No, I doubt they ever practise. They just slob around at training, chatting to their mates.

No, we have none of them. No props as good as any in Super League. No reigning Man of Steel. No top try scorer from Super League last year. No successful coach who has won GFs, CCs and LLSs. No recently retired players on the coaching staff who everybody says we miss. None of those in place.

The epitome of the Warrington RLFans poster ladies and gentlemen.

We win our first two games, conceding 3 tries, and then narrowly lose to an NRL side. All is well. We get well beaten, by a good team, who've had 2 weeks off, and all of a sudden the sky is falling in. The reaction on this place if we lose to Hull KR next Sunday will be the equivalent of a cross between the Walking Dead and Loose Women.

I can't remember what round we got to in the play offs and CC last season but I think it was quite late on. I don't know how this season will pan out but can't we at least wait until we've settled down before we start with this crap?

I'll be honest, i'm not that d, don't get me wrong, there's things i can be slightly concerned about but just from Saturdays game, i'm not knee jerking.

Have we fans not learnt from 12 months ago about moaning too soon? we ended up 3 injuries by wigan house tactics away from making the grandfinal last year.

As for kicking, i think o'brien's kicking game is alright, there's certainly room for improvement, but there's some revisionist history going on looking back at briers' immaculate kicking game. Yes in recent years he got a level of consistency, but for a large part, a lot of people on the terraces used to get on his case, and on here for his inconsistency.

SAturdays game was a post cup final performance, after the lord mayors show, we were knackered, if we were REALLY that bad and catalans were THAT good, they would have put easy 60 points on us, like we did in 11 to teams.

I agree with FMC no knee jerking, it was Cats away after a massive game against St George, its out of the way lets move on to KR and hopefully bounce back with a good performance and this will be forgotten.

Could be worse, could have had KR at their place.....

wane's complaining about the reffing in the express today.

He was complaining about dirty tactics of going out to purposely harm his players and that is something he never coaches into his side.

What a humbling honest fair coach he is.

I've not watched the game yet but I will be doing for research purposes before the weekend but the kicking game has been off all year and it's a definite area for improvement.

If we get beat by KR on Sunday some fans will stage a sit in again..!

We have one prop as good as any in SL. Hopefully, Sims will become another.

We have the MoS, who is yet to hit his straps, frankly. Though not a surprise, there have only been a few games.

We have last year's top try scorer, who thus far has 1 to his name. Again, not a surprise, there have only been a few games.

A bit Pollyanna, there, but you are right, much is in place for a good season, and knee-jerking after a defeat to the Dragons is just daft. However, Wire really have to sort out the kicking, it's not up to scratch at the moment.

I heard that Wigan were playing in our style to give HKR some practice for their match against us.

I have no problem at all with O'Brien & Myler in the halves ,in fact we may have shipped less tries if Myler had been fit to play in France. Last season was a so called unexpected calamity with the loss of Briers leaving us with no field kicker. We are now in a new season & it appears that the problem hasn't been addressed sufficiently. It is a continuing problem that needs to be worked on with the present halfback combination & leave Bridge & Ratchford where they are to wreak havoc on opponents.

If you look at our squad there is no reason not to be optimistic about the season ahead. We have a starting line up (according to the squad numbers) of:

1 Russell
2 R Evans
3 Bridge
4 Atkins
5 Monaghan
6 Ratchford
7 Myler
8 Hill
9 Clark
10 Sims
11 Grix
12 Westwood
13 Harrison

The forward pack looks very impressive and that's before you add the likes of Higham, England, Curry, Laithwaite, Asotasi and Ben Evans as players to have on the bench. The back line is also very good with some excellent individuals who have proven records. Again, add to that with Penny (who has been exceptional) O'Brien (solid, flashes of brilliance, good goal kicker) and Wheeler (still a bit of an unknown but will prove a good signing in my opinion) and we can be very optimistic.

We will continue to improve as the season progresses, and a few hit and miss spells in the early stages of the season is nothing new, just look at the last few years. Our kicking game is definitely something that needs to improve though. I thought O'Brien's kicking in the Hull KR friendly was the best I've seen in a long time from anyone in the team, so let's hope he finds that form again soon.

COME ON WIRE