I'd start Flanagan. Hallas maybe on the bench or in the backrow. I'd also only pick two of Keyes, Chisholm and Lilley. I'd say Lilley misses out.



McNally/Pickersgill

Hitchcox

Gibson

Egodo/Oakes

Ryan

Keyes

Chisholm

Crossley

Flanagan

Bustin

Garside

Minchella

Wood



Hallas

Peltier

Green

Storton

Totally agree with that side mate

No room for Lilley in this side. He was poor again on Sunday and if you can't make an impact in a game like that against poor opposition when are forwards are so dominant, then I think the writing is on the wall.

If Kear persists with shoehorning him into the side next year, it will be to our detriment.

That won't matter if we lose on Sunday

Asbsolutely. We only need two halves in a game and JK has to decide which two it it is. Before the next game preferably.



Not sure where I am with Hallas. He looks ineffective for long periods and then puts in a solid shift of good work - will the real Sam Hallas stand up, please?



I'm also sitting on the fence with Flanagan. He has to be in the side, but as a starter or off the bench? As old Will Shakespeare once said, "that is the question". The only thing I'm certain of is that I'm not really sure...

Jack Smith the man in the middle on Sunday

We're the RFL's pets, we can have as many chances as we like

What I would like to see is the team come out fired up, and clearly at least as enthused, sharp and pacy as our opponents, playing like they both mean it and believe it.



What I would NOT like to see is a repeat of the York first half debacle, where in a huge game, we don't turn up in the first half, or the MPG where Wakefield visibly seemed to want it more than we did.



If somebody outplays us in a fine hard game, I'm alright with that, but those sort of inexplicable displays I find hard to take.

I think we're all in agreement there FA. I still find it baffling that we came out so passive versus York. Did Kear have them listening to whale song in the dressing room while the joss sticks were burning?

The Oldham 3 have all got one match bans and are missing on Sunday.

Anyone know if the playoffs will be shown on facebook/proper sport?

Proper sport will shoe bulls games and the ouRLeague app will show donny v Worky.



Regarding the hooking role, i'd rather Halafihi be there ahead of Hallas. We absolutely can not afford sloppy distribution on the first tackle. We just have to go set for set with Oldham.

To be fair, whilst we were clearly not at the races early on, I actually thought that it was York who had blundered by expending all their energy so early on, and that very nearly proved to be the case at the end. I don't think I've seen any team come out so energised and run around quite like that. In the end we lost though, so I guess history says we definitely should have tried a bit harder to counter what they did in the first half hour.

Yes but will they allow 3 replacements to play, or do they have to play with 10 men? Against which we still were unable to even look like scoring?

Think that on a bigger pitch and with Kear's words hopefully ringing in their ears we should be able to get a decent win as we did in the home league game.

It’s a weird scenario whereby this match is probably the most high pressure game of the play offs. Lose and it’s all over and we’re staying in L1, win and we have two chances of promotion. I really hope Kear has the players focused for this week, it’s a massive game.

Why do we have 2 chances

I totally agree. In a convoluted 'only in rugby league' senario.

The stakes and the preassue are much higher this week than they would be in a potential game next week.

Its a funny old game

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Because if you lose in the playoff final, you then face whoever finishes bottom of the Championship Shield for the last place in the Championship.



But as was said previously, lose in the semi and there's no second chance.

Hi NZ Bull, Bulls Live/Proper Sport and Betfred are going to Show Sunday’s game.



You can join myself, Craig Harrison and James Ford from 2.15pm.

Thanks for letting us know Mick, my missus in Leyte giving me earache to find this out. Bulls got a nice little following there now through her, they even now in the Philippines have a National side, they beat Malta a while ago and the womens team play in the Australian (?) Womens league in Sydney now, so it is spreading a bit now.

I think the idea is, it is the team that would have been relegated.



At the moment, it is Rochdale or possibly Swinton. They are on 10 points each, Swinton have a 62 pts better PD



But, Swinton are away at Batley and Rochdale are away at Sheffield. Batley seem likely to put a big score on Swinton so it could be close.



Hopefully (very) it won't be relevant to us but I doubt there's much chicken counting going on round here

Even more hopefully, I believe the venue for the game against Rochdale (or whoever) is down to a coin toss.



If we win the toss of the coin, we don't get home advantage.



Because that there circus has already been booked in, before the RFL and others came up with this plan.



Really don't want to be going down that route....

Staygate roundabout will be pretty much a no-go area for the next three Sundays, so anybody coming from the M62 will find Cleckheaton Road (A63icon_cool.gif a better bet than the M606. Visitors from Oldham and potentially Doncaster or Workington, please take note. https://www.bradford.gov.uk/browse-all- ... oundabout/

Staygate roundabout will be pretty much a no-go area for the next three Sundays, so anybody coming from the M62 will find Cleckheaton Road (A63icon_cool.gif a better bet than the M606. Visitors from Oldham and potentially Doncaster or Workington, please take note. https://www.bradford.gov.uk/browse-all- ... oundabout/

Bulls have said they already have plans in place if we win the toss and play the game at home.