Just had a look and you've a huge squad. Have you had a lot of injuries?

Throughout the season we've had more than our fair share to key players. I think part of our problem the last few games has been the fact that we may have brought too many players back into the squad all at the same time and some still not being 100%. We're playing like some don't know the moves or are reluctant to take the ball in at any pace allowing the defence to move up.
Its been hard to watch at times lately.

It's easy. If the same Bulls turn up as against Salford, then at least it will be a competitive game.

If Widnes turn up pumped and firing on all cylinders then they are still favourites to win. But add Gaskell to the Salford squad, throw in a couple of pens/Widnes mistakes and it is game on.

But Widnes have been up and down all season and by their fans' own accounts are not playing well. If they come short of confidence and we come out strong and get ahead then you would have to fancy us.

And if we turned up in the same frame of mind as against Wakefield, then we could concede another 50.

I love being a Bull - calling the games is so simple!

Massive game. A win would put us in a strong position for promotion without the million pound game as Widnes will have to play Wakey, Salford and Leigh, all our rivals for promotion. So every week, at least one of our rivals will drop points.

I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high as i know what a huge boost win would do to our promotion hopes and i remember being in the same situation prior to the Wakefield game.

Think Widnes will come out fired up and bring their A game. I think this is a game they cannot lose.

It is a curious experience to not have any clue pre-match whether we will have 50 put on us or we'll win. In that respect, this week is the same as the run-up to the Wakey and Salford games. We didn't see the Wakey destruction coming, we didn't see the destruction of Salford coming, so whatever you think will happen against Widnes..erm..won't.

It'd be nice if we kept the current home form we've shown in the qualifiers and the 40+ points that's gotten us in both games. But I guess we'll see come Sunday

Well 40+ points usually denotes a win but the way we've defended on occasions.....

Our defence has been superb.. but then we haven't really been tested yet. Kept Fax scoreless, Sheffield scored 2 from kicks, and we gifted HKR 2 tries (and the game). Its our attack that's been off the boil though. Couldn't seem to break down Fax until the last couple of minutes, Sheffield let us walk in really, and we could of been playing for a week against HKR and I don't think we would of scored any more points.
Our kicking for goal has been the worst I can ever remember these last few weeks, so if its a tight game which comes down to goal kicks then that's where it will suddenly become squeaky-bum time for Widnes.

Haven't seen much of Widnes but i can understand how they can blow hot and cold,need to get out of the blocks early like against Salford and make them start to doubt themselves.

From the T&A:

"The Bulls will assess the fitness of Lee Gaskell, Harry Siejka and Matt Ryan ahead of Sunday's game but Jake Mullaney looks certain to feature."

It's a funny one trying to predict how we will go on against Widnes. Against Sheffield I was very nervous, thinking if we played rubbish and lost our chance would of ended after one game and we hammered them. Against Wakie I genuinely thought we would win, I just couldnt see us losing and we got hammered. I'm sure we all thought Salford would hammer us and we hammered them. So not a clue what will happen Sunday

Makes it interesting if nothing else

I was feeling quite good about this game and thought we had a decent chance, just seen on skybet that we have a 16 point start. Looks like they think we have no chance.

The odds for Salford must have been worse

Re the T and A quote re assessing Gaskells fitness, is the clubs way of preparing us for his non appearance?