Bull Mania

Console. I'll be getting it, however with a digital only console, i can't see it available for pre-order from playstation network.

But John Davidson said Bradford York & London were being catapulted into SL and Toulouse cast aside. He retweeted angry RL twitter fans and everything! In all seriousness this is the sensible decision. Give teams and the RFL time to make a 14 team league properly.

Funnily enough, James Child mentioned on the forty20 podcast last week Widnes were one of the clubs mentioned as being in the 14 which surprised me. The fan base seems very disenchanted with the way things are at their club at the moment.

Win tomorrow and we go top. If the difference of us losing and Oldham winning overturns a 49 points deficit, we will find ourselves 4th tomorrow instead. Tomorrow makes or breaks our season IMO

For me, 14 is definitely the way to go long term. There are issues with having French teams in our comp as well as positives. I've always maintained two French clubs in a 12 team comp would hurt SL. But 14 teams, Toulouse & Catalans could work well. Which is why I'd be disappointed if this happened. The top 14 clubs in the IMG graded table should make up SL (So presuming Toulouse, Bradford & York) I'd put London on notice and say they've got 12 months to get their act together (for all the twitter outrage from RL media about Bradford possibly being in SL, London are about as far away from being an SL club as anyone in the country) and then if they put foundations in place, grant them an SL place and replace the 14th graded with them.

Look at the stuff he's retweeting "BrAdFoRd In SL iS a DiSgRaCe" funnily enough not much tweets about a team third from bottom of the championship possibly being being in SL, because ya know, twitter likes. He's got the reaction he wants. He's as bad a Gledhill. He's got two go too's in his journalistic armory. Bradford and Derek Beaumont. Just so incredibly boring with no intelligent debate.

Hunslet v Featherstone Rovers by 54 Halifax Panthers v Toulouse Olympique by 18 London Broncos v Doncaster by 8 Barrow Raiders v Batley Bulldogs by 10 Oldham v Sheffield Eagles by 26 York Knights v Bradford Bulls - York by 20 (We're playing rotten at the moment & York look unstoppable)

Maybe I'm being naive, but surely in this day and age we can do better than estimates. Surely organisations have players' registrations?

I wonder if they've slapped this on to trigger IMG points deduction? I'm sure if you receive a certain penalty for breach of operational rules you are deducted 0.25 IMG points.

I felt I've seen enough in Mcguire to at least be given the tools to show what he can do. I mean he's a couple of wins off Catalans, who, when you include marquee players, aren't far of spending double what Cas do. You look at Joel Tomkins and you can tell he's never going to be a coach. Mcguire had some shoots you could build on. Cas just seem to be floating a long at the moment sadly.

Cutting the league again and making the league smaller and smaller will see the demise of the sport. I always stand by the point that no matter how many teams you have, the top team will always be better than the team at the bottom. Even if we cut the teams to 8, Catalans are still ###### and got battered by 60 against the top team a couple of weeks ago. Also this myth that if we cut now, then a in a few years time we'll be able to grow the league is just false. Why does anyone think cutting a Castleford from SL for example, losing over a million pounds in central distribribution, sponsorships etc, that they'll suddenly be stronger to expand the league in a few years time. Look at strong traditional clubs who spent more than 1 year out of SL. Bradford. Halifax. Widnes etc. They are clearly some teams who have plodded a long in SL, particularly player development. But those teams who are talked about coming up will improve this. Toulouse - exposure to more better French players coming through Bradford - still one of the best at producing players. Give them SL money that will get even better London - Again, a hot bed of RL talent down there. I don't disagree, that the first year they'll be some lopsided scores, but in a couple of years, I'd wager a Toulouse, London, York etc would be stronger than the likes of Hudds, Cas are at the moment.

Of all the things to question if you should carry on, this really isn't it. I'd may question why a player would be so thick to do it. We all know the rules. Whether we feel he's faking it or not is irrelevant. I'm sure Cas have feigned injury or done an exceedingly slow play the ball to wind the clock down. All clubs have done it. The rule is there to try and prevent a catastrophe of a player who may genuinely be injured, and someone moving him because he believes he's feigning injury. I don't know how people are still struggling to understand this.

Fair play to Barrow. 100% deserved the win. We're in an absolute rut at the moment. I know nothings won in June and it's September you want to be playing well, but the team are lacking some serious mental toughness in these big games and it should have been fixed by now. I honestly don't think they have the bottle to achieve something this year. We haven't won a single big game. Toulouse (A), York in the semi. York at home after they'd been on the pop all week (That was a real alarming defeat) and now Barrow away. Saints must be having a right laugh that we're dumb enough to bring Hurrell in on loan. Nice guy but he's absolute crocked.

I don't think things are worse, but the fact is we lost A LOT of experience in a very short space of time.

Fair play to Widnes. Backs to the wall performance. One person doesn't make a team. But I feel Toulouse are so much weaker without Ashall-Bolt in their team. Lost count the number of tries he's scored from kicks behind the defensive line. Best player in the league for me.