I'll be disappointed if we don't get above 10k for this one.

If the majority of the pundits are to believed, Hudds should finish well above Bulls this year and Bulls will strugghle to make the play-offs. So given that this game is on your own patch, probably in front of a largish home support, and given our many changes and limited time for the team to gel (Orford has only played one game, for example) you would have to make Hudds firm favourites.

If Bulls were to win, it would probably send a few shock waves through the competition. I hope we do, and the potential is certainly there to do so, but I'll not be devastated if we don't provided its a reasonably even game.

Could not disagree more.

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Total and utter unmitigated disaster, more like!

i wont be making any predictions for this one as no one knows what either team will start like , i hope we can win and i do think we have a better squad on paper but lets not forget the Bulls had a bad year by their standards last year, it doesnt necessarily mean they're gonna have another like it............i hope we smash em to pieces and send out a warning early doors to the rest of the comp that our season last year wasn't a one off !!

If he has done a lot of fitness training in the last couple of weeks he would add a lot of power and aggression to the pack. Not sure he would last 80 minutes but depending on the bench he would be worth the risk.

Ultimately he'll only get up to proper speed by playing the games.You'd hope he'd be a bit better next time for the run out last time.

we will definately need him for the week after at Hull. They have a big pack and that will be a real challenge for us.

Definitely. Cas's forwards just bounced backwards when they ran into him! He also did some excellent one-man tackles.

You know, JonnyGiant's wänkerage aside, this has been a dead interesting thread. What really strikes me is that Huddersfield, Fartown, whatever is now so clearly back in the mainstream and rightly so, and we are talking at least as equals now (and if you insist on referring to last season's league positions you can bog off now!

) This has got to be good for the game as a whole, and if I was a Fartown supporter I'd be pretty optimistic looking at my squad for 2010 and chuffed to bits at my good fortune that Ken Davy is a dedicated Fartown fan. I hope we knock the living daylights out of you on Friday, and when we play you at Odsal (a big ask given that pack of yours, but we can live in hope...

), but otherwise I am coming round to wishing you well for the season. If we don't manage to hit the heights this year (its a big ask...2011 is the better target) then I hope you guys do.

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