Limoux : Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:47 pm  

Off. Again. Air traffic control strike.

If we persist with this next season we're daft. Bin it off. Cursed it is, cursed I tell you.

Re: Limoux : Wed Jan 29, 2014 6:25 pm  

French folk love a strike.

Re: Limoux : Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:54 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

Off. Again. Air traffic control strike.

If we persist with this next season we're daft. Bin it off. Cursed it is, cursed I tell you.

Agree 100%............ no more needs to be said

Re: Limoux : Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:21 am  

Third time lucky ????

Re: Limoux : Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:21 am  

So another year without a friendly match before the start of the season luckily we have not got Halifax away this year to start the season so even though we may not be 100% match fit we should win against newly promoted Rochdale

Re: Limoux : Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:46 am  

We have Hendo's testimonial at York before the start of the season.

On the up side we did retain the title last season with no pre season games.... every cloud and all that

Re: Limoux : Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:32 pm  

Do any other sides only have just a couple of friendlies like this? York will be on at least their 3rd when they play the Eagles, I saw them at Castleford (and get hammered). Both Featherstone and Leigh have had a few as well.

To me, new to rugby league doesn't make sense not to have friendlies. That said you can have 8 friendlies pre-season in football and be more in the dark than before you started!

Re: Limoux : Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:44 pm  

I think it's just us TBH but it seems to have worked in the last few years

On a personal note though I would like to see more pre season friendlies though this year wouldn't have been possible for home games as Owlerton isn't quite ready yet

Re: Limoux : Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:15 pm  

HalfOwlHalfEagle wrote:

Do any other sides only have just a couple of friendlies like this? York will be on at least their 3rd when they play the Eagles, I saw them at Castleford (and get hammered). Both Featherstone and Leigh have had a few as well.

To me, new to rugby league doesn't make sense not to have friendlies. That said you can have 8 friendlies pre-season in football and be more in the dark than before you started!

But would you be saying that if a couple of key players got injured in friendlies ? Nearly all the squad have played together before - why do we need friendlies ?

Fev play more friendlies than league games, we play none. Maybe that gave us the edge last year.

Meanwhile, Halifax are talking about arranging friendlies to cover the suspensions of players getting sent off in friendlies.

Re: Limoux : Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:25 pm  

To be honest we played so many games last season the lack of pre season games probably helped us although our first game last season was away to halifax we played well in poor conditions however it looked like we were lacking a bit of match fitness but i guess on the other hand the fewer friendlies you have the less the risk of your players getting injured