Agreed. Would've liked to have seen Lumb get another chance off the bench.

Glad Clough is back.

Purtell is out injured for the foreseeable future. Blythe will provide the cover.

Why is Adrian Purtell out injured for the foreseeable future?

Surely if he had sustained an injury the club would have published it via the T&A?

I hope this one isn't called off!

From squad i'd go with...

Richie Mathers
Omari Caro
Kris Welham
Matty Blythe
James Clare
Lee Gaskell
Danny Addy
Paul Clough
Adam O’Brien
Tom Olbison
Jay Pitts
Kurt Haggerty
Rhys Lovegrove

Mitch Clark
Oscar Thomas
Alex Mellor
Dan Fleming/Steve Crossley

Dale Ferguson to miss out along with one of Fleming and Crossley. Think Fergie needs to be played carefully due to past injuries and throwing him in against Oldham which should be a fairly straight forward win might not be best thing for him long term.

I think mid way through game, I'd like to see Thomas in at halfback and switch Addy to hooker to give OB a rest. I think you could interchange those three at will.

It is a surprise though not to see Vila and Etu getting a shout so far this year in games like these.

Etu was in shop before Leigh game. Said he'd been injured and was close to being fit.

I would like to see OT at full back again... I think he offers an extra threat in attack compared to Mathers.

Although bullinenemyland your suggestion also makes sense.

I heard that Nobby Naylor has prepared his side for taking on the Bulls defence by using life-size models of Jelly & Blancmange, though I think that is a "trifle" OTT!

Reading between lines of today's t&a articles it sounds like Clough isn't ready and Fleming is definitely playing. Assuming match isn't called off.

Just been on the Bulls Facebook page that as it stands the game is on, however there will be a further announcement tomorrow morning at 9am

Yeah, the Alfreton town Twitter announced this morning that the clash with Stalybridge was off (before Stalybridge did, weirdly) - to my mind that makes the likelihood of our game better, considering the weather and the fact that the pitch won't get churned up by a soccer game. Here's hoping anyway.

This game has been rescheduled for Sunday 8th May.

I've just looked at our fixture list and this weekend was always free. Is this presumably a challenge cup weekend?
The club might end up having to reschedule again if we're not out of the cup by then. We probably will be, but you never know.

I think there are 3 free weekends for the CC. That's why season started earlier. Presumably RFL want to avoid mid-week games.

Round 6 by my calculation. The one where last season's SL Top 8 enter.

So clubs must be assuming that both us and Oldham will be out of the cup in the next round if not this one. Considering Oldham have amateur opposition in the 4th round, it would only take an easy draw for them in the 5th and the game is being postponed again. That's not to mention us potentially getting past Dewsbury and whoever else in the next round.

When you take into account Fev Lions playing Lock Lane in this round too, that's a potentially very easy tie for someone in Round 5.

Seems odd they wouldn't say "subject to challenge cup advancement" or something along those lines.