I see scofield has picked us to finish 8th, with Leigh finishing 2nd.

So it’s back to SL next year for us then

Where can we read these predictions? Thanks

It's from the League Express.

From the reserves/19s games I watched at our place last year, Alix Stephenson was rightly getting a lot of plaudits, but I thought Elliot Culling has the potential to be a fantastic centre for us. Big lad and defensively can really put a shot on. Doyle is also very very strong, very much in the mould of a young Terry Newton

I mean, even by Schoeys standards i'm baffled at that. If he has us finishing 8th then fair enough. But Leigh 2nd? They have around 16 players signed up at this moment in time. Ridyard is the stand out, but the rest? Bracek & Thornley from Swinton who finsihed bottom last year? Higham who I believe has come out of retirement. A fair few young kids from SL clubs. They've no FB and only 1 HB with the season 6 weeks away. We know all from experience how hard it is for young players week in week out in this league. 27 game regular season plus the CC and/or 1895 Cup.

Happy for us to fly under the radar

This is guy who said London would finish 9th last year

How did that work out, Gazza?

Like Ellery Hanley, Gary Schofield is an utter playing legend of the game, who couldn't coach for toffee and became a professional talker of crap.

Saying we will finish 8th with Leigh 2nd, is rather eccentric.

Do you think he does it just for attention? As a (supposed?) journalist you'd expect the editors would prefer him to be slightly believable, or be at least in the ball park. As for his 'radar', I suspect it was built during the second world war, suffered some bomb damage and hasn't been repaired since.

To be honest I'm not sure he has the cunning to act the agent provocateur. I think he's just a not particularly bright gobe. But maybe I should get down off the fence on this one.

IMO I think he does it to try and keep himself relevant, keep his name in RL fans mouths and it seems to work doesn't it



Some of the things he comes out with are baffling, maybe he just throws wild predictions out there in the hope that one day the unthinkable might happen and he may get something right! I think in all fairness to the guy, watching the 40/20 podcasts, he does talk a lot of sense in the discussions he takes part in, he just goes and spoils himself by making silly predictions.

The old "throw enough at the wall, some will stick" approach.

Not good for punditry.

The guy is an irrelevant idiot and seemingly has an anti-Bradford bias.

Nearly all Leigh fans think we'll do well to finish in top 6 and anything higher would be a bonus,looking back about 5 weeks we'd have been happy to avoid relegation so we'd take 8th ha ha

Played with Elliot Culling at Wibsey for a bit before he signed up on a professional deal. Absolute freak of nature at that age and one of the best I have played with. Put on some height and size too over the past year with the Bulls. Wouldn’t be shocked to see him feature in a Cup game or at least a friendly or two first!

Good to know! https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... says-kear/

Good to know! https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... says-kear/

"I'm a Yorkshireman and I can assure you we're not spending brass we haven't got"

That's enough to convince me

Good to know pal. You at Wibsey this next season?

Yeah mate. Pre-season started two weeks ago but I missed Week 1 due to illness and Week 2 as I was in Benidorm haha!

Whats gonna be your 3rd week excuse? Running out of them now haha

Agreed, 10th and 1st is much more realistic!



Seriously, I would be ecstatic if we managed 5th - although places are definitely up for grabs, after Toronto, Toulouse, Widnes and 'Fax. I would also expect you and York to have a good season.

Leigh for 2nd is a rather silly prediction, but they do have 3 HBs in Ridyard and Josh Woods, and cover in Oliver Russel on loan from Huddersfield. They also now have a FB.. McNally

Have to wait and see

To be honest, I think McNally has been pretty underwhelming so far in a Bulls shirt so if allowing him to go frees up some space for further strengthening it might be a good deal for all parties. I’m sure he is a better player than we have seen though and he was named as our number 1 in the squad numbers so must have been in Kears plans for 2019.

Yep, I've already said I'm not fussed if he goes. He'll be on a wedge and missed far too much of last season.
Kear brought him back for the home game against York and he had a shocker.

Seems weird because you'd assume McNally would be on a FT contract with us, but Leigh are PT next year.
So unless he's got some other business interests which mean a PT contract would be more in his favour, you'd have to wonder at the move

Think it could be more because of his wife being ill and with them living in leigh it would make sense him being closer,if his wife would be full of health I'm sure he'd stay with u guys