You're bubble will be intact. Far too much up front for them to handle.

Yeh I think so to, just been here so many times before

Who said we'll be playing a forward battle?

You probably wont, but you still need to get the ball out of your own 20 , 30, think youll struggle to make the meters. If you can manage to play the game in our half with a good kicking game, youll cause us problems, and with dobson, theys a chance you could do that for periods of the game, just not enough, I hope

Fair play if we do decide to go up the middle we will loose by a fair margin. But from the performance last week against Hull 90% of our tries were scored on the flanks. I know we might not have the quality forwards you do but with Carney, Jones, Sau and Griffin making the metres.

Will be very interesting, cant wait! I think we'll win, but I certainly wouldnt be suprised if we didnt, I think you guys will go well this year

I really don't think these first few matches say an awful lot about the season ahead. Look at Waky last year, beat both Cas and KR then lost the rest bar the one against you.

That's kind of what I alluded to in my post. You will need to play expansive rugby and it's easier said than done when; a) it's the first game of the season and you are still knocking the rust off, and b) it's a cold February night in Hull.

Yup, in 2009 we won our first five then only won five more for the rest of the year.

Look at our first game last season!!!! Nilled hudds at they place and I thought we was on for the double ha, takes a few weeks for teams to get into they stride

Exactly

We scored a fair few tries out wide the other week as well. Even with our backs.

We have have enough on the left flank to keep Pritchard quiet .

Most sides in the nrl couldn't keep Pritchard quiet last year. And I doubt many super league sides will either. You may think you keep him quiet but that probably means it's opened up outside of him after the defence as rushed up on him so catch 22

Unlikely we'd score many out wide without them