Looking forward to this despite both sides being a bit plagued by injuries and suspensions. We look very weak at prop and on the wings, and losing Gaskell really reduces our creativity. Could be an interesting line up. Edit - seems we Green and Wilson our loan props for another 3 weeks

McGowan
Myers
Arundal
Gill
Will Oakes/ Mackenzie Scurr - would be a full debut for either.
Johnson/Jowitt/Moss
Lilley
Smith
Souter
Lawrence
Fulton - glad he's made it over - not a moment too soon.
Butler
Davies

Ott (has he had his visa confirmed?)
Appo
Green
Wilson

If we could somehow get Blackmore or Peposhi back that would help. Think Ebon Scurr is a few weeks off yet.

Looking forward to seeing how Fulton will go. I assume Ott is good to go if he's featured for the reserves. Corey Johnson didn't play for the Rhinos reserves this weekend so I assume he is back with us. Wilson and Green looked handy against Wakefield so hopefully they can kick on whilst they are with us.

Bit of expectation on the Bulls for this one, first home game for us so I hope the players are fired up and willing to put in the 80 minute effort that'll be needed to get a result.

Ott hasn’t been in the reserves A Trialist has that should tell you all you need about his visa

Flippin eck. GFS likely to be on the bench then.

Despite having so many injuries, feel like there's a bit of pressure to win this one. We can still name a strong team, Fax played on Sunday while we had a week off.

With us having the toughest opening set of fixtures possible, I think it's vital we get a win as soon as possible. It's not beyond the realms of possibility we lose all our first 5 fixtures. We don't have any freebies to ease ourselves into the season. But if we get a win against a play-off competitor, while the likes of Scurr, Gaskell, Doro etc are on the sideline, it sets us up for a good season.

But we've been average at best in the cup games, if we don't improve Fax will take the win.

A lot depends on how the spine plays since without Gaskell we seem to lack the knowhow to ask questions of the opposition defence and revert to Kear-ball on the 5th tackle where we try an aimless kick to Gill or hand the ball over.

Think MacKenzie Scurr's in with a shout of a debut on the wing.

Hopefully ott gets his visa through looks to have a really good boot on him!

Can you pay cash at the turnstiles on friday or is it card only.

It will be card only on turnstiles, cash payments, you’ll need to buy a ticket from the shop beforehand

Thanks for that.

We've brought in winger Connor Carr from Huddersfield and front rower Max Wood from Warrington for two weeks. Wood sounds like a handful. EOC: "Wood is someone we have been looking at for some time now. He will give us a point of difference and from the games I’ve seen he’s been very impressive. He carries the ball with intent and challenges oppositions defences while defensively he works hard and has good energy." https://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/article ... in-on-loan

We've brought in winger Connor Carr from Huddersfield and front rower Max Wood from Warrington for two weeks. Wood sounds like a handful. EOC: "Wood is someone we have been looking at for some time now. He will give us a point of difference and from the games I’ve seen he’s been very impressive. He carries the ball with intent and challenges oppositions defences while defensively he works hard and has good energy." https://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/article ... in-on-loan

Cheers Sam!

I thought we'd decided, post-the Mark Dunning era, that we weren't going down the DR/Short-term route anymore?

I don't think we ever had 11 players out under Dunning did we
We have both wingers out and Doro,Scurr,Okoro,Baldwinson missing in forwards

Dunning replaced fully fit players with loanees and dual reg.

Slight contrast in the context. Dunning shoehorned in as many loans/dual reg players as possible when our squad wasn't carrying any major injury losses. The way things are going currently with our injury crisis I might bring my boots and play 20 mins off the bench.

Oakes must be injured. I assume that’s why we’ve signed a loan winger.

Corey Johnson not named in the Leeds squad so I assume he’s now back with us.

Moss has a chance this season if he’s recovered from that nasty injury and Gaskell remains injury prone. He was a standout in the Saints system including their reserves last year. Just Saints must have decided he wasn’t quite at the level of Lomax & Dodds and released him.

Johnson is still not in contact training with Leeds, his concussion was a bad one, can’t see him being available

Well if Johnson is out due to concussion then I'd play Moss over Jowitt.

Agreed Bullseye! He did 80 minutes last week. I don't want this rubbish of "we need to be careful with him etc" with the opening set of fixtures we've got we can't ease ourselves into the season.

Moss may or may not be very good but we saw having Lilley and Jowitt was a disaster. We need a half back playing at half back.

Coming through, Jowitt was seen as a natural full back but has become a utility back which may be harming his development. It is telling that last season Jowitt was going to be our starting FB until Walker became available. Then when Walker went, we signed Gaskell so that Holmes could go to FB. Now Holmes is unavailable we loaned in a young FB from Huddersfield. Jowitt's best game in recent memory was that away game at Halifax last year where I think he started on the wing and ended up covering FB?

Yeah I remember he looked alright there. Trouble was that Tom Holmes was so good at fullback that Jowitt was never going to get back in.

Doro back early for game and Ott visa must have come through. Lineup not as bad as expected.