But he also said that he would expect a good performance wherever the game was played.
"It's good for our fans to make our stadium a really intimidating place for the St Helens players and fans to come, but being a professional team we would have dealt with it and if we played in my back yard I would expect a good performance".
Illini athletic director Mike Thomas is looking to expand the Illini brand in the Chicago area, so he expects a good performance at Soldier Field.
"We didn't expect such a good performance from Italian buyers because in Italy, consumption has dropped five percent in clothing, shirts, knitwear and ties, to the same level as 2008," said Raffaello Napoleone, chief executive of Pitti Immagine, the event's parent organization.
"You go into the game expecting to have a good performance, expecting to fight, and when the game starts out the way it does, it's like you slip in some quicksand and couldn't get out of it," Houston said.
9.32am GMT Freddie George, retail analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, says Dixons' results were "marginally better than expected helped by a good performance in the UK".
A solar-assisted chemically recuperated gas turbine system is proposed and expected to achieve a good performance by combining with two-stage fuel-steam reforming.
While the authors expect a good general performance, even with minor changes in the parameter set, the forum set up in the MAUDS website is expected to feedback about this question, as more experimenters report on the application of MAUDS to recorded datasets.
The company - spun out of the Ministry of Defence in 2002 - reported a 7% rise in full year profits to a better than expected £107.8m, helped by a good performance from its services business in Europe, the middle east and Africa.
