I’m sure everyone will get their chance, it’s a long old season and we’ve seen how it can take its toll. At the moment though I’m in the camp that thinks we need to be building some consistency. I’m also sure Kear is keen to make 1st team jerseys something to be earnt not given away because someone “needs a turn”.

I predict the exact same 19 this weekend with maybe a slight change in the starters.

Correct. Squad is exactly as it was last week.
Which makes me think Kear went with those players tactically rather than injuries forcing his hand.

Well I expect if Peltier, Bustin or Wilson were fit it might look a bit different - I guess we'll never know.

As for this week I think the main conundrum for Kear will be if he decides to bring Magrin into the 17 or not or whether to swap Hallas and Wood around.

It's a bit strange that we've signed that lad on loan from Toronto but he's not in the 19. Is it just because we've not signed him in enough time to get him registered for Sunday's game do you think?

Swinton have 5 in from Wigan

It's a shame that the one of those that's on loan rather than DR (so they can include 5 instead of 4) is a halfback. It means he'll play instead of Oscar Thomas. We could have done with Thomas playing so we could maybe recoup one of the games his utter shtness lost us.

Likely to be another tough game this week. Hopefully, the weather will be better than last week as I think a drier track will help our performance

I would hope that JK has made it quite clear to the lads that this might be a bit grubby at times. Swinton have been a bit Rowleyesque and the signing of Jamie Acton is bang on trend.

I notice that Bulls Website Gameday Guide have kick off down as 14.00 and Sinton have it down as 15.00. I assume the Swinton time is correct unless there is an international dateline between here and Manchester.

Acton not named in their 19 this week, but that doesn't always mean it's a guarantee they won't play.

That said, even without the likes of Acton and Barlow in the team, and without any obvious sh*thouses in the side, I've no doubt that they'll end up trying to turn it into that kind of game to level up the skill difference. I don't think anyone would look at the two sides on paper and not think there's more skill and flair in the Bradford side, so turning it into a scrappy game is absolutely the best tactic.

We've all seen Bulls teams in recent years fall victim to those gameplans, so hopefully they've prepared for it this time.





Unfortunately those sort of basic errors have been a mainstay of the club's website and social media ever since Chalmers took over and started using the cheaper options to run the media side of things (again, not saying he's wrong to do that, the club needed to cut costs). I have no hope of them stopping any time soon. Everywhere else seems to have it as 3pm.