Alan Rathbone, Geoff Clarkson and Steve Donlan also

Didn't john pendlebury have one last year at leigh?

leigh v bulls may well be a great gate and all that if first off, but I'd rather bulls start off a little more sedately given we are a rebuilt side.

It's no good going over to lsv against a very good and fairly settled team and going home well beaten. The positivity around our club is a fragile thing.

I'd rather we start with a winnable low key tie and sod the big bang.

Not to fussed what order we get the league fixtures to be honest, let's go to LSV and put a marker down!

Not heard anything about the friendlies as yet - wonder if the usual game at Dewsbury is still on this year?

The fixtures are random aren't they?

I think they take into account any particular dates the clubs might want/not want a home game to be played, particularly with clubs sharing grounds, but I doubt they would accept not wanting any particular club, away from home, on a specific date..

For anyone who wasn't aware, next season's fixtures will be announced this Sunday at 9pm.

He did in 92

Not forgetting Yaphat Kotto .

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Rumour on the grapevine is that our first game is London, whether or not this is home or away or not im not sure - and only hearsay

Gawd that's literally (to me at least) the least appealing possible outcome for a first game.

I have a craving to go to Hunslet that I can't explain.

Must be the Garden Gate.

I'm sure I've only just got back from London..

What would be the point of starting the championship season with a repeat of the last game of the Super League season? What's the fun in that?

Oh sorry, it's random. I keep forgetting.

Don't they use one of FA's spreadsheets to determine the games?

No, the RFL are only just upgrading from a spectrum ZX to a commodore 64 so FA's spreadsheet is far too into the future..

no, its an alternative reality.

Well, that may be true, but I prefer to think of any plans concerning the RFL to be more like Schrödinger's cat, but with two heads, trying to move in opposite directions and no-one knowing whether it's dead or alive. or what dimension it's in..

I think there are sterner, and more important, match-ups ahead in the 8 X 8.

As the full time teams, I find it hard to think Leigh London and us are not going to be taking part in it, so we have to regard the early season as preparation for the important stuff down the line. No-one is going to be promoted at the LSV, nice as it undoubtedly would be to put down a marker.

If Leigh finish 4th in the middle 8's then there will be a team promoted at the LSV

leigh beat us 36-12 hardly streets ahead, im thinking you lot are building yourselves up for a mighty big fall. Then watch the begging bowl come out again

The LSV is not big enough to break the lower division crowd record

Who in gods name do you think you are???
Arrogance like that will be your down fall,

Surprised at that response it seemed a perfectly reasonable post to me.

Will discuss it Dave when we meet up at Fev next year.