4200 at the football lastnight for a carling cup game against league 1 opposition

hope we can beat this figure on friday night

and that's with over 300 away fans and £15 a ticket

i would like to think we could with it not being on SKY could tempt a few of the armchair brigade out?

Annoyingly I will miss this- was the only game I wanted to be on a Thursday.

Yup I miss this too, night shift!

Connor and Broughton back in the squad.

Looks like many including myself will get there Wardle back in the second row wish come true.

Wardle back in the pack.

So Murphy to centre and bought on on the wing or keep Murphy on the wing and Connor in at centre? Personally I'd like to see Connor back in the team.

Leeming to start with Robbo coming in after 30 minutes or so.
Bruno to play full 80 at LF as we all seem to agree that's when he's at his best.
Smith to start 2nd row with Hughes. Ulama on after 20 mins or so.

id like to see

grix
mcgillvary
cudjoe
connor
murphy

robinson
brough
ellis

crabtree
huby
hughes
wardle
lawrence

bench-
leeming
taai
smith
kopczak


good news that connor is back, bailey paying the price for the poor showing at wigan

Looks like Carney will be playing, Needs a few big hits on him if possible. Dragons will push the Ref all the way, so we have to be ready for that. We know full well what they are like , PA should have us ready for anything they have to offer, We have come out on top twice , we can do it again. We need to win this one.

Personally i'd like to see our big guns come off the bench, we tend to lose what momentum we have built when making our early interchanges so why not try it the other way round and bring Eorl, Huby and Ta'ai off the bench ?

with Connor back we've also got the option of playing him at 6 and moving Ellis to 9 to swap with Kruise if needed as i don't think Robbo's offered much recently.

The danger of doing it the other way round is that you don't build any momentum from the off and you are then playing catch up.

It's tough call.

As for Robbo - he needs a big game. With his experience he should be dominating the team by example not having brainfarts a schoolboy would be embarrassed by.

Time for him to step up otherwise he'll be one of those sat in retirement wondering why he never won more (any?) silverware. (I exclude the LLS from 'silverware').

This is a game I'm really looking forward to.

Time to walk the walk.

The players are always telling us they have the quality.

Have they the nouse, balls, character etc to reach the GF?

I'll be behind them 100%.

I thought Robinson was excellent last week. He made a couple of errors but his speed in attack and defence put us on the front foot. He has started using his main strength running from dummy half more and more. When he left the field we slowed down and let Wigan back into the game.

That's fair enough - long may it continue.

But he needs to up the rest of his game - passing and holding onto the ball for starters.

get the 2 points! not bothered about the performance, we need to win now