There were some huge games scheduled for this week as we saw last night with classics between Warrington Wolves and St Helens as well as Wakefield Trinity and Wigan Warriors’ clash which went to Golden Point which puts huge pressure on Castleford Tigers after their defeat to Leigh Leopards.
Tomorrow we see two more huge games in the same of the Hull derby as Hull KR and Hull FC collide before Leeds Rhinos put their play-off hopes on the line against Salford Red Devils.
But today is an intriguing affair as league leaders host Huddersfield Giants.
And Brian Carney has backed the Giants to stun the French side as his “rogue prediction” saying “they may be out of form but they have some very good players.”
He did joke that he wanted the prediction “deleted” if he was wrong.
There is great respect between the two clubs with Ian Watson having huge praise for the retiring Sam Tomkins.
“I remember him coming through in his debut and scoring four or five tries or something like that in a Challenge Cup game, I think it was,” Watson said.
“And you could see from then he had real potential and then obviously went out to full-back and he mastered that role. He’s been the best full-back in the country for a long, long time and his ability to adapt his game as well.
“When maybe you think he might have lost a bit of speed, It’s like his skill level is always high. When obviously you think he’s lost a little bit in terms of his turn of pace from when he was younger days, his skill level’s got better, his reading of the game’s got better, his positional play’s got better.
“He’s one of them top athletes. You can see why he’s been probably the number one in the country for a long period of time and why Sean went up to the World Cup last year, to be fair, because he’s smart, so probably second to none in the game.”
