Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:19 pm  

So Jimmy's philosophy was: Hmm, I can't decide whether to play Blythe or Ryan. I know, I'll just stick one of them on the wing!

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:23 pm  

Ryan will probably get Blythe bench spot.

Notice there's no Lee smith for Wakey. Another player who had a good game against us last time out.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:27 pm  

If we don't beat that Wakey squad, we don't deserve to go up.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:36 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

If we don't beat that Wakey squad, we don't deserve to go up.

I think that goes without saying ha

Just to add, I think Nielsen played on the wing in one if the Grand finals? I know that he's played many times there anyway so no lack of experience.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:38 pm  

Surprised to see Lauaki retain his place after being an utter liability against Leigh and having zero impact against Fax. Expect Wakey to gain easy yards as he gives away another couple of soft penalties.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:48 pm  

Plenty of players in that Wakey squad that are good enough to hurt us.
Mullalley in particular worries me, our forwards had no answer to him last time around.

Despite everything that has gone wrong for wakey this season, and even more so this week in particular, I'm still expecting them to win. It's set up perfectly for them to overcome all of this season's troubles and emerge victorious on the other side, I can practically hear the journos writing the articles already.

Or maybe I'm just a pessimist

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:55 pm  

Against Halifax it was very noticeable how many times they got a quick PTB and ran at Lauaki and broke the line with ease, either with a quick off load to man backing up or cos he was still getting back the 10 or 8 depending on the ref

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:58 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Despite everything that has gone wrong for wakey this season, and even more so this week in particular, I'm still expecting them to win. It's set up perfectly for them to overcome all of this season's troubles and emerge victorious on the other side, I can practically hear the journos writing the articles already.

Or maybe I'm just a pessimist

I think that's a bit pessimistic, purely because there is a good journalistic narrative for either team winning - it's that type of game. I think you could write an article about either team winning before KO that would be pretty engaging just because it's that type of game and both clubs have been through a lot.

Luckily the real story is written on the pitch.

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:15 pm  

Adam O’Brien, Adam Sidlow, Adrian Purtell, Alex Mellor, Dale Ferguson, Dane Nielsen, Danny Addy, Danny Williams, Epalahame Lauaki, Harry Siejka, Jake Mullaney, Jay Pitts, Jean-Philippe Baile, Lee Gaskell, Matt Ryan, Matty Blythe, Paul Clough, Steve Crossley, Tom Olbison

Seems an odd one.

Mullaney
Blythe
Nielsen
Purtell
Williams
Gaskell
Seijka
Sidlow
O'brien
Clough
Pitts
Olbison
Addy

Ferguson
Ryan
Crossley
Lauaki

Do we think, must just be going do size with lauaki as he does bugger all else, baile and Mellor to miss for me, hoping we would have seen Fleming instead of lauaki but we also allowed samir to go on loan who I thought was doing very well considering .

Re: Million Pound Game - Wakefield vs Bradford : Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:57 pm  

broadybull87 wrote:

Seems an odd one.

Mullaney
Blythe
Nielsen
Purtell
Williams
Gaskell
Seijka
Sidlow
O'brien
Clough
Pitts
Olbison
Addy

Ferguson
Ryan
Crossley
Lauaki

Just out of interest, why would you put Blythe on the wing? He has plenty of experience in the centre and Nielsen has played on the wing at a very high level (NRL Grand Final). Plus Nielsen has done bugger all in the centre since arriving.