A chance to redeem ourselves following that poor performance at their place earlier this season. They've been an inconsistent outfit this season, much like us. Recently they've strung a few wins together and don't look too dissimilar to us in form so I expect a close game.

No Myers so Arundal back into the centres. Hopefully Blackmore is fit otherwise I can see us using Tindall. We'll need to bring in a couple of forwards, one to cover Arundal's move and the other for Rogers who I expect needs to take a concussion break unless anyone on here knows different.

Yeh Tindall, if available, for Myers. I have a feeling Blackmore will be out longer. Matongo in for Rogers and maybe Butler back.

Think this will be the usual tight affair between the two sides. I still don't know how we lost at their place though.

York are stringing a few wins together, though they have played the bottom two the last two weeks and only just got over the line rather than being convincing winners (much like ourselves at times)

We've been here before though where we're brave losers against the top team, then the following week lose against a team we "should" beat.

We've a tough set of remaining fixtures and a defeat here could be the start of our season unravelling and inexplicably falling out of the play-offs. York could still finish above us if we lose all our remaining fixtures and they won theirs. A win ends Yorks play-off hopes and puts us in a strong position for a home play-off tie, such is the tightness of the league. We can't afford any slip ups at this stage of the season.

Looking forward to this game, as already mentioned it could make or break our season.

That limp performance at York still tastes so sweet. Hand in hand with my daughters into the ground, their eyes sparkling with wonder. The bulls players do their warm up and look up at their adoring fans, before gathering in a tight huddle and saying "Nah boys. I can't be ar$ed really. Shall we play with zero penetration, ideas or heart?". And they each nod in agreement.

Can we not do that please.

Squad for the game:


I'd go with:
Holmes
Blackmore
Arundel
Gill
DFJ
Gaskell
Lilley
Lawrence
Jowitt
Doro
England
Wallace
Baitieri
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Butler
Scurr
Matongo
Appo

I would swap Jowitt for Flanagan and swap Jowitt for Butler as its Butlers 1st week back from injury.

I would be surprised if Blackmore is fit so Tindall on wing I think.

If Widnes beat London and we lose today we suddenly look very vulnerable with two tricky away games at London and Sheffield.

However a win today and there is a chance we could secure 3rd without a showdown at Sheffield if other results went our way.

Be interesting to see how the players react to the pressure today, I'm feeling a little nervous for them!!

Yep, massive game today. Fax with a great win over Toulouse still gives them a chance of finishing above us with an easier run in. Even York could still finish above us if they win all their fixtures and we lose ours. We really cannot afford to slip up today. Hope the players are fully focused and we come out firing.

Absolute must win game today. We have to start like a house on fire from the first minute. The matchup between us and the Knights is 50/50. We've won 5, they've won 5. Historically we are very evenly matched. We owe them one after the debacle at their place earlier in the season.

No Gaskell, York bench looks much bigger than ours.

Am I the only one that thought team selection was really odd

Once again we fail to perform when it really matters. Last tackle options were awful, we missed Gaskell badly. I don't know what's been wrong with Appo over last couple of games, he seems to be doing everything half heartedly. Maybe he's on the move. Only plus was Doro today.

last chance saloooooooon ... and blew it. london/sheff we are not going to win away

we can still miss the playoffs ... never mind having a home game

overall ... barrow twice, york twice, keighley et al ... if we still finished so high up in second (winning those games) ... we still are not good enough. i really cant seeing us winning 1 nevermind 2 of our last games

i really want us to do well, i miss not being in england and supporting the lads, so as any other supporter, im mad and also passionate

Well we’ve made it very hard for ourselves now, with two very tough away fixtures to come. Both sides above us, so we could either be 3rd in a couple of weeks time or we could be out the play offs, season over. Momentum has gone, so it will take an almighty effort to keep the season alive now.

Lacked creativity, lacked momentum not helped by a very slow play the ball throughout. With 3 or 4 starting players missing we look very ordinary. Gaskell was clearly a big loss and moving our best fullback to halfback to cover that loss wasn’t a successful tactical decision. York last play options were better than ours and they stepped it up in the 2nd half with some clever plays.

Desperately need the likes of Rogers, Gaskell and Blackmore back for London.

Only heard it via Mick's commentary but it sounded like a really poor effort.

Complete inability to respect possession and no creativity going forward.

Was there any point in that second half when it looked like we might actually score?

The one thing you can absolutely bank on is Bradford blowing an opportunity.

Listened on radio but sounded like we could have still been playing now and still not scored. Errors proving costly yet again.

Think Segeyaro loss is proving costly. Next week's game could be massive as we could fall out of the play-offs all together going into the final round.

Only positive I can find is our destiny is completely within our own hands, we are not hoping results go our way. Unfortunately that means we have some very tough matches ahead, but if we cannot get the wins then there is little point being in the 6 anyway.

Going into this with only 3 props, a new halfback combo, a makeshift fullback and missing one of our best ball carriers (Blackmore) meant we were going to struggle.

We had props available that’s the annoying thing I can’t believe 3 props was signed off