24hrs until kick-off! Can't decide whether I'm excited, nervous, dreading it, or a combination of all three!!!


We go in as underdogs, obviously, but not to the extent it's a done deal already. If this draw had come out last year I would have been praying for anything other than a massacre! But since the start of the year we've clearly gone some way towards levelling things up a touch.


Logically everything points to them having a bit too much firepower for us to handle, but then logically everything pointed to Wigan having the same a few weeks back, so the big question is can lightning strike twice for us with a second cup upset?


The longer we can stay in the contest, the more emboldened we will become and the more vociferous the crowd will be. If there's only a score in it on the hour mark, it will then become a case of who grabs the major chance when it falls their way.
If we get blown away in the first 20-25 minutes, as we did in all three encounters last year, then they will canter home. I doubt there will be a repeat of the Wigan comeback this time.


Think it's either us narrowly (by 2) or them comfortably (by 18-20). We will know soon enough, just hope my nerves can stand up tomorrow! I hate these games, I really do!!!!!

I thought we did ok and it's where we are at, we aren't nowhere near ready yet but we are showing plenty of grit but still need to cut the errors out, think if we'd have scored at 0.0 things might have been slightly different but still encouraging times ahead for me. 

A couple of key turning points were rovers scoring off that god awful kick for their 2nd try and then us failing to score off the pryce break on half time.  If they don't score there or we score off the break I think it's a different game but these small margins are what win and lose games.  rovers were much better at exploiting them than us

There's a good after match press conference with JC on the club youtube feed.  The big man is clearly disappointed but honest, both of which are good for me.  We're not a million miles away and if we can get everyone on the filed for a few weeks I think we're a match for most in the comp.  Very encouraging as we're miles ahead of where I thought we'd be but maybe a reflection on how poor the standard is in the comp overall

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Where can I find the game/ player stats for the ccq?