Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:06 am  

christopher wrote:

He’s had 2 years out of the game and wasn’t expecting to be first choice, and he’s still only young. He is skilful but it’s obviously going to take some time especially with a whole new dpine which he has never played with.

Scapegoating Walker is not what we need. Give Sezer and Austin the ball in that second half and we win that game. Hookers all try and be a young Roby, or Daz Clarke but are nowhere near that level. We need an old fashioned 9 who can pass to Sezer consistently on attack. That’s all we flipping need…

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:08 am  

Shabino wrote:

Scapegoating Walker is not what we need. Give Sezer and Austin the ball in that second half and we win that game. Hookers all try and be a young Roby, or Daz Clarke but are nowhere near that level. We need an old fashioned 9 who can pass to Sezer consistently on attack. That’s all we flipping need…

Weve got one in Johnson IMO.

I hope he gets some game time this year as he looks all class, but he’ll probably come in for a few games not set the world alite and people will want him dropped

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:43 am  

christopher wrote:

Weve got one in Johnson IMO.

I hope he gets some game time this year as he looks all class, but he’ll probably come in for a few games not set the world alite and people will want him dropped

Get him in now! But give him at least 3 month run. We can’t move forwards with Leeming /Dwyer combo

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:14 am  

Agree with the views here that this is not about 1 or 2 players. Last night for mine only young Tindall ran the ball in hard and fast which late on resulted in the Pearce high tackle, yellow card.
Virtually all game their defensive line ran harder at us than the ball carrier did.
We still could not really create anything v 12 men compounded by really dense play like the tip tackle by Smith.

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:47 am  

Shabino wrote:

Scapegoating Walker is not what we need. Give Sezer and Austin the ball in that second half and we win that game. Hookers all try and be a young Roby, or Daz Clarke but are nowhere near that level. We need an old fashioned 9 who can pass to Sezer consistently on attack. That’s all we flipping need…

It's not about scapegoating walker, as I don't think he's the reason we lost. I'm more questioning whether he will ever be the reason we will win.

To me, he came through as an exciting ball runner, who had a Sam Tomkins-esque step. I think over the years, through injury or being found out, we've realised he actually has no pace. In fact, for a fullback, he's quite slow... Without the illusive running in his game, there's not much skill to back it up.

Fullback is too important a position to be carrying someone who isn't up to it...

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:43 pm  

exiledrhino wrote:

It's not about scapegoating walker, as I don't think he's the reason we lost. I'm more questioning whether he will ever be the reason we will win.

To me, he came through as an exciting ball runner, who had a Sam Tomkins-esque step. I think over the years, through injury or being found out, we've realised he actually has no pace. In fact, for a fullback, he's quite slow... Without the illusive running in his game, there's not much skill to back it up.

Fullback is too important a position to be carrying someone who isn't up to it...

Again it’s 3 games in after a 2 year lay off, I’m sure the plan was to ease him in gradually but obviously that has suffered s blow because of Myler.

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:03 pm  

We need to win and win by a big comfortable margin to get our season back on track.

Walker
Fusitua Newman Sutcliffe Handley
Austin Sezer
Oledzki Leeming Prior
Gannon Martin
Smith

Tetevano Dwyer Thompson Donaldson

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:17 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

We need to win and win by a big comfortable margin to get our season back on track.

Walker
Fusitua Newman Sutcliffe Handley
Austin Sezer
Oledzki Leeming Prior
Gannon Martin
Smith

Tetevano Dwyer Thompson Donaldson

I think we just need a win, comfortable or not

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 2:47 pm  

To be fair, we have been poor with the ball, but aside from a portion of the Wigan game we've been pretty solid defensively, and we've played 3 of the strongest teams in the league with a patched up back line and back row. Even with a fully fit squad, we're at least a level below St Helens, so it's too early to write this season off.

Re: RD 4 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Fri Feb 25, 2022 7:22 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

To be fair, we have been poor with the ball, but aside from a portion of the Wigan game we've been pretty solid defensively, and we've played 3 of the strongest teams in the league with a patched up back line and back row. Even with a fully fit squad, we're at least a level below St Helens, so it's too early to write this season off.

It’s a good point to make. Our next 3 games are Wakefield, Hull FC and Salford. If we pick up 3 out of 3 wins from those games as we should do and need to do, things won’t be looking too bad.