Carney..... the plank on the flank

Carney can come up with errors but can easily destroy teams he takes some stopping and we've been found out on the edges a few times this season. With that new lad they've got we need to be on the top of our game, it will be a hard game.



Up the Trin

irrelevant now, he's out for 3 months!



We are now missing 3 of our starting 5 in the back line, - Minns, Heffernan, Carney with a net gain of vaivai.



Could have our prop/2nd row at centre again this sunday in james greenwood. Big advantage to you now, we have no size to get our sets started properly. Get your kicking game right and no penalties we wont make it up the pitch

1. We don't have one

2. Child, Hicks and Kendall will make it highly unlikely.

19 for Sunday

Tinirau Aona

Matty Ashurst

James Batchelor

Anthony England

David Fifita

Liam Finn

Scott Grix

Ryan Hampshire

Keegan Hirst

Justin Horo

Craig Huby

Tom Johnstone

Ben Jones-Bishop

Reece Lyne

Jacob Miller

Pauli Pauli

Tyler Randell

Bill Tupou

Kyle Wood

Comparing the two squads then we should be looking to repair the damage to the points difference that Salford did in this one. The Hull KR squad looks very weak whilst bar Kirmo we are at full strength.

Looks like the back line pretty much picks itself:



Scott Grix

Tom Johnstone

Bill Tupou

Reece Lyne

Ben Jones-Bishop

Ryan Hampshire/Jacob Miller (Can't decide but might consider giving Rocky a go at 6)

Liam Finn

Anthony England

Tyler Randell

David Fifita

Matty Ashurst

James Batchelor

Tinirau Aona



Kyle Wood

Justin Horo

Craig Huby

Pauli Pauli





Hirst to miss out for me along with Miller

Yep, I'd go with that but, I think we will go with Finn & Miller in the halves.

We just need Pauli to run at Maguire (he'll either wave him past of end up like Gale) and that should be game over

If Tommy Lee is involved I’d fancy our chances with 10 men ! He really is that bad.

He's average at best.

We lost both first choice hookers Lunt and Lawler. Carney is more destructive than you think but academic now he's out.



On the plus side for us Marsh isn't named, you've not faced Atkin yet, 7 try Moss is named (after his york loan although we'll see if that has any bearing in SL).



We've actually named a fairly youthful side with half a dozen experienced heads.



Both of us are due a win. We should have beaten Leeds last week (a totally ridiculous sin bin, a non existant penalty given in front of the sticks to them etc). The ref last week was appaling and took decisions from his touch judges over the headphone all game rather than making any himself. Still, had enough chances but Leeds defence was too good. We should have at least drawn away at Catalans apart from cheating Micky Mac in the last minute.



Doesn't change the results though. Fed up of great performances against the 'big' clubs and still not edging it. Also tired of influencial players being injured but hey ho.



A question - do you think Chessie's colours are now showing since he is no longer propped up by Kear?

No.

I'm sure that any half decent side would welcome Kear's input but, I think we're victims of our own hype.

Big talk pre season on how we'd improved on last years squad (with Pauli coming in) but, he's yet to show his worth (and hopefully it's still to come) and the fixtures ultimately, havent done us any favours, with a block of "easy" games followed by a block of tough fixtures, almost akin to a play off series.

Had a couple more of those tight reverses gone our way, we'd have been very, very happy.

As it stands, we're pretty much where you would any half decent Wakefield side to be, mid table and with a game in hand on most of the sides above us.



Mind you, if Rovers take the points on Sunday, it will all be Chesters fault





Have a good game on Sunday, just as long as you finish second.



Come on Trin !

You’d love that to be so wouldn’t you rather than admit you let a good one go. Any sane fan can see that CC has done well other than not having much luck. With a bit more luck we could have another 4 points but hey.



Luck though changes if you work hard.



That said yes we do miss Kear he’s a great guy to have around nobody at this club would deny it but it’s only a very small issue as from my understanding JK had very little input with the players day to day.

Yes they are constantly changing his full back and half backs and sticking by his favs.not the first time we had long winless run under him without kear either and how arundal and man dont play is a mystery

Been unlucky ala leeds n hull but lucky ala me cats and salford home

How can he be both constantly changing yet also stickigwith his favs?

Everybody switched players over Easter



Arundel has played and has not shone as much as Tupou and Lyne.

If MCB had played Arundel wouldn't as we moved Tupou to the wing.

That's the beauty of being head coach, he can pick who he likes.

Might be down to who wants it more. Desperate to be in top four or desperate not to be in bottm 4 AGAIN. I know which side SHOULD want it more but who knows.

I think for this game we are looking down and aiming not to be pulled in to the bottom group. If we win, and it's an if, we can start looking up again.

Arundel is the better defender. Reece looks better in attack but lets more trys in than he scores. Basic maths really

Lyne has defended pretty well this season, 18 tackles and 15 missed tackles is damn good going and better even then Toupu.

No doubt that Lyne is a stronger player in possession and has been one of our better players this season but, some of his basic passing is awful.

Arundel is a far better player at timing a pass to his wingman but is slightly slower and nowhere near as effective bringing the ball form our line and Toupu, generally, has been immense.

Unless you are going to play Lyne or Toupu on the wing, which would mean dropping Johnstone or BJB, Arundel is going to be left waiting for his chance and we still have MCB who is also unlucky not to be getting some game time.

big Dave back,then comes the problem Finn and Grix back

The interview with Chester in the YEP gave me some optimism as he seems to have realised if it ain’t broken don’t fix it and alluded to stripping things back to what we were doing last season

Not a problem for me, best players for their positions, they've got their weaknesses but I still rate them higher than our alternatives.









A case could be made for the idea that things got swapped about, partly forced swaps and partly to try and turn around the results after all those close but no ceegar games.

Arundel is the best centre at the club, irrespective of how quick or slow he is.

If the basis of how good you are as a centre is how good you are at taking it up out of your own 20, then something's wrong.

He knows when to pass a ball to his winger and we're not using that enough with the pace and quality we have on the edges.

Got too carried away with having a monster pack that will steamroller teams, I hope this doesn't happen tomorrow.