Fri 31 Jan-Sun 2 Feb: The Betfred Championship Match Thread

[John Drake]

Discuss all this week's Betfred Championship games here.

FRIDAY 31st JANUARY
Dewsbury Rams v Leigh Centurions KO 7.30pm

SATURDAY 1st FEBRUARY
Toulouse Olympique v York City Knights KO 5pm (UK Time) (OuRLeague App)

SUNDAY 2nd FEBRUARY
Batley Bulldogs v Featherstone Rovers KO 3pm
Bradford Bulls v London Broncos KO 3pm
Halifax v Sheffield Eagles KO 3pm
Oldham v Widnes Vikings KO 3pm
Whitehaven v Swinton Lions KO 3pm

[binosh]

Dewsbury 12 Leigh 24

Toulouse 38 York 18

Batley 14 Featherstone 22

Bradford 18 London 20

Halifax 12 Sheffield 14

Oldham 6 Widnes 32

Whitehaven 10 Swinton 20

[Nigel Fax]

Dewsbury 12 Leigh 36

Toulouse 28 York 18

Batley 12 Featherstone 34

Bradford 14 London 20

Halifax 28 Sheffield 10

Oldham 8 Widnes 26

Whitehaven 10 Swinton 18

[JonM]

Toulouse v York is a good game to start the OurLeague coverage with. Bradford v London will be a good test of both clubs' aspirations this year.

[fevtom]

Anyone fancy doing a Championship prediction league again? I'd love to take part but realistically I'm not sure I'd have time to keep up running one.

Anyway...

Dewsbury 10 - 42 Leigh

Toulouse 26 - 14 York

Batley 18 - 24 Featherstone

Bradford 12 - 42 London

Halifax 28 - 10 Sheffield

Oldham 8 - 42 Widnes

Whitehaven 22 - 20 Swinton

[Bleep1673]

Leigh, Toulouse, Batley, Bradford, Sheffield, Widnes, Swinton

[DavidM]

4 hours ago, John Drake said:

Discuss all this week's Betfred Championship games here.

FRIDAY 31st JANUARY
Dewsbury Rams 10-34 Leigh Centurions KO 7.30pm

SATURDAY 1st FEBRUARY
Toulouse Olympique 38-18York City Knights KO 5pm (UK Time) (OuRLeague App)

SUNDAY 2nd FEBRUARY
Batley Bulldogs 14-24Featherstone Rovers KO 3pm
Bradford Bulls 10-18London Broncos KO 3pm
Halifax 18-12Sheffield Eagles KO 3pm
Oldham 10-22Widnes Vikings KO 3pm
Whitehaven 1-38 Swinton Lions KO 3pm

 

[The Blues Ox]

Hardest one to pick this week is probably the Haven V Swinton game. I suspect the others will be comfortable wins for Leigh, Toulouse, Fev, London,Fax and Widnes.

[Havenfan10]

7 hours ago, John Drake said:

Discuss all this week's Betfred Championship games here.

FRIDAY 31st JANUARY
Dewsbury Rams v Leigh Centurions KO 7.30pm

SATURDAY 1st FEBRUARY
Toulouse Olympique v York City Knights KO 5pm (UK Time) (OuRLeague App)

SUNDAY 2nd FEBRUARY
Batley Bulldogs v Featherstone Rovers KO 3pm
Bradford Bulls v London Broncos KO 3pm
Halifax v Sheffield Eagles KO 3pm
Oldham v Widnes Vikings KO 3pm
Whitehaven v Swinton Lions KO 3pm

Dewsbury 18 - 16 Leigh

Toulouse 36 - 14 York

Batley 18 - 26 Fev

Bradford 14 - 28 London

Halifax 12 - 20 Sheffield 

Oldham 10 - 34 Widnes

Haven 18 - 16 Swinton 

 

 

[Havenfan10]

2 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

Hardest one to pick this week is probably the Haven V Swinton game. I suspect the others will be comfortable wins for Leigh, Toulouse, Fev, London,Fax and Widnes.

Going to be tough marra on heavy ground as well. Haven be well up for this can't wait. 

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

4 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

Hardest one to pick this week is probably the Haven V Swinton game. I suspect the others will be comfortable wins for Leigh, Toulouse, Fev, London,Fax and Widnes.

