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Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 12:33 pm  

1 Jack Welsby
2 Tommy Makinson
3 Will Hopoate
4 Mark Percival
6 Jonny Lomax
7 Lewis Dodd
8 Alex Walmsley
9 James Roby
10 Matty Lees
11 Sione Mata’utia
12 Joe Batchelor
13 Morgan Knowles
14 Joey Lussick
15 LMS
16 Curtis Sironen
17 Agnatius Paasi
18 Kyle Amor
19 Jake Wingfield
21 Josh Simm
22 Ben Davies
23 Konrad Hurrell

Wakefield Trinity

1 Max Jowitt
2 Tom Johnstone
5 Tom Lineham
6 Jacob Miller
8 Eddie Battye
10 Tinirau Arona
11 Matty Ashurst
12 Kelepi Tanginoa
13 Jay Pitts
14 Jordy Crowther
15 Jai Whitbread
16 James Batchelor
19 Liam Kay
21 Brad Walker
22 Yusuf Aydin
24 Harry Bowes
27 Lewis Murphy
29 Isaac Shaw
30 Corey Hall
31 Thomas Minns
35 David Fifita

Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 12:53 pm  

PopTart wrote:

1 Jack Welsby
2 Tommy Makinson
3 Will Hopoate
4 Mark Percival
6 Jonny Lomax
7 Lewis Dodd
8 Alex Walmsley
9 James Roby
10 Matty Lees
11 Sione Mata’utia
12 Joe Batchelor
13 Morgan Knowles
14 Joey Lussick
15 LMS
16 Curtis Sironen
17 Agnatius Paasi
18 Kyle Amor
19 Jake Wingfield
21 Josh Simm
22 Ben Davies
23 Konrad Hurrell

Wakefield Trinity

1 Max Jowitt
2 Tom Johnstone
30 Corey Hall
5 Tom Lineham
6 Jacob Miller
8 Eddie Battye
10 Tinirau Arona
11 Matty Ashurst
12 Kelepi Tanginoa
13 Jay Pitts
14 Jordy Crowther
15 Jai Whitbread
16 James Batchelor
19 Liam Kay
21 Brad Walker
22 Yusuf Aydin
24 Harry Bowes
27 Lewis Murphy
29 Isaac Shaw
30 Corey Hall
31 Thomas Minns
35 David Fifita

I'll state the obvious, no Mason Lino again. Less surprising is Gaskell and Hood.

I'd go with

1 Max Jowitt
2 Tom Johnstone
30 Corey Hall
16 James Batchelor
5 Tom Lineham

6 Jacob Miller
21 Brad Walker

35 David Fifita
24 Harry Bowes
15 Jai Whitbread
11 Matty Ashurst
12 Kelepi Tanginoa
13 Jay Pitts

14 Jordy Crowther
8 Eddie Battye
22 Yusuf Aydin
19 Liam Kay

It's an ok side, backs are good but I'd be OK with Minns at centre and Batch at S/R dropping Crowther (Batch form is better IMO)

HB's picked themselves.

That starting pack is big enough to hold its own with Saints, no excuses.

It's the hooking role where we look vulnerable, Bowes is still very inexperienced whilst to be fair on Kay he's doing well but is still in transition.

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Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:03 pm  

Same team for me except I don't think I'd play Kelepi.
Pitts in SR and Crowther at 3 for me. Arona in front row.

Arona has been a stand out so is needed more than Kelepi until he gets his form back.

Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:08 pm  

vastman wrote:

I'll state the obvious, no Mason Lino again. Less surprising is Gaskell and Hood.

I'd go with

1 Max Jowitt
2 Tom Johnstone
30 Corey Hall
16 James Batchelor
5 Tom Lineham

6 Jacob Miller
21 Brad Walker

35 David Fifita
24 Harry Bowes
15 Jai Whitbread
11 Matty Ashurst
12 Kelepi Tanginoa
13 Jay Pitts

14 Jordy Crowther
8 Eddie Battye
22 Yusuf Aydin
19 Liam Kay

It's an ok side, backs are good but I'd be OK with Minns at centre and Batch at S/R dropping Crowther (Batch form is better IMO)

HB's picked themselves.

That starting pack is big enough to hold its own with Saints, no excuses.

It's the hooking role where we look vulnerable, Bowes is still very inexperienced whilst to be fair on Kay he's doing well but is still in transition.

Pretty close to what I would go for this week.

Jowitt
TJ
Hall
Minns
Lineham
Walker
Miller
Fifita
Bowes
Battye
Ashurst
Batchelor
Pitts

Kaye
Aydin
Whitbread
Tanginoa

Lino has been a big miss early season and I hope he gets back on the pitch soon for us. Hopefully Miller/Walker shows promise. That team is good enough to give saints a challenge. May as well turn up with the aim of bringing 2points back. What a win it would be if the team can pull one out of the bag.

Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:36 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Same team for me except I don't think I'd play Kelepi.
Pitts in SR and Crowther at 3 for me. Arona in front row.

Arona has been a stand out so is needed more than Kelepi until he gets his form back.

Not for me, he hasn't but we all see it differently.

Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:37 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Pretty close to what I would go for this week.

Jowitt
TJ
Hall
Minns
Lineham
Walker
Miller
Fifita
Bowes
Battye
Ashurst
Batchelor
Pitts

Kaye
Aydin
Whitbread
Tanginoa

Lino has been a big miss early season and I hope he gets back on the pitch soon for us. Hopefully Miller/Walker shows promise. That team is good enough to give saints a challenge. May as well turn up with the aim of bringing 2points back. What a win it would be if the team can pull one out of the bag.

Third time lucky and we are called Trinity the biblical three

Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:49 pm  

vastman wrote:

Third time lucky and we are called Trinity the biblical three

Let’s hope so. We’ve pulled some unexpected but good wins out of the bag when expectation was low.

As I was writing out the team I almost put Murphy in at right wing. I don’t think we will beat saints down the middle so much like Catalans I think we need to play deep and involve our edges as much as possible.

Murphy has a lot of potential and I look at Johnstone who was 19 when he got given his chance of regular game time. Murphy is already 20 I believe and he needs the opportunity to do the same.

Pending any reason TJ or Lineham can’t play he may find chances slim. Maybe he needs to be loaned out to championship to get some games under his belt.

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Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:51 pm  

vastman wrote:

Not for me, he hasn't but we all see it differently.

He has been top of the stats. Anyone replacing him has to do a shift.
If you drop Crowther to bench as well Sts will just run straight up the middle with wild abandon

Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:02 pm  

PopTart wrote:

He has been top of the stats. Anyone replacing him has to do a shift.
If you drop Crowther to bench as well Sts will just run straight up the middle with wild abandon

Arona you may have a point as I was really 50/50 whether to include him however your really clutching with Crowther I’m afraid. Crowther is good in defence but to suggest that saints will run through the middle of us without him in is unbelievable. We have many options at LF and although Crowther is good for early defence he doesn’t seem to offer much else beyond that. Not that it’s a bad thing but I see Crowther as more of a squad player.

Much like Annakin he will get some games and put in 1000% but he I don’t think he will tie down a position long term. I would be happy to be proved wrong though and will cheer him on like everyone wearing the shirt.

Re: Squads for Friday : Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:10 pm  

[quote="PopTart"]He has been top of the stats. Anyone replacing him has to do a shift.
If you drop Crowther to bench as well Sts will just run straight up the middle with wild abandon[/quote]

That's ridiculously OTT, he's not that good, nobody is.