Im going and looking forward to it..especially since i`ll be pitchside, in fact couldnt get much closer to the action without actually being on the pitch.

Can't be bothered making the journey from Manchester this week after sunday's efforts.

Be at a pub ready to down my sorrows.

I'll be there. Plus I took three friends to the Saints game who don't really have a team, but are involved in the amateur game, and they are coming with me again on Friday!!

I don't know if they just enjoyed the drinking, or in a sadistic way, seeing me suffer, but either way it's three more people through the gates.

God knows we need it.

I'm going.

I'm excited yet worried at the same time.

I'll be there, just hope the p*ssed up prats who were calling for mcnamara's head all throughout sundays game don't show up. We really do have some vegetables supporting our team.

I'll be there although with a few others, I'm hoping for an improvement..........a big improvement

I'm going with my brother.

Bought my Dad a season ticket for his 60th and due to unforseen circumstances he couldn't make the game on Sunday and probably can't make it on Fri.

Seems a shame to let those games go to waste so one of us is using the card and we're sharing the cost of paying the other person in.

We'd have probably gone anyway though and no matter how bad it gets will probably go for the rest of the season.

Hoping there'll be a MASSIVE improvement! The body language of the team said it all last week, after Saints got their first try the heads went down and they just looked like they didn't want to be there.

After complete misery on Sunday which then turned to anger yesterday. I'm actually starting to get excited now in a funny kind of way. So if we win I can say I was there when we witnessed the great fight back (a bit like last years Leeds home match or the Saints away (I didn't go to the Saints match but I've told people that I did)). If we don't win then I'm determined not to let it spoil my weekend.

I agree mate. It's up to them now though.

As happened so often last year. But I think, as last year, it was more the manner of the first try. As last year, we started stronglyt (after the obligatory screw-up early doors) and applied loads of pressure. But never turned that into points. Then as soon as the opposition get the ball its down the park and in for a try. Heartbreaking. As last year. As at Hudds.

I suspect that its a huge confidence thing...and once you get the same circumstances repeating yet again, maybe the unbidden thoughts are "oh God not again" and confidence is shot? After all, if that was the thought going through most of OUR heads when Stains scored, would it be any surprise if it was going through theirs?

I felt we blew last season in the players' heads not in their bodies. Surely, surely that's where remedy has to lie?

I think we'll smash Cas anyway.

Didn't you think we'd smash Hudds'?


I hope we do, but I think it will be a tight game.

Yeah we'll smash em.

I get dizzy trying to keep up with your frequent mood and confidence shifts!



I so hope you are right...but now we come to the strangest thing: I'm asking YOU to give ME some confidence to believe in that! That I should be saying this is surely proof the world has gone completely mad...

Adey, you can't pursuade somebody to be confident if they have no will to be so.
Mystic Edward is like an old fogie after a fall who just stays in feeling sorry and gives up all hope.

You misunderstand...I was referring to giving yours truly some confidence! Nothing to do with that obsessed depressive.

I was wondering why you felt confident, since I must admit at the moment I am struggling to! Any contributions gratefully received!

Sure, No Problem. I always try to be confident leading up to a new game regardless of what happened at the weekend. The way I see things are if you don't think you're going to win then you won't.

I also think Cas are shat.

Well I guess that is a pretty objective explanation!

Right on the money, mate. 100% that.

An attitude that paid dividends on certain away trips last year, not to mention with the bookies.




This will help

Then this will look very funny on Friday when you're beaten by a team!

His (or her) posts look pretty funny normally to be fair.

None more so then his / her name!!!!

Even as a non season ticket holder I will still be there on Friday, however it is more out of loyalty than any actual expectation that we will put in a good performance.

Blady Blady Blah.

Which one? He has so many!