Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:18 am  

hazzard wrote:

As crunch time draws ever closer, Trinity can ensure SL rugby next season, if they can overcome and out of form Warrington on Friday.
Having occupied 2nd spot in SL for the whole season, their league form has dipped alarmingly and they have only won 2 from their last 10 games (against us and London) and whilst they were surprise winners of the Challenge Cup, they are looking like the outsiders for the play offs.
No doubt they will want a win to try and wrestle 2nd spot from Wigan but, with Wigan playing Catalan this week, that looks very unlikely.

One eye (at least) will be on the KR v London game but, we have the chance to secure SL safety regardless and with how much our defence has improved of late, we do have a chance.

There were a couple of injury concerns yesterday and assuming that he's fit and allowed to play against his parent club, we may see the return of Atkins.

I dont think there will be any other changes but, for me Hampshire would be more of a handful than Brough in the halves

Come on Trin, lets get the job done.

Didn't Bill go off injured?

Some warrington fans are saying ryan cant play if fit he would for me but can he

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:27 am  

BarnsleyGull wrote:

Or Joe Arundel.......

pretty sure arundel and crowther were both in last weeks squad

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 7:09 am  

Think we have defended and played a lot better with out Arundel and Crowther in the team just my view before I get shot down

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:06 am  

alegend wrote:

Can not see us getting a win at Wires think they will have a lot stronger team out than they did against Salford. Price would also be eyeing up the talent we have got in case we go down.If we do drop it as got to be the best squad of players ever to be in a team that gets relegated

Your last few lines says it all to me this season ,even barring a run of injuries we have underperformed massively .Im positive we will avoid the dreaded drop, but as a club we need to leave no stone unturned as the reason for this and take measures to ensure our continued survival .Funny that only a few months ago I was hoping for a good cup run and now all I’m hoping for is for us to be in super league next season.I know we’ve had shocking luck with injuries but there are more fundamental reasons why week in week out we look like a team that’s just been put together .Against Wigan we had a team on the park that on paper should have blown Wigan away after playing such free flowing rugby at HKR ,but for me the spark is just not there.For me Its like getting a Porsche and running it on paraffin watching wakey at the minute .

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:50 am  

Don't understand how anyone can have expected us to have beaten Wigan (form team of the league) easily.

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:49 am  

thebeagle wrote:

Don't understand how anyone can have expected us to have beaten Wigan (form team of the league) easily.

I don't think many expected it until into the 2nd half of the actually game. It was then ours to throw away. We obliged.

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:32 pm  

thebeagle wrote:

Don't understand how anyone can have expected us to have beaten Wigan (form team of the league) easily.

To say we have the strongest squad in decades and IMHO that wigan squad couldn’t lace the boots of by gone Wigan teams yet are second in the table it doesn’t look well to me about the inconsistency’s of the teams below I’m afraid to say

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Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:47 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

To say we have the strongest squad in decades and IMHO that wigan squad couldn’t lace the boots of by gone Wigan teams yet are second in the table it doesn’t look well to me about the inconsistency’s of the teams below I’m afraid to say

You say it yourself.
Wigan are second. Even with a full team no one was predicting that for us.
They had their full strength back line playing 6 of which are internationals.
We had one player who had played 1 game against France.

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:23 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

Your last few lines says it all to me this season ,even barring a run of injuries we have underperformed massively .Im positive we will avoid the dreaded drop, but as a club we need to leave no stone unturned as the reason for this and take measures to ensure our continued survival .Funny that only a few months ago I was hoping for a good cup run and now all I’m hoping for is for us to be in super league next season.I know we’ve had shocking luck with injuries but there are more fundamental reasons why week in week out we look like a team that’s just been put together .Against Wigan we had a team on the park that on paper should have blown Wigan away after playing such free flowing rugby at HKR ,but for me the spark is just not there.For me Its like getting a Porsche and running it on paraffin watching wakey at the minute .

Re: Next up Wire (a) 19.45 Friday : Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:31 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

Your last few lines says it all to me this season ,even barring a run of injuries we have underperformed massively .Im positive we will avoid the dreaded drop, but as a club we need to leave no stone unturned as the reason for this and take measures to ensure our continued survival .Funny that only a few months ago I was hoping for a good cup run and now all I’m hoping for is for us to be in super league next season.I know we’ve had shocking luck with injuries but there are more fundamental reasons why week in week out we look like a team that’s just been put together .Against Wigan we had a team on the park that on paper should have blown Wigan away after playing such free flowing rugby at HKR ,but for me the spark is just not there.For me Its like getting a Porsche and running it on paraffin watching wakey at the minute .

The fundamental reason for our season has been the unbelievable injury run. I can't understand how anyone could say anything else when you list them. And now tupou gone for the last two matches. No coach could defy that with a squad like ours. However, I will concede the CC has made a fundamental error of judgement in not at least giving Hampshire a crack at 7, given Brough"s pretty poor displays. I would definitely play Hampshire there at Warrington. Brough had another pretty indifferent game v Wigan. He looks that little bit slower in thought and deed and his legs ain't what they used to be. Even the kicking game is off.
Warrington is a game we stand a small chance in and I see little to lose in seeing if Hampshire s speed there improves us.... before what might be million pound #3