I know it's nearly a week off but with the crap weather I'd rather be looking forward to a game that is normally very close and hopefully a bit less depressing than Friday's debacle.
Think the 9 day turnaround should recharge some batteries although looking at the forecast its going to be a very heavy ground again. Team wise if Widdop has to be included I hope Finn goes back to using him off the bench and playing our two best halves from the start. Fairbank will obviously come back, and if Hursey doesn't get a place in the 17 after Friday's show there really doesn't seem much point in him being here. If Eden isn't fit, I'm assuming they'll just bring Tibbs back in - it would certainly give the crowd a lift if they went for Tee Ritson on loan to fill the gap.

The centres and pack aren’t big enough and this is a problem at the beginning of the season when the ground is very heavy and most games are more set for set . There’s loads of rain this week and think there’s a rescheduled town game , I expect another bogathon riddled with errors and penalties.

Bloody hell, it's only taken 2 league games for the whinging to start.

My 2 man squad for Batley

Woodburn hall
Tangata .

I'm too unenthusiastic to even whinge!

Long after some of us started..

Batley will never make it easy but fax by a panthers whisker

There’ll be more office staff than players at this rate , I wonder if Damien Clayton can play centre.

Looking at other clubs forums etc it's a recurring theme, clubs going with small squads and relying on DR/loans. I wonder where it's all going to end, eh?

A lee Kenny drop goal in the grand final but Bradford get promoted cos they counted the fans who went to watch the monster trucks as well .