Re: Warrington bank holiday : Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:31 pm  

jools wrote:

I think we need to play our best team regardless- they need the flipping practice!
What’s more of a shame is we let wigan take a week off this week by losing to Leeds last week.
Salford look definite to be finishing fifth.
Providing we can manage to actually beat Wakefield it’s looking like Cas or Leeds at home. Just hope we didn’t finish 4th as I don’t fancy taking on salford at the moment.
Leeds or Cas at home is a much nicer prospect.

Yes Salford look particularly dangerous at the moment. Finishing 3rd would mean you would definitely go to Wigan in week 2 if you win your first game (even as a Wigan fan I imagine that would be preferable to going to St Helens given their recent playoff record).

Re: Warrington bank holiday : Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:34 pm  

jools wrote:

I can’t remember being that disappointed with a win in a long time. Not just the fact we gave away such a large lead but the nature of the way we did so by doing dumb stuff over and over again. Three times throwing a completely unnecessary intercepted ball over the top, when all we had to do was keep the ball and complete our set. I said we needed to get senior on that wing, we lacked pace and it showed. Gifting them possession in our own half by trying to offload unecessarily and just switching off defensively because we thought we had the game in the bag.
My mum said to me after they scored just after half time we need to score again, I said no we just need to not concede any more points! And we did the complete opposite. Conceding that number of points is abysmal, and mostly off our gifts is even more so. I’m afraid I can’t see us progressing through the first round of the playoffs as we seem to be going backwards!
Says a lot when the Warrington fans were smiling more than we were at the end.

You know what, due to living in Wales & thankfully Giants have been on TV a fair few times this season so I've managed to watch them all, we've played some very good rugby in thise games & some very bad rugby in which its had me screaming at the tv when we do thise stupid plays - like throw it when we just need to complete the set, dont do anything silly, just play basic rugby, sounds like today from what you said we carried on being silly because of the lead we had built up, we were trying passes that simply weren't on, you can't do that in the playoffs otherwise it'll be goodnight, especially if we play Salford, they are the team I want us to avoid playing, they've impressed me no end these last few games, today they blew away Castleford with ease.

Re: Warrington bank holiday : Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:06 pm  

WelshGiant wrote:

You know what, due to living in Wales & thankfully Giants have been on TV a fair few times this season so I've managed to watch them all, we've played some very good rugby in thise games & some very bad rugby in which its had me screaming at the tv when we do thise stupid plays - like throw it when we just need to complete the set, dont do anything silly, just play basic rugby, sounds like today from what you said we carried on being silly because of the lead we had built up, we were trying passes that simply weren't on, you can't do that in the playoffs otherwise it'll be goodnight, especially if we play Salford, they are the team I want us to avoid playing, they've impressed me no end these last few games, today they blew away Castleford with ease.

When we played salford at magic we played the game- esp the first half on our terms and we one that without too much of a scare. At their place we started of sluggish and lethargic and they played the game how they wanted it played instead of how we did and the game got away from us quite quickly.
salford are currently full of confidence. We are unbeaten at home apart from by saints but we seem to be going backwards rather than building towards the playoffs. This idea someone had of resting players on Friday against Wakefield is the wrong thing to do for me if we end up playing salford in the next round. Leeds were nothing special at headingley and Cas blow hot and cold. I would rather play either of those two, both more beatable at home at the moment.

[Durham Giant]

Re: Warrington bank holiday : Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:38 pm  

I would like to play Cas or Leeds followed by. saints.
Wigan look better than Saints atm

Re: Warrington bank holiday : Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:20 am  

Leeds will definitely beat Cas and take 6th, Cas are totally shot for this year. Yup we now need to beat Wakefield, who are running hot and have nothing lose, while Wigan and Saints can relax and prepare for the playoffs as they see fit. Can work both ways, if we win well AND don't have injuries and then get a rest it can be good, but if we win and get injuries or worse lose, it will not bode well for whats to come. What is the news on Fages? are we going to have another Wembley where he has been hobbled for the big game, cost us the cup final and would cost us the playoffs too.

I've just watched the Watson interview post warrington and i'll give one thing for Watson he sure will talk up players who buy into his thinking. King playing at international standard for the last few games?! Has he been watching the same games i've been watching or some alternate reality? Although he talked up Wardle coming back it was clear there is no clearing of the air there, 'I've spoken to Jake on the phone and told him he will be back to preseason training with us for next year' and also saying 'Jake is aspiring to Toby's level', talk about a put down. He is twice the player King is but didn't want to follow Watson's rules, it's clear its Watson's way or the high way, which i don't have a problem with, you have to be like that as a coach.