Humdinger of a derby coming up.  Fax are flying under Eastmond.  Could be messy, they out enthused us last time we played there and have a better siee this year.  


Any news on Gill's injury?  

No idea how we'll go.  We've been quite inconsistent and can put in Jekyll and Hyde performances in the same 80s mins.  Would be great to see a proper 80mins performance against a good team.    If I were Fax I'd be looking to get in the faces of our more ill disciplined players (one for Hallas to miss out on hopefully) as we can be put off playing rugby fairly easily.    

Plenty of very confident Fax fans on Panthers social media on the back of the very good start they have made. It's their biggest game of the season and they will be up for it without a doubt.


Bradford need to turn up ready to put in a complete performance and show their intent for the season ahead. 


We have the quality on paper but are going to turn up as a team? If the early season Bulls show up, we should be good enough to grind out a good result.

I'm hoping this is a game that brings the best out of us. We haven't seen an 80 minute performance yet, but even while not looking great, we've still comfortably beaten some decent sides. And also served up some dross. We've seen glimpses of how good we can be. I'm just wanting to see the best out us from minute 1 and this has to be the game that really has us fired up, because rest assured, fax will be. 


They're playing some outstanding rugby under Eastmond who has proved many (including me) wrong. 


Meadows has to sort himself out. Giving 7 tackle 20 metre restarts on second tackles will see us well and truly punished in this game. 

For me, Scurr comes in. Do we drop Mason or Hallas?  Hallas' discipline/temper is a liability at times but he has utility value (Loose/hooker/prop) and a decent engine. Mason is an out & out prop and has been slowly gaining match fitness and forcing his way into contention. He seems to have edged ahead of Bayliss (prop) and Waine (prop/2nd row) in the coaches thinking. I think, we drop Hallas. Our discipline is what is losing us matches more than any other factor. 

Yes Scurr in for Hallas and Michael can cover loose forward to give Donno a break.  Gives us three big impact players off the bench.