So we play them next week. What does everyone think after tonights performance.

I'm not sure it will be as easy as I thought, they looked well organised considering their preparation and I thought their contact and defence was quality at times. I would be really disapointed if they score more than 10 points though.

Give them a few seasons with Nobby and they could be a half decent team.

I thought they did well first time out, waned a bit second half having had no pre season and I thought the final score was a little harsh.
I think we should have enough to beat them though.

Thats what I thought when he took over. He will bring in some decent players and will turn them into a mid table team, they cannot go straight to the top.

They did well, but I personally feel they'll fail to back it up after tonights performance. They had the crowd with them tonight as well as a huge adrenaline rush running through there system from it being there first game, they won't get any of that on Friday.

If we can get off to that all important good start, we should then be able to kick on and rack up a good score. However if we suffer from stuttering start and allow them to get on top of us and get good ball in good position it'll be tough, but I just don't see them being able to backup after tonights performance.

Plus I think McGuire will want to show Noble just what a team under his leadership can do.

We have to go wide early against them. I think we could out wrestle them if we had to but why bother! If we get good early ball to Tomkins, Gleeson and Carmont we'll have too much for them.

and theres no snow on the pitch to slow you down

I agree, definitely the way to go will be out wide.

What really impressed me about Celtic tonight were there frontrow, yes they tired towards the end but for the first 60 they were superb. Hopefully there frontrow won't cause us to many problems if we play fast around the ruck and keep them moving, also if we can slow them down a little it'll help.

Pot calling the kettle black, I think so.

I'd take Snow over rain!

Never seen a side as bad as Wigan when it lashes down.

It certainly won't be the banjoing some expected prior to tonight. I thought they played well for the first 60mins; their stand-off Witt looks to be quite classy, even if he's got a strange kicking run-up technique. The scoreline did not do the Welsh/Aussie side's effort justice.

Expect Wigan to win by about 20 with better positional play and a more expansive game.

I thought the Crusaders pack in general was pretty good with O'Hara, Bryant and Chan especially impressive but they looked like they lacked speed and a couple of killer runners.

They won't be easy beats next week but we should be ok.

i would expect wigan to win by 40 to 50 points they wont play like that again and in the second half they only got in leeds half twice

Slightly OT. but

How overweight does Danny mcguire look?. He has a right belly on him at the momment?. greg eastwood looks well over weight also. i would go as far as saying his gut is up there with Piggys last year.

dont rate that eastwood but delaney looks good

I would expect that we will be totally professional against Crusaders next week and not underestimate them at all. If we think all we have to do is turn up then we will be in trouble. We really need to start as we mean to go on here. Too many half ar$3d performances last year against teams we thought we would trounce really cost us.