Brad Day could be in trouble as he connected with the head with his shoulder and was lucky to stay on as replays clearly showed this. There was no video ref but the review panel will pick this up. However if banned do they start bans week after. Lino's did but not sure if that was to do with us appealing

Probably be Yusuf Aydin, he played for Fev in their game against Batley

We had a pretty bad record against Cas in the end, don’t want one against Fev as well.

Anybody know how the review panel process works in terms of when bans start as some say straight away and some say week after

Wonder how the ticket sales are going for this one? I expect a big following from our fans for this one. With reduced terrace capacity the stands capacity could be challenged

Got my ticket

I think it has rained at some point every day since we last played there. Forecast also suggests the trend will continue this week. I suspect the pitch may have improved very little and we may be in for another war of attrition in the mud. At least this time the players will be fully aware what is expected and hopefully we also adapt our tactics.

Quote ="Prince Buster"I think it has rained at some point every day since we last played there. Forecast also suggests the trend will continue this week. I suspect the pitch may have improved very little and we may be in for another war of attrition in the mud. At least this time the players will be fully aware what is expected and hopefully we also adapt our tactics.'" It's a grass pitch. If it rains heavily in the lead-up to the game it will be very muddy, if not it won't. That's been the case with rugby league for over 100 years. Here's the pitch yesterday for the women's game. As you can see, there's nothing wrong with it, because it didn't rain incessantly beforehand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rFuwxz_fQc

Quote ="Prince Buster"I think it has rained at some point every day since we last played there. Forecast also suggests the trend will continue this week. I suspect the pitch may have improved very little and we may be in for another war of attrition in the mud. At least this time the players will be fully aware what is expected and hopefully we also adapt our tactics.'" It's a grass pitch. If it rains heavily in the lead-up to the game it will be very muddy, if not it won't. That's been the case with rugby league for over 100 years. Here's the pitch yesterday for the women's game. As you can see, there's nothing wrong with it, because it didn't rain incessantly beforehand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rFuwxz_fQc

Apart from today light rain if any at all. Quite breezy which should help.

It has, pretty much, but I dont think it has been as bad as the other week. The temperature has also climbed a bit, since, too.

Whilst I think it will cut up, dont think it will be as bad.

On the Women's cup game video, posted by Phantom, the pitch looks in reasonable nick to me.

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Two reasonably dry and breezy days Saturday and Sunday near to POR so it did look promising yesterday but peeing it down all morning today. The forecast is worsening rain every day right up to, and including, Fridays kick off time.
Another war of attrition coming up.

If conditions are not the best then I hope Powell picks a more forward oriented bench, nothing against Noah Booth but having him in the bench in those conditions was a waste of a spot.

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... view-panel MacKenzie Yei free to play against us, tribunal not until 02/04 Gladwin Springer cleared to play after receiving a fine Brad Day 1 match ban

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... view-panel MacKenzie Yei free to play against us, tribunal not until 02/04 Gladwin Springer cleared to play after receiving a fine Brad Day 1 match ban

TBF I didn’t he had a choice there was no one else at that point.

One match ban kicks in next week so free to play on Friday, same scenario as Lino

Weather isn't the issue.
It's about how we play.

We need powerful runs to get off our line and more aggressive in defense to peg them back.

Exactly and IF we do that and cut out stupid penalties we will win.

Hope we get a good ref again.

Fev went well v Leigh in the cup and were excellent for 50/60 mins.
They have some big forwards and playing in the mud on their pitch, will be a tough ask.

No surprises this time, we know what to expect.

They will kick long and try to peg us down the bottom of the slope and we need to do the same but, better.

Yei might not play anyway, he looked visibly unfit with his knee heavily strapped at Leigh (injury occurred about 8 months ago) and presumably only played at Leigh because we had nobody else fit.

Lacans is almost certainly out as it looked a bad ankle injury. Massey and Bussey are very unlikely to be back this week, Kamano I'm not sure about, there's a chance that Tanner might be risked but he's only played 20 minutes this year so we might need a couple of DR additions to field 17.

That new half back looked pretty good though so Lacans probably won’t be missed.

A lot will depend on the pitch. Could be a similar game if it keeps banging it down all week and pre game. Hopefully it doesn’t and we can see some free flowing rugby from both teams.

Turner did have a couple of good moments and he's going to be interesting to watch but he's been signed as Ben Reynolds' replacement, not Lacans'. It means Harry Bowes will have to keep playing half back, unless we switch Aekins, and neither of those is ideal.Lacans has been our goal kicker too since Reynolds left and I'm pretty sure Turner isn't a goal kicker.

As for the pitch, I hope it doesn't rain too much too, we played some nice stuff at times at Leigh and yes it would be nice to see some free-flowing rugby.

Do we have any idea how many we have sold for Friday?