The bookies on average have the odds on this game around 1/5 Widnes, Bradford 7/2. If you fancy us its 9/2 with SkyBet and Stan James. Regardless of form, 9/2 is not a bad price in any 2 horse race. I suppose it represents a reasonable assessment of lightning striking twice!

I am sure that Widnes should be strong favourites, but think that our underdog tag is another thing in our favour, and another way to look at the odds is the bookies actually think we could beat Widnes in around one game in four. I will go to the game confident that this will be that one game in four, and I hope the players do too. As a SL club, Widnes "should" have been 1/10 and the fact they are not should also be gnawing away at them.

Can i just point out that if you put £100 on Salford @ 1/4 and also put £20 on Halifax @ 21/4 and then oddly enough you are guaranteed a fiver profit unless it's a draw. Put a £1 on a draw at 33/1 and you have all bases covered but cut your guarantee to £4

More likely messing with Widnes heads, and making sure they have to have two game plans, one to deal with Gaskell and one not.

Looking at the two squads with my rose tinted glasses on there didn't seem too much between the squads, maybe just that they could defend better than we can. Run of the ball and a decent performance maybe we can beat the bookies again.

Widnes possibly best defence of the 4 SL sides so will be a difficult game

The Vikings have only won one game away from home all year.

888 and Unibet are offering Fax at 27/5.

3 actually..
at Wakefield
at Halifax
and Newcastle Magic Weekend v Salford
Got beat in the last 20 seconds at Warrington.

Joe Cobb now referee for Sunday. That's a loss for us then

We're not that hot and cold, games we've lost we've been competitive. We can't play worse than we did against Hull KR (attacking - our defence was excellent) so I expect the 2 week rest has done us good.

It's a big game for us, we thought having 4 home games would see us through, we've lost one now so we need to beat either you or Wakey next week then win our last 2 home games against Salford & Leigh.

Still confident, Runciman is a try machine and when Brown and Mellor are playing we always have a chance.

Maybe not, Cobb doesn't mind messing around at the ruck so we should be able to keep the game slow and at our pace, watch him now penalise us for slow play but allow widnes to be ultra fast at the PTB which he never has allowed before.

Cobb seems to be hanging around with the more senior referees, on video duty in SL, for example, so the hope is he'll be given some tuition in how to make better show of it. I really don't like 'bagging' refs; we need referees and he wants to do the job so I hope he is supported and guided in how to do the job better than he has. That said, my heart sank at the news he's doing our game.

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Have a chance? Widnes are a Super League team playing a Championship side, and not even the best once. Nobody on here is expecting a Bulls win. If the Bulls play as well as they did against Salford then we have a chance.

No I am resolutely refusing point blank to allow any Widnes fan to even vaguely allude to being underdog.

Not as much as mine did when I caught a glimpse of the headline on the bulls website... "Gale to make Bulls return"!!!