Surely we are allowed to train on their pitch to see how it is and to adapt to it? does give them another advantage

Was thinking the same, but then again its right under there noses and would we want them to see how we train? catch 22 and all that. Hopefully weve had a dabble on something similar closer to home

They are hoping it gives them an advantage as the interview with Briscoe states. Friday will answer a lot of questions, ending in a positive result for us hopefully.

I think you can train on it, just that you have to pay for the privalige, as it is a community stadium

We offered every Super League club a free go on it, more fool your lot if you didn't accept.

I actually dont think it will effect the players any other way than mentally. Everyone thats been on it has said it feels like grass, just you dont come off muddy as hell. Its going to benefit the community a damn site more than the club i reckon but the moneys welcome and if it does get a few players mentally then thats all good too

You mean as well as the team?

a lot of talk about the emotion of the night giving widnes the edge. hopefully agar has the team in the correct frame of mind. the whole i-pitch is strange one, what the hell is wrong with grass anyway?

Isn't it the same thing they have at Fartown?
If so why the big deal?

This pitch is fully artificial, the one at the goat farm is one third I think.

Running on it I think will work for us as we seem to want to spread the ball and run it wide. No mud fest will help us.
It's more a bounce of the ball thing. As long as Smith and John and the back three get chance to practise kicking and catching on the bounce I think it will be ok. We won't hav eto be running moves on it.
If I was kicking, I'd try to get the ball to ground early on with grubbers just to see what happens. When you are attacking on the ground you want confusion. Either ball is spilled or skids around for a loose hand to score.
In the air it is a timing thing and can be more 50-50.

I don't think the pitch will the biggest factor in a game against a team sponsored by Stobart at the Stobart stadium in the Stobart superleague

You should just come out and say what you think instead of beating around it.

Indeed, the expression "we are on a hiding to nothing" seems apt. I don't smell conspiracy exactly but I suspect the deck is stacked against us on this occasion.

We've just got to go out there and play them off the park. No costly mistakes, no soft penalties.

Nothing like getting the excuses in early eh boys??? What's wrong with waiting til after you've been beaten and then blaming it all on the ref as I'll be doing.

3 old sayings Dr,
1) Fail to plan, plan to fail, 2) 70% preparation 30% perspiration and 3) it always pays to be prepared!
Let they be thy watch words!!

Hopefully our players will disregard the pitch; if they convince themselves that it will give Widnes a competitive advantage, then it will - self fulfilling prophecy and all that.

Our attitude should be that we'll beat the snot out of them regardless of whether we play them on mud, plastic or bleedin' tarmac!