Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:55 pm  

The reason Town have had to call on Wigan players is because out of a squad of 24 we have 9 out injured. Burgess is in our team because we had Manfredi covering for one of our injured players but he got called in to Wigans first team last night and Burgess was put with us. Connor Farrell played 16 games for us last season and Lewis Tierney played 11 or 12. All the Wigan players were in the list sent to RFL 48 hours before the kick-off time. It is up to clubs if they want to publicly announce their squads but you will find them on the RFL website fixtures page by clicking on the Preview button "P" so there is no mystery about it.

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:24 pm  

Geekay wrote:

The reason Town have had to call on Wigan players is because out of a squad of 24 we have 9 out injured. Burgess is in our team because we had Manfredi covering for one of our injured players but he got called in to Wigans first team last night and Burgess was put with us. Connor Farrell played 16 games for us last season and Lewis Tierney played 11 or 12. All the Wigan players were in the list sent to RFL 48 hours before the kick-off time. It is up to clubs if they want to publicly announce their squads but you will find them on the RFL website fixtures page by clicking on the Preview button "P" so there is no mystery about it.

It was only a mystery to me as I was unsure of the rules for naming the 19 and being allowed to add to it before game time. But now you have explained I get it now.

Isn't Lewis Tierney, Jason Robinson 's son. I heard good things about him before but he doesn't seem to get time in the Wigan first team squad.

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sat Mar 07, 2015 5:10 pm  

alanw wrote:

It was only a mystery to me as I was unsure of the rules for naming the 19 and being allowed to add to it before game time. But now you have explained I get it now.

Isn't Lewis Tierney, Jason Robinson 's son. I heard good things about him before but he doesn't seem to get time in the Wigan first team squad.

Yes he is and I don't know why he doesn't get more game time at Wigan but if we can have him instead I wont complain. We have a fairly big mobile pack of forwards so if we can get these backs moving it could be quite an interesting game tomorrow.

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sat Mar 07, 2015 11:00 pm  

Dont worry Wigan are playing poor at the moment and could be down with us later in the year.

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sun Mar 08, 2015 4:54 pm  

FT 34-16.
Tough one at Whitehaven next week even though they've not won one yet.

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:08 pm  

100% home record maintained, still some defensive issues, but a solid performance in the main. The season starts now!

The attendance is a concern though, engineering works on the Jubilee line may well criple us

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:18 pm  

Indeed, what was the attendance - it says a measly 300 on the BBC sports page? I thought we were going to chuck it away in the first 10 minutes of the 2nd half but thankfully we came back strongly - phew.

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:23 pm  

Torbreck wrote:

Indeed, what was the attendance - it says a measly 300 on the BBC sports page?

Closer to 600 I believe

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:56 pm  

Will be struggling to match the crowds at Chiswick at this rate... Saying that they played pretty risk free footie today which is a start so perhaps 4th is a possibility once we have realised how you have to play in this league.

Re: 19 vs Workington (H) : Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:03 am  

According to Gav Wilson on the TotalRL forum the attendance was 583,which is 51 more tan the Crusaders got for a Challenge Cup first round tie against an amateur side.