Sheffield Eagles home : Tue Aug 06, 2024 7:22 pm  

Match Officials

Wakefield Trinity v Sheffield Eagles
09th August, KO: 20:00
Referee: A. Moore
Reserve Referee: A. Belafonte
Touch Judge 1: E. Mccarthy
Touch Judge 2: A. Cameron
Time Keeper: G. Kershaw

Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:41 pm  

Wow
Harry's brother - the singing reserve ref.....

Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Wed Aug 07, 2024 12:03 pm  

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Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Wed Aug 07, 2024 12:05 pm  

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Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Wed Aug 07, 2024 1:07 pm  

Be a tough game this, we're a bit lighter in the forwards than normal so it won't be our usual physically dominant game but with a couple of our older heads back I'm pretty confident of the win.

Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:04 pm  

I would guess that Atoni comes in for Bowden and Thornley in for Croft as Straight swaps. Gale will play 6 with Max at 7 and I think Walmsley will move back to full back with Jerry playing on the wing.

Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:57 pm  

Suspect it'll be a very different team than the one that played at Dewsbury. Agree with you altofts - he could keep Max at halfback and move Walmsley to the back. Or he could keep Hood at half (three reasons: he went alright there last week, Gale's back so he won't need to kick!, and we have two other very good hookers in the squad who can rotate). Either way I think we'll have too much for them again, but I'd like to see:

Jowitt
McGillvary
Thornley
Pratt
Olpherts
Gale
Hood
Bain
Doyle
Rodwell
Ashurst
Griffin
Pitts

Smith
Atoni
Shaw
Boothroyd

As for Sheffield, they're missing Thackeray so Hansen will play in the halves. Matty Marsh at fullback - he hasn't played against us yet and he's their in-form player so I hope Powell's done his research on him. Their structure changes a lot when he plays.

Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Thu Aug 08, 2024 3:31 pm  

Butcher wrote:

Suspect it'll be a very different team than the one that played at Dewsbury. Agree with you altofts - he could keep Max at halfback and move Walmsley to the back. Or he could keep Hood at half (three reasons: he went alright there last week, Gale's back so he won't need to kick!, and we have two other very good hookers in the squad who can rotate). Either way I think we'll have too much for them again, but I'd like to see:

Jowitt
McGillvary
Thornley
Pratt
Olpherts
Gale
Hood
Bain
Doyle
Rodwell
Ashurst
Griffin
Pitts

Smith
Atoni
Shaw
Boothroyd

As for Sheffield, they're missing Thackeray so Hansen will play in the halves. Matty Marsh at fullback - he hasn't played against us yet and he's their in-form player so I hope Powell's done his research on him. Their structure changes a lot when he plays.

I honestly think that with Lino out for an unspecified time that he will continue with Jowitt at 6 for consistency if he’s needed in the finals.

I’d expect Walmsley or Booth at full back rest of season and Walmsley on the win when McGillvray gets spelled.

For Sheffield …

Walmsley
McGillvray
Thornley
Pratt
Olpherts
Gale
Jowitt
Atoni
Doyle
Bain
Ashurst
Griffin
Pitts

Smith
Rodwell
Shaw
Boothroyd

Having Atoni back will make a huge difference. When Uele is back the pack will be very strong. Any news on Uele?

Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Thu Aug 08, 2024 6:32 pm  

We saw Atoni, Vagana and Uele all arrive together at Dewsbury last Sunday and Uele had his knee in a brace

Re: Sheffield Eagles home : Thu Aug 08, 2024 8:21 pm  

FIL wrote:

We saw Atoni, Vagana and Uele all arrive together at Dewsbury last Sunday and Uele had his knee in a brace

Really hope it’s not a long term one and he’s back for the playoffs or before season. He’s been immense and carried the pack for a chunk of games post Wembley.