Totally agree

My thoughts exactly.

when would be a good time for it then?

It would be better doing the pre-season training camp at the end of the season so as not to mess up our game in Hull.

Yup, another one of Tony's ideas that have seen us win 2 Challenge cups and a League Leaders.... the man is obviously clueless....

Certainly not when you only return 5 days before the 1st game of the season.

Like I said, short-term...performance wise, it will affect us, jetlag x2 days, going from 90f back to 30f does the body no good at all.
Long-term... we won't be peaking too soon into the season as we have the last few years.

It would have been better to arrive back earlier but this was the only time available that suited both teams so have to just deal with it. Might be slow out the blocks but it has been a unique and very beneficial experience.

One things for sure if we get off to a bad start at the KC next week its odds on most people will blame the Australia trip...

The trip wasn't about the Souths game. Or preparing for the Hull game especially. It was about prepping for this season and making sure we peak at the right time. I don't necessarily think we got got that wrong last year - we got done by a Champion team - but we'd have got so much work done in the 3 weeks.

No doubt MikeyWire is right. If we lose next week they'll be much gnashing of teethe RE the trip and the return time. Bothered. The season won't end if we lose to Hull just as it didn't when we got tore a new one by the Giants...

I've also no doubt the Hull fans, if they win, will be throwing the arrogant tag at us.

Jetlag and D V T,being the cause of our defeat..

Thought he was D L T..

AT LAST, A VOICE OF REASON.

I'm dreading 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon next week, IF we lose. All the great internet I TOLD YOU SO'S will cause the whole RLFans site to go into melt-down.

If we win...GREAT, we've hit the ground running, and have a POTENTIALLY easy 1st home game the week after, and be 2 wins from 2....

....but IF we lose....God help Smith/Moran et al...what do they know about RL, compared to some people with access to an internet site. Who'd have been STUPID enough to fly a bnunch of blokes half way round the world for a jolly....


THIS TRIP CAN ONLY DO US GOOD.

Let's not forget how we started last year, abject at Cardiff, and extremely lucky to come away with 2 points v HKR. If we'd have lost v Rovers, our next 2 were against Leeds (dreadful record) and Stains (we all knew the script, from previous seasons)....and how did we do in the league last year...oh, that's right, we won the thing.

Untwist your knickers, doubters.....don't forget the mantra of many on here...in Smith (and Moran) we trust