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

Apart from the long flight and a bit of jet lag the positives are huge and have already been mentioned.

Great forward thinking by the club, welcome to the 21st century

Anyone that can't see the benefit in the trip..........words fail me

It is, just thought he'd be a great excuse for losing to Hull.

No doubt he'd've mentioned his farm, ducks and beautiful Scandinavian wife......oh, and Matthew Banister cost him his job at Radio One

The Hairy Cornflake

Ohhhhh, The seventies equivalent of Peeed Pinnington...embarrassing

Pipesmoker of the Year as well

I really don't buy into this 'we peaked too soon'. Leeds, Saints, the Bulls & Wigan have all won the G/F by being the best all season and carrying that into the play off's.

Last season we were the best team throughout and we started off the play offs with a fantastic 47-0 win.
We lost to a prefect storm of things that went against us on the night and not in any way because we had such a great season.

Its just like the NRL champions usually have to do, fly the other side of the world to play a meaningless fixture for the benefit of their hosts then fly all the way back the week before the season starts to start the proper games.

Anyway next week if we lose at least we might find out what the players got up to on tour, remember in the DVDV days there were always good stories coming out of pre season, remember when Andrew Gee had to stage a getaway from a French gang and shouldercharged a door down to escape etc, another time the players supposedly had a fight in Lanzarote.

Perhaps we should leave the final word on whether the Trip to Australia is / will be of use for the lads over the coming months to Lee Briers whom I quote from his blog

'This camp has been an amazing success with the amount of quality work we have been able to get through and has been a once in a life time experience............. I am sure all this work will put us in good stead for the upcoming season'

I agree, but not sure why you're doing the whole 'At last... a voice of reason' thing: apart from the OP pretty much everyone has said it was a good trip with an eye on the bigger picture rather than prepping for one game next week.

Wow. I know people have a pretty low view of the quality of Super League on here, but really? I can only assume that you meant the squad as a whole, in which case, you are probably right.

IMO, a very worthwhile trip that can only benefit team morale in the long run. And who cares if we're jetlagged? As Leeds proved last season, you only need to be in form during September/October!