The amount they normally send to Odsal wouldn't be enough to blow out the candles on a 6-year old's birthday cake, never mind fog.

I wouldn't be surprised if the club requested this (on the sly, of course).

Not Wigan specifically, but a big draw at home to help create some momentum. Playing wise, our start couldn't be much harder - but a chance to created a real buzz after the hard work in the close season is now all in our hands.

the other thing that could come into play is that if its going to take a few games to gel, then playing a couple of teams that we could realistically expect to lose to takes some pressure of the team to come out of the blocks firing on all cylinders.whereas if we had started against 'lesser' opposition there would be a greater expectation that we should win the games and If we lose due to combinations not quite clicking etc then it would have a disproportionally negative effect and take away the momentum we've built up.

To be honest I'd take 2 decent performances against leeds and wigan at this stage even if they were losses (although hopefully not heavy ones), for us to take any points out off those two games would be a bonus, albeit very welcome.

It all depends who the referee is Matt.

If it's Childs or Ganson the we can say goodbye to the two points.

You could rest a few for us mate

FFS mick, thought you'd agreed to stop whining about the refs? we're havent played a game yet and your off on one

I didn't talk about them last night in the pub



Ok I'll give them a rest and everyone on here a rest.

PLEASE let's not have this all season again.

Shall I start a poll - Gledhill gets banned if he whinges about the ref more than, oh, once a day?

There's more chance of Orford coming back, but then again remember when Worrincy got an NRL contract

OTOH it is true, as in factually, that it isn't possible for us to win if Wild Childs is in charge

during off season mick might manage a few weeks, but once season starts I wouldnt put money on him lasting til half time in first game