I am not a betting man - just an annual punt on the Grand National - but out of curiosity, I did take a look at Wakey's odds in the build-up to yesterday's game, purely because I was so convinced that Wakey would win. Coral were offering 9/2, which seemed very generous, and I now wish I had put a tenner on it! But anyway, what I really found interesting was that they were offering odds for combinations of try scorers, which heavily featured CTW and Alfie Johnson. It seemed obvious that the bookies had got wind of the Dufty injury and Wire's team selection before they became public knowledge. I am naive in such matters, but I guess that's just how bookies roll? Knowledge is power, and all that.

Not often you will find a poor bookie but sometimes you wonder how they come up with the odds. Start of the week we were giving Wakefield 16 on the handicap which I found really generous. Friend of mine as convinced Wakefield would win without the handicap and he did put £20 on at 9/2, sadly I did not follow him as I thought we would win but no way more than the 16.

Is the pm message still available to use, on the new style forum?

Was wondering about that myself, not sure if it is still under construction or they just not adding it.

Hopefully it will be reinstated.

Currently we can't share news that isn't for general knowledge.

Just post it, 'we' won't tell anybody  

As for your question, like many things I've no idea but will ask   

One rumour that I can share, is that Dufty was omitted last weekend for disciplinary reasons.

Wonder if that is linked to the "players missed the flight home" rumour

Not much betting on the cup games this weekend.

-42 HKR v Oldham +42
-10 Saints v Leeds +10
+28 Widnes v Wire -28
-18 Wigan v Hull +18
-30 Catalan v Featherstone +30

Challenge Cup:


HKR 5/2
Saints 11/4
Wire 4/1
Leigh  7/1
Catalan 10/1
Hull 12/

Leigh at 7/1 is a good bet especially if they sign MacDonald. We should be the rank outsiders there.