Not sure why everyone is dropping lyne and leaving Owen in their team for Bradford . A look at the stats shows lyne outperformed Owen in every single department against Salford.

Upsetting the odds? Bookies have us as faves Belly, Bulls have 6 start

The Bulls will surprise the bookies on Saturday and show them that it isn't true that just because a team is in SL they will win. The Bulls will put out 16 SL players and 1 SofO player all fired up after a "Jimmy" team talk.

Can't wait. It will be a great spectacle and has kept the sport alive right into September in the middle 8s. The other leagues are still boring though!

It's probably due to home advantage we are favourites.

This is our likely line up.

Mullaney
Clare
Nielson
Purtell
Williams
Gaskill
Addy
Clough
O'Brien
Sidlow
Olbision
Ferguson
Pitts

Subs
Crossley, Blythe, Luaki, Ryan

www.superleague.co.uk/report/11968 Looking at stats Scruton and Sio were not high in any of the stats although Sio wasn't on the pitch long.

www.superleague.co.uk/report/11968 Looking at stats Scruton and Sio were not high in any of the stats although Sio wasn't on the pitch long.

Stats don't mean everything I realised the impact Sio made when he came on.

Not too much too worry us there, shut down Gaskell shut down Bradford. Wakey by 12-16.

Disagree. For a champ team that looks pretty decent. Can remember Addy of all people giving us a bumming when they were last in SL.

I know that we lost to Leigh earlier in the season, albeit under Webster but, if we cant beat a Championship club at home then we aren't good enough for SL.
I'm with you, Wakefield to win by 10+

Come on Trin !

I wouldn't be shocked if we got beat, but......
I see it in a very simplistic way, IMO Leigh are the best team in the Championship, we played them in the CC, we were at an all time low for me performance/confidence wise, we annihilated them for 50 minutes, and they pinched it later on. At that time I'd have rated Trinity 2/10, I see us now as a 6/10 team, it shouldn't be a problem beating the Championship teams, but this is Trinity.

To be fair we're effectively a Championship side playing in SL. If Trinity win on Saturday it won't be by a large margin. All the champ clubs will be smelling blood and be up for the game. Trinity need to match their enthusiasm and commitment.

I don't disagree too much with what you are saying but, I think that we are stronger and although Gaskill has been playing very well, we should have too much for them, especially at home.
Certainly to survive in SL, we have to win games against "lower" opposition and our second half performance against Salford, suggests that we should be more than capable of beating The Bulls

We have a habit of starting slow and not being ruthless enough when on top. Get these things right and I see no reason why we shouldn't win on Saturday. I saw enough on Sunday to suggest we're not far off a complete performance and Brian Smith said it was the best we'd played under him, I wouldn't disagree with that. What I would like to see is a continuation of the way we played 2nd half on Sunday which imo was miles better than 2 months ago.

Theboyem : So Bradford are excellent at full back, have better wingers, have two who we can only dream of, are miles better in the half backs, have a better pack, a stronger bench, have a good kicking game, are full of confidence, will have a large vocal following and you suggest there is nothing to worry about. Add to that Ferguson and Pitts will want to prove a point, Addy has tormented us in past, Ryan will of course have a great game. Their back line from 1 to 7 is very very good especially when compared to ours. The only good news I can see is that Walshaw is not playing, imagine the damage he would have done against our brave, intense, intelligent, non shall pass attitude, hard aggressive tackling, determined defenders who have doggedly only let 1000 points in this season. The words ` up, the , smell, and, wake, coffee ` spring to mind.