Wigan 28 Crusaders 10

14,000'ish

Awch!!!

I bloody hope not. We need to hit the ground running this week and build some momentum.

The game against KR next week will be tough followed by wire away. We need to really focus on one game at a time and go all out to win each one.

I'm only messing. We SHOULD win by 20-30 and hopefully the new sense of optimism that people have will mean a big crowd.

Wigan 34
Crusaders 10
ATT 13244
MOM Lockers

Wigan 36 Crusaders 8.
Crowd 14300 with the Crusaders bringing quite a few.
Interesting to see of the north stand is open, after their full house on Friday then perhaps it should be.
MOM, Lockers.

Think you will be a bit dissappointed mate

North stand open on friday, now that has suprised me, good following from Wrexham then?

I doubt the North will open

crowd 14000 wigan 32 crusaders 6 it would be great to see 300 welsh fans as wrexham is only 45 miles from wigan and prove rl as taken off in north wales

Does anyone really think there'll be fans coming from Wrexham? It'll be a Catalans sized following at very best.

Well i know 2. Its a start...........

It's probably the grand total

after our normal slow starts im thinking "banana skin"

remember wakey last year anyone??
optimism soon faded that day.

hope im wrong , but im going for a close one either way.

crowd..12,000 ish

and if we do lose remember folks..........YOU WIN NOTHING IN FEBRUARY ( a former coach told me that)

If they do they have clearly got all over excited with the approach of the new season. 50 at the very most from the Crusader and thats being generous.

As far as the game goes, i have a feeling it will be an awful opening to the season, i wish it was the openin game next week against HKR.

You can't beat the scientific approach.

Can't see many more than a handful to be honest.

I'm with two others travelling up on the train.

The thing you have to ask is whether there are many willing to travel from Wrexham after only 80 minutes of live RL. I don't think there will be to be fair.

I'd love to be proved wrong but can't see there being many. Bought our tickets earlier and the North Stand isn't open.

Did he ever get Humpty Dumpty back on that wall ?

And those 2 who are supposed to be Wigan fans now appear to have suddenly defected and want to go to every Crusaders match home and away...

He tried, but then they moved the wall about 120 miles!

Well done, good luck and have a safe journey.

Yes but then he fell off again only this time he broke. Not a problem though cos he just used him to make an omelette instead.

looking forward to the game
come on wigan

32.12 be a close one til the last half hour then can see our fitness coming into it would love a good win to start off 2010 and get lots of confidence into the team

Can't wait for Friday! Think it could go one of two ways, either an easy victory by around 40 points, or a close one where we win by around 12 in the last 20 minutes. Either way it'll be great to see a competitive game of rugby!
P.s. First post, hi everyone

Welcome mate.