Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:30 pm  

LardoCabin wrote:

Thought FCs reserves did pretty well against a full strength Wakefield team.

Think Hull will go a lot better this year than a lot expect, they have a strong squad yet people are basing there opinions on performances last season when they had a freakish injury crisis.

Wow, Hull have got a fair old reserve team with the like of Kelly, Connor & Shaul.

Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:30 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Thanks for a proper response unlike others. Thing is I’ve never actually “this is the right way” or “this is the wrong way”. Just thrown something out in relation to the upcoming interchange ruling which is probably the most significant change for this season on the pitch.

I agree it is and it's been brought up a few times on our forum. My opinion is, I don't think it will make much difference to how we use props because we'll still go with 4 in the 17, I still think they'll interchange the same way but coaches won't go with backs on the bench and will probably get back rowers to do longer minutes. I think maybe more tactics will come into play in how interchanges are used and who's on the bench depending what team your playing. Tbh though, there were so many games you'd watch where teams would have a couple of interchanges to go with 10 minutes left and coaches sometimes looked like they'd just stick who was left on the bench for the sake of it, usually the spare back and a backrower. it's going to be interesting though to see how teams play the 8 interchanges rule, whether they'll say go with 80-minute hookers more, similar with backrowers.

Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:16 pm  

LardoCabin wrote:

Thought FCs reserves did pretty well against a full strength Wakefield team.

Think Hull will go a lot better this year than a lot expect, they have a strong squad yet people are basing there opinions on performances last season when they had a freakish injury crisis.

Wow two days for that, I’m so glad you bothered.

So who did we play last year, your ladies team?

Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:39 pm  

vastman wrote:

Wow two days for that, I’m so glad you bothered.

So who did we play last year, your ladies team?

Sorry to upset you Vastman but it's just a fact, don't throw teddy out of cot again.

Not sure who your referring to when you say 'Your' my team (The mighty giants) beat wakefield 3 out of 4 times last season after been told your pack would steam roll us, yet they were none existent? Infact, wakefields very own Matty English showed your forwards up.

Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:50 pm  

LardoCabin wrote:

Sorry to upset you Vastman but it's just a fact, don't throw teddy out of cot again.

Not sure who your referring to when you say 'Your' my team (The mighty giants) beat wakefield 3 out of 4 times last season after been told your pack would steam roll us, yet they were none existent? Infact, wakefields very own Matty English showed your forwards up.

Are you sure about that? because we beat you early on 22-4, our pack dominated yours. Beat you in the Super8's 16-42 at your place, Trinity's pack was even more dominant and that was without Fifita, 3 forwards all doing over 100m, Pauli Pauli doing 153m. In between, you just beat us 22-25, which could have gone either way, except Brough landed his goals and Finn missed for BJB's try with about 10 to go but set up an exciting finish anyway even though we agonisingly lost.

The only game out of the whole lot where you could close to claiming what you did was when you beat us 40-28. Even the 22-14 CC loss wasn't down to a non-existent pack, you lot just outplayed us in that 2nd half. So 3-2 in all games to you, well done.

By the way, I'm not going to talk young Matty English down, he played well in the CC but apart from that game he played in 2 others making 71 meters & 50, so I'm not sure why the need to bring him up and try to put our forwards down after one good display.

Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:15 pm  

Shifty Cat wrote:

:? Are you sure about that? because we beat you early on 22-4, our pack dominated yours. Beat you in the Super8's 16-42 at your place, Trinity's pack was even more dominant and that was without Fifita, 3 forwards all doing over 100m, Pauli Pauli doing 153m. In between, you just beat us 22-25, which could have gone either way, except Brough landed his goals and Finn missed for BJB's try with about 10 to go but set up an exciting finish anyway even though we agonisingly lost.

The only game out of the whole lot where you could close to claiming what you did was when you beat us 40-28. Even the 22-14 CC loss wasn't down to a non-existent pack, you lot just outplayed us in that 2nd half. So 3-2 in all games to you, well done.

By the way, I'm not going to talk young Matty English down, he played well in the CC but apart from that game he played in 2 others making 71 meters & 50, so I'm not sure why the need to bring him up and try to put our forwards down after one good display.

3 out of 5 then

Every time we play you your pack is beaten by ours yet all you do is bang on about your pack, truth is your pack will get beaten up by the likes of Saints, Cas, Hull etc there soft from what I have seen you are no where near them in terms of your forwards. Games you have beaten us, you have done with outperforming us on the flanks.

Not too sure how you can say Matty English has had one good display, he was fantastic in every game he played for us last season.

Not sure how you will do this season but I certainly would put us up there in that top 5 before Wakefield, just don`t get all the hype at all, sorry just my opinion.

Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:27 pm  

LardoCabin wrote:

3 out of 5 then

Every time we play you your pack is beaten by ours yet all you do is bang on about your pack, truth is your pack will get beaten up by the likes of Saints, Cas, Hull etc there soft from what I have seen you are no where near them in terms of your forwards. Games you have beaten us, you have done with outperforming us on the flanks.

