This board is a pile of contradictions at times.
We go on about the regular season not mattering then some of us start stressing about losing one of our toughest away games in week 2 with five regulars missing.
Some of us moan that we might not sell out the WCC game, calling it embarrassing if we don't, but then say it's a glorified friendly which they don't care about.
End of the day, we are in no trouble here. Wire had the odds stacked against them away at Wigan with the Hill sending off and got beat. We had the odds stacked against us away at Wire with key injuries and got beat. If our top comp is to be competitive and challenging then both of those results should happen nine times out of ten because playing a big rival away from home with 12 men or with loads out injured means you should lose. It would be fantastic to beat those odds and win games like Friday night, but it generally doesn't happen in those circumstances, and if it did I'd worry about the quality and depth of the comp.
Woolf is in the unenviable position of replacing a popular coach that just won the league. The only way he can do better is to win the double, so on a week to week basis he is on a hiding to nothing because nothing we do outside of big Cup or play off games is going to be as good as last season really. So, maybe he's trying to tweak things with the style of play, the wrestling etc. Too early to tell whether this will be a positive, a negative or if it'll make no real difference. But I reckon we'll be fine.