Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:37 pm  

Prince Buster wrote:

Salford have selected a very strong squad. In my opinion everyone of their 1 to 7 is better than everyone our equivalent players. Will need to be a massive improvement to get a win out of this game. It could also be a very long night and our points difference could be increased significantly. Hope I am wrong but the bookies giving us 14 start think we have little chance.

Salford are a decent side.

However, since we beat them at BV they have only won one game (verses 12 man Shudds), last week.
We still need to have our "best game" and hope that they have an off night.

With Saints, Catalan and then Leigh to come after this one, we simply have to win.

This is already the "night cap" after the last chance saloon.

Hoping for a miracle but, expecting the trap doo to open a little wider.

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:20 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Salford are a decent side.

However, since we beat them at BV they have only won one game (verses 12 man Shudds), last week.
We still need to have our "best game" and hope that they have an off night.

With Saints, Catalan and then Leigh to come after this one, we simply have to win.

This is already the "night cap" after the last chance saloon.

Hoping for a miracle but, expecting the trap doo to open a little wider.

We're not beating Salford. We've had our purple patch and it's back to the standard we have shown for the majority of the season. For all his effort Lino hinders the attack, he will still be picked regardless. Proctor should be nowhere near the squad after last week's 'efforts'. Bowes should be playing too.

Hopefully Eseh replaces Proctor, Pitts moves to loose, Griffin to second row, he got caught out a few timesat centre against Cas. The rest will likely be as they were against Cas rightly or wrongly.

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:23 pm  

Betfred only offering 1/5 for a Salford win. £50 to win a tenner! Is it really that certain?

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:29 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Betfred only offering 1/5 for a Salford win. £50 to win a tenner! Is it really that certain?

With the fixtures that we have left, the opposition being 1/5 is probably as close as we have to "a fighting chance".
It's like clinging on to the last fibre of a rope that is breaking.

Yeah, we're going to fall but, you cant let go.

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:47 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Betfred only offering 1/5 for a Salford win. £50 to win a tenner! Is it really that certain?

They were ruthless against Huddersfield and we lost to Castleford. I'd imagine 1/5 is a fair price, judging how our season has gone. That said I'll probably have a couple of quid on Wakefield.

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:04 pm  

Well surprised after 3 try’s in reserves that Kershaw didn’t get a nod and was thinking Salabio may get a run after a try in reserves. I was hoping to watch the reserves game to see how a few went but it’s not on trinity tv yet.

Anyway looking at the squad I think I’d go with a strong starting big pack (Salford aren’t the biggest up the middle) and make a couple of changes out wide for extra mobility in defence as Salford will throw it out wide and try work our edges. Griffin went great guns in attack but a few times in defence got caught out so I’d put him in SR where he can still run at edges but can defend where he’s recently been used to in terms of position.

Jowitt
Senior
Croft
Lyne
Franco
Dagger
Gale
Fifita
Hood
Atoni
Ashurst
Griffin
Whitbread

Kay
Bowden
Eseh
Pitts

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:26 pm  

I feel with this one we are in must win territory. Yes Salford are a decent team but they've been out of form up until last week and with 3 of the top 4 sides to follow it's vital we get the points in this one.

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:14 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I'm OK with Griffin in the centre though he did miss a few tackles.
Ultimately, we need the ball in his hands wherever he plays

At halfback it should always be Gale over Lino.

After watching the game again on Trinity TV i disagree. Linos defence alone should see him in the team. I would have him kicking goals as well.

We dont need wholesale changes, we made enough chances against Cas to score 30 odd points. Our 1-5 just need to be much slicker with the ball.

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:36 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Well surprised after 3 try’s in reserves that Kershaw didn’t get a nod and was thinking Salabio may get a run after a try in reserves. I was hoping to watch the reserves game to see how a few went but it’s not on trinity tv yet.

Cas have released highlights of the game if you search youtube.

Re: Salford vs Wakefield - Game discussion : Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:43 pm  

captaincaveman wrote:

After watching the game again on Trinity TV i disagree. Linos defence alone should see him in the team. I would have him kicking goals as well.

We dont need wholesale changes, we made enough chances against Cas to score 30 odd points. Our 1-5 just need to be much slicker with the ball.

After watching the game on trinity tv I have to disagree. Miller targeted the right edge and engaged Lino amongst others which left us stretched on numerous ocassions.

Added the loss in direction on a couple of sets and imo poor field kicking which predictably went high into corner Im not keen.

Lino is full of effort and that’s great but as I’ve said for years. I still remain to be convinced by him. He’s played with Dagger, Kay, Smith, Langi and now Gale as his partner and only had 1 good game (even Gale completely ran the show). Dagger would bring more balance at 6 I feel and less predictability.

Jowitt ran some great lines around the edges in the first half and was very good in attack. For some reason it wasn’t quite as effective second half.

2 - 5 do need to be better more so in defence. Hence why Croft comes back in (didn’t concede a try when he played centre for 4 games!!) and Franco comes back in.

Lyne was poor in defence more in his positioning and shooting out of the line. But we only have him and Croft so he stays in. Unless Croft and Griffin play centres.

We need to change things up though.