Not too sure how you can say Matty English has had one good display, he was fantastic in every game he played for us last season.

Not sure how you will do this season but I certainly would put us up there in that top 5 before Wakefield, just don`t get all the hype at all, sorry just my opinion.

It's not hype, it's the consistency
of the last 3 seasons. 8th, 5th and then 5th again.

I think that warrants a level of confidence , dont you

Of course, a ball hasn't been passed or kicked in the new season so, nobody actually knows who will finish where but past form is the only barometer that we have.

Huddersfield will be in the top 8 and if everything goes well injury wise, you may even mak a charge at a semi final spot. Again, we'll have to wait and see.

Re: Today's friendlies : Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:50 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

It's not hype, it's the consistency
of the last 3 seasons. 8th, 5th and then 5th again.

I think that warrants a level of confidence , dont you .

Does it? Leeds finished 5th twice in a row and still get stick about it. Wakefield finish 5th twice, the latter of which because the other teams basically gave up, and its some sort of great achievement. You were in the mix to finish bottom 4 with 2 games to go last year against a Leeds team that most agree was the worst performing Leeds squad in our SL history against what your fans are calling your best built squad in SL history.

Finish 5th this year when 5th means something, rather than when Catalans don’t give a damn because they have the cup or Hull have given up because 4th is out of reach and THEN people might be impressed.

And that isn’t trolling before you usual suspect start, that’s just reality. 8 out of the 12 SL teams have won silverware in the last 5 years Wakefield boasting about finishing OUTSIDE the crucial positions ISN’T impressive.

Re: Today's friendlies : Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:41 am  

LardoCabin wrote:

3 out of 5 then

Every time we play you your pack is beaten by ours yet all you do is bang on about your pack, truth is your pack will get beaten up by the likes of Saints, Cas, Hull etc there soft from what I have seen you are no where near them in terms of your forwards. Games you have beaten us, you have done with outperforming us on the flanks.

Not too sure how you can say Matty English has had one good display, he was fantastic in every game he played for us last season.

Not sure how you will do this season but I certainly would put us up there in that top 5 before Wakefield, just don`t get all the hype at all, sorry just my opinion.

Roll your eyes all you want mate but you talked about facts and then couldn't even get the number of games we played right and more specifically how many times we beat you.

It's your opinion that your pack beats ours every time but the evidence suggests that's completely wrong. How can a team get spanked 16-42 and not be dominated in the forwards, that's frankly ridiculous. Similar when you got beat at the start of last season 22-4 , your pack again got bullied. Tbh I can't believe you're trying to paint it any other way, saying we won those games by some distance even though your forwards were on top.

You say that all I do, which I'd love to see how I've done this, is bang on about our pack but I think you'll find that I bang on about our backs as well, I'm balanced like that.

By the way, I brought up Matty English having one good display against us because you said this

wakefields very own Matty English showed your forwards up.

linking him to his displays against us and his one good game he had, why should I talk about anything else.

Don't really care how Hudds do this season tbh but I'd put us above you because we simply have a better team and squad. Your pack looks weak. Just my opinion hey.

Re: Today's friendlies : Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:06 am  

ThePrinter wrote:

Does it? Leeds finished 5th twice in a row and still get stick about it. Wakefield finish 5th twice, the latter of which because the other teams basically gave up, and its some sort of great achievement. You were in the mix to finish bottom 4 with 2 games to go last year against a Leeds team that most agree was the worst performing Leeds squad in our SL history against what your fans are calling your best built squad in SL history.

Finish 5th this year when 5th means something, rather than when Catalans don’t give a damn because they have the cup or Hull have given up because 4th is out of reach and THEN people might be impressed.

And that isn’t trolling before you usual suspect start, that’s just reality. 8 out of the 12 SL teams have won silverware in the last 5 years Wakefield boasting about finishing OUTSIDE the crucial positions ISN’T impressive.

How was he boasting? he just pointed out we've been consistent, my interpretation of boasting and yours must be miles apart but that's not a surprise really.

Honestly, If you can't see the difference between where Wakefield has been in previous seasons and decades and where Leeds have and take out of that why it's a measure of improvement and relative success since CC took over, you're on the wind-up. Considering we don't spend the full cap and don't have any marquee players etc, it has been a fairly amazing turn around from where we were. If you want to $hit on that, which you obviously do - crack on mate.

When Leeds finished 5th twice and won the title, even your own fans thought it was a farce that you could coast in the regular season and then turn up and win the GF, not that I've read anyone still giving you stick about it. Anyway not sure what that has to do with Trinity apart from the finishing positions under a different structure.

Also, we finished 5th because other teams gave up, alright Printer whatever makes you feel better - the fact is you've no proof for what you say apart from it fitting in with your anti-Trinity agenda. By the way, did Hudds give up as well because they finished 5th after 23 rounds and had a chance of still making the 4?

You can say you're not trolling all you want but when you just pull out Trinity supporters posts like your getting paid for it, it is what it is. Boring.