Jack Smith the man in the middle on Sunday

We're the RFL's pets, we can have as many chances as we like

What I would like to see is the team come out fired up, and clearly at least as enthused, sharp and pacy as our opponents, playing like they both mean it and believe it.

What I would NOT like to see is a repeat of the York first half debacle, where in a huge game, we don't turn up in the first half, or the MPG where Wakefield visibly seemed to want it more than we did.

If somebody outplays us in a fine hard game, I'm alright with that, but those sort of inexplicable displays I find hard to take.

I think we're all in agreement there FA. I still find it baffling that we came out so passive versus York. Did Kear have them listening to whale song in the dressing room while the joss sticks were burning?

The Oldham 3 have all got one match bans and are missing on Sunday.

Anyone know if the playoffs will be shown on facebook/proper sport?

Proper sport will shoe bulls games and the ouRLeague app will show donny v Worky.

Regarding the hooking role, i'd rather Halafihi be there ahead of Hallas. We absolutely can not afford sloppy distribution on the first tackle. We just have to go set for set with Oldham.

To be fair, whilst we were clearly not at the races early on, I actually thought that it was York who had blundered by expending all their energy so early on, and that very nearly proved to be the case at the end. I don't think I've seen any team come out so energised and run around quite like that. In the end we lost though, so I guess history says we definitely should have tried a bit harder to counter what they did in the first half hour.

Yes but will they allow 3 replacements to play, or do they have to play with 10 men? Against which we still were unable to even look like scoring?

Think that on a bigger pitch and with Kear's words hopefully ringing in their ears we should be able to get a decent win as we did in the home league game.

It’s a weird scenario whereby this match is probably the most high pressure game of the play offs. Lose and it’s all over and we’re staying in L1, win and we have two chances of promotion. I really hope Kear has the players focused for this week, it’s a massive game.

Why do we have 2 chances

I totally agree. In a convoluted 'only in rugby league' senario.
The stakes and the preassue are much higher this week than they would be in a potential game next week.
Its a funny old game p

Because if you lose in the playoff final, you then face whoever finishes bottom of the Championship Shield for the last place in the Championship.

But as was said previously, lose in the semi and there's no second chance.

Hi NZ Bull, Bulls Live/Proper Sport and Betfred are going to Show Sunday’s game.

You can join myself, Craig Harrison and James Ford from 2.15pm.