Quote: Nothus "I wouldn't play Lauaki yet. One week of training is not enough to get him up to scratch. Let's also not forget that he's not exactly a world class player, at this moment in time I'm still undecided on him as a signing.
I still can't get my head around the squad numbers tbh, they seem all over the place. I know Chev has come out and said he asked for 22, being related to his kid somehow. Why is Tahraoui 28? And why are our hookers 25 and 26?
Are we really planning on playing AoB for the full 80? I'm not sure I'm a fan of that strategy tbh.
Either way, we go into this game as underdogs for sure, a team with a ton of new faces not exactly sure of its best 17, up against a formidable side who have the luxury of an unsettled side and home advantage. Their friendly results will have given them plenty of confidence - what will our friendly results have done? Who knows, I am still of the opinion that a game against lower opposition would have been good for the side to post a healthy number of points and raise morale. Instead we go into the season opener on the back of two defeats.
My money will be on Leigh next weekend, I await to be pleasantly surprised by our performance.'"
I don't think winning a pre season friendly does a huge amount for confidence. In all honesty you probably learn more from losses than just steam rolling a part time team. The two hit outs against Cas and Leeds will hav done us good. Cas, we were dominating until the rolling subs started. Leeds, we had to learn how to cope with the pace of a top 4 super league side which we didn't do too badly considering we have a lot of new players. That helps a team much more than spanking Keighley by 50+ as our big guys run through them.