Re: Batley (A) : Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:11 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

I can see it now… “Batley is a poophole and their players are all a bunch of softies. I hate Super League.”

Is that along the right lines?

You forgot the mandatory swipe at Neil Hudgell.

Re: Batley (A) : Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:20 pm  

Re: Batley (A) : Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:25 pm  

Think the squad picks itself.

Pickersgill
Evans
Gibson
Webster
Ryan
Lilley
Wildie
Kirk
Hallas
Crossley
Farrell
Garside
Wood

Flanagan
Green
Bustin
Storton

Decent squad that for the slug fest it will BE. Hope Kear doesn't have another selection implosion and have 1 prop on bench with a centre.

Re: Batley (A) : Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:33 pm  

The Batley chairman is one of Chalmers closest allies. I think they’ll coordinate their swipe at Hudgell....

Re: Batley (A) : Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:37 pm  

I’d be tempted to put Pickersgill at 6 in attack but 1 in defence like we used to do with Brett Kearney.

Re: Batley (A) : Sat Mar 09, 2019 12:10 pm  

Id go as far to say this is a must win game, but with the injury curse we seem to be going through i think its going to be extremely difficult

Re: Batley (A) : Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:41 pm  

Much improved performance today.

Half time score:
Batley 0 Bradford 16

Re: Batley (A) : Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:50 pm  

Final score of 6-16 to Bradford. Now a win is a win, but that second half the ill-discipline that cost us against Sheffield came roaring back.
A better team would have taken us to the cleaners

Re: Batley (A) : Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:01 pm  

Really good team performance that IMO. Not perfect, had moment of sloppiness early in the first half and we'll need to improve for Widnes next week. But thought as a team we grinded out the win. Think the comment about discipline is a bit harsh. Sheffield we obviously lost the plot. But I thought a fair few of Batleys late penalties were brought with them being desperate rather than us lacking discipline.

Re: Batley (A) : Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:10 pm  

Scrappy win for the Bulls. Just glad we got over the line and got the 2 points after a bad spell of games.

Daunting trip to a resurgent Widnes next Sunday.