With you on that one, certainly cant see it being one for the defensive purists!



They'll have the run on us outwide; our defence on the flanks has been very poor... If he (hopefully) drops Blythe, i'd almost be tempted to run Olbison or Haggerty in the centre presuming Purtell is still out... I know that sounds like a bizarre call from the Jimmy Lowes coaching manual, but my logic there is that we're particularly weak defeniding out wide and Leigh arent exactly shabby there in attack - sticking another strong defender there certainly wouldnt be a bad thing. Kurt would be my call, he's effective going forward and can last 80minutes.

Back line of:

Clare

Caro

Welham

Haggerty

Williams

Have Leigh improved their defence down the right hand side? If not, then we should be targeting them there from the off rather than with 10 minutes to go.



That being said, Smith was at Leigh's game yesterday on a scouting mission so I'm sure he'll have been taking notes on their style of play and any perceived weaknesses

What issue? Championship clubs have always been a week delayed for disciplinary hearings. This is nothing new or controversial and certainly isn't to do with Leigh withholding video footage from the RFL.



I think the only Leigh player to get a ban this season is Hopkins who got 1 match. The offense occurred against Fev but he didn't miss the following game (Batley) but the one after that (Oldham). That is just how it works in the Championship and has been for some time.

Think we will be close or at 3000 when the teams run out, we are notorious for ordering late for ticket games and as at today are at 1500.

Should look fantastic on TV with the vociferous support of Bradford and Leigh creating a partisan atmosphere.



Only 500 tickets remain for the South and West stands.

Been told we are on single figures for North and only have 20 more to arrive tomorrow, side seating is where fans will have to be for us if they want to go. Then of course all the returns for the North will arrive back at RFL on Friday after folk have decided its TV

Well, we played through the middle for the first 60minutes at Odsal, then we played down the flanks for the last 20. Everybody who saw that knows what to do.



So maybe, we should go down the middle again, Leigh won't be expecting that....

Leigh aren't a guilty party in this respect full stop. Disciplinary hearings in the championship are always a week behind

A week behind because some clubs can not get the footage to the RFL in time.

"In time" is when it's due. It's due a week later.

I was replying to the part where you suggested Leigh were guilty of something

I thought the delay was more to do with part time players needing some time to negotiate time off from their 'proper' jobs if they want to attend Red Hall and defend themselves at the hearing.



Obviously not a problem in SL as all players are FT but in the Championship 2 days notice isn't enough for the part time players.



Hopefully we get a strong ref on Saturday as Mr Sweet (who?!) was useless yesterday and lost any sort of control of the game in the 2nd half.



The players on report should be ok to play but Martyn Ridyard is in doubt. Suffering from serious facial injuries and one of his eyes is completely swollen shut. Would be a huge blow for us if he is unable to play at Blackpool.