Re: Bring on Batley : Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:16 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

Why is a mid table team verses a lower end team massive?

Because if whomever loses they are out of contention for the Qualifiers......

[brian2]

Re: Bring on Batley : Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:26 am  

I've looked at the league table and come to the conclusion Garry Schofield is dyslexic, apologies to those who do actually suffer.

With Leigh in 9th, did he confuse the two clubs?

In fairness to Schofield (as an ex-Hull fan he was a magnificent player, if not such a great human being) many of us, indeed most RL fans thought Leigh were nailed on for first or second this year. Their form etc has been a real surprise. Similar with the Wolfpack, there seemed to be an assumption that they would tear up the league, yet I thought they looked pretty average against us? Either we are much better or..........................

Re: Bring on Batley : Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:10 pm  

brian2 wrote:

In fairness to Schofield (as an ex-Hull fan he was a magnificent player, if not such a great human being) many of us, indeed most RL fans thought Leigh were nailed on for first or second this year. Their form etc has been a real surprise. Similar with the Wolfpack, there seemed to be an assumption that they would tear up the league, yet I thought they looked pretty average against us? Either we are much better or..........................

....I think we are "tighter" in that we are more disciplined and less likely to "doze off" but we did put Fev to the sword at Ealing last year as well, beat Dewsbury at theirs by 14 and not just the 12 this year, beat the newly promoted Rochdale (see Barrow 2018) and defeated Bradford at Home (see Toronto 2018) so we had the same 8 points last year......Toulouse had 10 from their 2017 fixtures and only 8 this year......so maybe it's just that the league is becoming more competitive?

[brian2]

Re: Bring on Batley : Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:17 am  

Not sure about the league. Leigh's poor start is a surprise, Toronto - I think the assumption of many that they would do the same in the Championship that they did in League 1 was a tad premature. Toulouse were strong all last season until injuries hit them at the back end and they collapsed, I think they will be there all season and unless injuries take there toll again a shoe-in for top 4. Fax look same as last year, will be difficult to beat at home. fev ditto, although they were disappointing against us and looked slow, although we may have been very good? Dewsbury will be hard to beat - otherwise, much of a muchness. Top four I think still looks like

Broncos
Toulouse
Toronto
and then one from Leigh, Fev and Halifax

Not necessarily in that order, but Leigh will not finish top and may do well to get fourth!

Re: Bring on Batley : Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:28 pm  

I believe that the critical games for us this season will be against Toulouse. Remembering that we play them three times.
Win all three and we will be very well placed.

Re: Bring on Batley : Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:13 am  

As I expected, Meadows is not playing against Batley. He is named in the Academy squad who are playingat Wakefield.