Ainscough was caught out of position a few times I noticed, against a class oposition he may be punished, wingers should be Ainscough and poss Kear? If not Ainy and Platt wings.

I wouldn't be too down on your chances.....Yes, we will be a pretty strong favourite with the bookies, but we are nowhere near top form at the moment.

If you get in our faces early on, then you have a good chance.....I wouldn't back against Wire, but similarly, I wouldn't risk too much cash on a Wire win either.

See Saints get their usualy easy path to the quarters.

Onto our draw, i'm generally excited for this. I think we can have Warrington. Their not playing fluently and they have showed, if we get in their faces, we will rattle them. Get Elima in Westwoods face (What a battle that will be)

We finally have some strike power that Warrington should fear. Bateman, Manuokafoa, Elima, Whitehead, Lulia. I'm massively excited for this and genuinely believe we can win this one.

COYB!

We are on the up, and our current team spirit and commitment is second to none. Win, lose or draw the Wire lads already know that they are going to be hurting fro a few days after that one, and they won't be relishing us getting stuck into them.

Our appalling luck with Cup draws stopped riling me long ago, but it's not so much that we have been drawn away (we almost always are in the rounds) or against one of the top clubs, it's how many times the other top clubs consistently get a bye. Compared to us.

Anyway, while perhaps there is something to be said for playing nothing but easybeats just to spawn your way to Wembley, the truth is, a stirring Cup journey, battling through adversity, would be infinitely better for us. And we have nothing to lose. Wire will be firm favourites, and there's no pressure on us. Favourites they may be, but if we won it would hardly count as an upset, and they know it.

Saturday afternoon on BBC.

Just read all 4 threads on the fifth round and we've drawn Warrington in each one. What's the odds on that happening?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. The one kick off time that weekend that I can't effing well go to. Unbelievable.

Let's make it a full sweep of sh11te luck and get Alibert reffing as well.

Where have you seen that? What time kick off?

Walker
Kear
Gale
Scruton
Sibbit
Sammut
Crookes
Pryce
Joseph

I think.
Plus the inevitable long term injury we will pick up in the next two weeks.

Not heard anyone say this yet, so stop stirring things up. A very tricky tie for us. Bulls seem to be fighting adversity so are very dangerous. Plus for many games this season we have played very poorly. The opposition doesn't have to do anything, just wait for us to cough something up.

So no, we are definately not through to the next round.

Hah, I posted mine about 30 seconds before everyone else too and it still got locked! Pfft.

Although it's not an ideal draw, Heath L'Estrange will be back from suspension by then, and hopefully Luke Gale will be back too. As long as we turn up and give it a go, can't ask for much more.

If Gale, Kearney and Heath are back then we will only realistically be missing a winger. Pryce will probably be back but if Crookes or Kear were fit I don't think he'd make the 17.
Scruton will obviously still be out but I'd argue that he wouldn't make the team anyway, the 4 props of Koppy, Nas, Bryn and Burgess suit me down to the ground.

Hmm true true, we will deffo miss Sammut though. And I hope that we play Addy off the bench at least.

So, not so bad after all, then, is the consensus

Long as we do the basics eg. tackling, completing sets, decent kicking game and we dont do anything too fancy and mess it up we should be in with a decent shout.

Will be a tough game I'm sure. We're making errors by the bucket load and our completion stats are probably the worst in the comp. We will be without Mick Monas, Myler, Ratchford, Solomona, Rhys Evans and possibly Atkins and Higham.

Has a kick off time for this been confirmed anywhere yet?

According to Ross Heppenstall on twitter the tv games should be announced in the next hour so should then hear something soon. Would be very surprised if not on TV.

Now confirmed as the BBC game. 2.40pm ko.

Fev v Wigan is the Friday night Sky game.

So... Who's going?

Sh!thouse.


Any other time than f***ing Sat afternoon.
I'm not going now.

I would much rather have seen Leigh v Fax on the friday no offense to fev but i cant see how they can keep wigan from scoring 40plus against them hope i am wrong though, could be same for us v wire haha

Detention?

Don't be ridiculous.


That's in the morning.