Ouch, still when the going gets tough...

Can anyone tell me why we announce our 19 to the world on a Friday afternoon and the other teams don't. It seems to me that be doing so you are giving the other teams coach the heads up so can plan.

I mean and I may have this wrong but when we did this again Donnie they asked hull for a couple of loaders. And now workington suddenly got 4 coming in from Wigan, two I think were in the 19 for the case game.

I don't know the rules so can someone explain . As I said I don't know them but I just find it odd we do this but the others don't, not even on their websites

This is the 19 in the Workington Town squad announced to the RFL (no Burgess here)

Ritson, Forrester, Duerden, Whiteley, Forber, Mattinson, Shackley, B. Phillips, Stack, Scholey, Olstrum, Horton, Fifita, Walker, Tomkins, Farrell, Tierney, Doran, Murphy

Think the rules are the same for the top 3 tiers you must submit to the RFL a 19 man team 48 hours before kickoff. Changes after that are possible but require doctors certificates.

The reason Town have had to call on Wigan players is because out of a squad of 24 we have 9 out injured. Burgess is in our team because we had Manfredi covering for one of our injured players but he got called in to Wigans first team last night and Burgess was put with us. Connor Farrell played 16 games for us last season and Lewis Tierney played 11 or 12. All the Wigan players were in the list sent to RFL 48 hours before the kick-off time. It is up to clubs if they want to publicly announce their squads but you will find them on the RFL website fixtures page by clicking on the Preview button "P" so there is no mystery about it.

It was only a mystery to me as I was unsure of the rules for naming the 19 and being allowed to add to it before game time. But now you have explained I get it now.

Isn't Lewis Tierney, Jason Robinson 's son. I heard good things about him before but he doesn't seem to get time in the Wigan first team squad.

Yes he is and I don't know why he doesn't get more game time at Wigan but if we can have him instead I wont complain. We have a fairly big mobile pack of forwards so if we can get these backs moving it could be quite an interesting game tomorrow.

Dont worry Wigan are playing poor at the moment and could be down with us later in the year.

FT 34-16.
Tough one at Whitehaven next week even though they've not won one yet.

100% home record maintained, still some defensive issues, but a solid performance in the main. The season starts now!

The attendance is a concern though, engineering works on the Jubilee line may well criple us

Indeed, what was the attendance - it says a measly 300 on the BBC sports page? I thought we were going to chuck it away in the first 10 minutes of the 2nd half but thankfully we came back strongly - phew.

Closer to 600 I believe

Will be struggling to match the crowds at Chiswick at this rate... Saying that they played pretty risk free footie today which is a start so perhaps 4th is a possibility once we have realised how you have to play in this league.

According to Gav Wilson on the TotalRL forum the attendance was 583,[sizewhich is 51 more tan the Crusaders got for a Challenge Cup first round tie against an amateur side.[/size

I'll take 583, given it was a Cumbrian side and the tube disruption aswell as the two away defeats. Still a concern but as with our defence, lets not get carried away with doom and gloom.

I have to say that is the first time in a long while I've come away from a Bronco's game having enjoyed watching the team and feeling positive

Also nice touch for some of the players to shake fans hands at the end