The pre season fixtures are out.

All away games



Saints 27 / 12
Wakefield 17 / 01
Leigh 24 / 01
Warrington 27 / 01

God, we'll be knackered by the time the season starts!

A proper pre season programme that. That amount of games will come in very handy because I expect the side will be shuffled around quite abit meaning all players including the youngsters will get plenty of minutes under their belts.

I'll defo be going to the 3 local ones and possibly the Wakey one aswell.

All away again, great.

Saints and Lobbys will go to, then maybe one of the others. See what the cash flow is at the time.

I hope it's a little warmer in Leigh this time. Last seasons preseason friendly was the coldest I've been for a long time.

excellent, definatly going to saints and wire, but I'll have to see what my exam timetable is like for the others.

We need as many pre season games as possible this year. Its going to take a good few games for Maguires tactics, techniques and training plans to bed in.

I just hope we start throwing the ball round in these fixtures and try a range of different attacking moves. It will make a nice change to the dross 4 drives and a kick style of rugby Nobby had us playing.

I think it was mentioned by Ian Millward in the coverage of the Eng v Aus game. There was a move put on by the Ausies with 2/3 players around the ruck with some slick short passing that resulted in a break. Millward mentioned that it was a Melbourne Storm move. Hopefully we can replicate some of that this season.

Not sure if it was the little move that resulted in Inglis's non try but it was a beauty(bar the grounding which watching again is a disgusting decision). The inside ball from Thurston to Hayne was superb and shows that you'll cause any defence problems if you have runners.

Even England caused the Aussies no end of problems when we had the energy and the runners were charging through.

Our support play has to improve hugely. If it does we'll have a good side next year.

Look forward to them immensely, need those games to bed us in as hopefully now have a manager that see's ALL upcoming league games as important so we need to start well.. will be giving halliwell jones game a miss, just dont enjoy being there for many reasons, especially on a cold day... defo be at the rest.

Will be at them all.
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You say that like your suprised. When was the last time that we had a home friendly that wasnt at Orrell or because it was a players testimonial. I seriously cant remember. Personally i dont think there is any point in having a friendly at the JJB/DW though to open a 4/5 empty stadium

I would over liked to have seen the Saints game @ home, 1st pre season game under the new regieme + it being against Saints. I think if priced right it could be near a full house.

I don't agree with playing friendlies against super league teams we should be putting money in the kitties of teams like swinton and oldham, i'm sure they would appreciate it more , look what happened at wire last seaon.

I dont know about that mate to be honest. I supose it would depend on what kind of teams they would both put out. I still very much doubt we would though. I am going to the Saints friendly but i dont think ill bother with any of the others this year to be honest. Leigh and Wire friendlys were just boring last year but to be fair made me really look forward to our first competative match against Wakey.... DOH!!!!

Yeah, right. Like £1 a ticket?

P.S. Keeping it away from Robin Park means keeping money away from DW.

Four pre season friendlies does seem like a lot but I suppose MM will use every player we have from the first team right through to even some of the under 18's if needs be.

No doubt he'll want to see every player in action with the team getting more experienced players in it as the games go by.

Saints are charging £15 for the christmas derby. Or £12 if you buy in advance.

McGuire states that they are playing so many games so he can "try out a few combinations and look at the whole squad so that we are fully prepared come the first weekend of the competition.”.

Warrington last Christmas was the coldest I've been to in years.


Will get on the phone to my dad then

Behave, the sun was out I recall!



Leigh was bitter cold and an easy game to boot.

Didn't it snow at one point in the game ?

It did and it blew into the stand we sat in.

They have sunshine 24 hours a day in the Arctic at certain times of the year... and I didn't go to Leigh

How many pre-season games did we play last year? I seem to recall three.

Would imagine one of the Leigh or Wire games we will field our academy side as surely we won't be playing our third game in a week come the first game of the season.

It won't be a third game in a week? The season starts February 5th and not the last weekend in January.

Only Leeds and Harlequins (and their opponents) play on 29-31 January.