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Bradford will be looking to bounce back from a heavy home loss to St Helens when they host Castleford on Friday night.
Last Updated: 19/02/10 2:58pm
Bradford will be looking to bounce back from a heavy home loss to St Helens when they host Castleford on Friday night.
The much-changed Bulls are yet to register a point in Super League this year after suffering back-to-back defeats at the start of the new campaign.
After a 24-12 loss at Huddersfield, Bradford were thrashed 38-6 by Saints at the Grattan Odsal Stadium last Sunday.
However coach Steve McNamara is refusing to be too downhearted at his side's poor start, insisting that the players are determined to put things right on the pitch against the Tigers.
"If we could have rearranged the game for Monday afternoon then we would have," he said. "The players would have been ready to play."
McNamara has named the same 19-man squad that was picked for the game with St Helens. Both Michael Platt and Danny Sculthorpe remain sidelined.
Clayton returns
Castleford, who did the double over the Bulls last year, look set to welcome back Ryan Clayton for his first appearance of the season.
The second-rower picked up an arm injury in training on the eve of the shock win away at Leeds and was also sidelined for last week's home loss to Warrington.
Nathan Massey has also been named in coach Terry Matterson's 19-man squad, the young prop coming in to take the place of John Davies.
The Tigers will be forced to make at least one change to the 17 that started against the Wolves with Dean Widders, who underwent surgery on Wednesday, missing with a knee injury.
Bradford squad: Sykes, Langley, Sheriffe, Kopczak, Donaldson, Scruton, Menzies, Kearney, Godwin, L'Estrange, Halley, Nero, Lynch, Reardon, Hall, Crookes, Worrincy, Whitehead, Orford.
Castleford squad: Owen, Shenton, Evans, Wainwright, Chase, Sherwin, Sargent, Hudson, Huby, Ferres, Snitch, Westerman, Jones, Higgins, Jackson, Clayton, Massey, Netherton, McGoldrick.