So this is it. No more second chances. No more we'll put things right next week. This game and the next are the biggest the club have faced since that ill-fated Fev match. This one arguably more important than next as if we lose this, that's it, we're out. We SHOULD win this. Beaten Oldham twice and with them possibly having 3 suspended (incluidng two props) we should win. But we absolutely have to be on the ball. No more slack, schoolboy errors. Personally i'd line up like below (Egodo in place of Pownall if he's fit)

Pickersgill/Mcnally
Pownall
Gibson
Hytchcox
Ryan
Keyes
Chisholm
Bustin
Lilley
Crossley
Minchella
Storton
Wood

Flanagan
Peltier
Green
Garside

All pay on Sunday. Season tickets not valid as its a shared gate.

Keeps coming into my mind today that if we’d have not messed around with an outside back and a half on the bench vs Workington we wouldn’t be here.

But here we are, York deserved to go up and I think we have all got a bit negative to say we have only lost 3 times in the league.

If we can win Sunday we have 2 chances to go up. We can do this and despite some disappointing performances this year I still believe we have the right man in Kear to guide us onwards and upwards over the next couple of years.

This will be a tough game though, no doubt about it. Oldham will be thinking exactly the same as us answer would relish 2 chances to go up!

Hallas over Flanagan for me. Aggression and AWork rate needed.

Hallas's distribution is shocking! Either back-row or not at all.

Said no Bulls fan ever!

AS it's a shared gate do we know what the prices are? I believe that when it's the case in CC gate prices are open to joint discussion

£18 standing £23 sitting

Prices go up £2 on the day of the game

Except if you lose in the Final. Then you get a second chance against either Rochdale or Swinton.

Do we get a 3rd chance if Leigh go pop?

I'd start Flanagan. Hallas maybe on the bench or in the backrow. I'd also only pick two of Keyes, Chisholm and Lilley. I'd say Lilley misses out.

McNally/Pickersgill
Hitchcox
Gibson
Egodo/Oakes
Ryan
Keyes
Chisholm
Crossley
Flanagan
Bustin
Garside
Minchella
Wood

Hallas
Peltier
Green
Storton

Totally agree with that side mate

No room for Lilley in this side. He was poor again on Sunday and if you can't make an impact in a game like that against poor opposition when are forwards are so dominant, then I think the writing is on the wall.
If Kear persists with shoehorning him into the side next year, it will be to our detriment.

That won't matter if we lose on Sunday

Asbsolutely. We only need two halves in a game and JK has to decide which two it it is. Before the next game preferably.

Not sure where I am with Hallas. He looks ineffective for long periods and then puts in a solid shift of good work - will the real Sam Hallas stand up, please?

I'm also sitting on the fence with Flanagan. He has to be in the side, but as a starter or off the bench? As old Will Shakespeare once said, "that is the question". The only thing I'm certain of is that I'm not really sure...

Jack Smith the man in the middle on Sunday

We're the RFL's pets, we can have as many chances as we like

What I would like to see is the team come out fired up, and clearly at least as enthused, sharp and pacy as our opponents, playing like they both mean it and believe it.

What I would NOT like to see is a repeat of the York first half debacle, where in a huge game, we don't turn up in the first half, or the MPG where Wakefield visibly seemed to want it more than we did.

If somebody outplays us in a fine hard game, I'm alright with that, but those sort of inexplicable displays I find hard to take.

I think we're all in agreement there FA. I still find it baffling that we came out so passive versus York. Did Kear have them listening to whale song in the dressing room while the joss sticks were burning?

The Oldham 3 have all got one match bans and are missing on Sunday.

Anyone know if the playoffs will be shown on facebook/proper sport?

Proper sport will shoe bulls games and the ouRLeague app will show donny v Worky.

Regarding the hooking role, i'd rather Halafihi be there ahead of Hallas. We absolutely can not afford sloppy distribution on the first tackle. We just have to go set for set with Oldham.

To be fair, whilst we were clearly not at the races early on, I actually thought that it was York who had blundered by expending all their energy so early on, and that very nearly proved to be the case at the end. I don't think I've seen any team come out so energised and run around quite like that. In the end we lost though, so I guess history says we definitely should have tried a bit harder to counter what they did in the first half hour.

Yes but will they allow 3 replacements to play, or do they have to play with 10 men? Against which we still were unable to even look like scoring?

Think that on a bigger pitch and with Kear's words hopefully ringing in their ears we should be able to get a decent win as we did in the home league game.