Well we’ve come out on top in 2 games against them so far albeit by only 1 point. Honestly I can see this becoming the Chisholm show and with Holmes also playing well in the halves I can’t see past a Fev win. However I hope I am wrong!!

I’d personally go with (barring any returnees from injury):

Ryan
Grant
Oakes
Webster (Minchella if JW injured)
Foggin-Johnston
Lilley
Milnes
Kirk
Hallas
Crossley
Farrell
Storton
Wood

Wildie
Peltier
Green
Bustin/Roche

Does anyone have any idea on what’s up with Gibson, Milton and why Kear seems to not want to play Bustin?

Also does anyone know how far off from a comeback:

Ashley Gibson
Jy Hitchcox
Joe Keyes
Matt Garside
George Flanagan
Rhys Evans

Chisholm talks about why he left the Bulls But I don't think it's anywhere the full story https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/da ... inst-them/

Chisholm talks about why he left the Bulls But I don't think it's anywhere the full story https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/da ... inst-them/

All the pressure on Bradford after that crushing win against Super League opposition and not forgetting the class in Jordan Lilley.

Good effort.

Thanks Bullseye, enjoy the game.

Is it too early for us to hope for chisholm’s honeymoon period to have come to an end?

All the talk is off Lilley and Chizzy but I reckon it’ll be Milnes who’ll run the show on Sunday.

We beat Leeds’ First team even without the help of the video ref knowing what a double movement is so we should wipe the floor with their reserves.

Featherstone have just taken Dale Ferguson on a month's loan from Huddersfield as well.

Might not be very pleasant viewing for Bulls fans on Sunday I feel.

Could be a thrashing, could be much closer. I think Fev are favourites on their home turf and on current form. They'll be keen to get one over on use after our one point win at Odsal and the last minute win in the cup.

I don't see Sunday being anything but a one sided scoreline to the home side. I don't think Kear's tactic of trying to bash down the middle will work against Fev who've got one of the biggest set of forwards in the league. If we're going to get anything out of this game, we need to start throwing the ball around and off loading from the get go. We did that in the dying minutes of the cup and Fev couldn't cope with us.

Let's be honest, its not going to be pretty on Sunday

Featherstone are running red hot right now, Chisholm will undoubtedly torment us and be MoM, and our minds are inevitably going to be on the cup game the following week.

Wouldn't be surprised to see a blow out scoreline, to be honest

Gibson has a torn calf and doesn't sound like he will be back fit any time soon. I saw on social media the other day that Hitchcox has started training again so hopefully he isn't a million miles away

As others have said above, Featherstone have hit form lately and coupled with the fact that Chisolm is still in his honeymoon period and playing against his old club, i expect him to run the show for them. If we play as well as we did against Leeds then i think we have a chance of taking the 2 points but i'm going with a Featherstone win by 10.

Chisholm is very much plum in the middle of the "Wow, just WOW, why isn't he playing in superleague" phase. We know what happens next.

No real reason to think we'll be thumped this weekend, apart from the distraction of the cup match of course. We've been 'well beaten' but not exactly 'thumped by anyone so far, so no real reason to think we will be by Fev, though I confess they are playing well at the moment. Like losing runs, winning ones also come to an end though. It's a tough old league is this though and no-one is going to have it all their own way.

Well I’m going and looking forward to the game. I think the fear of a drubbing is down to what we know an in form Chisholm can potentially do behind a pack that’s going forward. However we’ll be going into this under no illusions and will know Chisholm’s strengths and weaknesses inside out. I expect he’ll be pretty keyed up so it’ll be interesting to see how we deal with him.

Featherstone by 20+

Chisholm's 'off the cuff' play is brilliant when it comes off but dire when it doesn't. It can go either way. We can assume he's still in a 'trying to impress mode' but even that can go awry when you maybe try too hard, as you might when playing against your old mates.

What does this even mean?!?!?! What is this 'off the cuff' play everyone keeps referring to?

Do you mean taking the defensive line on from time to time? Throwing cutout passes? These are things a halfback IS SUPPOSED TO DO. It's what our current halfbacks ARE NOT DOING, which is why our attacking play is so dire.

My god I'm tearing my hair out reading some of the comments posted on here.

Only an 18 man squad announced. Grant the only winger.
Is this another balls us by our social media team or is there a player announcement coming later on today.
Its been mentioned on another thread Joe Brown has re signed??

Off the cuff doesn't mean any of those things. It means playing it as you see it regardless of what the call was or what the gameplan is. That's great when it works but if you're on a different wavelength to everyone else or do it all the time you aren't playing as a team.

So what, Dane did this constantly then did he? To such an extent that JK effectively booted him out of the club?

John Kear made a huge call and he needs to prove he made the right one in the long run. He has a long way to go before I'm convinced, and I still don't think Lilley will ever come good.

I suspect there's more to it than that but I've only heard rumours and have no proof so won't be putting anything on here.

18 man squad announced? Flanagan back in contention.

Looks like i was right.

So this 18 man squad - is this a case of having so few players available? If so, how?

Would anybody wanna guess what our back line might look like?

Presumably Joe Brown will be added to that 18?

Otherwise why only name 18, when they could have simply put in Foggin-Johnson, if injured, then Josh Rickett?