Leading with the elbow and a deliberate stiff arm tackle that just gets a penalty. Yep, the M8's are starting to run true to form with the SL sides getting away with (largely) unpunished foul play.

...and what's that got to do with the price of cheese in Kazakhstan? The Shay had a sellout crowd into 5 figures for Tonga vs Italy, but that doesn't translate into similar numbers when Fax play our local rivals, London. They're over 200km apart, which is give or take what West Yorkshire is from London. Cats get decent crowds, but Toulouse?

Wouldn't that require a new stadium?

No. They can play in the existing Ernest-Wallon stadium in Toulouse, used by rugby union, which has a capacity of 19,500. That stadium was used by Catalans against Hull KR in 2013, and the match was a sellout. It was also used for French rugby league Test matches. I attended one there -- France vs New Zealand -- many years ago, when Maxime Greseque was France's half back.

Your assessment of Widnes is a widely held belief although they've escaped before. Salford are actually likely to be top of the group. Leeds scraped by Toulouse at home so hard to tell. Same with us. Outmuscled by probably the top team in the m8s.

The game on Saturday is arguably bigger for Toronto than us - they've been talked up by everyone for two years and its time to prove it. If we lose then it'll be nothing more than the expansionists want and if they lose it'll be 'expected' because we're the SL team. We'll get no cries of it being a great victory. The attention from none KR fans will be on Toronto.

For Rovers fans its just a vital SL survival game that happens to be played in another continent, the opposition is largely unimportant.