Sat 12-Sun13 Jun: The Betfred Championship Match Thread

[John Drake]

Discuss this week's Betfred Championship 

SATURDAY 12th JUNE
Oldham v Sheffield Eagles    15:00 

SUNDAY 13th JUNE
Dewsbury Rams v Toulouse Olympique    15:00
Featherstone Rovers v Bradford Bulls    16.30 (OurLeague)
Halifax Panthers v York City Knights    11.30 (OurLeague)
Swinton Lions v Newcastle Thunder    15:00
Whitehaven v Batley Bulldogs    15:00
Widnes Vikings v London Broncos    15:00 (OurLeague)

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

H,A,H,H,H,A,A. Swinton will get their first win.

[Smudger06]

Massive game Fev v Bradford. Can't wait. 

[sentoffagain2]

44 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Discuss this week's Betfred Championship 

SATURDAY 12th JUNE
Oldham v Sheffield Eagles    15:00 

SUNDAY 13th JUNE
Dewsbury Rams v Toulouse Olympique    15:00
Featherstone Rovers v Bradford Bulls    15:00 (OurLeague)
Halifax Panthers v York City Knights    15:00 (OurLeague)
Swinton Lions v Newcastle Thunder    15:00
Whitehaven v Batley Bulldogs    15:00
Widnes Vikings v London Broncos    15:00 (OurLeague)

     4-30pm kick off Featherstone v Bradford.

[John Drake]

6 minutes ago, sentoffagain2 said:

     4-30pm kick off Featherstone v Bradford.

Oops, yes, I took the details from the fixtures file in Monday's LE before the KO changes were known.

Halifax v York is now at 11.30am too.

Fixed both in the opening post.

[marklaspalmas]

Bit going on the Fev/Bulls game here.....
 

 

[spanishknight]

4 hours ago, John Drake said:

 

Sheffield Eagles    
Toulouse Olympique    
Featherstone Rovers
York City Knights 

Newcastle Thunder    
Batley Bulldogs    
London Broncos    

 

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Sheffield, Toulouse, Fev, Halifax, Newcastle, Whitehaven, London.

[The Blues Ox]

Oldham v Sheffield Eagles   - It wouldnt surprise me if Oldham turned Sheffield over. They were really poor against Fax this past weekend and this could have a baring on potential relegation battles come end of the season.

Dewsbury Rams v Toulouse Olympique  - Huge Toulouse win.
Featherstone Rovers v Bradford Bulls  - Fev to have too much for Bradford but Bradford looking good for 3rd place the way their fixtures are playing out. 
Halifax Panthers v York City Knights - Should be a Fax win with york struggling to live up to expectations.
Swinton Lions v Newcastle Thunder  - Not a relegation decider by any means but Swinton will be looking at this as a must win game. Just going for them to sneak this one.  
Whitehaven v Batley Bulldogs - Haven always a tough place to go and expecting this to be very evenly matched. I really can't decide on this one.
Widnes Vikings v London Broncos - Widnes need to start winning games if they are to make the top 6 and I think after a good showing against Fev Widnes may just win this one.  

[Moscow01]

Oldham 20-21 Sheffield Eagles    

Dewsbury Rams 10-56 Toulouse Olympique    
Featherstone Rovers 26-16v Bradford Bulls    
Halifax Panthers 24-20 York City Knights    
Swinton Lions 22-22 Newcastle Thunder    
Whitehaven 20-28 Batley Bulldogs    
Widnes Vikings 24-16 London Broncos    

[DavidM]

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

Discuss this week's Betfred Championship 

SATURDAY 12th JUNE
Oldham 18 - 26 Sheffield Eagles    15:00 

SUNDAY 13th JUNE
Dewsbury Rams 10 - 52 Toulouse Olympique    15:00
Featherstone Rovers 32 -14 Bradford Bulls    16.30 (OurLeague)
Halifax Panthers 30 -20 York City Knights    11.30 (OurLeague)
Swinton Lions 28 - 18 Newcastle Thunder    15:00
Whitehaven 18 - 24 Batley Bulldogs    15:00
Widnes Vikings 16 - 20 London Broncos    15:00 (OurLeague)

 

[Fevrover]

3 hours ago, sentoffagain2 said:

     4-30pm kick off Featherstone v Bradford.

