All is doom and gloom on both the Wigan and Redvee forums this weekend after their respective losses to HKR and Wires.
Majority view is that they are teams in decline, one dimensional, poorly coached and suffering from poor recruitment. Sound familiar?
By contrast, their perception of us (aside from the usual moans about alleged salary cap breaches) is of a team on the up, ambitious, good planning for next season and excellent incoming coach.
It’s interesting how much difference a single week can make - no doubt things will turn around again if Wigan beat us in the forthcoming game, and if Saints win the cup, but if they don’t then well….
Could it be our year after all?

Whether or not you consider this fixture to be important - this is what I can't understand. The clubs knew that this fixture was in place and that two teams of 17, plus a couple of reserves each, would need to be drawn from the 12 SL clubs. That's an average of 3.16 first choice players per club, more like 3.5 when you consider that Leigh are unlikely to be asked to release anyone.

It didn't take the foresight of Cassandra to know that clubs were going to be without their best players for this weekend. Why on earth did they agree to hold a round of SL fixtures?

I love this idea that England need more games against home nations/France/All Stars because a "hit out" will somehow improve them and stop them falling short in semis/finals against superior teams.

Does the same logic work for Warrington?
Wire have about 30 "hit outs" a season before they play playoffs/finals against Wigan, Leeds or Saints and still lose.

I wonder if Wire played an extra fixture mid season against an international team like France if it might help prepare them for the cauldron of the big end of season games.

Sally! Sally!! Sally!!! A little bit beneath you IMO can't see you catching anything with this bait

Maybe they were in too much of a rush to take the Sky shilling, and read the detail sometime afterwards.

Hmmmm far be it for me to comment[size=50 but I think someone’s grades may be revised[/size