i must be mad but i am going for a fax win 24-22 i dont think we can win this unless we score quite a lot of points and defend like our lives depend on it having watched toulouse in preseason against catalans and in there first game v york they look big and fast and skilfull and will take some beating we after be more aggresive in defence and find a way to attack like we did in the first 20 minutes against bradford but for 80 minutes to have a chance

Fax will be smarting from the Bulls loss and will be really focussed and up for it and I also expect a few changes this week to the team, some forced, some by choice so those coming in will have extra incentive to do well.
Should be a few points scored in this one, Fax can do it but they will be have to be at their best.

Toulouse should win this easy on our showings so far this season.

Unfortunately I agree and if that's the case it will be another poor, slow start to a season. We should be doing much better with the players we have. Knowing Fax though we will probably get the two points from this game.

It would help if the ref/touchjudge don't give Toulouse non existent tries.

it will be interesting to see who plays fullback on sunday if grix and woodburn-hall are out injured possibly rawsthorne or saltonstall does anybody no if there as been any further action taken against salty for the trip in the bradford game also what are peoples thoughts on our halfbacks do we need a third halfback to put pressure on the current 2 and may be provide a bit more experience and organisation i dont see woodburn-hall as a halfback more a fullback

Grix has been much better than I expected this year so will be disappointing if he's out. As an alternative would go with Saltonstall, strong defensively and running ball out from the back. While I think its probably just a confidence thing with Rawsthorne as he's proved himself a good player in the past, he's been a bit underwhelming so far. Would definitely not want a player lacking in confidence playing fullback against Toulouse.

Salty given two match ban.

just seen that my self cowfax one less option for sunday than

I believe the club have another half back in mind for that reason. Cuirrent club reluctant to release him on anything other than a loan but has little chance of playing in their first team.

come on greg dont tease like that can we have a name here is one he plays for salford and used to play for hull kr and swinton and he is way down the pecking order at salford also he is out of contract at the end of this season

here goes my team for this week 1 woodburn-hall 2 rawsthorne 3 worthington 4 mcomb 5 mcgrath 6 harris 7 robinson 8 morris 9 moore 10 tangata 11 larroyer 12 hewitt 13 fairbank subs 14 springer 15 murray 16 kavanagh 17 bourouh that is not a bad team play with the right intensity for 80 minutes and we might just have a chance

I'd not change much from that but would switch Murray and Tangata as I think Tangata is more effective of the bench. Now he's available this week would have Saltonstall in for either Mcgrath or Rawsthorne.

does anybody no if salty is banned for 2 games or not he is in the 21 man squad is he there just to make it up to 21 or can he play on sunday

Apparently available this week then the ban starts the week after.

i think your right cowfax i forgot that is how it works out side of superleague

Chris Atkins? Hes quality at this level but not the name ive heard. Is a player for one of the teams you mentioned though.

Did he almost sign for us in the past?

Is he a rugby league player

yes i was talking about chris atkins he would be a good signing.you have got me thinking now if the club you mention was hull kr could it be milnes or keyes who is on loan at york

Rowan Milnes made his KR debut this week. Keyes is on his way back from injury so could be him on loan when his York deal ends.

well were to start with that scoring 34 points is good for the attack but to concede 44 is unacceptable the game was over by the 30 minute mark which is embarrassing we could not defend in that first half the tries were soft ones to concede time and again. some people may see that as a good effort against a side like toulouse but i dont think that performance is acceptable at all the players seemed incapable of defending there own try line. when a side can go threw another with that ease there is some thing seriously wrong the players need to have a good look at them selves and as i have said before simon grix is incapable of putting this right how long will this be allowed to go on for until he is replaced for me how the directors of the club respond to this we tell me all about this clubs ambition i also thought jack smith had a poor game but was not the reason we lost i could do with a sniff one after that and i dont mean a drink

No point in trying to make any sense out of a game like that, it had no resemblance to anything I've ever seen.

In the first half no idea what the game plan was supposed to be this week as it can't have been based on going 34 - 0 down conceding at over a point a minute which was resignation standard and if it hadn't have been for the second half fight back it would be hard to see how SG could have come back from it if it had continued.

Regarding the second half the game plan which they had worked on all week must have gone out of the window based on the first half performance.

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Does anyone else know what's going on.

After 30 minutes I thought we'd do well to keep it to 100 points - playing a side with bigger stronger players need to defend aggressively and keep them away from your tryline - 2 things which we failed miserably to do to start with. Once we upped the intensity of defence, with all 4 subs bringing extra aggression we looked a completely different team. I've seen lots of negative comments about our halves - once they were given some ball I thought they were excellent. Tangata looked strong on his return and I thought Ed Barber had a good game as did Amir and Saltonstall. Most pleasing probably was JWH who couldn't really be blamed for the first half debacle and had some lovely touches in attack.

I am one of Grix's biggest critics and I am basing pretty much all my assumptions on the guys ability due to his lack of experience, his at best indifferent win record and his somewhat monotone interviews. However, I think yesterday maybe showed me that we might have something with him. Not sure why Larroyer or Springer weren't playing but it's not like we haven't been pumped 30 odd points in one half before. Yes, it was disappointing but I think it showed we can compete with them, which prior to the game was what I was hoping for. Hopefully, when things return to some state of normalcy we see some benefits of the rebrand, keep being a competitive top 4 team which I think we are and keep building some foundation to push to the next step which apart from Toulouse, no one has a hope of staying in dooperleague beyond a season.