Well, be fair, some things NEVER change..

At the moment I dont feel confident going into any game; yes we are getting better and the team is starting to gel, but I go into each game thinking we are going to lose it, so if we win, its a bonus.
Call it pessimism or realism; but I think, on the day any team can turn us over - likewise if the bounce of the ball goes our way we could win any game.
On Sunday the thing that we have that Batley dont is 3000+ noisy home fans - so lets shout the boys on to their next home win and reduce that deficit to -6 COYB

Well, at least we've got rid of the notion that we're the 'mighty' Bulls and no-one now thinks we, 'should', win every game.

We may say that, but plenty of visiting fans would still think we think we should. So maybe a sticky, that has to be read by every visiting fan before proceeding to the forum, with disclaimers along the lines of we dont expect to win every game, we have cut our cloth, we would rather have started again in Ch2, a 1 paragraph no more than 200 words summary of where we were and where we are now, and any other rebuttals for recurring tedium that visitors come up with. Then they have no excuse for being morons .

Feel free to post a draft!

They may have no excuse, but I bet they still do it.

19 man squad announced.

James Bentley, Johnny Campbell, Joe Keyes, Liam Kirk, Kevin Larroyer, Joe Lumb, Iliess Macani, Jon Magrin, James Mendeika, Scott Moore, Daniel Murray, Ross Oakes, Mikolaj Oledzki, Ross Peltier, Leon Pryce, Colton Roche, Ethan Ryan, Lee Smith, Oscar Thomas.

Only Oledzki of the Leeds lads in there.

Personally Mendeika & Campbell would miss out in the 17 I'd pick. But I suspect it may end up being Lumb & Campbell.

Wasn't Moore due to answer bail this week?. anyone heard what happened?. Wonder if we'll see a late withdrawal through injury if Lilley doesnt feature for leds tonight.

Not sure why everyone keeps mentioning Lilley as potentially playing.

If Lilley was to come back, it would be on a fresh loan. Meaning Leeds couldn't recall him for another month. Considering their issues lately, I wouldn't think that's very likely. We can't just call on him one week, then he's back at Leeds again, then we may have him, then Leeds can have him, as we're not Dual Reg with them. If that's going to happen, it'll be with Fev, not us.
Since you have to register players Friday to have them play Sunday, we won't be doing that with him. So there's surely no chance at all of him playing.

Unless an actual new loan deal is announced, I wouldn't bother speculating on Lilley turning out for us personally.


As far as Scott Moore goes, didn't I see someone say he was due to answer bail but not actually have a trial yet? So even if he's up against charges, it won't happen just yet? Regardless, this is the last game of his "4 game trial period" anyway, so we'll have to see something about him this week if he's to play in the cup game.

Only 3 backrowers in the 19 man squad. Looks like we're going for plenty of props in the 17 to cope with Batley.

I'd go for this:

Thomas
Macani
Smith
Oakes
Ryan
Pryce
Keyes
Magrin
Moore
Murray
Roche
Larroyer
Bentley

Campbell
Oldezki
Peltier
Kirk

Careful. You'll have people suggesting Pryce plays 13 again despite not being even slightly suitable for the role except that he's a bit tall.

Or maybe FA as a rotating prop. To quote Ray French "He's a big lad, he's a strong lad!"

As far as his trial at the Bulls is concerned, Moore has been found guilty as charged - he's a fine player and we should bang him up for this year at least, maybe with an option of another, y'know, for good behaviour like..and before anyone else does.

Amen to that. He's been great so far. The longer he's with us the better.

Second that