ill save my judgement untill after we have played some competitive games.

Cashmere sent off.

tbh im getting a bit emotional. goodness big ray sent off?

40-6, the circus is back in town

Come on folks its a friendly match and will mean nothing come regular season.

I for one will miss the Willows when you move,its a great traditional ground.

Best of luck for the real season.

Peter.

So Ray will be out for the Cardiff game then. It's getting better by the minute this.

hopefully feka back or we'll have worse front rower at cardiff????

40-6 FT

Was going to go today thank goodness i never!
Hopefully all these bold claims top 8 fitter than ever! do not come back to haunt us? Did we play hull kr last year in a friendly what was that score?

Feka's just changed his prediction, he says we will now definately make last place!



No seriously despite it being a friendly I was expecting a much better result than 40-6 considering the team we had out. Anyone saying don't read too much into it wouldn't be saying this if we had won by 6-40. Friendly on not this was the big mock test after weeks of preperation and they failed by a distance.

Friendly or not it is important to develop good habits including getting used to winning. We have lost 3 out of 4. The excuse of players gelling is used every season it seems. On the evidence thus far the personel has changed but nothing else. I will bide my time before making a final judgement but thier is alot of improving to do in the next two weeks. The Crusaders match straight away is a bench mark game. After all the upheaval they have had this is a winnable game and one we must look to win if we have any designs on progress. The pressure is on the coach straight off for me.