We move into our QF game against Sheffield at Odsal on Sunday. We have returned to winning ways after 3 defeats while Sheffield have had a poor start (by their standards) with only 1 league win our of 4.


Hopefully Ebon Scurr will be returning this weekend to give us some more grunt up front. 


Discuss the game here.

We need to win this competition to get the IMG points.   A lot depends on which Bulls team turns up.  Is it the ill disciplined one that plays up the jumper rugby or is it the one that played at Fev last week?


Playing on the Odsal postage stamp really plays into the hands of those teams that are prepared to roll their sleeves up and play a spoiling game.  At least it being firmer underfoot will help us (in theory).  


Sheffield aren't the force they were under Aston and with Keith Senior on board for us they shouldn't hold any surprises for us.   

I hope we don't get into the mindset of thinking this is an easy win.  The eagles haven't many points in the board but they're not far off. 


Still come quality players in there with Aston, Morgan Smith, Jack Walker. And we know what to expect from Farrell. 

Bulls 21 man squad:


Guy Armitage
Logan Bayliss
Waqa Blake 
James Donaldson 
Zac Fulton 
Matty Gee 
Kieran Gill
Sam Hallas 
Luke Hooley 
Joe Keyes 
Michael Lawrence
Jordan Lilley 
Bayley Liu 
Nathan Mason 
James Meadows 
Ronan Michael 
Jayden Okunbor 
Franklin Pele 
Ebon Scurr
Mitch Souter 
Emmanuel Waine



Sheffield have only named a 19 man squad.

Yeah Sheffield look to be struggling for numbers. If we play go our potential, we win this. 

We should have enough to win this game, but that will only happen if we put in a good performance. Sheffield have previously shown themselves to be very competitive, even though Aston has moved to one side they still have a good coach in Lingard who always got Batley to overachieve.
We have to go forwards before we go sideways on our pitch. If we do we should be fine, we will never have a better chance to win the 1895 cup, but if you don’t perform your out.