Not seen much in the way of people counting their chickens over Friday night. Pretty much all of our fans are feeling wary of Featherstone as the opposition due to us not being a country mile ahead of them.

Only one, to be fair, but nevertheless a Halifax fan.



I don't see any of that at all from Widnes fans. Only that they think they can win, but using words like [i'hopefully'[/i and saying it will be [i'tough'[/i.

Positive stuff, but not arrogant.

We think, if we beat Fev on Friday, going on form and home advantage, we are likely to be playing Fax in the Semi-Final. You might not like that, but I think most fans of every Championship club would probably take the same view. You lost the tag of favourites a couple of months ago.

It seems to me that other fans of Championship clubs expect us to be arrogant, so they see it no matter what we actually say, hence we get numpties like '[irovers'[/i coming on here talking sh/te.

Going on 'form' Barrow lost to Halifax in all 3 games this year, lost their last two league games and have got rid of their coach (again). I think there's two hard to predict games this week...

Halifax have had a slump since then.

Going on current form and home advantage, I'd definitely say that Barrow would be most peoples favourite to win that game. That doesn't mean that Halifax aren't capable of beating Barrow. They've already, as you say, proved otherwise.

I personally think Halifax will win on Thursday up at Barrow, by quite a few.

Tough trip to Barra for us if thats the case and a ground in which we rarely win at.

I'd like that to happen, because I'd love to face Halifax in the final. However, as VM has said, it would mean a hard trip to Barrow for us at a ground we haven't won at yet.

I think Barrow will beat them anyway.

But haven't we both times faced Barrow at their place when we have been understrength.. This time we would hopefully be going up there close to full strength.

If............ if we beat Fev

Would we?

Hopefully Morrison and Fletcher would both be back fully fit by then and Varks could have shaken off his niggle. I've heard Duffy is close to being fit which would leave Toa and Deano out. But not bad considering.

So it's unlikely we'll have a fully fit team then, IET?

To be fair, just having Morrison and Duffy back would give us a chance. But I just cannot see us winning up there without the other three as well.

Ah well, Fev first and, if we win that one, we'll see.

If Toa and Gaskell dont make it back i would move Varkulis to centre with Dodd on the wing and give Yates a full game at FB.

hardman haughy and harris all at disciplinary tomorrow. All facing bans. Could be a very under strength rovers team on friday.