Damien

A very obvious sin bin there for Moylan

I think this should be a cracker at a packed Leigh Sports Village. I do think Wigan will win by 10 but in a local derby you never know.

I don't think it's anything to do with any of that. People are interested, and that's obvious based on ticket sales. The reason why there is no mention on here is because there is no match thread yet, and as John says there is nothing stopping anyone starting one.

Great news for Wigan and Super League. I'm guessing Danson has paid handsomely to keep him.

Well done Huddersfield for taking decisive and appropriate action. It really is what clubs should be doing in such circumstances.

This often seems to happen with experienced, established players compared to young or new players coming into the team. Hopefully the Knights will learn to utilise KPP better because he certainly is a handful close to the line.

The Mad Squirrels from the Czech Republic to join the Balkan Super League to further their development. This adds a new country to the league too:

Fantastic to see great crowds like this. Still scope to go even better if those sub 15k games could get a few more:

I was talking half hypothetically really, any stadium issues aside.

That's great to hear.

Yet another NZ Warriors sellout with 24,112.

More great crowds with every chance of setting a new round record with the Parramatta v Wests Tigers match selling well:

You made this claim before and it was pointed out at that time that it was completely false.

I know, thats obvious. It's more two coaches showing mutual respect and chewing the fat 24 hours after a Good Friday Derby.

Good crowd that for a Catalans game.

How good is this? Great to see:

Another great Doncaster attendance:

Congratulations to Saints. It's pretty annoying that conceeding penalties and general ill discipline cost us. Wigan were certainly not good enough on that front and need to do better in games like this. That said I took a lot from that. Despite the ill discipline I think we coped quite easily with Saints and would have won if it wasn't for the red card, which was the correct decision by the way. Saints still don't look like the force of old to me so I saw enough to be confident of in the, hopefully, bigger games to come.

That sending off could cost Wigan the game. Up to then I think we've been pretty comfortable with whatever Saints have thrown at us. That said I'm okay with the red card and do think it was the correct call as Byrne didn't bend his back at all.

A great try from nothing by French.

Scrappy game so far. Both side not offered much in attack. Wigan need to stop giving away stupid penalties, it means we are not getting field position at all.

I think the issue there is that it is all too sporadic. Sure NZ beat Australia last time round but then its shut up shop for 11 months at best. We don't even know when the next one is and by the time we get it everyone has forgot about the last match. That's before the fact that we don't even treat such games as a major event, and especially in Australia, see broadcasters and organisers treat them as a tier below SOO and the NRL Its impossible to build momentum or proper rivalry with the calendar and organisation that we see.

It certainly was. It was a half hearted disaster from start to finish. When the RFL treats matches as 2nd rate it shouldn't then be shock when RL fans and the general sporting public fo likewise. It was a prime opportunity to make international RL work for England outside NZ and Australia. As importantly it should have been a way to raise badly needed money for the RFL and Tonga too. The RFL should have been pulling out all the stops so that evey nation would be clamouring to come and tour. Instead they did the opposite and it very evidently had the opposite effect too.