Brookie4eva said:I agree with the above, but have seen teams have WCC hangover in the first few rounds after coming back.
With us in 2009 it's hard to judge if we had a WCC hangover due to everything else that went on at the time.
Dragons had 1 loss in the first 10 weeks this year. Melbourne did well at the start for 2010 as well so I think this is a load of crap at the start of the season. It's near the end that you have to worry about as tired legs come into play and you lose motivation.
2009 was injuries and suspensions that killed us in those first few weeks.
eagles2win said:This one is going to be harder to win though. Leeds will be 3 games into a season meanwhile we would have only had played a trial against the sharks and that's it, hardly a great build up to it.
While not worried about fitness of the players it's match fitness I'm worried about.
While some on here see this as only a trial I'd bet the players and club don't.
Winning this is worth a pretty penny as well and would help finical
This was the same last time and we won. Winning isn't everything though. Getting out there, putting in a good fight and slogging it out, not letting each other down is how you succeed.