Its that third Wigan defender hitting the lower leg of attacking player who is held by two defenders that upsets me, its a morally low offence for players to commit on a fellow professional, its a throw back to when that Aussie was in charge.

Wigan are gonna play to their strengths, with respect, its gonna be a wrestle in the bear pit atm.
Both scores put together, I don't think this game has 20 points in it, unless something daft happens.
I see a big pile of blood bins and injuries but I think if we can carry on where we left off game 4, we're in with a shout.

its not a must win no(top 8 or top 4)..... but a win would be great.

to be honest and looking at table our 4 wins although great have come against the bottom 4 teams (which is great for our top 8 aspirations) but this is the REAL test to see where we are.


I don't like our team saying our goal was 4 from 5 at start of year - does that mean they have already achieved the goal?

we win this and we only need 5 more wins for top 8!!! FIRE UP

Think I'm right in saying if Wigan win they would be on 8 points with us. Saints play wire and should get the 2 so on 10. the rest of the games don't effect our standing.

correct - although if we lose we would go from 2nd to 3rd because wigan have a better points for and against than us.
a win would put us 2 full game clear of third!!!!

Christ how terrible would that be slipping from second to third after five rounds!

BIG following required!!

need to get as many fans over there as possible to get behind the lads

Our away support is proportionally excellent, with only 3500 fans bothered to turn up to home games to have 500 plus at every away game is excellent. As a percentage of home fans I bet our away support is the best in the League

agreed belly, would just like a good following over there going for 5 out of 5.

Anyone know how many buses the club are taking?

I'm not sure that's a positive. Sunday's attendance wasn't high, but the weather would have put a lot off, particularly those who travel from further afield.

Wrong. They have scored a lot more then us but we have conceded less 36 us 54 them. Only saints have conceded less then us 32.

I think he was talking about Wigans points difference, not just their points against which, as you say, Trinity is second only to Saints.
Averaging only 9 points against is astonishing and is the lowest that I can remember.
It wasn't so long ago that we were conceding 40 points a game.

It's a long season. At some point, we'll hit a bad patch. At some point, other teams will hit a good patch. As long as we're in the mix with five or six games to go, we're good enough now for our destiny to be in our own hands.

Spot on Slugger, 8 points in the bag is excellent, nearly half way to the 10 wins that normally secures a top 8 after 23 rounds, we will hit a bad patch but I am so impressed with the attitude of the players and coaching staff that I believe that they will battle on regardless