As long as they come out fired up and win or the very least a good performance I don’t care who goes where . This game is all about putting some pride back into the shirt and to show us fans they are committed to the cause . I’ll do my bit cheering on from NS lower tier ,and I’ll leave the rest to the coach and players to do their bit .

A Shudds win looks a good bet on the Betfred handicap. Giving us a meagre start of 10 points.

Well that's an extremely good point. I would never have picked him a hooker and he's made that move very well.
However, he got that chance when there were no other options. I just think we have more options yet.

If we up our intensity in defence we will see a marked improvement altogether. Out of all the teams I’ve seen this year, our intensity is way off the mark. Our line speed is atrocious and kick chase. You don’t need a state of origin team to have intent and fitness in your team.

Totally agree. I'm very disappointed with what I've seen so far, I honestly thought speed and defence would have been top notch after the close season and with a new coach. No different so far than it has been for years and without that improving we'll stay where we are.
Hope it starts tonight.

It’s been really strange, with playing 4 pre season games and starting back earliest in SL, are we over cooked already. Both games we have looked really fatigued. Time will tell I suppose. The second half intensity against Fev was where I expected us to be at in regards to our intensity etc. I’m just hoping that we are in a early season blip with teething issues. I mean has the pitch helped preparation? I just hope we serve up better than last week. We’ll soon find out.

The kicking is a big concern for me as well, both the kick-chase and the lack of distance.Field position is everything, and at the moment we seem to be playing most of the game in our own half.It can be a massive moral booster to see a kick that takes you from one 25 to the other.Have we anybody that can kick long?
I agree with everything that's been said in last two posts.I too thought we would be up for it, but we are way off!

I’ve got the day off today, so watched Brisbane against Penrith. I know it’s the NRL and I know they spend god knows how many more million then us, but the kicking game, kick chase intensity and just pure intensity from both sides for 80 minutes was unreal. What I noticed was if Reynolds or Cleary got a poorish kick away (I’d be jumping for joy if either our halves could manage one of their poorish kicks) then the kick chase more than made up for it. Not only is our kicking game 9/10 poor but our kick chase is also atrocious. We simply up our intensity or we stand no chance of competing. Wigan were good last week, clinical, high intensity and high completion especially in the first half. But nothing that we haven’t seen before. All SL teams would of dicked us last week with that soft attitude. They say defence wins you games, well we don’t have a prayer unless we fire up and fast.

Off topic...does anybody know the time-line for putting our home games on Trin TV?
I have a function to attend tonight,(which I can't get out of) and will shift heaven and earth to avoid the result, so when will it be on? Thanks.

So I see you were right. Hope he has a blinder.
The one thing you can guarantee is that he'll give 100%.
And to be honest, that's all I ask.

Can't remember if someone answered this but whole north stand is open tonight.
Just been down and it looks great.

Guessing that’s Kaye at FB.

It’s a must win if they want to make up for last week.

It really isn't.
We can win and should aim to win but that's not the only thing that will make up for Wigan. A competitive performance is the first step.

It's weird, all week i haven't given us a prayer of winning tonight but all day today i've had a good feeling about it. Maybe it's just misguided blind optimism but i actually reckon we could nick this. Target their wingers, they are slow as cart horses. I'm going for us to win by 4. There, i said it.