So after the highlight of Saturdays victory we have another big game coming up. I think this will be a cracker as Halifax look much improved since we played them at their place and always seem to have a good performance in Blackpool. As do we. Important 2 points up for grabs here. Hopefully the last two games won't catch up with us.

Just hope we have enough in the tank after the effort on Saturday. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a hangover. Fax will be desperate for revenge for Good Friday. They’ve also got that new coach bounce. If we can avoid letting them build up a lead then we’re in with a chance but because of Saturday’s heroics I have them as slight favourites.

We’re going to be sick of the sight of each other by the end of the season. Three league games, a cup game and a possibility of a play off game too if both clubs finish in the top 5.

Plus another if we draw them in 1895 cup.

Plus the friendly we played for the Yorkshire Cup..

Have we ever played a side more than 6 times in a single season?

No reason why we can't beat Halifax now. We now have settled halves and first choice forwards at our disposal, though not our most potent wing and three quarter line. Funny really, at the start of the season we had these strike weapons available but depleted forwards and a different half combination every week. Thankfully our other lads e.g. DFJ are seemingly doing a good job for us at the moment in the absence of Hitchcox and Evans. I digress. Settled halves and first choice forwards = Bradford win in my book. Also, Bradford have crowd advantage at the Summer Bash year in year out. We take more than any other club I think, or perhaps similar to HKR and Leigh, and I think against Halifax that will count for something. Remember the first year of the Summer Bash against Halifax - narrow win IIRC and the crowd did not shut up for the entire game. It was remarkable. COYB.

Curtain raiser for the cup QF as well as a important league match. Both sides will want to put a marker down.

Does anyone know which stand we are in for the bash?

Wasn't going to attend due to work but that's moved now so will be free, want to but from bulls but say I need to collect from ground and living in Manchester that ain't gonna happen, so will buy from RFL, it does say south stand unreserved but then allocates me 2 seats.

Have you unearthed a BOGOF loophole?

The South Stand is behind the posts ,at the Hotel end, otherwise known as the Armfield Stand.

Unfortunately not. Mean to buy 2 tickets.

Don't want to be sat without the Fax fans so just wanted to make sure I was in the Bulls end

From memory I don’t believe there is anything to stop you changing ends anyway. You have allocated seats but we generally don’t stick to them, there’s enough space to find a better seat on the day.

Thanks will get them bought, haven't been for a couple of years so not sure if they changed the rules but doesn't seem like it

Bradford are currently leading the Summer Bash sales with 1,400.
Leigh are second at 900 sold.

Where are you all staying/drinking this weekend? And what sort of team do you think we will put out?

I don't see any reason to change the team unless we have injuries.

We always have a big crowed but we must have the worst record of wins one i think out of all the magic weekends

Indeed. Only a win in 2009 at Murrayfield against Wakey and a win in 2015 against Fax since the inception of Magic/Bash weekends in 2007.

Tbh fact we bring a big crowd is part of problem. We usually get put up against one of bigger teams as highlight of one of the days, irrespective of how we’re actually performing on the field. Against Hillary last time being prime example of that. If it’s going to count for league points then it should be seeded on league position and not which matchups tv think will attract biggest crowds.

I love autocorrect. HKR will from now on be known as Hillary.

Tbh outs have been the two most entertaining games too. Leigh and Hull KR especially.

Lock them up?

What a load of sh*t.

We were not at the races today. Last weeks victory and the Toronto away trip has caught up with us. We looked lethargic and gave away some very silly handling errors. Our discipline was bloody dreadful in the final stages of the game. We also looked clueless when we got anywhere near their line. I felt Halifax were allowed to get away with slowing down the ruck all game which stunted our flow a little bit but we were poor in a lot of areas today.

Another big game against Fev next weekend. Chisholm had a blinder today. Let’s hope he does his usual vanishing trick next week.

I didn’t think we were that bad today. I hope the Leeds win doesn’t give us unrealistic expectations.

Two tough games against Toronto and Leeds May have taken their toll but we still could have won that one.

We started turning the screw in the second half and I was disappointed we didn’t take hold of the game. Lilley forced a drop out and when we should have kicked on, we let the drop out bounce and momentum seemed to change from there.

It’s a given that Murrell will have a good game against us...... but he did look like he was running through treacle when he made that break!

Was Peltier rested? We don’t get as much impact from the bench without him.