so we got off to a loss yesterday, which was not unexpected as salford away was probably the toughtest fixture from the 7.

the manner of defeat is worrying though.

fev up next who got hammered v leeds but showed plenty of spirit

i hope the players are up for this game from the start this time!

how many fans will fev bring? 500?

hopefully mcgillvary, symonds and wardle are back just to freshen up the team!

giants desperate for a win now

we need to be pretty ruthless in this game not just to get a win but to score plenty of points we need to make up. Not sure we have that in us though! Looks like it will be Connor at FB, Brierley and Ellis in the halves.

yes looks like brough will be banned but we should still be too strong for fev, but once again we are chopping and changing our pivots, just no continuity all season here.

Should be a comfortable win for you. TBH, we've no designs on promotion and should really just be going through the motions against the SL teams.

For us it's all about maximising next years revenue. We'll be targeting batley and London and be trying to finish 6th for the massive jump in funding.

Reckon we'll fetch about a thousand and we'll be in party mood even if we're losing 80-0

Probably bring about 1000. I think it will be closer than the Leeds game. Fully expect Brierly to torment us as usual.

We'll be OK if you play it down middle all game, it's out wide where we struggle

One match in and given up already Homer?..

Nevermind, at least the bills will be paid.

Exactly

This year we've sneaked in at the last moment, after a very up and down season. Realistically we don't have the quality or squad depth to deal with the SL teams, or Leigh. So why bother deluding ourselves that we can get to the MPG?

£450k stabilises the club (which is still reeling from the Feisal Flip Flop era). Any increase on £450k means more squad strengthening for next year.

For us it's all about the money and we make no apology for it.

Good luck with your campaign. We need a championship club to get promoted this year otherwise the licensingistas will be out in force to call the eights a failure. I really like this system and don't want them to have an excuse to raise the drawbridge again.

the return of john sharp!

mr 'its all about the performance not result'

confirmed brough 2 match ban

ellis and brierley you would expect to partner up now in the halves

So let's hope we go
Connor
Jerry if fit
Leroy
Wardle if fit
Murphy
Briely
Ellis
Taai
Wood
Symonds if fit
Rapira
Eorl
Hinchy

Seb
Cruise
Huby
Mason

Expected to win well so on a hiding to nothing in this one really.Anything less than a comprehensive victory will bring more doubts to the surface.A loss I don't dare think about it.

yep, no win situation for the giants