Hard to predict which way this will go. Fax have put in one good performance this season and that was last Thursday when we had 7 or 8 regular first team players missing so it will be interesting to see how many of those that are available come straight back in to the team. Expectations were really high before the season started and ironically it were the Bradford game that showed we were quite a way off the pace that we probably should have been at and it has not got much better since then. I would take any win but it really would not be a surprise if we lost this one if we go back to tried and trusted.

GFB. Fax have actually put in two good 80 minute performances this season to date. The London game as you state, plus the Dewsbury match which resulted in a 26v0 win. Interestingly, in neither of those matches did we use a loan/dr player.

Ha. Love it.

Within the spcece of 5 weeks ill get to see us whoop Halifax twice, beat L****s and have a weeks holiday in Toronto.
What a time to be alive!!

Scott Murrell not named in Halifax's 19. That's got to be a boost for the Bulls.

Dane Chisholm not named in our 19. Got to be a boost for Fax

Not sure, there are some fax fans who think they play better without him.

Yeah have a look at the Fax board, many think Murrell is a spent force.

Good! He always plays well when we play them.

I'm happy Murrells not playing. As you say he always has a stormer against us and while he won't do anything individually brilliant, he makes everyone else better around him. He rises in these big games (see Fev at Blackpool last year)

One thing you can't criticise about us this year is our defence (except against Fev) it looks like Fax will have Ben White (from Swinton) & James Woodburn-Hall at 6&7. If we can't start off well and keep them out, the longer the game goes on the more they may start to panic and throw passes that aren't on. That HB pairing doesn't frighten me in all honesty.

Queue to have egg on my face and both score blinding long range tries!

I think both teams are better at defending than attack so I expect it to be a low scoring game.

Scott is a legend at Fax but barring one game he really hasn't done it this season. Saying that, if he wasn't injured I would expect Marshall would have picked him. We'll see what the day brings. Up The Fax!

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Erm.... Fax have the 4th worst defence in the league