BULLS SQUAD:

Aston, Bentley, Butterworth, Caro, Halafihi, Hallas, Hodgson, Keyes, Kirk, L.Smith, Macani, Magrin, Moore, Oledzki, Peltier, Pickersgill, Ryan, Sironen, Wilkinson.

Moore back for us. Nice to see Hodgson, Butterworth, Pickersgill and Wilkinson in there too. Although Dewsbury have been known to bully us in the pack so maybe this is a bit lightweight? Then again we didn't have Sironen last time we played them.

I'd go for:

2. Ethan Ryan
18. Omari Caro
1. Lee Smith
26. Vila Halafihi
5. Iliess Macani
41. Cory Aston
7. Joe Keyes
8. Liam Kirk
34. Scott Moore
15. Jon Magrin
20. James Bentley
35. Evan Hodgson
10. Damian Sironen

29. Sam Hallas
17. Ross Peltier
21. Brandan Wilkinson
31. Mikolaj Oledzki

That's the team I think will win. However I'd love to see Butterworth in there too to give him gametime to prepare for next season.

What has happened to Tonga?!

I was going to say, or rather ask 'is he still injured' but there is no mention of him ln the club's injury report on the website. Even more strangely, he isn't mentioned on the club's first team squad list either, which begs the deeper question of whether he is still here?

Well we can't say we weren't warned about him when it was first mooted he was signing for us.

Team for today:

Ryan

Caro
Smith
Halafihi
Macani

Aston
Keyes

Oledzki
Hallas
Kirk
Bentley
Hodgson
Sironen

Roche
Moore
Wilkinson
Peltier

I'm more interested as to where Oakes is? Wasn't he supposed to be back during the Shield?

Aston scores from a 1 on 1 ball steal. Converts his own try.

Dewsbury then score following a lucky bounce a minute or so later.

6-6

Dewsbury score. 12-6.

Following on Twitter, Dewsbury appear to have been given a penalty every one of their sets except one. Are we really that indisciplined?

Peltier scored 2 minutes before halftime. Aston converts. 12-12.

FINAL SCORE:

Dewsbury Rams (12)
Bradford Bulls (16)

BULLS TRIES: Cory Aston, Ross Peltier, Lee Smith
BULLS GOALS: Cory Aston 2/3

That makes it 4 wins from the past 5 games. I don't know whether to be happy or frustrated. Where was this when we actually needed it?

Dont think its coincidence that we've dropped the dross of Mendeika, Thomas & C. Smith and the hungry young players of Hodgson, Wilkinson etc are having a dig. Another good win for a young side.

According to the injury report on the website he's, "expected to return next week". We shall see.

Ross is back in full training now and just missed out for this weeks game. Hopefully if picked will be playing next week.

Farewell appearance perhaps?

One would assume so - good luck to the lad he deserves his chance.

watched the highlights on YouTube and it could have been by more. Thought Sykes was harshly sin binned, didn't look like a shoulder charge to me.

Considering what Keyes and Thomas had to put up with last time we played there this only begins to redress the balance.

My first thought was that it was a shoulder charge but maybe just a penalty rather than a yellow card. However if you watch the highlights again, you'll see when Ethan kicks off with Sykes, he appears to suggest something had happened twice (holds up two fingers, but not in the sweary sense, during his complaint). Perhaps Sykes was already on shaky ground for an incident previous, and this just said he needed to go and settle down?

that's a good point, the highlights wouldn't show that too.

true. given how soft it looked, I would say we're still quite a bit down on that score too.