No worries mate. Barrow haven't played Fax for a few years (and didn't really turn up in 2005!!), so I really haven't kept up with teams in the old NL1 - too busy worrying about our own chances in NL2.

Seriously, Brock has looked good to-date, as have pretty much all of our new signings that are actually in the country !! Hopefully we may get our 'foreign legion' in the next week or so.

I hope we give you a good game and am praying for a bonus point at least. Given we will be missing 3 or 4 regulars and are waiting on the 5 Antipodians, realistically a good performance from the Raiders would do me to be honest.

Come the start of the League campaign we should be even stronger.

It'll be nearly 7 months since a competitive match at home for us when Keighley visit next weekend. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

I am sure the league game will be a much better spectacle when we're both at full strength and in the full swing of things. On the subject of your imports, what are the chances of all of them playing for Barrow? I have heard (via your other forum) that the main issue is with your Fijians, most notably Wes Suka and that they are likely to be going to French RU. Any updates? I can imagine some attractive rugby if they play.

I think the only question mark surrounds Suka. The fact that he won Fijian player of the year might have got his agent seeing Fijian Dollar signs. The story actually said that he had an offer to France to play League AND Union but it also said that he could take an offer up with his 'old' club in Australia. Then in the next breath he (or his agent) said that there were some issues in his Barrow contract that needed ironing out and they were talking to the club about it.

At the end of the day all the Fijians have signed 2 year deals that have been ratified by the RFL - so they are officially Barrow players. If they don't fulfill their contracts at Barrow, whatever club they go to will have to pay a transfer fee or Barrow could stop them playing anywhere really.

Hopefully they'll all be here next week.

We had a similar scenario with Aaron Heremaia and Sam Hoare last season, they both went to play in Australia and told nobody at the club. We didn't get any transfer fee though, so you may be out of luck. It should't be allowed.

God you're good.


Stick to Super League lad. Tha knows nowt.

we did and we didnt even play that well to be honest, we've certainly got a few more gears to go through

Agreed, Mind you the Barrow fan who predicted 40-0 wasn't far out was he/she

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Without taking anything away from your teams good preformance. We to have got some gears to go through, I didn't go to the match yesterday but I heard Barrow were their own worst enermy. And we did field a weaker side.

PS I did my score prediction before I saw the team sheet. icon_smile.gif icon_smile.gif