Championship 2017

[ParraEelsNRL]

The one thing the French really need to work on and it involves all their clubs, they need better discipline if they are ever to progress.

 

[Perth Red]

Big win for us this week, surprised as Oldham had been performing ok and we were pretty poor last week.

 

[Perth Red]

My winners predictions for round 4

Toulouse
London
HKR
Rochdale
Batley
Featherstone

Sunday 26th February 2017
Sheffield 10 Batley 54
Swinton 13 Featherstone 30
Rochdale 6 Halifax 20
Hull KR 48 Oldham 0
Dewsbury 6 London 20
Bradford 29 Toulouse 22

4/6 predictions

Halifax and Bradford surprised me.

 

[CC_Roosters]

Sunday 26th February 2017
Sheffield 10 Batley 54
Swinton 13 Featherstone 30
Rochdale 6 Halifax 20
Hull KR 48 Oldham 0
Dewsbury 6 London 20
Bradford 29 Toulouse 22

4/6 predictions

Halifax and Bradford surprised me.

Looks like a long season for Dewsbury and Sheffield. those two and maybe Oldham and Swinton will be scrapping to avoid the drop. I expect Bradford to be mid table with the amount of games left in the season and super 8s

Toulouse need to discover how to win away if they are to be competing for top 4

 

[roughyedspud]

no way bradford will finish mid table..they are still 4 wins away from hitting zero points

 

[JonB95]

The one thing the French really need to work on and it involves all their clubs, they need better discipline if they are ever to progress.

Toulouse's discipline is generally okay actually. And it was in fact an Aussie player that cost them by getting sin binned at Bradford!

 

[adamkungl]

If Bradford finish 10th it will be a big achievement. Dewsbury doing them favours at the moment.

 

[roughyedspud]

Big game next week between us & Dewsbury..We really need to turn them over

 

[adamkungl]

What's the feeling around Bradford in here/elsewhere? Are people hoping they succeed or is everyone shitty about perceived favouritism and hoping they bomb out of spite?

I like Tooves (as much as a Manly bloke can be liked), hope he does well as coach.

 

[roughyedspud]

I hope they go down

 

[Perth Red]

no way bradford will finish mid table..they are still 4 wins away from hitting zero points

I reckon they will, the new owners have money to spend clearly and wont want to see them drop. Expect to see some big signing in next few weeks once Toovey gets a better picture of the current squad. They pushed us hard and beat Toulouse with the patchwork team they have currently, a few good signings will see them pull away from all but the top 3 clubs over next few months

 

[Perth Red]

What's the feeling around Bradford in here/elsewhere? Are people hoping they succeed or is everyone shitty about perceived favouritism and hoping they bomb out of spite?

I like Tooves (as much as a Manly bloke can be liked), hope he does well as coach.

English RL cant afford not to have a successful Bradford side. Hopefully we will one day see them back challenging for silverware and getting 12k crowds.

 

[Leigh Howlett]

Shouldn't every team facing the Bulls promote the !@@##$ out of the game, they have a big hole to dig them selves out of and if they can beat Toulouse then they've still got some life in them, who wants to see the Bulls relegated, even the home sides should be welcoming the 'Team Of The Damned'!................

 

[CC_Roosters]

no way bradford will finish mid table..they are still 4 wins away from hitting zero points

26 games left and I think they are more than capable of putting together a sequence of results.

 

[Perth Red]

Sorry Roughyed but watched our game last night and Oldham were absolute gash on defence and especially in attack. Did they lose a lot of players from last season? I'm guessing so as they knocked us out of the CC cup! the 48-0 scoreline was kind, we were 30 points up after 22minutes running into a howling wind.

Great crowd at Craven Park: 7,268.
68 of those would have been Oldham fans.

 

[roughyedspud]

Well we got our arses handed to us today against KR....half expected it tbh,we put in two massive efforts against featherstone & london the previous 2 week.

Like i said..i half expected us to get rolled over..and we won't be the last team to get battered by a side thats gonna walk the league....beating the likes of dewsbury,sheffield,swinton,rochdale is far more important....and dewsbury & rochdale are up next

 

[Pommy]

Great crowd at Craven Park: 7,268.
68 of those would have been Oldham fans.

You had me amazed for a second. But you mean the other Craven Park.

 

[Perth Red]

CHAMPIONSHIP - KINGSTONE PRESS CHAMPIONSHIP
Round 5
Featherstone Rovers v Rochdale Hornets
Halifax RLFC v Toulouse Olympique XIII
Hull Kingston Rovers v Sheffield Eagles
London Broncos v Bradford Bulls
Oldham RLFC v Dewsbury Rams
Batley Bulldogs v Swinton Lions

 

[deluded pom?]

Like i said..i half expected us to get rolled over..and we won't be the last team to get battered by a side thats gonna walk the league....beating the likes of dewsbury,sheffield,swinton,rochdale is far more important....and dewsbury & rochdale are up next

I'm sure you wouldn't swap last season's Challenge Cup win for two points at Caravan Park would you 'spud?

 

[roughyedspud]

Nope...