Hopefully Carvell will produce his usual 5 penalties and 5 knock ons a game tonight to give us a helping hand.

True,

you rarely see a poor bookie, but RL is one of those few sports the punter with good knowledge can have the edge on them. I remember reading an article a few years ago by a bloke who made his fortune gambling and his advice was if you want to make a living from gambling go and get an encyclopaedic knowledge of a minority sport - there wasn't anything about lower league Scottish football he didn't know and that is all he bet on.

I'm tempted to ask how much you have lost....

The bookies employ people like Jackie Edwards to help them set their handicaps. Bookies make money!

I'm actually looking forward to this game, no real pressure on Wigan and will give us a better view of how this young team will go this year, obviously it's not the be all and end all if we win/lose but it will certainly tell us at more than the Salford game did last week.

Prescott out due to injury, Greg Burke in.

im still optmistic/deluded.

This is a Leyther wishing you pie eaters all the best tonight. Your stats of GB and local lads in your team are to be highly commended and a breath of fresh air in today's game. Get your pie eating chests stuck right out and make a racket. I will be shouting for you. Come on the pies.

Well he gave us the half time lead Cooper has helped us massively too.

Goulding is looking absolute class in attack and defence so far. Farrell's looking good, as is Smith; and O'Loughlin is being his usual beastly/skillful self. Great match so far.

Wigan look more enthusiastic, fresher, quicker and hungrier and younger than us.

Great game as a neutral. Proper SL...

Yep. Really enjoyed that one. Blood and thunder stuff.

Well what an anti-climax that was. A poor crowd, no atmosphere, neither team were bothered as there was nothing to play for. I'm glad I stayed at home. The RFL should resign.

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Still more than happy with how things are looking and big wraps to the young pack that some thought were going to get bashed around.
This next 12 months will I hope see a lot of these blossom into the level of player that we are supposedly missing and want to bring replacements in for now.

Looking short term I suppose at certain points some of the youngsters may struggle to keep up that level which I think is understandable but the potential is certainly there.

Add luauaki/Prescott/Tuson/Hansen/Lloyd to that pack squad as players we can call on and utilise plus others such as Crosby/tomkins/spencer who have all played SL (I mention them differently as I'm not convinced about these 3 "long term"icon_wink.gif and I'm looking forward to the challenges ahead this season, confident they'll give 100% week in week out.