I'm pretty sure he said that there will be 2 games to start the season on the last weekend in january.

Didnt hear that. Usually its only 1 isnt it.

leeds v?
Quins v?

I think Quins are playing the storm in a warm up game again.

Ah ok. So only 1 official game early though, the other is a friendly. The friendly was 2 weeks before the season started though wasnt it so both games couldnt be on 1 week before the season starts. (the storm cant play a friendly and a wcc on the same day)

Yeah it's normally only one Dave but im sure it's 2 games at the start of next season.
When are the fixtures released?

End of Nov i think?

Season starts proper on the 5th of February with 2 fixtures brought forward to the weekend of 29th January.

Didn't Wigan play a week early this season as well for some reason?

quins at home

Wigan played Wakey before before the season started, think it was round 17 game due to JJB oops the DW stadium been unavailable in June for re turfing.

Ah yeah that was it, thanks for that.

Not sure why 4 teams would need to play early this year though?

Maybe Dave Whelan is making it an annual thing? I am sure the pitch was unplayable for around 4 weeks? Could be wrong though.

Wonder how many multi-team stadiums may cotton onto this as an easy way to get a week off towards the end of the season? Im not suggesting for one minute a stadium may not need re-turfing but im sure some clubs could choose it to cheat.

The charcter of Sean Long can have the same effect that Knocker,Toppo brought back in the 80's

This move will certaintly fire Long up again im sure, and he is going to have a massive influence on the way we play imo

Liked his comments that he wanted some big humans to play behind



But in the pivotal postion we now have

1 Tansey(Good Footballer,support player)
6 Horne(More freedom can concentrate on his own game,support player)
7 Longy(organise everything,good kicking game a will to win)
9 Berry

(Still haven't seen the best of Berro with this pack around him we will see that along with playing in his favoured postion )

Throw in an great pack and competion for places in every postion hopefully this will spur everyone on

yeah but what about plan B?

knock f00k out of em

i like the look of that, bit worried about the cover for 1, 7 and 9 but jack briscoe, smith/williams and illey may get a shot.

We don't do Plan B ..If plan A goes t-ts up we lose

Be nice to have a plan A for once

Why dont we just wait amd see what happens eh?

I'll take your opinion on board when you admit I was right and you were wrong about Tom Briscoe







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So what....thinks its come to soon for him but thats my opinon.

Go on, admit it. I was right, you were wrong







Don't feel bad, happens to people all the time. Ask staff fc and east hull fc, they'll tell you

What you waffling about...........Fair play to him but be suprised if he starts the season.