Hope your players can back your fans !!

Wigan might well beat us on Friday. Every year we get one team that punches above their weight for the first five or six matches before dropping back down the table. It's usually Wakefield but they failed to sustain it this year, it was Hull last year and it's Wigan this year. So I can see them probably trouncing us on Friday.

Looking forward to this game. It's one of the only away fixtures that I lke to sit with the home fans (although I'd make an exception for 'Bradfords top lad'! ).

As to the game; drawing a form line through last weeks games where we both played a bottom 2 side I would have to expect a Wigan win. Someone has ridiculed the over-confident attitude on C&W saying "you'd think it was the team from the 80's". Well I've been watching for over 23 years and saw those sides week in, week out and whilst I would never make a comparison (trophies are the only marker of that!) I will say this is the best Wigan team I have seen since then. Yes, I know it's early days etc, but the blend of youth and experience, the way we can attack from any part of the field with pace to burn and particularly the ruthlessness in both defence and attack is something I haven't seen from a Wigan team since then. Time will tell if it can continue, of course, but from the games so far there is plenty room for optimism!

Here's to a great game! See you Friday.

Phelps is back for us so thats great news!

I can't see past a win for us. We have the best attack in the league and also have only let in an average of 8 points per game.

I cannot see Bradford scoring more than 10 and there is no way they will keep us below 10.

It would take one hell of a effort to beat us this week IMO.

For the poster saying we will be the hull and wakey of previous seasons, I disagree. We are so much fitter than those teams were and are completely dominating games. They dropped down due to injuries but I believe we have one of the deepest squads in the league.

My shilling is on Wigan lifting the pot at old Trafford.

Does not mean they won't trip up along the way, of course; and not necessarily where the pundits expect.

They have certainly started the season in good form. I notice that Saints are quietly going about their usual business since the Hull defeat as well.

Based on that theory my new prediction is:

Bradford 10 - 10 Wigan

Sam Tomkins MOTM who gives £100 to the RL fund and the other £100 to his nan.

I agree, the Wire game will have taken a greater toll on your players than the Saints game will have for ours.

However I struggle to see how going up against a Wire team that you only narrowly beat means they were tougher opposition than a Saints side who wipe the floor with you (since the standard of opposition I believe was kind of the point). Perhaps that's just the common sense side of my brain getting in the way eh?

We won't have the fog but the weather will turn cold in the eve after a sleety day, so we shall see if the Club are ready to keep the terraces fully open this time to save a second embarassing gap in the middle of them for Sky!

Without a shadow of a doubt! Thanks for the tip to lift the trophy too...unless you're one of those tipsters who's like the kiss of death!

I think judging by the first few rounds of Super League, that would be the safe bet. If someone offered me money right now to predict the winner of the Grand Final, I'd go with Wigan too (assuming all the odds were the same).

Leeds will be back, Wire look a very classy side and Saints since the Hull game have put the sh*ts up me with how comfortably they've gone about their business.

I'd be suprised if the winner of the grand final doesn't come from Wigan or one of those 3 but you just never know.

Huddersfield, Hull and yourselves will also feel they've got a chance.

That's just arrogance through and through.

Well after four straight wins for the cherry and whites it seems that many of their fans on their board are hailing this as a return to the glory years. Apparently we might as well not turn up on Friday given that

As much as they do look good, judging from those posts quoted by Bullseye, some of their fans are setting themselves up for a BIG fall!