Last year at about a similar period i posted how massive the start to the year was in the context of the season.

Many on here riddiculed and talked about "the business end of the year" etc etc.

In the end it was our poor start to the season yet again that played a huge part in us eventually finishing up with no silver ware yet again.

So here goes, the first 2 months of the 2010 season are huge for us.

Fri 05 Feb Crusaders RL Home 20:00 - -
Fri 12 Feb Hull Kingston Rovers Home 20:00 - -
Sat 20 Feb Warrington Wolves Away 18:00 - -
Fri 26 Feb Catalans Dragons Home 20:00 - -
Fri 05 Mar Bradford Bulls Away 20:00 - -
Fri 12 Mar Hull FC Home 20:00 - -
Sun 21 Mar Castleford Tigers Away 15:30 - -
Fri 26 Mar Leeds Rhinos Home 20:00 - -


We have a major difference this season than previous years with 5 of our first 8 games being held at home, something we havent experienced for a while. So how many can we expect to win out of the first 2 months of the season and how will this have a bearing on the year ahead. Thoughts.

Win 4. Lose 4.

We need to win at least 6 to be a serious challenge

I just think it will be more competative this season though. You have 4-5 tricky fixtures there.

I would settle for 4 wins.... Hopeing for better later as the new regimes changes slowly take effect. let us never forget.... that this is........ THE YEAR OF THE WOLF!!!!!....... Again...

We should concentrate as much as possible on winning are home games and hope to pick up at least one win on are travels.

Five or six wins from are first eight would be a good start.

IMO we need to win at least 5 of our first 8 games if we are going to be in the mix at the end of the year.

I can actually see us winning all 8.

How about we just take one game at a time

5 from 8 would be a good start, 6 from 8 would be a great start.

Do this every year, and our team usually prove me wrong!! Anyway here goes.........

Fri 05 Feb Crusaders RL Home 20:00 - -=#0000FF Win
Fri 12 Feb Hull Kingston Rovers Home 20:00 - - =#0000FFWin
Sat 20 Feb Warrington Wolves Away 18:00 - - =#0000FFLose
Fri 26 Feb Catalans Dragons Home 20:00 - - =#0000FFClose Win
Fri 05 Mar Bradford Bulls Away 20:00 - - =#0000FFLose
Fri 12 Mar Hull FC Home 20:00 - -=#0000FF Win
Sun 21 Mar Castleford Tigers Away 15:30 - -=#0000FF Win
Fri 26 Mar Leeds Rhinos Home 20:00 - - =#0000FF1st real litmus test - Close Loss.

My thoughts exactly

Predictions are pointless. Take every game as it comes. My only target if I was part of the set up would be to try and make our home venue a fortress. Do that and the away form will be decent enough to look after itself.

Win the first seven, lose to Leeds.

5 from 8 I would be happy with as long as the losses were not poor. 6 from 8 and we should be chuffed to bits, some really hard games in there.

4 from 8 and I think we have reason to be disapointed really.

Losses are most likely to come against Warrington, Leeds, Bradford.

If we were to lose anymore than 3 I would hope it would be because the other team has played better, not through poor fitness or errors etc.

My actual opinion is that we can win 6, we won 6 of these games last year so hopefully we can do the same again or maybe even better if we can win at the HJ. I am glad we have some real tests at the start of the season, Hull KR and Warrington should be great games.

However it is tricky as we do not know how other teams will perform, there is always 2-3 teams who over achieve at the start of the season, we couold be one of them or the teams we play could be, who knows.

What we do know is that the last 3 seasons, games early on have let us down, expecially last year so we must give ourselves the best start possible.

Can't wait for the new season!

Just hope we don't do a Hull FC, get off to a flyer then have a mare.

we had similar optimism last year when we looked at the fixtures........we all thought we would win first 3, and we lost em all.

and from a similar looking set of fixtures in terms of difficulty, what we thought might be 8 wins from 10, tunes into 3 w 7 L

lets wait and see and go one game at once.

and im still not over the embarrassment of last seasons opener.

Hand on heart i can see us winning 6 from 8 anthing else and we wont win nothingn again harsh but true reflection

Pulverise Crusaders at home, that's all I'm thinking about.
Treat each match like a Challenge Cup Final.

Once that's done move on.

Ged Byrne's Shammy wroteicon_biggrin.gifo this every year, and our team usually prove me wrong!! Anyway here goes.........

Could win 6 draw 1 loose 1 2010 is the year that we beat Warrington on there own miden.
Fri 05 Feb Crusaders RL Home 20:00 - - Win
Fri 12 Feb Hull Kingston Rovers Home 20:00 - - Win
Sat 20 Feb Warrington Wolves Away 18:00 - - Win
Fri 26 Feb Catalans Dragons Home 20:00 - - Draw
Fri 05 Mar Bradford Bulls Away 20:00 - - Lose
Fri 12 Mar Hull FC Home 20:00 - - Win
Sun 21 Mar Castleford Tigers Away 15:30 - - Win
Fri 26 Mar Leeds Rhinos Home 20:00 - - 1st real litmus test - Win.

The players should do that! But we are fans, is it unreasonable to want to win a certain number of games hoping we can be near the top of the table after 8 games.

As fans we should be wanting to win 100% of games all season, I certainly do, which would put us top of the league. Never yet have I gone into a ground wanting to lose, but picking the correct accumulation of winning results is entertaining but there's nowt in it! Following Wigan under the last crew these last few years has meant to expect the unexpected, i.e. Lose to the Celtic's but beat the Leeds's. However under Maguire no one has seen the team take to the field, or which players he prefers (remember everyone gets a chance). How can we predict on that?

I think you have missed the point, it is merely a thread to predict where we think we should pick up points. Everything you say goes deeper than that and is discussed on other threads.

Ok then:

Fri 05 Feb Crusaders RL Home 20:00 - - Win
Fri 12 Feb Hull Kingston Rovers Home 20:00 - - Win
Sat 20 Feb Warrington Wolves Away 18:00 - - Win
Fri 26 Feb Catalans Dragons Home 20:00 - - Win
Fri 05 Mar Bradford Bulls Away 20:00 - - Win
Fri 12 Mar Hull FC Home 20:00 - - Win
Sun 21 Mar Castleford Tigers Away 15:30 - - Win
Fri 26 Mar Leeds Rhinos Home 20:00 - - Win

I am sure McGuire and Wane are not a coaching partnership that will ever think we can win 6 of 9 or that we'll beat them at home but not away etc.

We CAN win every game and if the coaches can get the players to really believe that, then we can win every game then that self-belief will start to show on the pitch.