Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:11 pm
Mrs Barista
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Mild Rover wrote:Hull have Warrington who are pretty much certain to be resting players ahead of the CC final. If Wire's fringe players, hoping to earn a place at Wembley, pull off a shock it puts them under pressure, but for them to fall as far as 7th every result needs to go against them
Mild Rover wrote: While Wire won't put out an academy team, I strongly suspect a few will be rested. Any game is difficult to predict in SL, but if the bookies give Hull the start in either game that would be very attractive.
Look, Richard, you know I love you, but you are rubbish at this:
Now, if we were, say, at home, with only 3 of our first choice team missing, against a team with knocked confidence from an unexpected home loss, missing potentially 10 players from their squad and with nothing to play for, I could understand your point. However, Warrington are full strength bar Bridge, we've not won there since 2004, and things are so bad in the backs/halves that Hall looks an automatic pick at FB. Put that wedge of cash on Rovers this weekend.
Now, if we were, say, at home, with only 3 of our first choice team missing, against a team with knocked confidence from an unexpected home loss, missing potentially 10 players from their squad and with nothing to play for, I could understand your point. However, Warrington are full strength bar Bridge, we've not won there since 2004, and things are so bad in the backs/halves that Hall looks an automatic pick at FB. Put that wedge of cash on Rovers this weekend.
That is a stronger squad than I expected, I admit. I thought they might let Penny have a go at least - or is he still at Quins? So if they do, after all, batter Hull FC, will you be on here on Saturday mocking me because your team had a rubbish result? Confused now. Liz stroking her chin and stage-whispering 'clamped' everytime Richard was in error was probably what drove him to
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:32 pm
Sandro II Terrorista
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Better than "Mistresses" this.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:32 pm
Mrs Barista
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Mild Rover wrote:That is a stronger squad than I expected, I admit. I thought they might let Penny have a go at least - or is he still at Quins? So if they do, after all, batter Hull FC, will you be on here on Saturday mocking me because your team had a rubbish result? Confused now. Liz stroking her chin and stage-whispering 'clamped' everytime Richard was in error was probably what drove him to
The thought of Hall at FB means I've already opened a bottle of rose tonight.
Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:35 pm
Mrs Barista
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pmh wrote:Better than "Mistresses" this.
Can't believe he's not been tempted by the Craig Hall / Blake's 7 thread. I know he liked Battle of the Planets, and in a Venn diagram of the 2 programmes' viewers there has to be 99% overlap. He'd deffo be Zen.
Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:03 pm
Mild Rover
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Mrs Barista wrote:Can't believe he's not been tempted by the Craig Hall / Blake's 7 thread. I know he liked Battle of the Planets, and in a Venn diagram of the 2 programmes' viewers there has to be 99% overlap. He'd deffo be Zen.
It is an age thing - Mrs Mild is a little older than me and she was fond of Blake's 7. The Zen reference is lost on me, unfortunately - I'll look them up. I will have been stood on the stairs in my pyjamas with a plastic sword from Hull fair, giving it 'by the power of Greyskull, I am He-Man'. Good times, can't think why I stopped - might have a go in a bit.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:26 pm
Tarquin Fuego
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Joined: Feb 03 2004 Posts: 3738 Location: United Kingdom
FACTS
Hull will lose both games and giants will win both. Rovers lose to Wigan.
Play offs FC v Drovers at KC in sell out and all issues solved then. I for one can't wait as it will be my last game for a LONG LONG time as I leave these shores in October for pastures new.
Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:52 pm
redgee
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Joined: Jul 29 2010 Posts: 55
Tarquin Fuego wrote:FACTS
Hull will lose both games and giants will win both. Rovers lose to Wigan.
Play offs FC v Drovers at KC in sell out and all issues solved then. I for one can't wait as it will be my last game for a LONG LONG time as I leave these shores in October for pastures new.
Post subject: Re: Rovers Vs Wigan biggest game of the season
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:43 am
SirStan
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Joined: Sep 18 2005 Posts: 8742 Location: 2017 City of Culture
Tarquin Fuego wrote:FACTS
Hull will lose both games and giants will win both. Rovers lose to Wigan.
Play offs FC v Drovers at KC in sell out and all issues solved then. I for one can't wait as it will be my last game for a LONG LONG time as I leave these shores in October for pastures new.
Missing you already. I hope you can rely on your razor sharp wit on here or does "pastures new" not include wi-fi?
I love it when folk insist on capitalising the word "fact", it's like its compulsory or something.
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