Re: Don't mess up : Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:17 pm  

the ones that we can win are away from home!!!!salford and hudds

Re: Don't mess up : Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:25 pm  

BOJ042 wrote:

the ones that we can win are away from home!!!!salford and hudds

Eh? Why can't we win all 7? Too many ready to give up after one bad result, it happens. Got to move on and give it our best shot. All 7 will be tough granted but we know what we're capable of. I'm sure CC, JK and all the players will be aiming to finish in that top 4, I say we can do it too.

Re: Don't mess up : Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:00 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

4th would have given us virtually the same but with Cas + an extra game at home which MC reckonned was worth >£70k. Lets not underplay the financial enormity of today's disaster.

Perversely 3rd would have given you Cas away. Crazy.

Re: Don't mess up : Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:15 pm  

Prince Buster wrote:

Am I right in thinking the 3rd game in the 8's will be Cas away.

If so strong possibility we could be the team for them to beat to get the shield that day.
Or they could have got the shield the week before and would like to rub our faces in it to celebrate it.

Could be a great chance to urinate on their chips.

One win could be enough for us to win the shield, two would deffo do it.
If that happened I think Powell would start resting players and rotating the squad and possibly blooding some young ones. So ideally for you you could be better playing us once the LLS is confirmed.
Anyway congrats on your achievements for the regular season (and at the risk of incurring another ill informed rant from Dee Hell) I think we've both done miles better than expected or predicted by the so called experts.

Re: Don't mess up : Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:30 pm  

Upanunder wrote:

were doomed I tell ya....doomed

Innit.

Ateotd they were just better than us today and we just didn't get into the game. Saints for all the average and poor performances they've had, when they click like they did today and against Hull at Magic weekend, they can be a very good side, they've just not been that consistant this year.

As for us, it's just a timely wake up call & reminder we need to keep intensity high and we can't expect to just roll up and win. All in all this season there's only been what, 2 or 3 performances where we didn't turn up, which isn't that bad at all for us. It's all if's and buts but it's a shame we coudn't have got something out of one of our close loses in the last few weeks against Cas and Leeds.

Re: Don't mess up : Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:25 am  

Just had a look over at TotalRl forum to see what a few Wakey fans were saying over there and one post particularly caught my eye.
A poster claims, all the teams from Hudds, Catalans, Wire, Saints and Wigan will defo be better next year. so we've missed our opportunity. Who's to say what any of those Clubs will do next year, just like 2016 & as far as I can see, we're still in there to finish as high as we ever have in SL. As long as we play like we know we can. So how have we missed our opportunity? It's not as if anyone thought we were realistically going for the Grand Final

Also he says this season looks like an ananomly (I preumre because of this loss) rather than a breakthrough year now. Lets be right just about every pundit and fan, except for our own, had us down in the bottom 4 and we've managed to be competing near the Top 4 each week, how isn't that a breakthrough year for Trinity.

He also amazingly thinks that there are question marks over the coaching staff about taking the Club further and their ability to win vital games. Basically because we ddn't beat Saints today, plus we finsihed 8th last year and got to the CC semi and this year 5th and the CC 1/4 finals and apparentely we spent a bit more on the SC and it's just a small step forward.

Must be just me, but this season has seen the general level of consistancy and quality of RL, (barring the odd game) has literally come on leaps & bounds over last year and many a year before that. This year we qualifeld for the Top 8 with ease & going into the last week could have ended up 3rd with a win. Last year, even though Chester did a great job when he came in, we got into the top 8 basically because Salford got a points deduction and we got a good draw in the CC to get to the Semi. I think on the money we spend compared to all others, the Club and players have done a marvelous job and some fans seem to lose sight of that fact sometimes.

Re: Don't mess up : Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:44 am  

Shifty Cat wrote:

Just had a look over at TotalRl forum to see what a few Wakey fans were saying over there and one post particularly caught my eye.
A poster claims, all the teams from Hudds, Catalans, Wire, Saints and Wigan will defo be better next year. so we've missed our opportunity. Who's to say what any of those Clubs will do next year, just like 2016 & as far as I can see, we're still in there to finish as high as we ever have in SL. As long as we play like we know we can. So how have we missed our opportunity? It's not as if anyone thought we were realistically going for the Grand Final

Also he says this season looks like an ananomly (I preumre because of this loss) rather than a breakthrough year now. Lets be right just about every pundit and fan, except for our own, had us down in the bottom 4 and we've managed to be competing near the Top 4 each week, how isn't that a breakthrough year for Trinity.

He also amazingly thinks that there are question marks over the coaching staff about taking the Club further and their ability to win vital games. Basically because we ddn't beat Saints today, plus we finsihed 8th last year and got to the CC semi and this year 5th and the CC 1/4 finals and apparentely we spent a bit more on the SC and it's just a small step forward.

Must be just me, but this season has seen the general level of consistancy and quality of RL, (barring the odd game) has literally come on leaps & bounds over last year and many a year before that. This year we qualifeld for the Top 8 with ease & going into the last week could have ended up 3rd with a win. Last year, even though Chester did a great job when he came in, we got into the top 8 basically because Salford got a points deduction and we got a good draw in the CC to get to the Semi. I think on the money we spend compared to all others, the Club and players have done a marvelous job and some fans seem to lose sight of that fact sometimes.

Sums it up perfectly for me.

I was as frustrated as anyone coming away from the ground yesterday but Saints were running hot and everything they did came off and as a collective we had a bad day at the office. These things happen but much rather this be the exception than the norm which has been the case this season.

Re: Don't mess up : Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:07 pm  

we will do well to win 1 game in the super 8 - and then we can say better than last year - or will winning 0 games keep us 7th? 7th better than 8th? 100% massive chance missed yesterday - clubs like ours need to make the most of these chances as they do not come around very often - it could be another 20 years before we get another shot at 4th,,,. very frustrating.
THE BIG GAMES WE HAVE HAD UNDER THIS COACH YESTERDAYY AND LASTS YEARS SEMI - we have not turned up to play and have been out enthused on both occasions- is that a underlying problem?

Re: Don't mess up : Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:21 pm  

BOJ042 wrote:

THE BIG GAMES WE HAVE HAD UNDER THIS COACH YESTERDAYY AND LASTS YEARS SEMI - we have not turned up to play and have been out enthused on both occasions- is that a underlying problem?

The problem in the semi last year as Wire were pretty much full strength and we had 14 injured players, but why let facts get in the way of your agenda?

Re: Don't mess up : Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:35 pm  

The £70k+ that was thrown away yesterday by missing the extra home game could have been used to bring in another player or two. It's hard to have sympathy when people say we have the lowest value squad in the league when they throw away the opportunity to bring in more money to get a higher value squad