Tbh most of us Bulls fans knew Catalan would beat us. 20-0 at half time and the second half was 14-12 to Catalan. We played some good rugby but made poor defensive mistakes. Our wide defence was good just poor down middle. Plus we scored the 2 best tries of the game. The build up-s to both were pretty quality. Cats are a top 4 possibly top 3 side this season. Cas arn't (no ofeence) so should be a good game.

Castleford 28-32 Bradford.
MOM - Owen/Chase/Gale
Attendence - 7,340

Think Bulls have a better pack than us - remember this is a far cry from the side we beat in the friendly. Think it's going to be tough and a much harder ask than Salford was.

Cas complacency will result in a 12-21 Win to the RFL Bulls ...

Might add that Basil has a tendency to play slightly weaker teams against the Bulls, well thats what it alegedly says in Shaun Longs book

Its a far cry from the team we put out against the bulls too.

Plus I don't think bradford and salford will be a world apart in league positions this season.

No prediction from me....i don't think the game will go ahead if the weather forecast is to be believed.

True but I think Bradford's depth is much stronger than ours. There's probably only 4/5 players out of their squad from Boxing Day that will probably be in their 17 (Hargreaves, Langley, Manuoakafoa, Donaldson and possibly Joseph may get a run out this weekend).

We had Griffin, McGoldrick, Nash, Milner, Holmes, Jones, Massey, Clark and Snitch.

Any news on the state of the pitch, I know it's still early but given the forecast what chance of the game going ahead, 50-50 or less?

Weather Warning

Wednesday 8th February

YELLOW WARNING - ICE

Rain will spread southeastwards across Scotland later today, reaching northern England early Thursday. As it falls onto very cold surfaces, it will freeze instantly, leading to hazardouse icy conditions.

The warning may be upgraded to Amber in due course.

Valid until 1800 Thursday

Wednesday 8th February

YELLOW EARLY WARNING - SNOW

An area of snow is expected to develop over east and northeast England later on Thursday, and then during Friday this will extend steadily southwestwards into central and some southwestern parts of England, as well as the east of Wales.

Accumulations of up to about 10cm are possible in the worst affected regions. As a result, there could be some disruption to travel.
BBC

Manuokafoa is out for at least 6 weeks.

Likely line-up:

1. Kearney
2. Kear
3. Purtell
4. Lulia
5. Crookes
6. Sammut
7. Gale
8. Hargreaves
9. Diskin
10. Kopczak
11. Whitehead
12. Sibbit
13. Langley

14. L'Estrange
15. Donaldson
16. Burgess
17. Scruton


I personally would go with:

1. Kearney
2. Kear
3. Purtell
4. Lulia
5. Crookes
6. Sammut
7. Gale
8. Joseph
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopczak
11. Whitehead
12. Langley
13. Addy

14. Diskin
15. Burgess
16. Scruton
17. Donaldson

I think you'll find I did warn you earlier about eating that yellow snow.
or now you mention it, it was more amber

This is a big game for both teams and should be a good test too. I think if we keep it tight and play to a similar plan, as against Salford we should come away with the points.

Cas 28 - Bulls 20
MoM - Emmit
Att: 7,800

CAS 26 BRADFORD 14. GRIFFIN WILL GET MOM. WE SCORED 24 POINTS AGAINST SALFORD IN TERRIBLE CONDITIONS AND CAN ONLY SEE US KICKING ON NOW. BRADFORD WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO GELL BUT I CAN SEE KEAR SCORING AT LEAST 1 TRY C.O.Y.F.

I'll be surprised if we don't win this one. I was far far from impressed with the Bulls last season and don't think they've done much to improve. A defeat for us in this game, especially at home would set the bar pretty low for the rest of the season in my opinion.

I think it'll be a close game, but hopefully we'll just edge a thriller.

I may have been away for a while but it's nice to see some things never change!