When you look at the line-ups and players available in tonight's Saints v Cats game I realise how far we have fallen behind them in the last few years.
Hope I'm proved wide of the mark but they look miles stronger than us.

All teed up for a big build up and massive humiliation in front of a decent home crowd next week.

Yep we certainly seem to have, both have quick line speed in attack and defence and physical with it.

Always seems to happen when they have a reduced ticket promotion.

Saints and Catalans yes but we should have enough quality to be able to compete with any other top SL team. Whether we will of course is extremely doubtful.

Agreed, unless we find a formula to week in week out intensity in attack and defence, we’ll see the same old same old of the last few seasons

What about this week?

We'll mercifully be humiliated away from home.

And not on live TV.

Its the dream scenario.

Catalan look like they’ll be a couple of front rowers short for a few games.

We can empathise with them !!

Round one and Saints look nailed on for the title. They have an awesome squad.

Completely agree. It is not difficult to predict what every Fc fan was thinking about next weeks game if they were watching last nights Sky opener. Talk about pressurising rugby. No slow start and building into the season for the Saints. Very impressive ....... and scary.

Evans and Napa will be an interesting match up. I'll be lumping money on a few cards to be shown when we play them.

Evans and Napa know enough about each other to exploit any weakness, they were together at the Roosters as young players and neither took a backward step, so they should be an interesting match up. Saints are relentless from minute 1 to 80 and they must have that culture, as a club, running through them because even the inexperienced players they introduce buy into that from game one. That intensity must be the same at training, it isn't something you can just turn on, I'd imagine. It would be interesting to see what it would be like should they suffer an injury crisis though, as beyond the first 17, like us, they don't have a lot of SL tested depth.

Whilst St's have a very good squad what impresses me the most about them is that they play with such intensity from 0 mins to 80mins. Their line speed particularly in defence was outstanding and they never gave Catalan any time or space after the first 20-25mins. When we play with that level of intensity we also look a much different team the problem is it only lasts for about 10-15 minutes in a game. I am hoping our line speed is one of the area's that BH has worked on and drilled in to the players especially when defending and we close down the 10M quickly as as the oppostion ptb instead of standing still allowing teams to make easy metres.

All eyes on the Grand Finalists tonight.

However the Bookies have Wigan as favourites and are giving Rovers a 4 point start.

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Think Adam will realise just how far away we are from being a top side when we play Saints next week especially if Wakefield do a number on us

Conversion attempts have been atrocious.
Let's hope they don't factor in the final result.

When Wigan get French in their team aswell they will have an awful lot of pace.

Certainly don’t look like GF favourites like some seem to try to have us believe.

Nor Super League’s Entertainers.

Surprised they chose not to play Coote tonight.

Sneyd booting Salford to victory away at Cas.