Backing up in four days after a game as intense as the Warrington match is very hard in superleague, cas are not quite the whipping boys you think, they have made good progress since the arrival of Powell and IMO Wigan were there for the taking Friday, I backed up my opinion with a very good bet on hull kr and castle ford happy days.

I don't think you was the only one taking that double on. Two more days might have helped but instead we get two days extra rest on Bradford for next week. Swings and round abouts.

To be honest I listened Warrington today and they came across as pretty lethargic as well. Didn't score at all second half. Perhaps lucky they were playing Bradford who seemingly shot the bolt weeks ago. Only one win since April 6th and that was against Salford. It'd be disappointing if we don't bounce back with a big win on Friday!

Wire were very lacklustre today, extremely lacklustre infact to the point where they blew my coupon by conceding 12 late points as I had them with a 16 deficit.

Appalling.

whilst I agree that teams shouldn't have to back up on Fridays after playing Monday night, but isn't it down to the clubs to request the fixture change at the start of the season

I understand wigan chose not to move their fixture from the Friday to the weekend?

fc play tonight and moved the hudds fixture from this coming Friday to sunday at the start of the season when the fixtures came out

as for the KR v hudds fixture, maybe KR could be accused of poor gamesmanship or clever planning as they moved from their original sunday slot to a Friday evening knowing hudds played on the Monday, hudds should've have questioned this fixture and asked for it to be moved if they were that bothered

I was under the impression Castleford refused to change from the Friday fixture not Wigan.

The latest Sky fixtures have been announced and Warrington will be playing Widnes on Thursday 15th August, ie 9 days before the Wembley final.

Warrington fans are unhappy because of the short turnaround after playing the previous Sunday! But Widnes also play on Sunday so both teams have been equally disadvantaged - unlike last Friday where Castleford had an extra 3 days rest.

In the long run, this move to a Thursday may well favour Warrington as they will have 9 days before Wembley ( if they get there - as would Widnes, but hopefully this will not be the case with either of these 2 teams!)

Wigan, if they do get to Wembley, have the long trip to Catalans the previous weekend, which is not the ideal preparation.......

Great post