Skybet offering some seemingly generous handicap odds eg Widnes -8 v Oldham

[THE RED ROOSTER]

Dewsbury Rams v Leigh Centurions

Toulouse Olympique v York City Knights

Batley Bulldogs v Featherstone Rovers
Bradford Bulls v London Broncos
Halifax v Sheffield Eagles
Oldham v Widnes Vikings
Whitehaven v Swinton Lions

[TIWIT]

Without the proverbial elephant in the room (or perhaps King Kong astride the Empire State Building, swatting away all challengers would be a better analogy) this season ought to be ridiculously competitive.

[DEANO]

Glad everyone is tipping York to get beat again. They may well be right on this occasion 

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

12 hours ago, Les Tonks Sidestep said:

Skybet offering some seemingly generous handicap odds eg Widnes -8 v Oldham

Bookies are not in the business of losing money. They tend to know more more than we do. 

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Leigh, Toulouse, Fev, London, Halifax, Widnes, Whitehaven. Be interesting to see what the Bradford attendance is, there's the making of a 50 page thread there!

[The Blues Ox]

12 hours ago, Les Tonks Sidestep said:

Skybet offering some seemingly generous handicap odds eg Widnes -8 v Oldham

Thats printing money. Oldham are going to struggle to be competitive this season. Im going to have a bit of that.

Now just for giggles we all know that bookies love people betting on accas im going to give it a whirl. Will try to put them in order which I think is best value(Using Bet365) as can't get more than 50p on at Sky):-

Widnes -10

Toulouse -10

Halifax -4

Leigh -10

London -8

Fev -12

[The Phantom Horseman]

1 hour ago, The Blues Ox said:

Thats printing money. Oldham are going to struggle to be competitive this season. Im going to have a bit of that.

Now just for giggles we all know that bookies love people betting on accas im going to give it a whirl. Will try to put them in order which I think is best value(Using Bet365) as can't get more than 50p on at Sky):-

Widnes -10

Toulouse -10

Halifax -4

Leigh -10

London -8

Fev -12

Only one I might disagree with there is Leigh -10. Dewsbury seem a bit more upbeat this season and on a Friday night in January this might be a close contest against a Leigh team who are probably still finding their feet as an attacking force.

Confidence will be increased if Beaumont predicts an unbeaten season for Leigh beforehand.

[gittinsfan]

8 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Only one I might disagree with there is Leigh -10. Dewsbury seem a bit more upbeat this season and on a Friday night in January this might be a close contest against a Leigh team who are probably still finding their feet as an attacking force.

Confidence will be increased if Beaumont predicts an unbeaten season for Leigh beforehand.

I was hoping someone at Fev would predict an unbeaten season.LOL.

Seriously,Idon't think you will have any problems on Sunday.

[LeytherRob]

1 hour ago, The Blues Ox said:

Thats printing money. Oldham are going to struggle to be competitive this season. Im going to have a bit of that.

Now just for giggles we all know that bookies love people betting on accas im going to give it a whirl. Will try to put them in order which I think is best value(Using Bet365) as can't get more than 50p on at Sky):-

Widnes -10

Toulouse -10

Halifax -4

Leigh -10

London -8

Fev -12

Sky bet had leigh, fev and Widnes on -6, -8 and -6 a few weeks back. Glad I got in when I did.

[MADREDNIGE]

38 minutes ago, gittinsfan said:

I was hoping someone at Fev would predict an unbeaten season.LOL.

Seriously,Idon't think you will have any problems on Sunday.

Why would anyone at Fev predict an unbeaten season? Even Saints get beat! 

[gittinsfan]

11 hours ago, MADREDNIGE said:

Why would anyone at Fev predict an unbeaten season? Even Saints get beat! 

Read the post I quoted and then think about it.

[The Phantom Horseman]

7 hours ago, SL17 said:

Tripe. Only one winner and will be done in style.

Too the sword.

Degsy, is that really you back on social media after all this time?

[The Blues Ox]

21 hours ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Only one I might disagree with there is Leigh -10. Dewsbury seem a bit more upbeat this season and on a Friday night in January this might be a close contest against a Leigh team who are probably still finding their feet as an attacking force.

Confidence will be increased if Beaumont predicts an unbeaten season for Leigh beforehand.

I got itchy feet over this one and took it out. I saw the match highlights from Bradford V York game and it were a bit of a mud bath. On paper they should beat the handicap quite easily but its likely to be a slogathon in the forwards and I don't see a massive gulf in quality in the packs.

[kiggy]

TO lost their opening two games last season. York finished 3rd last season. I'm not overly confident for a TO win, I hope to be pleasantly surprised.