Samir Tahraoui has been loaned out to Keighley Cougars for a month. www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/pos ... oan-switch Dan Fleming, Chris Ulugia and Vila Halafihi will all play at Oxford this weekend. Matty Blythe may return to the first team this weekend.

Samir Tahraoui has been loaned out to Keighley Cougars for a month. www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/pos ... oan-switch Dan Fleming, Chris Ulugia and Vila Halafihi will all play at Oxford this weekend. Matty Blythe may return to the first team this weekend.

Good news for him and us, gives him game time at a respectable club and helps him get match fit for us in the 8's

And Karl Davies has fallen off the face of the earth, or so it seems.

What has happened to him, havent seen him even at games for while?

Wasn't he loaned to Oxford?

Karl has played a handful of games for Oxford this season I believe. I also think he's cut off his flowing long locks so he maybe harder to spot.

He hasn't played for Oxford for about three weeks now. I suppose he could be injured, but any update at all would be better than nothing at all.

Having this big squad hasn't worked how I expected. I thought all players would get a go in the first team but it looks like Jimmy has his favourites already. This could be a problem if a few of them get injured just before the 8s as he will then need to pick players who just have not played in the first team that much. For me, now is the time to be playing the best players - or is that what he is doing. On the other hand he may be keeping safe the players who he knows can slot straight back in such as Blyth, Mullaney and Ferguson. There must be a plan being played out but I am not completely sure I can make it out just yet!

It's pretty exciting that we will soon be in a position where we can throw them three back into the mix. All three are top class.

I can see Mullaney and Ferguson taking Shaw and Mellor's place in the recent 17 quite nicely, I just feel that the two centres Purts and Henry are in great form at the moment. It would be very harsh to push one of those two out for Blythe.

Purtell is fixed in at centre I would actually put Blythe in at centre and play Henry on the wing instead of uasiele.

Unlucky for Ulugia as he looked good before his injury but Blythe is a proven quality super league player,his defence is stronger than the other guys and it will be our defence that will get us promoted. If it stays strong and committed then that will be the difference between going up or staying in this league.

Our attack will cause the SL teams problems, we can't afford to do a Wakefield and ship a load of points with very little effort in defence. We have to make the SL teams earn their scores against us, putting Blythe in strengthens our edge.

I have theories about Davies, perhaps only one quota player can be used for dual reg at a time. And if he doesn't play for Bradford maybe it won't trigger any second year clauses making him easier to release, it's a shame we haven't seen Karl but IMO he'd certainly be one of the first to leave and free up a quota spot, but that is simply because we haven't seen him so dunno what we're missing. As for Tahraoui I'd keep him as a young prop, even though Karl and Samir are probably the same age.

Henry was hopeless against Mantellato when switched to the wing, although I do accept he's improved (at centre) since then. I'd still pick Blythe, and Uaisele in the absence of Ulugia.