – sponsored by Geoff and Maureen Hammond
11. Tom Olbison – sponsored by C and K Wood


I would certainly be swapping out Charnock for Keyes. And I think there's a case for maybe starting with Oakes and putting Mellor on the bench

Didn't we once have a stand-off back in the day .. Gascoigne or something. Are we saving him for the Final?

That ship has long sailed... never see him in any of the pre-match training videos either!

To be honest, with the size of our squad I'm pushed to see who's there and who isn't, not much room to see how the grass is growing either.

yes, the Final Mass Exodus team, he's captain, tasked with leading the team away from the pitch.

Yes we did. A lad called Gaskill - sponsored by Vanish products UK.

It's a real shame with Gaskell. He's gone from being a bit of a hero with our fans for staying with us when we got relegated and then winning Championship Player of the Year, to now being generally quite disliked for this "I don't want to play and risk being injured for Huddersfield" rubbish. Sad that he'll probably (and justifiably) be remembered for that, rather than the good stuff.

My soothsayer tells me that he'll be travelling to Shudds via Lourdes, where he will become miraculously fit, pull the bus back to Blighty, and play almost every 2017 game.