I thought Miller had the better half. I hope Hampshire as a good season but Miller deserves to start the season as first choice

Oh the headaches that are Chris Chesters team selections. It will be interesting to see what he goes with of the Huddersfield game.

Miller is a great talent, but he does seem to struggle a bit during the colder months

Agree
Kears book is a fab read for any rugby league fan
It's not your typical retiring rugby player badly written dribble either

I thought horro went really well
Going off today I'm going to assume that horro and Kirmond are going to interchange for the right side back row, I think that will be a very strong move and change of direction for us

Spoke to Jordan after the game, asked him how he felt, his reply was, I didn’t need to get my second wind, which hopefully spans across the team after a good pre season

Jordan went well today. Some good footwork at the line and Good leg drives for yards. Pleased for him.

I'll be honest thinking about it overnight I hated that game yesterday. They do nothing but lull teams into a false sense of security imho and leave the team unmotivated. Perverse as it sounds I'd rather us lose as that tends to fire teams up and sets a platform.

If we treat it as a glorified training game then fine but if we think it gives any idea how well we will go against the misters we are in for a rude awakening!

We have got quite good of late but we must never lose that underdog spirit - it's us against the world and nobody is going to lay down and take it from oiks like us.

I'm not being pessimistic but they are waiting for us this season and in that respect yesterday didn't help other than give a few players a run out.

I'm worried about our first game in particular, the moment I saw it I thought it might be trouble. We need to be super up for it imho, we don't have to win it but we have to look competitive.

Agree with you Vastman, although I do think we will be competitive this season. Yesterday’s game was nothing more than a training exercise for us. We never got out of second gear. The team spirit looked good and defensively we were sound. The players couldn’t do any more than thrash the team in front of them. Huddersfield will be a better test. I will say though if Finn and Millar had played against Leeds on Boxing Day we would have beaten them.

That fax team contained a lot of kids and trialists not a starting 17 so don't get over excited

If you read the thread properly then we are clearly not

but thanks for the advice.

I also have my doubts about HKR and if we go into that game thinking we are favourites we will get spanked.
However I get comfort from the fact Chester is the coach and he was dumped by HKR. I am sure when he looks down the fixture list that is an away game he really wants to win to prove a point, so I am sure he will have the players in the right frame of mind.