Personally i feel that the trip to oz was pointless! Playing against a naff souths team and having to come back a week before the season starts which could give us problems with jet lagged players etc! Also, the fans have had 1 pre season fixture which some people may not have been able to go to because of christmas/family comitments so weve not seen our team play ready for the season! All in all a wasted journey! Your opinions, guys!?

They seem to have enjoyed it and i guess we'll find out next week.

My opinion, is your opinion, is an opinion.

Yea, would have boosted some morale after the Myler incident! There was a few positives! We'll see though

You don't win the league in February.

Rabbitohs team we played would probably finish top two in SL , which is a much better test than a meaningless trip to Leigh or Widnes and play a half hearted game at a third pace , jet lag is the only concern but the extra fitness we will have gained and the extra motivation it will give the younger and older players can only be positive along with the addition of learning new training techniques and training In much better conditions than the frozen wet cold conditions all the other teams can only be seen as advantage Wire So IMHO ur talkin BOLLOX !

The only people who can answer this question are the players and coaches, they are the ones who will benefit, or not, from the experience.

From what some of them have been saying on twitter, it has been a hard preseason.

as we learned last season the start you make to superleague is more or less irrelevant (except for the fans) and i reckon that even if we turn out to start with a bit underdone in the playing department the gains we will have made in terms of team spirit will pay dividends at the back end of the season

Trip of a lifetime for the youngsters, to sample a different culture
Pearls of wisdom from Johns
Tips from other sports
Different mentalaties/training methods to the ones they're used to
If today would have been the game v Leigh, Salford etc, it would have been cancelled (frosty ground), so match run-out time will have been lost
Better quality of opposition (even if South's team was mainly youth based)
It's cost money from Moran's big whisky bottle, when he's come home from a night on the razz.

Plus points all the way for me

sounds like the off-field operation has been given a lot of ideas too

positive for me..wouldnt mind betting a few other clubs will try and copy this in the next few years...

Short term- bad idea
Long term- good idea
Timing- dreadful

Yeah Great trip i bet!!They could of timed it a littler bit better if you ask me Sydney Harbour Bridge one Minute the Humber Bridge the next Minute!!!!!!

Like already mentioned for some players Trip of a lifetime,Plus Chris Riley has seen a little Sun!!

at the risk of feeding a troll.

wonderful for me. Imagine how valued the players feel right now by a club that has done this for them.

They will the envy of all other players in SL right now and will know it.

it is a short career and memories are made of stuff like this.

I think its was a gamble that will turn out very well after the win, we can argue all day about teams strength etc etc, but at the end of the day we beat what was in front of us and in the first half ripped them to bits.

Happy days to be a wire player indeed.

Exactly, this sort of trip will help keep Warrington an attractive club to sign for. Great stuff.

Totally agree

My thoughts exactly.

when would be a good time for it then?

It would be better doing the pre-season training camp at the end of the season so as not to mess up our game in Hull.

Yup, another one of Tony's ideas that have seen us win 2 Challenge cups and a League Leaders.... the man is obviously clueless....

Certainly not when you only return 5 days before the 1st game of the season.



Like I said, short-term...performance wise, it will affect us, jetlag x2 days, going from 90f back to 30f does the body no good at all.
Long-term... we won't be peaking too soon into the season as we have the last few years.

It would have been better to arrive back earlier but this was the only time available that suited both teams so have to just deal with it. Might be slow out the blocks but it has been a unique and very beneficial experience.

One things for sure if we get off to a bad start at the KC next week its odds on most people will blame the Australia trip...

The trip wasn't about the Souths game. Or preparing for the Hull game especially. It was about prepping for this season and making sure we peak at the right time. I don't necessarily think we got got that wrong last year - we got done by a Champion team - but we'd have got so much work done in the 3 weeks.

No doubt MikeyWire is right. If we lose next week they'll be much gnashing of teethe RE the trip and the return time. Bothered. The season won't end if we lose to Hull just as it didn't when we got tore a new one by the Giants...

I've also no doubt the Hull fans, if they win, will be throwing the arrogant tag at us.