Re: Clash of styles! : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:25 pm  

Big lads mate wrote:

Until we win anything in SL or go on a mega unbeaten run we will always have the basement club stigma, it’s Wakey and for some reason most pundits have the same mentality, we need to prove them wrong, we’ve made a very good start off the field so now need to do it on the field, it still baffles me when you have Cas and Shudds with poor squads rated higher, but it is what it is, bring on SL

I agree. We still carry that stigma, which is easily jumped upon by the likes of Wilkin, and other lazy Sky pundits who don't actually know what is happening around the game in general.

Re: Clash of styles! : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:31 pm  

Sit that numpty Wilkin on one of those plastic seats with all his Saints mates when they come to BV!

Re: Clash of styles! : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:41 pm  

It’s the Laziness of the punditry that just baffles me as to how they just scrape on by. You wonder why RL is lower than a snakes belly in the U.K. The NRL has Joey Johns, Brad Fittler, Billy Slater, Cam Smith et al detailing the team’s and their strengths/weaknesses etc. SL has these Doughnuts, Wilkin an above average player who thinks he’s more articulate than what he really is and JJB who sounds like Lenny from of Mice and Men. Right laugh.

Re: Clash of styles! : Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:20 pm  

Richard1 wrote:

Wilkin has obviously not seen Cas play the last couple of weeks? Barring Milnes they are just about at full strength. And look way off. Huddersfield have had to pull in Richardson on loan 2 weeks before the season starts which doesn't look good after losing to Fev. FC won't be up to much either, despite Mylers claim of a change in culture. I think we will be better than those 3 sides. Anything more will be a bonus. If Leigh or Salford suffer injury problems we could sneak above them as they are thin on depth in my opinion.

I’ve been cautiously not getting hyped up with Wakey, having watched them for many years and been let down on many occasions, but having watched them over the last few weeks I honestly believe that we are definitely a mid table team and possibly even better with a strong tail wind

Re: Clash of styles! : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:15 am  

Pat Bateman wrote:

It’s the Laziness of the punditry that just baffles me as to how they just scrape on by. You wonder why RL is lower than a snakes belly in the U.K. The NRL has Joey Johns, Brad Fittler, Billy Slater, Cam Smith et al detailing the team’s and their strengths/weaknesses etc. SL has these Doughnuts, Wilkin an above average player who thinks he’s more articulate than what he really is and JJB who sounds like Lenny from of Mice and Men. Right laugh.

I agree. It's as if some of them don't do any research and work around the scenes. They only seem to know about what is the buzz at this moment in time. Stevo was just as bad back in the day.

Re: Clash of styles! : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:40 am  

Richard1 wrote:

I agree. It's as if some of them don't do any research and work around the scenes. They only seem to know about what is the buzz at this moment in time. Stevo was just as bad back in the day.

I think they only really look at teams like Wigan, Saints, now KR more in depth and just shuffle round the rest. I would suggest Wilkin etc don’t even know who we have signed. SL rookie of year, champ player and young player of year, two England internationals, a starter from the team finished second last season, a quality half who was expected to play for England and hoping to get back on track. All very positive signings.

They’re not exclusive to that. Look at the Boxing Day game. SL socials posted a few times after about Leeds including clips of Sivo to promote Leeds. Trinity didn’t get the same representation.

The boy way to change that is like KR, sit up near the top of the table.

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Re: Clash of styles! : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:53 am  

No one really knows what we'll be like. Including us.
Both Wilkin and JJB speak very well. If you heard JJB speak about Rob Burrow at the GB Lions dinner this weekend you'd know.

However on tv they are there to spark interest. Sometimes they say things to be controversial. It's just the way it is.
Rather than moan about Wilkin we need to show him what we can do. He'll soon start saying good things about us if we hammer Leeds and he'll be winding the Leeds fans up.

Re: Clash of styles! : Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:04 am  

PopTart wrote:

No one really knows what we'll be like. Including us.
Both Wilkin and JJB speak very well. If you heard JJB speak about Rob Burrow at the GB Lions dinner this weekend you'd know.

However on tv they are there to spark interest. Sometimes they say things to be controversial. It's just the way it is.
Rather than moan about Wilkin we need to show him what we can do. He'll soon start saying good things about us if we hammer Leeds and he'll be winding the Leeds fans up.

TBH Poptart I can’t disagree with anything you said, well put, a very balanced view.