So it's Catalans. Unfortunate thing is it could be the lowest crowd in play off history. On a positive we have a great home record against them and I fancy our chances.

i would hope we can get over 4,000. we have got one last chance against a team we usually beat convincly at home.i think we got less than that v catalan a few years back?

gonna be a tough game but one we have to win to get some pride back and get within 80 minutes of old trafford!

Cats it is, but it won't be easy. Going by our season I'd say we've got our work cut out to extend our season by one game. I was even thinking today 'what if we went on to win the thing?' Actually turned it around and won, after this week I'd feel like we robbed it. I genuinely don't think we are anywhere near good enough to get past the semis this year.

didn't matter who it was, it will be a tough game and we need to up it another level as we found out on Thursday. We do have a great home record against em but remember 2009 ...they ended our hopes at exactly the same stage, ironically after we had finished 3rd in the league(they were 8th).

Whoever we played it would require a huge effort and improvement, let's hope we have it !!

Does anyone know what night it will be?

Friday night.

Very interesting game this - at least for us. Sky have all but written us off (understandably) and with us playing on Friday as well the attention will be off us initially. Comments from Sky such as the play offs only got started for game 3 and 4 (Eliminators), and us having conceded a woeful 50+ points we will not be expected to do much given that Catalan have had a much tougher game against a good play-off team.

But - we are at home, we [uwill[/u be better, and whether Broughy plays or not we will surely want to show that we [uare[/u a good team and put in a much improved performance. Will be tough as Cats will fancy their chances and will have nothing to lose in this winner takes all game. Perhaps Leeds would have been an easier option for us?



Will only be us diehards there so up to us to cheer the guys on and get that step closer to Old Trafford.

The dream is still alive - no way will Saints pick us in clubcall so win this and we get the chance to go back and correct that awful display at Wigan. Win that too and we will truly have earnt our GF place.

unless cas pull of a win which i cant see , they look spent and have gone as far as they can go. full credit too them for a wonderful season
Saints will pick the winner of this tie. No way will they want to face wigan/wire until the final should they get there.

stick my neck on the line with brough back (no brough no chance ) i think we'll get to old trafford facing wigan.

Of course saints will pick us defo if Cas lose- or are you expecting them to pick wire? They can't pick Wigan anyhow

we have a great record versus catalans at home... but dont forget the 2009 play off defeat to them!! we were finished after the challenge cup final though i remember.

crowd is going to be a shocker, maybe 3k.. they have closed the lower tier behind the posts.

catalans are in a rich vein of form right now so its not going to be easy, will the fans give them a nice cosy welcome or are we going to turn the volume up and get behind the lads from the get go, hope its the latter!

expect a big response after last week.

Team -

Murphy
mcgillvary
cudjoe
wardle
broughton

brough
robinson
kaufusi
lunt
crabtree
ferres
lawrence
patrick

kopczak
taai
bailey
faiumu


thats the team i think anderson will prob go for.

although wouldnt mind to see mullally in for patrick and sticking taai in the second row.
connor too could be given a shot instead of robbo to partner brough but bit late in the day to be making drastic changes like that in such a big game.
faiumu been great off the bench lately with his offloads..sidesteps..energy

Let's do this! Can't wait for Friday. Has broughy been given a fitness deadline? You reckon he will make it?

regards the crowd, if we get over 4,000 then that will 2/3rds of our regular home support.


yet wigan, 8k, leeds 7k posted almost half of their regular home support.. i would guess at 2000 widnes fans at wire,so that leaves just over 5k wire fans,...now guess which club will get slated for it's poor crowd

yep good point, some poor attendances for the playoffs.. fans not bothered? to much to pay? rather watch on sky sports... bit of everything!

Have you any idea of the price of tickets on Friday as the wife, son and myself are thinking of making one in.

Adults: £15
Concessions: £15
Students: £15
Juniors: £5
Matchday Prices
Adults / Concessions / Students £18
Juniors £5

All the details are on the website...

Thanks for that,we are Trin fans and love our RL

The club do a "click and collect" service where you can buy in advance at the reduced price and collect from the ticket office on game day.
Can save yourself a few quid that way.

looking forward to seeing a big response from the team this friday night!

whoever is on the field will surely be fired up

I think we'll win this Friday in an ideal game after last Thursday match in a blood and thunder game against a good side. After the debacle of Thursday night this is the ideal team to be playing against. A tough no nonsense team who are a solid super league outfit with class all over the park. I expect us to win this and it'll get us ready for the final semi final against either Saints or Wigan.

Personally I believe we can beat either team. The Wigan game last Thursday was a blip and if we end up playing them then we'd have a massive point to prove against a quality outfit. We've proven in the past we have nothing to fear going to the DW and with hopefully Brough back we can take the game to them and come back victorious.

If Saints pick us if we reach this stage then that's brilliant as that would be the team I'd want to face from the off given how the league table finished and we'd go there quite confident with coming home with a victory. It would be nice to put one over Brown and his boys again in the charge for Old Trafford.

The season is by no means over and I wouldn't be surprised to see the claret and gold running out at Old Trafford in 3 weeks time then who knows what will happen. Put it this way we've got nothing to fear in the play offs.

I'm wondering whether with such a sp crowd it may be worthwhile just opening the 2 middle blocks of the BR and have everyone condensed and that way it may improve atmosphere ?

tried to use the click and collect service online as it says there is no booking fee but when i go to pay there is a booking fee of £2.50??! am i doing something wrong or is it just the club messing things up

Daz, the cameras are in BR stand, would show a completely empty stadium, better the riverside lower teir with the end sections blocked off, the Catalan fans could go in the dugout, its another embarassment.

i was gonna suggest that myself daz, maybe get everyone sat together and try and create a good atmosphere.
i would also suggest getting some of the singers from the riverside over to the kilner bank and try and make it a better atmosphere.
however saying that, the last few catalan games have been pretty good atmosphere wise,despite usually attracting low crowds, and with whats at stake i can see it being OK, but one big plea...please do not applaud the dragons onto the field, they are our enemies for the night and we should treat them as such, make them feel uncomfortable the moment they leave the dressing room! i know it's sportsmanship etc but on friday night it's win or bust, we must use everything in our favour!

the catalan fan will be sat in his usual place amongst the fartown fans