I feel really sorry for Smith having to inherit this shambles of a squad of players.
Positives young Ryan and Moss, rest mostly gutless. Every team we play our forwards are out enthused by the opposition, they all seem bigger and more aggressive and importantly run hard on to the ball, ours just amble in (Clark and Clough exceptions).
Who ever thinks Addy is a good player needs to really watch him, he is slow in thought and action and cant tackle, good luck HKR. Why did he take over kicking from Charnock!!!! The kid was why we undeservedly beat Batley with his kicking game.
A good clear out is needed of this squad and if it is right 3 are going to Shudds well we could be playing them very soon.

Looking at the remaining fixtures we have to rely on Batley or Fax to lose twice in 4 games to make the 8 (unless we beat Leigh, which just won't happen)

I just can't see where the 2 losses for either side will come from. We've blown it.

Batley to lose against London (h) and Swinton (a)

'Fax to lose at Leigh (hopefully!!) and Swinton (a)

Well, stranger things can happen! Mind you, your remaining fixtures aren't easy!

They aren't easy when you are e!

Batley still have Featherstone and London to play.

Does anyone has the remaining fixtures for Fax, Batley, Fev to hand?

The run in might be worth a new thread tbh, give me a min.

Halifax - Swinton (a); Leigh (a); Featherstone (h); London (h)

Batley - Whitehaven (a); Featherstone (h); London (h); Swinton (a)

Featherstone - Workington (h); Batley (a); Halifax (a); Bradford (h).

heard it on radio leeds that the guy who was injured (sorry cant remember his name) suddenly appeared out of the ambulance, so hopefully not as serious as first thought.

Ben Heaton - Warrior

From what I can see in the comments it looks like the team just voted for Bullexit - from professional full time rugby.

At least getting a top 4 place is still in our own hands, but though some of the few occasions when the team has collectively raised their game this season have been against Leigh, still not easy to see us getting 2 points next week. Rather than being in the race for illusory promotion it feels more like we are in a relegation battle.

Is it? We're relying on Batley/Fax to slip up. And that's assuming we can actually string 4 wins together which doesn't seem all that likely even for the most optimistic of fans.

I was trying to be optimistic - which certainly isn't easy at the moment

We stuffed ourselves over months. Or, as some coaches and indeed fans had it, the early games aren't important, save your form for the 8s when it matters,

"We are bound to be in the top 4 so why bust a gut"

We screwed ourselves when some years back we barkingly decided that a team can do without a scrum half, and persisted with that insanity until in recent weeks - but years too late - the penny may finally have dropped. But don't worry, we are actively looking, so that's all right then.

If you build a ship without a rudder, you get a rudderless ship. This may be a surprise to some, but it is strangely true.

It was bad enough the Bulls trying this misguided philosophy of trying to get by without a leader, but seems they are now trying a similar experiment on the country