Dont think so. Its difficult justifying resting players for a home game so close to the end of the season. With 3 home games and only Sheffield away they must have a decent chance of a 100% record in the Middle 8s.

If Kelly is out when we play them I think they will be weak missing both halves. That would be great news and gives me that little bit of confidence. We can beat Widnes. If we do, then KR without their halves would be worth watching.

Wakey are capable of beating them also. If they do, then KR would be needing two more wins to stay away from that scary one off game where anything can happen.

Hoping we are up and miss the play off game as if its Sunday 4th I will be watching the NFL in wembley

You do realise that we are currently 3 from 3 in this competition with Kelly missing all 3? We have plenty of depth in the halves with Marsh & Chisholm to come back into the team.

Surely you agree that it can't hurt our chances?!

Rangi Chase being suspended by Salford won't do our chances any harm either

The circus continues.

Hoping Halifax can beat them this weekend.

Ferres wanting a big crowd on sunday and who can blame him, one hope is that we put in a full performance to do us proud and thumping could cause all the hard work to collapse.

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But please God not Seijka
"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."

You'd think the performance against Salford might encourage some extra numbers on the gate.

Ross has just tweeted that he thinks our game against Leigh is going to be televised.

I'll honestly be shocked if it isn't. A top of the M8 table clash or all-SL game is mid table mediocrity and not even slightly what it's about. Leigh v Bradford is part of the narrative of the season.

In a seven game competition today's point's difference was nothing short of a disaster. A repeat performance against HKR leaves us needing a win at Leigh to even make 5th. Lose to Leigh and we need 70+ PD against Halifax to get there.

You make it sound like 5th would be some sort of underachievement. I suspect the fantastic result against Salford possibly raised expectations a little again. I agree that the points conceded today wasn't good but it is far from a disaster. The likely scenario was always that we'd need to beat all our Championship rivals to have a crack at promotion. After picking up the win versus Salford we possibly have a chance of a home tie IF we can prove we're the best Championship side and take 2 wins from our matches with Leigh and Fax. As I said after the Salford game, still plenty for all the clubs to play for.

I'm trying to make it sound like 5th, from where we are now and with the remaining fixtures, would be an achievement.