Probably tough to back up from the effort at HKR the week before for a part time team. We went into the eights busted after a massive end of the regular season effort. Hope we don't implode at Warrington as the new levels of intensity of these games start to mount up, and the Wire will be another step up in class.
I'd like to see Leigh stop up and another SL team come down purely to stop the RFL dismissing the whole 8's idea as a failure because of the yo-yo effect. Also, on Widnes's 1.5 million, perhaps they should have spent some of it on a new coach.
I think you will find many Viking fans who would echo the "new coach" bit but they have not spent anything like £1.5m on players, if only.