Flanagan will sort them out with his mature attitude.

Hopefully Lawrence will be back from his knee injury/illness whatever it is. Would bring in Jones or Foster for Matongo.

I think with Toulouse and Featherstone its a shock and awe thing for Championship clubs. They give it to you until you capitulate and they can run them in at will. I don't think we can beat them, but we can keep them honest and make them genuinely graft.

Hope so. The kick off time is bloody awful so I doubt I'll be there this week anyway.

Stupid considering it clashes with the local grassroots games. I’ll be playing rather than attending.

The kick of time is to help Toulouse get back to France. There are less direct flights than there were last season so it to allow them to get home as easily as possible.

Surprised the club agreed to it, I'll be amazed if it doesn't have a negative impact on the attendance.

Oh I understand why they’ve done it. But it’s still stupid. Two of the local sides are at home (Dudley Hill and Wibsey). Wyke are in Leeds. So that’s at least 3 sides who won’t be watching the Bulls plus families etc.

All of their away games are Saturdays. Its not like its just us thats agreed to play them on a Saturday for their benefit.

See the post above!!!

All of [itheir[/i home games are on a Saturday, presumably to help the part-time teams with return travel from France



It doesn't seem that much of a burden for us to put one home game on a day which suits [ithem[/i.

Bulls squad:

ASN Doors 21-Man Squad



Keven Appo - Sponsored by Roy Sunderland

Joe Arundel - Sponsored by The Pitchside Crew

Jordan Baldwinson - Sponsored by Vicki & Graeme Sharp

Ben Blackmore - Sponsored In Memory of the Trotter Family

Chester Butler - Sponsored by Diane & John Butler

Brad England - Sponsored by Ruth Rider, Darren and Gareth Rider-Smith

George Flanagan Sr - Sponsored by Captain Hornblower, Carol and Tony

David Foggin-Johnston - Sponsored by Dave Green and Anne Fish

Brad Foster - Sponsored by 1st Safari Thornton Lodge Nursery

Kieran Gill - Sponsored by John Hazell and William Shepherd

Tom Holmes - Sponsored by HF Wealth

Josh Johnson - Available For Sponsorship

Myles Lawford - Sponsored by TrustFord Bradford

Michael Lawrence - Sponsored by E M Workwear & Embroidery

Jordan Lilley - Sponsored by 39 Steps Consulting

James McDonnell (Dual Reg)

Dec Patton - Sponsored by GH Premier Consultancy

George Roby - Sponsored by MRT Chemicals

Fenton Rogers - Sponsored by Saddleworth Holiday Lettings

Liam Tindall (Dual Reg)

AJ Wallace - Sponsored by Martin, Ros and Ric Tonks

Obviously he has to play the 2 leeds lads so who will he leave out?

Does he have to leave someone out? Tindall is an out and out winger and McDonnell is a centre/second row. Tindall looked very useful for us last year. McDonnell's stats for Leigh last year look impressive, might ask on the Leigh board what they thought of him.

I think its a strange choice of duel reg players given we are very light up front. I think Tindall certainly improves the side and I wonder if we will see him start at full back so that Tom Holmes can slot back into the halves?



I'd be tempted to go with the following team:



Liam Tindall

Ben Blackmore

Joe Arundel

Kieran Gill

David Foggin-Johnston

Dec Patton

Tom Holmes

Brad Foster

George Flanagan Sr

Michael Lawrence

Keven Appo

Brad England

Chester Butler



Fenton Rogers

Josh Johnson

James McDonnell

George Roby



Jordan Baldwinson, Myles Lawford, Jordan Lilley and AJ Wallace would miss out for me.

I assume Lilley will be given the weekend off as he's just had another kid. He's kept himself busy this off season.

Lilley's enthusiasm obviously extends beyond the pitch.



Tindall at fullback might be a good shout. Also Gill and Arundal have both looked a bit shot at times so maybe we'd have McDonnell on the bench as centre or backrow cover?

Been poor there when I’ve seen him for leeds if he was going in over someone be a hard call but I’d say DFJ

Blackmore had a better game vs Widnes but he's still not convinced me. Makes a few errors and when he ran in for that try he showed he's not the most nimble (he messed up a similar chance vs Whitehaven). That said he takes some tough carries.

I think I'd give DFJ a run at the back. Gets up well for a short lad and is safe under the high ball and he's an evasive runner who could exploit the space if he backs up well. Not shy of making a tackle but that could the the breaker against Toulouse. Who ever is there is going to have a busy afternoon

Well did anyone else expect that?

Was waiting watching score updatesz looks like the fight is there now which we lacked last year.

How did everyone do as I didn't hear anything of it

Wish I'd known about Bradford having two teams then I wouldn't have gone seen the bad one in York

What the hell? I'll look forward to hearing from the people who went today. Were we magnificent, Toulouse poor, bit of both? What a cracking result that is!

They were very good 1-17 Arundel having 13 players pants down to score was a personal fave

We were good. Intensity was there, aggressive defence was there. Toulouse started slow and expected us to crack. When didn’t, they applied some pressure and again, expected us to break. We kept going toe to toe, their discipline went, one of their yellows should have been red, we applied pressure and they cracked. Our kicking was on point, Dec controlled things but basically, our pack was on top for large parts of that game. COYB