Leeds lads back again : Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:54 pm  

Oledzki and Smith back for another month.

Re: Leeds lads back again : Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:59 pm  

Good news but still going down.

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:17 am  

I don't understand how it's for a month. As I understand it, as soon as they play for us in the 8s, they can't play for Leeds in them. So surely the loan is really until the end of the season? Unless for that month they're not going to play, then what's the bloody point anyway?

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:05 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

I don't understand how it's for a month. As I understand it, as soon as they play for us in the 8s, they can't play for Leeds in them. So surely the loan is really until the end of the season? Unless for that month they're not going to play, then what's the bloody point anyway?

That's was my thoughts too.

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:46 am  

All sadly irrelevant. Can't see us winning another game, but if we do, even winning all of them isn't a guarantee of avoiding relegation any more, and there's more chance of Donald Trump hosting Loose Women than that.

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:53 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

All sadly irrelevant. Can't see us winning another game, but if we do, even winning all of them isn't a guarantee of avoiding relegation any more, and there's more chance of Donald Trump hosting Loose Women than that.

When you look at the table, even winning every game looks HIGHLY unlikely to avoid the drop. We're 11 points behind Oldham and 12 behind Swinton. Two points have to be shared between those sides when they play each other. It essentially means:
1) Oldham beat Swinton meaning they only need 2 points and Swinton only need 3 to be uncatchable by us.
2) Swinton beat Oldham meaning Swinton need 1 point and Oldham need 4 to be uncatchable.

So either way, one team needs 1 more win and the other needs 2. In a division full of beatable teams who aren't really playing for much.


This of course is all totally irrelevant anyway, as once Bradford have lost 2 more games regardless of other teams' results, it's all over. Since we've won one game since Easter, there's more chance of Steve McNamara winning Super League Coach of the Year for this season.


Effectively, it means these two Leeds lads are only really here to get game experience. Not to help Bradford escape the drop.

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:54 am  

There's more chance of the Don riding into present Loose Woman on Shergar than us staying up!!!

But what's the story on Aston, is he staying as well or is he going back, having 1 more week of his loan to go?
Pretty useless week given no game, but hey look on the bright side, we won't lose this weekend and leave everyone ticked off to start the new week!!!!

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:17 am  

Having watched the Wigan/Leeds game on Friday I'm not surprised Oledzki isn't in Leeds' plans for the 8s. From what I saw I'd expect that Baldwinson and Ormanroyd won't be either.

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:22 am  

Mr Dog wrote:

Having watched the Wigan/Leeds game on Friday I'm not surprised Oledzki isn't in Leeds' plans for the 8s. From what I saw I'd expect that Baldwinson and Ormanroyd won't be either.

Feel a bit for Oledzki. He's only 18 and early on looked superb, started getting plaudits in the media. When he came back, immediately the championship teams (which is a rough tough old-school league) started singling him out and 3-4 players swarming him every time he got the ball. It's hard enough playing against full grown men at 18, let alone already being singled out as a threat. I also don't think it helped him playing for Bradford, going back to Leeds to play in the 19s, then a game in the first team, then a couple of games for Fev, then going back to Bradford. He played for about 4 teams in space of a month. Ridiculous for his development.

[Bulliac]

Re: Leeds lads back again : Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:24 am  

There's little point in looking at points required and points available when we don't even look capable of even beating our own U19 team.