So difficult to predict as there are so many variables, injuries being a big denominator in games , my dad made a valid point if Keyes for example were to get a long term injury we would be impacted immediately. Featherstone on paper will be favourites and for me it’ll be weather long as the coaching acumen to get them ticking. There’s been a hell of a lot of positive speculation on Bradford and they have made some decent signings but question marks are over dunning , every interview he does it’s always positive, the culture as changed the players are fitter etc it takes more than a preseason to sought those problems out . Batley , York , Widnes , barrow , Sheffield all look strong, I guess from a fax point of view that first game against Sheffield will be a good bench mark to where we are at , the pack battle will be a real humdinger but I feel we have the advantage in the halves and backs .

Fairly nervous about our first game on Sunday.

Only had 1 'proper' warm up game and coming up against Sheffield who have had a few and apparently have looked very slick.

We can't afford another slow start to the season!

Aye, that's the worry. I would certainly have had another friendly lined up but we can't do owt about it now and hope Simon has got his decision right. Up The Fax!

Yes agree one disjointed friendly against Wakefield and a couple of contested games against dewsbury isn’t ideal preparation for the start of the most competitive championship in a while , only saving grace is we’ve kept our spine and if I had to guess there will probably be only a couple of changes in our starting 13 from last year .

I always find threads like this interesting to look back on and tagged the TRL one that PH did a great job on.

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Sadly I predicted Will Maher would be a great signing for us, at this stage now we don't even know if he is at the club anymore along with Doro. Just shows how unpredictable this league is outside of Fev and Newcastle, not many people had us outside the top 6.