Would expect Chisholm to be in ours then. Probably on the bench on Friday night. Keyes and Pryce to start.

He's also down for the Hunslet game and will do them all. He's not called 3 Piece Sweet for nothing.

Cue tumbleweed.

Just had a email from Halifax. Rooley Lane End will be open for the game on Friday night.

No Dan Murray in the squad. Gledhill is saying he's been recalled by Salford. Whilst it probably is true (we all speculated it might happen), I'll wait until I see Murray's name in Salford's squad before I believe it. Reliable sources and all that.

Our 18-man Squad:
Bentley, Campbell, Caro, Davies, Halifihi, Hodgson, Keyes, Kirk, Larroyer, Macani, Magrin, Moore, Oakes, Pryce, Roche, Ryan, Thomas, Wilkinson.

I hope it's 18 because they're going to add Chisholm to it later, rather than because we only have 18 available players. Otherwise we're stuffed for Easter Monday too!

Powell was talking about using his full squad over Easter and re-calling Larroyer if need be.

Murrary is a massive loss but inevitable with easter coming up. Notice only 18 players announced so presume trying to register Chisholm before then.

For me (if chisholm plays)

Thomas
Campbell
Ryan
Oakes
Caro
Pryce
Keyes
Roche
Moore
Margrin
Larroyer
Bentley
Wilkinson

Chisholm
Davis
Kirk
Hodgson

Got a strong feeling Macani will play. Exactly the type of character we don't need. Think fax will steam roll our forwards sadly.

Murray hasn't been named in Salford's 19 for Good Friday. Every chance he'll be in for Monday obviously, but also every chance it's total bull, with no pun intended.

No Murray would reduce our chances by a fair bit. We have nobody that is able to fill his boots in the front row. Roche and Hodgson will give 100% but I suspect we'll struggle like we did at Oldham when he was lost due to sickness.

Not surprised if Salford call him back.

What's up with Lee Smith?

Can't see this squad being strong enough to get off negative points this weekend unfortunately. Hope we've only named 18 because we're waiting for a decision on Murray from Salford, and we get him on, slightly improves our chances. I've no doubt the lads will give everything, but the Fax pack will be too strong. Imho, we need Dan more than Dane at the moment.
In today's YP, Powell was quoted as saying he'd make a decision on their loan players after Friday's game for Monday. Let's hope they have a good win on Friday, with no injuries, along with Salford, but Leeds have lots of minor knocks in the forwards so there are no DR with Fev on Monday

Any news how Scott Moore has got on today, that could be the straw that breaks the camels back

He'll be available.

Do you know the outcome then Bullseye?

Adjourned apparently.

Sine die, perchance?

You are presuming I think that Fax are a top 4 side which I don't. Stating the obvious but Bradford have no chance of making the top 4 because of their points deduction where as Fax could sneak in and to do that they would have to win games like this.

It seems a it strange Salford not making players available to Bradford when they have made DR players available to Fax this week.

Was quite optimistic for this one. Slightly less optimistic now.

Need as less disruption as possible.

Keyes in for Lilley.
Where's Peltier?

Peltier still had some strapping on his hand on Sunday, didn't look thick enough to be a cast though.
Basically it all comes down to props for us. If we have enough, then we will get results like Toulouse & Swinton & Batley.
If we're short of props, then we'll have results like Rochdale & Oldham.
Our back line is fine, matches any in this division.

Agreed. Need to get in 2 or 3 that have been playing at least C1 five years or so, unless of course we can pluck out another few Murray and Oledski's.

Let's be right. Fax ARE a top 4 side - the table says so, I believe.

I think it's fair to say the table doesn't tell the entire truth with our position as, with no deduction, we'd be just below you on scoring difference, so I suppose we've had similar seasons, results wise. We are very reliant on the loanees though, as we have an unbalanced team with too many very young players, and it seems we won't have too many of the loan players over Easter, so we'll have an even younger age profile than normal, though I suspect we won't be alone in that.

I think Fax are favourites for this game, chiefly because we're light in the pack and your lot are always up for this game. If Fax are a bit 'wayward' though, we certainly have the backs to punish the errors. If I were a betting man, which I'm not, then my money would be on a Halifax win.

Well the bookies can't separate us. If i were Fax i would play it simple with 5 drives and a kick and i think they'll get the win. But as Bulliac says if they start making errors we certainly have the backs to hurt them.

We could do with the rain holding off for the Fax game given our forward predicament.

Imho if we come out of the weekend with any points that's a big success...

It's much more fun when you don't expect anything and are pleasantly surprised.

Instead of the last two years when all you got was dissappointment.

Can't say I'm expecting anything from this weekend.