Why didn't Rovers kick off earlier like Fax v York so there wouldn't be any trouble after all day drinking ?  It's not many fans but enough to give the club more bad publicity.

[sentoffagain2]

24 minutes ago, Fevrover said:

Why didn't Rovers kick off earlier like Fax v York so there wouldn't be any trouble after all day drinking ?  It's not many fans but enough to give the club more bad publicity.

   Yes i see your point going to be 27/28 degrees according to weather forecast.So plenty of time,what with ale and sun some supporters may be light headed if you know what i mean.

[Barley Mow]

Oldham v Sheffield Eagles
Dewsbury Rams v Toulouse Olympique
Featherstone Rovers v Bradford Bulls
Halifax Panthers v York City Knights
Swinton Lions v Newcastle Thunder
Whitehaven v Batley Bulldogs
Widnes Vikings v London Broncos

[RBKnight]

Interesting round of fixtures..... very difficult to predict all of these, apart from TO and Fev wins.

Only saw the highlights reel, but Fax looked on song last week, against (what looked like) some poor Sheffield defending. Fax v York will be an interesting clash of styles 

[kiggy]

4 hours ago, sentoffagain2 said:

   Yes i see your point going to be 27/28 degrees according to weather forecast.So plenty of time,what with ale and sun some supporters may be light headed if you know what i mean.

Doesn't matter what time you start the game, there will always be those who have had a skin full before lunch

 

[kiggy]

7 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

 

Dewsbury Rams v Toulouse Olympique  - Huge Toulouse win.
 

Depends on who is missing in the TO team. I should hope they have enough in reserve but I'm not expected a huge win.

[doc]

21 hours ago, John Drake said:

Oldham

Featherstone Rovers     

Halifax
 Newcastle Thunder    
Batley Bulldogs    
Widnes Vikings

People on Widnes FB page moaning about the clash with the England game.

Are they even fans? Saying it should be done to maximise attendance! 

Are they daft? 

 

[JonM]

3 hours ago, doc said:

People on Widnes FB page moaning about the clash with the England game.

Are they even fans? Saying it should be done to maximise attendance! 

Are they daft? 

Inevitable that it will have some effect on attendance I would've thought.

[tim2]

Eagles beat Oldham 32-28. They were 32-12 up but a late Oldham fightback assisted by an Eagles red card closed the gap in the last 15.

[The Phantom Horseman]

On 10/06/2021 at 20:27, kiggy said:

Depends on who is missing in the TO team. I should hope they have enough in reserve but I'm not expected a huge win.

Who is rumoured to be missing? They seem to have had plenty out every week yet have still been running up huge wins.

[Spidey]

On 11/06/2021 at 09:07, doc said:

People on Widnes FB page moaning about the clash with the England game.

Are they even fans? Saying it should be done to maximise attendance! 

Are they daft? 

 

Some people like to do both. Other teams have moved their games not to clash. They are absolutely right it will impact attendance, saying it won’t is daft 

[doc]

Covid has already impacted on attendance. That was my point. Widnes only released 300 tickets for general sale anyway. 

Obviously fans have forgotten that they nearly didn't have a team to watch. Although that would have meant they could watch all the England games.

Look I was annoyed at the time.

 

 

[Spidey]

14 minutes ago, doc said:

Covid has already impacted on attendance. That was my point. Widnes only released 300 tickets for general sale anyway. 

Obviously fans have forgotten that they nearly didn't have a team to watch. Although that would have meant they could watch all the England games.

Look I was annoyed at the time.

 

 

The choice to limit attendance to season ticket holders only initially has put people off as well. It’s bonkers that we have such a small capacity allowed in a 13.5K stadium. The council have been rubbish in that regard

[sentoffagain2]

1 hour ago, Spidey said:

The choice to limit attendance to season ticket holders only initially has put people off as well. It’s bonkers that we have such a small capacity allowed in a 13.5K stadium. The council have been rubbish in that regard

  With 13.5k stadium the minimum should be 2350 if there are enough entrance points.