It's a pretty strong Bulls team however you want to frame it.

Possible line up:

Pickersgill
Ryan
Evans
Webster
Hitchcox
Illey
Chisholm
Kirk
Wildie
Crossley
Garside
Minchella
Wood

Flanagan, Green, Hallas & Magrin on the bench with Farrell and Oakes missing out.

Very suprised quite a few have Farrell on the bench or even outside the 17!
Hes been great in pre season and absolutely immence in the game at Batley.
For me it a total no brainer, hes a certainty to start in the second row along side Mini

For that to happen would mean Garside misses out completely. He’s not a bench player. As the ball dies a lot with Garside I wouldn’t have minded seeing a Minchella/Farrell second row with Storton off the bench. But Garside/Minchella with Farrell on the bench works for me.

Yeah I agree Farrell starts for me. Garside will interchange with Wood and probably see Minchella go in at loose.

I think both the guys you got from us (Fev), Farrell and Wildie, are players you will appreciate more and more as the season goes on.
Nothing flashy about Farrell but he's usually pretty solid. Wildie has a fine rugby brain and will marshall you really well at hooker, he was one of the players I was most disappointed to lose at the end of lasts eason.

I agree. They both appear to be very good Championship players and have improved our squad.

Farrell defo in for me.

In case of any doubt.Game definitely goes ahead the club have just confirmed.

The sun appears to be out where I am so today may not be as glacial as I thought. Excellent work by the ground staff to get the game on.

Trust me, it is not a warm day in this part of the world.

Wrap up well folks.

anyone know where the game is online/streamed? ... got bcb open (please dont make me listen) mixlr open facebook open youtube open lol edit... looks like not on bcb .. on pulse 2 https://www.pulse2.co.uk/

anyone know where the game is online/streamed? ... got bcb open (please dont make me listen) mixlr open facebook open youtube open lol edit... looks like not on bcb .. on pulse 2 https://www.pulse2.co.uk/

Does not seem to be being streamed on FB. Maybe able to watch on YT on Wednesday.

yeah not streamed ... been trawling around the internet an hour before the game to find any commentary. not even on bcb ( but ) ... it was only on a hunch that i searched for pulse and got Mick with Pelts so happy days

proper winter style rugby, really attritional ... gonna be won on who makes the least mistakes .. 4-6 to fev ht

17-16 Bulls

real hard game but listening we ground out that win

i think until we find our championship feet, we are gonna have to grind out wins like this