Re: 0dds for friday : Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:15 am  

matt_wire wrote:

Was speaking to my dad and said they should replace the hubcap with the old league trophy. Give finishing top some prestige. Also whoever ends up top should go straight to old trafford. Prestige and incentive makes finishing top all the more worthwhile.

I like this idea but Sky won't.

Sky cover SL because of resulting subscriptions and advertising revenue which is linked to number of games, not the love of the game.

Re: 0dds for friday : Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:04 pm  

Hatfield Town Wire wrote:

I agree with RD I still think we have a great chance Friday , it won't be easy but all the pressure will be on hull. I will be backing us with a +8 on the handicap

Here's some food for thought - go back to just after the Wembley defeat, injuries to key players and nobody gave us a cat in hell's chance of beating Catalan but they turned in a brilliant performance against the odds with a similar makeshift team (with an actual winger in it too!). Taking the 2 games out of context, which of the 2 games would you would you rather go in to needing the 2 points? I suspect most would say Hull rather than Catalan. We managed it then, we can manage it now.

Yes we have injuries to key players, and the stakes are a lot higher but I'm backing the Wire to win tonight. Keep the faith, people.

Re: 0dds for friday : Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:28 pm  

I have not thought about this game all week, infact this is the first real time i have been on here since the Wigan defeat as i have been that dismayed by the result. With a weakened team, up against a big team all i can see is a complete drubbing. Not one bit of emotion about the game as at the end of the day this game means nothing!!!!

In 2011 i thought it was great, experience tells you it means bugger all. If it was like football and you were to be champions then i would have likely have gone. Its all about the following 80 minutes and you could argue that finishing third is better for us as we play better away at Wigan than at home!

Re: 0dds for friday : Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:52 pm  

Wire out to 3/1 and hull are 1/4 with sky bet.

Wakefield 8/1 against stains. £5 double wire and Wakefield pays over £150 !! For a bit of interest

Re: 0dds for friday : Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:41 am  

WazzaWire wrote:

Here's some food for thought - go back to just after the Wembley defeat, injuries to key players and nobody gave us a cat in hell's chance of beating Catalan but they turned in a brilliant performance against the odds with a similar makeshift team (with an actual winger in it too!). Taking the 2 games out of context, which of the 2 games would you would you rather go in to needing the 2 points? I suspect most would say Hull rather than Catalan. We managed it then, we can manage it now.

Yes we have injuries to key players, and the stakes are a lot higher but I'm backing the Wire to win tonight. Keep the faith, people.

Dare I say, our traveller neighbours next?