I get sick of saying this, year in year out, and never even bothered prior to the Cas game, but sometimes you just have to be there, and bet anyone who was thinking about going to Cas but wavered is now regretting it. It was a satisying result, but as it was close and competitive throughout, and we had plenty of adversity, you and especially your ticker and your vocal cords got a more than full value for money workout.

And to me, the Wigan game has all the makings of a "you had to be there" occasion. It is set up for a mauling, and if we let Tomkins & Co. play it could easily be. I said before that I thought about 2 months in we would only just be becoming a settled side, used to playing together, and so in many ways this fixture comes far too early for us. Everything points to a fairly comfortable Wigan win. But if we show the same determination as we showed at Cas, then whatever the eventual result, we should be able to go home relatively happy.

I have a sneaky feeling that we can do it. Even if we can't, I expect you'll be able to make good money on the handicap betting when it comes out. And I forecast now that we will turn the pies over in the away leg so don't dare miss that one.

I'm looking at the game in the same light - shocks happen and I'd like to say I was there. The CC game last year is a good example, the team was performing awful in the league and everyone predicted a mauling for us, and even though we lost, it was a great performance to watch.

If the forwards show some aggression - we could give them a good game!

I'll be there but I'm not fussed about the scoreline, I'm sure it will be a lot of points for Wigan and not many for us.

It's the week after I care about, that is a game that we can't afford to slip up in.

What I suppose we all want to see is that the bad old days of Macca have gone whereby we back up an encouraging win by falling back to bad habits and peeing us all off.

Going down to Wigan because we tried very hard but aren't as good as them is something I can accept. We gain momentum not by winning per se, but by displaying desire and unity in consecutive games.

I have no problems with losing if we lose with pride and hard work against a better team. I don't want to see a heartless 50 plus points loss which shows we have learnt nothing from previous years. Plus it will be my first game of the season as i am briefly back from Uni, so don't let me down!

When we lost last year in the cup to Wigan, I had no problem with the defeat. Yes, it always hurts to lose but the team fought the whole match and only lost by 4 points even though we were down to 12 men for a lot of the game.

That sort of grit and determination has been in short supply at Odsal for a long time. Hopefully we might see some of it Sunday afternoon

Think we need to get behind the team and get the atmosphere up as soon as possible this is when the players start showing the fire and the determination.

Not being funny mate but have you seen Brett Kearney trying to catch a bomb? He's horrendous.

He caught an important one on Sunday.

Sam under the highball is massively improved, I can't remember the last time I saw him miss one in Wigan colours, you would be wasting your time targeting him, if I was Bradford I'd want to keep the ball away from him as much as possible.

He actually caught one did he? Well he deserves a pat on the back, lets hope he can do it more consistently.

he caught an important one against saints last season too.

Struggle to see us winning against a strong Wigan side, however, it will be the nature of the game we play a good game and I will be happy. 2 points from 3 games which have included 2 of the top 5 I think will be good for at this stage of the competition.

Interesting that put the last bit, because he missed one very badly whilst playing for England in the Tri Nations