Wakefield has a much larger, richer and all round better city right next door that tends to hoover up the big companies. Feel free to compare Hull and Leeds.

Anyway, only came on to discuss the rugby really so I'll leave you and your more couth boardmates to it.

Have a good trip on Sunday!

That's a new one, not heard that before.

There wasn't 2000 in South stand that game there was 50 of us as we went in there not knowing away fans was no longer allowed. We all entered through the back of the stand as we had been in the bar below. Was pretty of obvious from the look of disbelief on whino fans as we started singing old faithful and no one around us joined in we had royally dropped a bollard.I remember us standing our ground and celebrating like we had won the league when prekky kicked that penalty.
And when hull did take 2000 regularly in the south it was one of the best atmospheres in r.l but there was always a massive police presance and often abit of naughtiness

Bench looks weak with only 2 injures so let's hope we don't pick up a bad run of them

Yeh agree, if we go with the expected starting 13, looks weak. Think maybe radford might mix it up, and have mini or ellis on bench

ellis maybe as he hasn't played yet. I have a feeling the overall lack of gametime for the whole 1st team squad may come back to bite us sunday

Me to, think it could be a tough opening few weeks, been saying today got a feeling we might get turned over, hope im wrong

Last year I thought Radders got our pre-season spot on. This year I fear we are going to be under-cooked and could well come a cropper on Sunday.

Last year, the main bulk of the first team only played one game pre season which was against Rovers, this year it was the same only against Salford, so no difference, so are we judging our pre season on the results?

The first team had less game time last season.

What's happened is despite offloading a lot more players than we brought in including offloading a marquee player Radford hasn't got the SC to get us another forward.
That our younger forwards have had hardly any game time is down to Radford and/or the development or lack therof of such.
Aside from being forced to in the Warrington home game over Easter when did Raadford pro-actively pick more than one outside the normal 17/19 players (before the S8s when it mattered) and indeed actually give them more than a 10-15 minute stint.
Yes we had a relatively injury free season but it was encumbent on Radford to recognise that busting up his first pick forwards week in week out was never going to end well, that was a gimme from pretty much every season, Leeds being a prime example.
I identified the lack of games the youngsters had had over the previous two seasons and last season numerically and it was very low compared to the previous couple of seasons though Gentle was forced in many ways due to the sevverity of injuries in his tenure.
This lack of game time and furtherment of the youngsters is obvious to most.
Signing other teams youngsters instead of ours coming through, lack of depth in the forwards according to many on here.

IF the likes of Logan, Lancaster, Abdul and a few others had had more chances and/or cemented a place then spending money on a name and or lesser known ones from the NRL with no proven record and the salaries that comes with it wouldn't mean we were worrying about depth, it would also mean a more home grown team, more depth and more SC to spare so we end up with a better balanced team.
This is why Wigan are so successful and always in contention even when they do have serious injuries.
I think the youngsters will do okay and for sure Radford has needed to give them as much game time as possible in pre season because he knows he is going to have to rely on them far more than any other season he has been in charge.
I hope that they can do him and the fans proud, there will be no shortage of effort, just hope that we don't have a bad injury run as that will severely test he younger members of the squad and we have no idea if they can do more than just the odd 20 minutes here and there at full on SL standard and hold their own.

What a whole load of tripe most of that is...

Got our tickets from Savile Street shop first thing this morning. They had 14 left. Don't know how many there are at the KCom. Looks like its heading for a sell out. I will be rocking on that western terrace.