If anyone believes in omens:

I was extremely hungover on the day we played Salford first game in 2006 and stood feeling ill, freezing cold and utterly miserable.

It's Mersey derby day on Saturday so I'm hardly likely to be sober and I get hangovers now even worse than I did then.

If history repeats itself don't say you weren't warned.

In all seriousness yes, I am concerned. They've had a game already as mentioned above so will less rusty than us and expectation will be higher than ever before. The first couple of weeks of the season are prime for unexpected results too. I *think* we'll be okay but I'll admit now that a win by any scoreline will do for me regardless of performance.

"In Smith we trust"..

Just hope we can get the ball rolling with a good score... Hopefully getting a good few wins before the saints game could give us a good chance to beat them too.

Nope, as long as it's dry & mild, thirty point win.

This is where North and East stand reserved seating comes in handy...

Not nervous in the slightest.

I'm actually confident the wires will give us a good performance

Thats my only concern going into next week. Otherwise, we should win by 12 points or more.

Erm, yes we do.

Our record at the HJ against Quins is 4-2. Wins in '04, '05, 06 and last season with defeats in '07 and '08.

So our record is actually quite good at home against them.

Think we'll grab the two points but they won't be a pushover, the massacre we received at their hands last season still makes me shudder now. We're notoriously bad in some games against 'lesser' clubs, just hope we have the right attitude this season.

To appease the rubgy league world and ourselves we have to win by a good margin. We have to put to bed the mess that was the low point at the Stoop. Our new signings have to perform from day one! We cannot go through the wringer again with poor start and poor form from new (or existing) signings, it has to right day one. No excuses!!!!

Quins by 24.....

I agree with JWP. If it is a mudbath then it will be very close. Quins have turned us over at the HJ in poor conditions in the past and play those conditions very well. I hope that the crowd don't get on the backs of the likes of Myler / Atkins if we are not 20 up by half time.

There has got to be massive change tactically from the Wigan game,Smith has seen that and how he deals with it will be interesting. I hope to see more inventive play from the forwards.

Jeez. This is Wire we're talking about. We should all be very nervous. Anything could happen. 60 point win for either side or a low scoring match. Or 46-44. Who knows?