2 huge games the weeks after this fixture. So the cup distraction along with the draw of playing a team we just upset the timing of it is less than ideal.

They are going to be very motivated after the boos rang out on Saturday, and it's obviously going to be a big ask but confidence should be high.

I'd much rather pick up 2 wins the following weeks than win this game but we need to go and have a real dig. Confidence is a fragile things and the last thing we need is to go in half hearted and be on the wrong side of a big score.

Key as ever is injuries and keeping bodies fresh. It was a fantastic effort on the weekend hopefully the team have a low intensity week this week focussing on recovery. Keeping the lads fresh and picking up wins in the next 2 SL rounds could go a very long way to securing our place in SL in 2023 and give us a solid foundation to recruit early this year.

Yep, this weekends game will be a much tougher ask, Wire will want blood and we have to be at the top of our game.
We have shown that we are more than capable so it should be an interesting match.

Totally agree.

Agree keeping bodies fresh and free from injury is important as are the salford and cas game.a cup run will bring in revenue but as i have said in other posts for me this season is about staying up with the intended ground improvements due as i see this as where the club will move forward most with the extra revenue rhis could bring

Listened to the WP interview on Trinity Heritage over the weekend. He's very much in his infancy when it comes to head coach role, but the ethos that comes across should stand him in good stead. He's not only bothered by the on field rugby related stuff, he's into making his group be the best they can be inall aspects of their life which is all you can ask for in a leader.

They have just lost Jack Hughes for the game - 1 match ban.

Reading posts on their board they will be celebrating that one! Got to say I’m amazed there’s no mention of Rob Butler leading with the elbow! In the minutes they’ve got Philbin down for similar but saying contact was with chest…surely they’ve not got players mixed up? 5 minutes into the 2nd half looked clear cut to me! Thankfully no mention of Dave though…was worrying he might have been looked at for a high tackle late on!

We’ve been staying up for 20 years ,let’s all please change the record and have a dig at the challenge cup ,one big player for wires missing due to disciplinary Wires on their uppers ,and all we can say is we have some league games coming up ,jeez .We owe it to the players past and present to go out on Sunday with our strongest possible squad and give it our all . What the hell is the problem ,keep the winning momentum going ,we aren’t some kind of vehicle that you can stop and start ,winning becomes a habit just as losing does, let’s ride that wave and see where it gets us. Nothing personal luppylad but we’ve been too long in the shadows and subservient to the big boys

They missed it I think because from what I watched it
Was clearly raised and hit Crowther first contact in the head.

Schoey predicting Wire to win by 28 points !!!!

TBF they might. On paper, they are still a cracking team and Powell is a decent coach.

I hope not but we will have to play well again to avoid it.

That said, again all the pressure is on them, even more so in this game.

Be an odd kind of justice in it, Powell was our nemesis at Cas for the best paper pf a decade, be great if we were his now he's the Wire

It'll be interesting to see what tactics WP employs.
Do we go with a repeat of last week and try and beat them upfront with 4 forwards on the bench and as much experience as possible or do we try and take them by surprise and try to go round them?
I have been impressed by WPs coaching in the way he adapts to the opposition. Against Saints was completely different to Warrington.