12 fixtures

[phildog]

Looking at the fixture card out of the remaining 12 games we have 7 at home which are all winnable, we're in good form, 4 wins in the last 6, of the 2 losses we still gave Wakey a game, of the away 5 only stumbles might be Eagles and Toulouse, the others are winnable. If we can win the home games and a couple away that'll give us 30 points and we'll have taken points off a couple of teams in the lower part of the top 6. Win the Barrow and Dewsbury games, get Leaky back by Halifax and keep reasonably fit this season could still turn out alright. 

[Keep The Faith]

If you speak to the coach or the players they will say one week at a time which is the best way forward 

[LINNERS]

Could still go either way, but it's looking good at the moment. Certainly not quite the doom and gloom situation that was being painted by some at the beginning of the campaign.

[Keep The Faith]

5 minutes ago, LINNERS said:

Could still go either way, but it's looking good at the moment. Certainly not quite the doom and gloom situation that was being painted by some at the beginning of the campaign.

As it was said at the time we needed to get the talent on the field and we were fine 

[distantdog]

14 minutes ago, Keep The Faith said:

If you speak to the coach or the players they will say one week at a time which is the best way forward 

Nothing wrong with a bit of medium term optimism.

[distantdog]

1 minute ago, Keep The Faith said:

As it was said at the time we needed to get the talent on the field and we were fine 

I think early in the season we were still developing as a team, though there were some reasons to be optimistic - well, other than after Dewsbury. 

[Batley Bob]

43 minutes ago, phildog said:

Looking at the fixture card out of the remaining 12 games we have 7 at home which are all winnable, we're in good form, 4 wins in the last 6, of the 2 losses we still gave Wakey a game, of the away 5 only stumbles might be Eagles and Toulouse, the others are winnable. If we can win the home games and a couple away that'll give us 30 points and we'll have taken points off a couple of teams in the lower part of the top 6. Win the Barrow and Dewsbury games, get Leaky back by Halifax and keep reasonably fit this season could still turn out alright. 

Next 3 games are against teams that have beat us already this season 

Just saying 

[Keep The Faith]

26 minutes ago, distantdog said:

Nothing wrong with a bit of medium term optimism.

The players or staff won’t see it as that due to injuries or the fact all 3 beat us in the last meeting easily 

[phildog]

....and we'll beat all 3.

[phildog]

KTF...easily? 12pts and 8pts aren't massive losses, yes, Rams 20pts was a  disappointment especially as we should have been going into that game on the back of beating Fev. We're going into the return on I hope a 5 out of 7 record whilst they're on a 0 from 12. I think man for man we're better than both Barrow and Dewsbury, then Swinton, Widnes, Doncaster, Whitehaven, currently as good as Halifax and York, we get results v Bradford and Fev don't like us much at theirs.

[The scrim reaper]

No easy games in this division! But you would like to think that the next 3 home games should be winnable! Despite the fact that all 3 teams have already beaten us this year! our recent turn in up in performances and results should make us slight favorites to win all 3 especially with them all being at home, barrow, dewsbury,and fax, all seem to have hit a bit of a slump recently, but we will still have to play at our best to get the results like I said no easy games! Up the mighty BULLDOGS!! 

[RogerT]

Any updates on injuries apart from what Moxon said in the Batley News about Manning.

[Keep The Faith]

3 hours ago, The scrim reaper said:

No easy games in this division! But you would like to think that the next 3 home games should be winnable! Despite the fact that all 3 teams have already beaten us this year! our recent turn in up in performances and results should make us slight favorites to win all 3 especially with them all being at home, barrow, dewsbury,and fax, all seem to have hit a bit of a slump recently, but we will still have to play at our best to get the results like I said no easy games! Up the mighty BULLDOGS!! 

Correct and if we have players missing in KEY positions we won’t be able to get the win 

[bromleybulldog]

Hooley and Kibula in the 21. Kear back. Butterworth named in squad as well. No Manning.

[RogerT]

The Cas lads are also listed for Cas tonight. Butterworth must have cleared the turned ankle, Manning might not have cleared the open dislocation on his hand the rest will have to wait until 15.00hrs Sunday.

[Keep The Faith]

I can’t see Butterworth playing he was carried off last weekend… he’ll be making the numbers in the 21 up but if he does he’s made a very quick recovery 

Edited July 13 by Keep The Faith

[Batley Bob]

1 hour ago, bromleybulldog said:

Hooley and Kibula in the 21. Kear back. Butterworth named in squad as well. No Manning.

No Ward either

[phildog]

Anyone know why Woods didn't play at Trin?  No Putt again, game I think he's a great tackler, could have stepped in at 2nd row. As it is well lose Bucko's centre play as he'll drop back. Kear in at centre? Always tight when he plays there.

Edited July 12 by phildog

[phildog]

Neither Luke or Sami in Cas match squad.

[Drigdog]

It might be more of a problem getting the Cas lads for the Dewsbury game, as they play Catalans on the same day.

[Keep The Faith]

3 minutes ago, Drigdog said:

It might be more of a problem getting the Cas lads for the Dewsbury game, as they play Catalans on the same day.

No it won’t be 

[Batley Bob]

 

[Batley Bob]

 

[phildog]

Linners will know at his last training session who's in his team, even if the 2 or 3 we use and listed. Woods looked fit on the training clip, Leaky will be back for Halifax, Manu will be mad enough to put his hand(!!) up next week so we're harfmdly going to be turning out no hopers. BTW, anyone know what happened to Browny's 'on report' incident v Toulouse, we've played 2 faces since and as he's named in this week's squad is it possible it got dismissed? Hey, listen at me, sounding upbeat.... 

 

[Batley Bob]