Father Ted

Wigan by 20. Getting into some decent form so I reckon will be too good for the Giants.

The C Cup rounds are all pay games. With everyone attending having to pay and no concessions for season ticket holders this aspect does need to be considered. Perhaps one way around that is to play each round of the C Cup on the first weekend of the month. Most people (not everyone) are paid at the end of the month so why not play the games within days of pay day? Equally so on the day the C Cup matches are concluded the draw is made for the following round. So fans would know their opponents and be able financially to buy their tickets for the next round. The debate does appear to be led by journal and RL people who don't pay to watch so they don't seem to appreciate the financial realities of taking and paying for two, three or more people to a game.

If there will have been four coaches sacked in six seasons then the problem isn't with the coaches but the person/people who appoints them. To compete at the top it is obvious that quite a few of the Leeds players aren't good enough. It also seems that the coaches are not good enough so obviously their appointments are the problem more than the individuals themselves.

Leeds could possibly lose this but I don't reckon they will. Hull are not very good, Leeds by 20.

Not going to Hull FC. Can't see him going Leeds either. Rowley's an experienced coach and he would never put up with Hetherington telling him who's going to be sold/released and who will be bought. A coach of Rowley's calibre wants to sign and sack the players he decides upon, not the CEO or whatever title GH has given himself. There could well be better clubs with first team coaching vacancies soon which he could quite fancy.

Warrington looked good v Saints and deserved their win. Saints though had a couple of tough games prior to playing Wire. They played Wigan on Good Friday and won after a gruelling 80 mins. The following week they went to Perpignan and had another very tough game with a narrow loss. They then played another huge match in a C Cup semi final. Just wondered if the three tough games the last 20 mins against Wire caught up with them where they were completely overrun.

Outstanding result for Huddersfield. Well done them!

Saints have the intensity but not the pace. Warrington have the pace but not the intensity. Saints by 12.

Wigan by 24.

HKR at home are very difficult to beat. Don't think Leigh, with their depleted squad, have enough to win. Rovers by 18.

Catalans were very impressive against Saints. Can't see Huddersfield matching that. Dragons by 14

Salford by 14

HKR by a lot!

Wigan by a lot. Peet's named 21 looks powerful and Salford have signed Dudson on loan as they are short of props.

Some good tries scored from both sides. Too much interference from the ref. If it wasn't pen then six agains! How many 6 agains did he give? Too many! Looked a tidy ground though.

Initial reaction from me was that if a club can't afford to travel to Perpignan then they should relinquish their SL place. Difficult in the C Cup where a Championship or lower division club could be drawn away to Catalans but it's a RFL comp and they could surely sort that problem out. Getting Catalans to pay for opposition clubs's travel to fulfil their fixture seems just like the utterly stupid idea that only the RFL are capable of!

In his pressy Ivan Clearly was asked about his sides end of sets plays as they were caught in possession on 5 or 6 occasions. His rely was that he thought they weren't good enough and where he would look to improve. Thought Penrith out played Wigan but the Warriors outscored the Panthers.

Lots of fans will be upset with the officials as they probably wanted Penrith to win. I thought that last "six again" with only seconds to go was tough on Wigan. A Hull FC fan sat next but one to me and when Penrith scored he jumped up, punched the air and screamed "Yes". So what's happened to the "Grapple tackle"? Marshall nearly got choked to death in one tackle. A few seasons ago that would have been a clear pen and may be a yellow card. A great night and made a real event by the Wigan club. Noticed Ivan Cleary mentioned the occasion in his pressy and suggested that the WCC should be held in this country.

Walters has been playing on the edge except when coming out of yardage. He won't be playing for a while as he suffered a "significant" collar bone injury in the Hull FC friendly.

Sold out with 5 weeks to go. Brilliant performance from everyone at the club.

Playing the game in Las Vegas is about as daft as it gets. Wigan will almost certainly sell out. The probable reason behind this is that folk in the RFL at present get a freebie to Wigan, Leeds or Saints. A game in Vegas and the RFL bods get a freebie to the good old USA!

I reckon Liam Moore will get the game. Probably the best towards the back end of last season.

Having the Wigan v Penrith game on the BBC is great. Trouble is Wigan's first game of the season is currently scheduled as Castleford away, Saturday 17th February, 3pm kick off. That would appear a dead ringer for the first BBC televised SL game of the season. All they have to do is change the kick off time. The down side is that the first fixture is at probably the worst ground in SL. The up side of course is that Wigan would be on two weeks together!

Billy Boston.

Wigan play Huddersfield three times before they play Leeds. It's poor it really is!