Sat 1- Sun 2 May: The Betfred Championship Match Thread

[John Drake]

Discuss this weekend's Betfred Championship games here.

SATURDAY 1st MAY
Oldham v Halifax Panthers KO 12:45
Sheffield Eagles v London Broncos KO 15:00

SUNDAY 2nd MAY
Dewsbury Rams v York City Knights KO 19:30
Newcastle Thunder v Batley Bulldogs KO 12:45
Whitehaven v Bradford Bulls KO 15:00
Widnes Vikings v Swinton Lions KO 17:15

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

H,A,A,A,H,D.

[spanishknight]

A, H, A, A, A, H.

[Chris Taylor]

SATURDAY 1st MAY
Oldham v Halifax Panthers KO 12:45
Sheffield Eagles v London Broncos KO 15:00

SUNDAY 2nd MAY
Dewsbury Rams v York City Knights KO 19:30
Newcastle Thunder v Batley Bulldogs KO 12:45
Whitehaven v Bradford Bulls KO 15:00
Widnes Vikings v Swinton Lions KO 17:15

[fevtom]

I'm looking forward to Batley v Newcastle, two teams who have had good starts.

Sheffield v London will be interesting as well after London's disappointing start, and Sheffield's incredible start until they lost to Newcastle.

I suspected at the start of the season that Toulouse and Fev will finish as the top two teams with Toulouse probably going up but the rest of the league is looking wide open so far. This could be a good year for some unlikely play off pushes.

SATURDAY 1st MAY
Oldham v Halifax Panthers KO 12:45
Sheffield Eagles v London Broncos KO 15:00

SUNDAY 2nd MAY
Dewsbury Rams v York City Knights KO 19:30
Newcastle Thunder v Batley Bulldogs KO 12:45
Whitehaven v Bradford Bulls KO 15:00
Widnes Vikings v Swinton Lions KO 17:15

 

 

[Bleep1673]

Swinton

[Blind side johnny]

A H A A H H

[TrueBull]

SATURDAY 1st MAY
Oldham v Halifax Panthers KO 12:45 Halifax manage to put an 80 minute performance together, Fax by 30
Sheffield Eagles v London Broncos KO 15:00 Sheffield to continue their great form, while alarm bells ring for London

SUNDAY 2nd MAY
Dewsbury Rams v York City Knights KO 19:30 Only 1 score in it but home advantage tells
Newcastle Thunder v Batley Bulldogs KO 12:45 Same as above
Whitehaven v Bradford Bulls KO 15:00 Bradford continue to build. May even get into a +ve points For/against
Widnes Vikings v Swinton Lions KO 17:15 Widnes kickstart their season

[The Blues Ox]

Should be an easy win for Fax, Im expecting Sheffield to beat London for the Saturday games. York with a close win against Dewsbury, Batley to comfortably beat Newcastle, Haven V Bulls will be hard to call and wouldn't be surprised if Haven edge it and the same goes for Widnes V Swinton would not be surprised if Swinton win this one.

 

 

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

All away wins except Oldham and Dewsbury.

[YoungBanno]

Fax

Sheffield

York

Batley

Bulls

Widnes

[hrtbps]

H A H A H A

[RayCee]

5 hours ago, hrtbps said:

H A H A H A

I love coming to the Championship thread. Such a happy place. 

[crashmon]

On 28/04/2021 at 10:02, John Drake said:

SATURDAY 1st MAY
Oldham v Halifax Panthers KO 12:45
Sheffield Eagles v London Broncos KO 15:00

SUNDAY 2nd MAY
Dewsbury Rams v York City Knights KO 19:30
Newcastle Thunder v Batley Bulldogs KO 12:45
Whitehaven v Bradford Bulls KO 15:00
Widnes Vikings v Swinton Lions KO 17:15

 

[LittleboroRoughyed]

On 28/04/2021 at 16:57, The Blues Ox said:

Should be an easy win for Fax, Im expecting Sheffield to beat London for the Saturday games. York with a close win against Dewsbury, Batley to comfortably beat Newcastle, Haven V Bulls will be hard to call and wouldn't be surprised if Haven edge it and the same goes for Widnes V Swinton would not be surprised if Swinton win this one.

 

Oldham will surprise a few this season if they can get their players fit.

[Bulls2487]

On 28/04/2021 at 16:57, The Blues Ox said:

Should be an easy win for Fax

 

Good prediction

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

Now, I want to pre-empt the "Halifax didn't turn up". They did, they tackled tjemselves to a standstill. Yeds have been underrated so far this season. We are far better than the credit we haven't been given. 

[The Phantom Horseman]

Wow, Oldham beat Halifax. Lots of personnel changes at Fax this season but doesn't seem to have worked so far. They let in some very soft tries against Toulouse last week, they are really struggling right now.

[OL14.yeds]

Halifax were fraught with errors in the second half, but Oldham just kept turning the screw and came up with a couple of good tries, nilling Halifax after the break in the process!

[LittleboroRoughyed]

To be fair to Fax in the 2nd half it was one way traffic & they defended their line really well. Oldham were held up over the line 4 times & the pressure finally told late on. Whitehaven up next for Oldham a 4 pointer!

[shrewsbury roughyed]

Fabulous result for Oldham  against almost all the predictions. By all accounts as much down to Oldham’s excellent and dogged play as any poor play by Fax. And that’s with 3 or 4 first choice picks out for Oldham.

[JonM]

12 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Wow, Oldham beat Halifax. Lots of personnel changes at Fax this season but doesn't seem to have worked so far. They let in some very soft tries against Toulouse last week, they are really struggling right now.

Huge win over London, lost by a point away to Bradford, were better than Toulouse for the final 30 minute last week. Let's give Oldham some credit for a very good win.

[The Phantom Horseman]

10 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Wow, Oldham beat Halifax. Lots of personnel changes at Fax this season but doesn't seem to have worked so far. They let in some very soft tries against Toulouse last week, they are really struggling right now.

Should have said fair play to Oldham, who have struggled with injuries. They seem up and down like many teams in the division, a couple of times when I've watched them they've looked desperately weak in defence but they've now won two Championship games.

[The Phantom Horseman]

22 minutes ago, JonM said:

Huge win over London, lost by a point away to Bradford, were better than Toulouse for the final 30 minute last week. Let's give Oldham some credit for a very good win.

Yes I was already in the middle of acknowledging that, see the above post.

But are you seriously suggesting that Halifax's start to the season hasn't been a massive disappointment? The London team they beat was out of form and riddled with injuries to their better players, they let slip a strong position against Bradford, and against Toulouse the game was all over by half time because of some of the weakest goal-line defence I have seen from Fax team in a long time.

[THE RED ROOSTER]

Half-time 12-8 Sheffield - Not the worst London performance of recent times with a lot of possession  but then a lot of one-out rugby down near the Sheffield line, Sheffield defending well thenscoring first down the right side in a break away 6-0. London finally got Jarrod Sammut involved and brought the deficit down to 6-4. Sheffield then having much the better of the remainder of the hal, one clean break down the right side pulled back for a forward pass, before another well worked score 12-4. A lot of Sheffield pressure on the London line and I felt 16-4 might have been a killer, but Abbas Miski scored an interception try to 12-8. No further scoring if you looked at the stats London having the majority of posession but Sheffield proving its not how long you have the ball but what you do with it.

Danny Ward needs to be giving the Broncos a coating this half time about the ease at which Sheffield have been able to "mine the seam" up the middle. If the Eagles lose this they will look back at the last 20 mins of the first half for not putting London away.