We now have 5 pre season games planned. Toronto, St Helens, Keighley, Sheffield and Halifax. This is an unprecedented number. Anyone other than me wondering why? Is cashflow a problem?

Also, is this wise from a playing point of view? 5 games. That's a heck of an injury risk for meaningless games. If we had a head coach would he agree to all these games?

Expect at least 3 of these games to be predominantly U19 games.

Chalmers said that there would be a large number of friendlies due to the number of new players and the need for them to gel.

5 games still seems excessive to me. Especially with both halfbacks coming back from injury. I'd say 3 would've been a better number. But I'm not a coach. Hang on....

We went from 4 preseason games, down to two. Now up to 5. So we are back to the original number plus 1 for the late start to the season. Lets have it! More rugby before the season! Besides. Gives us a few good tests. I can't see many of our lads getting injured against a U19's St Helens side. The other 4 will be good tests in their own right.

Edited for accuracy

Correct me if im wrong but at this moment we only have 23 players in our squad!!!

Correct.

The Coach who can bring in the most players cheaply will get the job, that's why Duffy is on the interviewing panel as he is the Clubs contracts Manger!

We also have a friendly against Dewsbury too I believe.

To save trawling through announcements and threads, can anyone give a quick list of confirmed games? I think there are six, as Dewsbury was also mentioned I believe

Halifax (H)
Sheffield (H)
St Helens (TBC)
Toronto (H)
Dewsbury (TBC)
Keighley (H)

Dewsbury confirmed a week ago.

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4 home games you would assume is the end of that, or they wouldn't be selling that pass for all 4. They'd wait until they were all announced.