Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:34 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

I don't buy this gel theory. Never have. These are well paid professionals.
We drive a different car, it feels weird for 5 mins, switches in a different position sometimes, ten mins when we are abroad driving on the right...but we are away.

I expect this team to be up and running by halftime...that's ample gelling time.

If we arnt top 4 in 2018, Price wants sacking. No honeymoon period for me

Agreed RD. Our existing squad had plenty of time together in Tenarife to gel, and then spent most of the season playing like they'd never met before.

"Gelling" is such a tiny part of the picture compared to motivation, desire, and the actual quality/skill of the players. Hiku didn't need time to gel.

We'll of course go better a few games in, when we're more settled, and form and match fitness start to pick up.

I agree with kirtonLindsey's original point, which wasn't that we'll smash Leeds, it was that playing the champions first game would be a good yardstick. Even if we lose, we'll be able to have a fair assessment of our fairing, vs say if we played Cats at home, rolled them over and put 60 past them.

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:00 am  

I think the tough run early doors will help us. No teams are really in their stride at that point and hopefully some 50/50 games will our way in the poorer weather until we start to find our style.

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:16 am  

We will have to be on it from day 1 as a start similar to last year wont go down well.

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:23 am  

karetaker wrote:

Well il go to foot of our stairs, the Facebook/happy clappers are having a riot about the fixtures End of the day it will always be a case it suits some and not others.

Can't you let it go?

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:39 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

If we arnt top 4 in 2018, Price wants sacking. No honeymoon period for me

Nonsense. If we can't give a brand new coach two years then we're as bad as the billionaires who run Premier League soccer.

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:42 am  

Alffi_7 wrote:

Tough start...

Leeds H
Hudds A
Widnes A
Wigan H
Hull A
Saints H
Catalan A

Let's just hope in 2018 we have more than 1 pt after 7 games !

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:12 pm  

If we win one of those first 7 then that's an improvement right?

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 1:17 pm  

All teams have players at the world cup, well top teams do so all in same boat at the start. I actually think its better to play top teams first just have to make sure we're ready and mean business straight away.

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:42 pm  

Asgardian13 wrote:

Nonsense. If we can't give a brand new coach two years then we're as bad as the billionaires who run Premier League soccer.

What's bad about that?

Re: 2018 Fixtures : Wed Nov 01, 2017 3:35 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I don't buy this gel theory. Never have. These are well paid professionals.
We drive a different car, it feels weird for 5 mins, switches in a different position sometimes, ten mins when we are abroad driving on the right...but we are away.

I expect this team to be up and running by halftime...that's ample gelling time.

If we arnt top 4 in 2018, Price wants sacking. No honeymoon period for me

Tell that to Everton then,that’s what the Sky pundits have said is one of the issues for them,to many new faces at one time still learning the systems.