If yesterday is anything to go by you will be up against it. Very good team this year by the look of it.

Manu? Porky?

Is the "Ben Galea factor" a competition to see who can moan most to the local rag after a defeat?

No, it's a competition to find Craig Hall's next bitch.

So you reckon one man is going to beat our whole team?

In Cab Mans world anything is possible.

Cabworld.



It's just behind Uranus.

He did at last years Magic weekend to be fair

I love it there,its like something from Viz.

it didnt do u much good when you played us at knowsley rd though did it?

very confident on a wire win

seen the game on friday and i didnt think you were that impressive

your first try came off a hull mistake and the second one was off a penalty

wire by 10

Such a shame he could not do it in the cup quarter final eh?

it is gonna be a tough game but i think we will do it!!

Fancy rovers to pinch this one. wire struggled against a patched up Hull side missing 7 front line players with a hooker and loose forward in the halfs and 4 centres playing. Not all they're cracked up to be

if dominating the second half , nilling hull in the second half , defending your line well is struggling then we should hammer u

So we keep being told. 8 wins out of 10. Fewest points conceded in the league. Second most scored. 8 halves of rugby with no try scored against us (two whole matches where we didn't concede a try). Bounce backed from cruel Wigan defeat to beat Huddersfield away and since St Helens loss, have won 3. Managed without our key playmaker for several weeks. It's surprising us too, but we keep churning out the victories, so we must be something, even if it's not all we are cracked up to be.

Rovers may pinch this one depending on how well they played at Quins in terms of was it generally on the back of poor Harlequins play or did you play some excellent expansive rugby etc (although the fact that Kris Welham scored four tries perhaps points to the former rather than the latter).

Wire's defence wasn't that good, the majority of our possession in their red zone in the second half was turned over on account of individual handling errors by our team or the wrong option taken rather than anything special defensively and the score certainly flattered Warrington as for 70 minutes the game was most certainly in the balance and but for Sean Long's first half injury Hull may well have produced the goods when on their line with the scores at 10-10/ when Wire were a try ahead. (Wire were undoubtedly the better team over the 80 minutes though)

Rovers by 4

Our style of play this year involves grinding sides down before counter attacking with the killer punch. Hull were brave on monday but we always had the measure of them and it was obvious they would crack eventually. We actually scored 23 unanswered points there so must be doing something right! I haven't seen anything from Hull KR this year that worries me and like many people suggest I think they over achieved last year. I think we will win comfortably unless we have a serious off day!

You've already beaten his team, didn't hammer them though.

FWIW, I don't fancy us this weekend although with Rovers there is always a chance we might put together 60 decent minutes and hang on for the other 20.

On the flip side, I recall many, many Wire fans coming on here telling us they'd put 80 past us about 4 years ago...

Talking of Graig Hall he'll have run in a hatful when you played them

Shudder.

Last year's quarter final made up for it in my mind.

Anyway, I fully expect a tight game on Sunday. Doubt either team will run away with it. We will lose another match soon, I'm sure, as I don't think we're that good to go the rest of the season unbeaten. We have been really lucky with injuries (bar Briers) this year and that helps.

Another tough game this weekend.

Very good performance against Quins and nice confidence booster, plus a good win for the Wire against a patched up FC.

I'm pretty sure our pack can match theirs and there going to need to if we have any chance of winning.

If Westwood is back, that might just tip it in our favour. Ben Harrison was out on his feet on Monday and Louis played 65 minutes for the second match running. With Briers back, we can use Grix in the pack though which helps with the rotation.

Think youre underestimating the effort that the patched up FC side put in.

Agreed. Hudds apart that was the best we have played at home.

Put it this way, it will take a huge handicap to stop me backing Wire this week.