This Thursday at DVS, live on Sky Sports.

Looking at how close the table is after our defeat to Widnes, this is a huge game. Need to win to give ourselves a chance of remaining in the top 4 and try and cement a top 6 finish.

Barrow 20-32 Eagles.

Big game this,Weve only beaten Batley away out of the top 6 and losing twice to Widnes and to Leigh,Are we just a flat track bully,beat the lower teams,struggle against the really good ones,Thursday might tell us somthing either way.

Eagles 32 Barrow 28

I agree ESO - it's a very big game.

We haven't played that well on TV recently despite beating York it wasn't a great performance but superstition shouldn't come into it.

So my prediction based on a semi scientific approach:
Barrow looked a fair side recently vs Featherstone but did make one or 2 errors.
Because we are now playing most of the games at the Lane I don't think that DVS gives us much of a home advantage except that we don't have a 4 hour coach journey whereas Barrer do. But they have had a longer recovery time since their last game. The weather looks OK - by that I mean a drop from the 30C we are having at the moment so less sapping for the forwards.

I'm going for 22 - 16 win.

Has the ref been allocated yet? If not what are the chances of a South Yorkshire person!

We should win this one.

Sheffield Eagles v Barrow Raiders 7.30pm (SKY)
Ref T Roby TJ P Stockman TJ A Gill RR L Fellow VR I Smith MC G Kershaw

Barrow have yet to play at Bramall Lane but make their 10th visit to Don valley and this is their 3rd consecutive SKY appearance here at DVS. TV appearances have a win apiece.

Barrow have appeared on TV at least 4 times this season and not won one yet !!

It depends what time they set off as to travel time, but leave at sensible time on a bus 3hrs, 2hr 15 min in a car for me

Nonsense! They were on last week.

Bookies have got us at 1/2, with a 6 point start on the handicap. I won't be touching either of those, crap odds for such a hard game.

If we won at Widnes a lot of pressure would of been taken off this game but with the amount of tough games we have coming up for the rest of the season this is a must win game if we want to be within the top 6 come the end of the seson...

Anyway.. I think like Widnes it might be a tough game but with home advantage (if that counts at Don Valley..) and hopefully Aston firing up the troops we could win this one but it will be very close.

Score: Eagles 16 - 10 Barrow
Attendance : 1,020
M.O.M: Henderson

Coridng is injured,Wood gone back to Shudders,Crookes wont be playing,On Eagles TV it mentions a 17 year old maybe making his debut,Connor ?,Any good Griif or anybody who watches academy,I think we'll struggle tonight and may lose this one.

Cording was thoroughly ineffective in the centres against Widnes, Wood is a loss as it's always handy to have an extra half on the bench, we haven't had Crookes for quite a while. Hopefully the young lad goes well.

Didn't know about all the dual regs, think it will be tough to get a win tonight.

It was great having these dual-regs at the start of the season but as the seasons goes on and SL club pick up injuries etc it's becoming a pain. We have a different starting lineup each week which isn't good at all.

I harp on about it but we have two or three of our homegrown talent in the squad each week. Players like Battye & Hanson have stood up and I think more first team games would help them improve, also, when it comes to licensing it would be good to say how we've got a number of players whose come through the ranks..

It must be so frustrating for Mark,here one week gone the next,no matter what they say it must also phiss off the players that are getting dropped when these players just turn up for games every now and again,I think next season we should limit it to 2 dual regs at most and concentrate on blending a permanent squad together and if that means more game time for youngsters and lesser results then so be it.It makes a bit of mokery of the league,We could have all the dual regs for the play-off games,win them all then get to the final,All of them recalled then get pumelled in the final.Its a strange one.

Agreed with that mate. Put a limit on and stick too it & if we lose a few games because of it then so be it as I think we will reap the rewards in years to come but we need to tick those licensing boxes first...

Connor Scott ? Very promising.

Position?

The Star says 2nd row or prop.

Probably second row at first team level.

He will wear 32.

Which muppet forgot to tell the Sheffield fans it's not at Sheffield Utd tonight... must be about 100 there tonight

Great post, thanks for stopping by, Seagulls Seagulls etc

Bus stop in Barnsley etc etc, where are your boys in the league again?

Anyway, hardly vintage tonight but a win's a win, bit of a steal if we're being honest!! Thought Connor Scott showed up well and Q was magnificent. Menzie killed three people which even for him is a good effort, Hendo his usual self. Thought we were pretty poor first half, much better second half but still room for improvement. Top 4 back on.

there was over 1k there you bellend,thought 1st half was rubbish,Gunna watch the 2nd half in a bit,Thought the ref was inconsistent and the touch judge was worse,2nd half was probably exciting for the neutral and for Eagles fans but hardly vintage,but at the end of the day a massive 3 points and without several key players,A big break til the 24th July

Should heel a few walking wounded,Menzie KO a trio of Barrow boys

,I think we need to use Menzie more in attack,Several times we went the wrong way and missed chances,Hes so dangerous,he needs to be used as much as possible,Cant be far off leading tryscorer in league and surely has 50 now,Ramble over,well done and the top 6 is a near certainty IMO.

Think i win the score again with 32-28

If only we had our old tipping competition going,Id be nailed on for that prize,What was it ESO?

There wasn't one.

Just watched the game back, we were so much better after we went 12 points behind. Chucked the ball around and played really expansive rugby, no coincidence that we scored three tries and won the game.

Oh and that conversion was clearly over, cheating gets.