Where do we see these games going?

1 SAT 17/02/24 5.30pm Catalans Dragons A
2 FRI 23/02/24 8pm Hull FC H
3 FRI 01/03/24 8pm Castleford Tigers H
4 THURS 07/03/24 8pm Hull KR A
5 SUN 17/03/24 3pm London Broncos A
CC RD 6
6 SAT 30/03/24 3pm Catalans Dragons H

LWWLWL acceptable 50%

If we lose to Hull and Castleford, the honeymoon period will be over, and grim if followed by loss to KR, nil wins from 4!
At the point of a London loss. Do we

Duckie, has somebody hacked your account?

In one game we've gone from 'winning all three trophies' to 'out of the cup at London'. I think we all need to take you for a beer and find out what's really going on. You've lost your mojo.

Come on Duckie. Have a rest. Bit of walk round. A couple of sensible pints. We can recover from this.

We don’t have London in the cup, well we don’t yet. We play London the week after the CC 6th round.

I know the guy who warms the balls for the bag so the correct teams get matched up. It’s London

Catalans have had so many changes that they could be anywhere this year and it wouldn't surprise me if you won that. The two home games are absolute walkovers, so you could be 3 from 3 and on a Burgess-inspired high. It could then come crashing down at Hull KR. However if you lose the Catalans game, the over-excitement won't kick in and your response will start week 2 with the two easy games, tempered expectations and you going under the radar a little.

Starting with a long run of victories would be the worst possible thing. Last year Powell worked hard to put everything into hitting the ground running (maybe to save his job, who knows?), but history has shown that the early pace-setters usually don't end up winning the big one. And with a club like Warrington with all the hype that gets churned out, we always get complacent when it counts.

I'd rather build into this year slowly with some hard fought games and peak when it counts. Consistent in defence but steadily improving in attack. This is what happened in Price's first year and it worked with a much poorer squad. I just Burgess hope is a better motivator than Price, which he should be. Got to give him the season to know whether he's making a difference.

Make every post a winning one like Saints did.

We have had plenty of years where we have got off to a poop start and we're no better off for it at the end of the season.

Recently (say post-2013) I can only really think of 2017 as being a year where we looked really rubbish in the first 6 games and never recovered. 2022 we sort of looked off our game, but somehow got those 3 wins before it all went Pete Tong.

Either way, I'd rather not have another 2023-style start with the players then dropping off. We'll know soon enough.