I think we will win, but it will be far from comfortable. And then everyone will rejoice as we are once more a winning team, and forget that we are in fact crap.
Until we get d!kced again in the league the week after that is.

No, it will be an easy enough win, but nobody surely would think that beating a lower division side is of any significance.

You would think, but wait for the positive spin the day after.

If we win it'll be by a throroughly underwhelming margin. I really can see Fax doing a Barrow and beating us, despite the fact that they're crap too at the moment.

If we do scrape through it'll only just paper over the cracks. It's going to take some serious actions on the field to restore my faith in our players.

fax are truly appalling at moment,you will run riot and score at will.

You've obviously not seen our attack this year. The ball never gets passed more than twice in a set (even then it usually gets played with an inside pass, ending back to the play the ball). I can imagine the opposition team prep the week before a match goes something like this.....

"Bradford will take 5 drives down the middle before kicking the ball dead, lets just pack the middle with our big lads!!"

I sure hope they prove me wrong!! I expect a win this week but would not be surprised if Halifax's attack is more fluent than ours. I have never seen a team so scared of throwing the ball out wide.

Never know, we might even see a dummy run from a forward this week. Poor Tom (Burgess) keeps offering this but then the hooker just throws it at him instead of missing him out

That tactic will be well and truly scuppered by Fax's stubborn refusal to make a tackle meaning Bradford will either do a Forrest Gump and run out of the stadium or score at will. Don't worry if we get hold of the ball, we've got 3 moves -

1. Drop the ball and stare at it like an idiot until some nice opposition player picks it up
2. Throw it to an invisible player/touch judge or opposition player
3. Let our winger (provided it's Worrincy) drive it in

Against Batley we tried a fourth tactic of constantly running into touch but that seems to have been abandoned in recent weeks.

Sorry but that was toms fault, it is a basic that you always expect the ball even if you're running dummy (just in case). Otherwise he performed well and took the ball in a few times towards the end

Game of it for a while but our feeble lads will eventually limp to a 34-18 vicory. I'm not sure who I despise more, the players or everyone reading this.

The world is ending. Shadows cloud the horizon. Every corner contains a whispering nemesis....

Is Jeff Grayshon still playing? And your Bully mascot thing - does he still charge up and down the touchline on a mobility scooter? Don't be confused by the bucket collectors this weekend - it's for our yoof team, not for our survival; although it could be said that they are inextricably linked.

Two teams low on defensive steel points to a very, very high scoring game

I expect us to win comfortably in a points feast

Something like 48-28

Shad Royston to get at least 1 try.

I'd expect nothing less and will cheer and applaud appropriatly for the lad. Nothing but best wishes for Shad whoever he plays for.

Pfft! You think you're good at that, you should have seen us against Wire. We were the bloody kings of that move!

That being said, if someone does drop the ball, and both teams attempt that tactic, will it just sit on the floor while 26 blokes all stand there and look at it?

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Hardly?

They could have said "no truth in it". But they chose not to.

""Speculation" is usually code for "buggrit...the news is out before we've sorted all the paperwork and told the present incumbent..." is it not?

If it was true, you'd have to think that suggests Fax might be confident in getting the Super League nod?

In place of whom, though?

Assuming Quins and Antipodean Crusaders are safe, assuming Cas won't be dropped if Wakey are (as assumed) and after how they were playing, who is next on the list??

But yes, If true, maybe its part of their trying to make the best poss case for being awarded a licence?

My money is on expanded league of 15 teams. Wakey out, Fax & Widnes in.

If I was a betting man obviously. Which after last night, I probably shouldn't be any more.....

eeerm, there's just the small matter of actually winning those games!

You'd get better odds on Gledill taking the Gold Medal in the 100 metres at t'Olympics...

Really?

You mean, if we lost any one of those games, we couldn't win the Cup?

Honest?

Wow. Are you able to work out these hard things all in your own head, or does your mum help?

When you follow a successful team FA, winning becomes a natural occurrence, and you have no need to ask for assistance.....