I said even before the draw that we'd get St Helens'' the Wigan coach Frank
"I said even before the draw that we'd get St Helens,'' the Wigan coach, Frank Endacott, said. "But if you're good enough to win, you've got to beat anyone anywhere and what better game could you have than against the current world champions?'' Endacott watched Saints' triumph over the Broncos and said: "I thought they looked real good and deserved to win They'll take all kinds of beating at Knowsley Road. It's the toughest draw we could have got.''The St Helens coach, Ian Millward, believed that his side would be there to be shot at whoever they drew "No easy games for us now,'' he said. "Everyone wants to knock us over and we're a big scalp on anyone's belt.'' Saints will be without their England full back, Paul Wellens for the early rounds of the Cup. Wellens fractured his eye socket against Brisbane and is expected to be out for at least a month.The only amateur side still in the competition, Woolston Rovers, have been rewarded for their win at Chorley by being drawn against their Super League neighbours and landlords, Warrington. Woolston have been playing their home games in the National Conference at Wilderspool because the drains at their own ground have collapsed.
"We want to show our gratitude by going there and giving them a real game,'' said the Woolston coach, John Fieldhouse "It's a dream draw - the one we really wanted. The whole town will turn out to see how the amateurs fare against the professionals.''The cup-holders, Bradford, are home to Widnes, while last year's beaten finalists, Leeds, travel to Swinton. Villeneuve, the only French side left in the draw, came out of the bag first, but under the ground rules of the competition will play away at York. With Wigan against St Helens being the only all-Super League tie, Leigh's game at home to Salford is the likely choice for television on the Sunday..
The prices the bookmakers are offering for the Six Nations' Championship are: England 2-1 on, France 11-4, Ireland 9-1, Wales 11-1, Scotland 18-1 and Italy 250-1 The order is exactly what I should have expected So are the prices, more or less. England are the predictable favourites and, equally predictably, their odds are less than generous. My native land would have been a bargain if it had not been for Wales's Lost Weekend of Rugby Shame, as we old headline writers would have described the two days that have just passed. The prices the bookmakers are offering for the Six Nations' Championship are: England 2-1 on, France 11-4, Ireland 9-1, Wales 11-1, Scotland 18-1 and Italy 250-1 The order is exactly what I should have expected So are the prices, more or less. England are the predictable favourites and, equally predictably, their odds are less than generous.