I admit our form hasn't been great going into the Middle 8s, but we look like we've been pacing ourselves for a while now. Our star player has been fit for a few weeks now but not risked and we had half a team out against a Halifax team desperate to beat us and lost by 4 points. We have our first choice 1, 6, and 7 all to come back in, and Dane Nielsen.

How amazing and predicted sky have choosen Leigh to be televised in two of the first three games!

Sky pick the games which they feel will be most interesting. There's no secret to it.

We'll be on if there's something at stake. If not, we won't.

After the game at Odsal - Gaskell missing would be helpful
After the game at the Keepmoat - Mullaney missing would be helpful.


Reading the Wakefield website after round 5 Sky still to decide who/what/where to televise.Interesting with our 2 home games to come - Just need to be in the mix.

Interesting that Salford have a Forces triple-header as a pre-match appetizer lined up,and the 3pm k.o. still to be confirmed.

With that and the television lot plans should still be in abeyance still all confirmed.

For me unfortunately you guys are in just to make the numbers up, no disrespect but I can't see you winning a game,whatever the Angelic Cynic thinks,still never mind.

As much as I hate the SMUG Leigh,I have to agree with the Clown,you Eagles won't win a match in the 8's ,just not good enough.

But what does the talented half of your partnership (Mr Richards) think?

Unfortunately I don't think we'll win a game in the Qualifiers either but I hope to be proven wrong. But, it has to be said, I did predict Sheffield to finish 5th before the split so I have been wrong before and will be again.
1. Widnes
2. Hull KR
3. Salford
4. Wakefield (Losers of £1m game)
5. Leigh (Winners of £1m game)
6. Bradford
7. Halifax
8. Sheffield

I've gone against my pre-season prediction that there'd be no Championship club promoted for next season. After watching Leigh play in the Challenge Cup against three SL sides, albeit in 'one-off games', I think they'll move on up to the top tier after slipping up a few times in the regular Qualifiers campaign.

The Qualifiers Prediction via the18thman.com - the18thman.com/2015/07/29/the-qu ... rediction/

The Qualifiers Prediction via the18thman.com - the18thman.com/2015/07/29/the-qu ... rediction/

Thanks.

We like being underestimated.

Yes it was a surprise to me that the RFL didn't step in and buy Don Valley to help the Eagles to carry on playing in Sheffield -they have after all supported the development of the game in Englands 5 th largest city fairly consistantly over the years - consistantly poorly that is.

Hi Angelic, that article was subsequently proven to be dripping with untruths. There never were any vultures as the ground was already owned by the BMDC with an RL covenant on it. What later emerged was that the RL had secretly loaned Peter Hood £700k without insisting on a shareholders meeting or even a basic audit and at the time of the sale of the lease the Bulls had not made one single repayment. The RL effectively seized the lease to secure its debt and made the various attempts at rescuing the club from administration almost impossible.

Why they lent money to Hood who was utterly inept, is one of the great uncovered scandals of RL. The RL should have bought the Don Valley stadium though and put a similar amount of effort in as they did in South Wales in my view.

Don Valley was a dead duck. Nobody in their right mind would have bought it as it would never make any money. It was a terribly designed stadium, and after the World Student Games (what it was built for), there was simply no afterthought as to what on earth the city of Sheffield was going to do with this white elephant.

I'm just hoping now that work begins on the new ground soon.

Well said.