Those Wakefield fans praying for Makinson to have a nightmare and New Zealand to win will be disappointed. I wonder if they still think Wayne Bennett is clueless for selecting Makinson ahead of Johnstone.

Now these comments don’t look too smart

Give over, he didn’t even ground the ball for the winning try. Tom would have finished it off under the posts.

Well done you, of all the posts posted about selection on the Trinity forum you've found one saying he hopes he has a mare and basically one other that rates one over the other.



You'd also think with how some people are going on, that a very small number of Wakefield fans are somehow trendsetters being the first few fans that think their player deserved selection over someone else, no really you're onto something mate, it's never happened before.

Connor, even though he's still finding his feet at this level & at , so far always seems to do something eye-catching in every game he plays. He really does have something about him.

Well it’ll be interesting to see what position Connor plays regularly over the next few years. Might end up more at HB than centre.

Conor was brilliant today.

He must be an absolute nightmare to play against - can't wait to see him when we play Oz whenever that will be, he's win us more penalties than anybody since Ryan Bailey. Pantomime villain but would love him at Trinity.

Likely to remain at Centre for Hull, as he doesn't play well in the halves alongside Albert Kelly and we also have Sneyd, and Sneyd and Kelly don't play anywhere else.

Special talent though, he has a cheek and flair to his game that can't be coached.

The Hearns are not the answer.
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Boxing, Darts, Pool and Snooker......they claim on their website to sell over 500,000 tickets annually......that's not a lot given Anthony Joshua has delivered 160,000 of those alone in 2018 and I could sell a Joshua fight to the British Public from a computer in NZ......
They are pushing Basketball and Fast-Five Netball, which AFAIK are their only team sports......so you I'd give them a stand alone event like 'summer bash' before I'd let them near anything else.
Everything they promote they have a description of how many TV hours are available.......the fact that Rimmer is talking to them should scare the crap out of the fans, because if you think SKY treat us badly.........these guys will have games played 7 days a week if it means they can sell the content on.

In terms of getting 3rd parties to sell our games, we did that with great success in 2013. The Semi-Final Double Header was attended by 67,500 people in London. Capacity Consulting, run by Mark Evans, ex CEO of Harlequins RU and the Melbourne Storm and now looking after the Cornwall Stadium project, were the company responsible for that gate......a gate which I still believe is the largest ever for an international featuring England and only beaten by 1 GB crowd, also in London as well as 2 GB games in Sydney.......his company and his background of growing gates at Quins RU and the Storm make him an ideal partner......proven track record and he'd work with stakeholders.

The Hearns work for the Hearns!

More than happy to take Makinson off Saints hands so that him and Connor can work on their partnership at club level

Good test match, great result.

For me the most promising thing looking towards the World Cup is the quality of players that weren’t playing today.

Depending on how players perform next season we have Hardaker, Ratchford, Manfredi, Johnston, Hall, Watkins, Percival, Widdop, Gale, Walmsley, Sutton, Roby, S Burgess, Currie, Ward and probably a few more I can’t thibk of at this moment who can challenge for a spot.

There are also a number of high quality youngsters, Trueman for example who could force their way in too.

England are in pretty good shape to put in a real challenge to win the WC.

Makinson completely justified his selection by Bennet to Those (often wakey) fans lamenting Johnstone’s omission. Could TJ have finished as well as makinson? Yep probably-maybe would have done better when he threw that forward pass- but makinson demonstrated the toughness that’s needed at this level that I have yet to see in Johnston. That tackle on proctor was immense! And was by no means the only e celebrate defensive effort made-And he kept taking those shots and toughing it out. Brilliant - made up for him as he’s had it tough recently.

Watts, Taylor, Greenwood etc..

The best thing about Connors performance yesterday was that he came back with a bang from a really tough first half. I keep saying it but we live to bulk up the NRL boys and bag our own but Connor has given Manu probably the toughest couple of weeks of his career to date.

I was in the Kop yesterday, and I heard a few people talking about the game who were sat near me...they were obviously at their 1st RL match...and they absolutely loved it. I got the impression they were RU types....couple of Irish people as well. THIS is what the game needs to expand. Competitive international fixtures on a regular basis with good quality players on show.

GB v Aus every 2 or 4 years for the Ashes needs to be brought back IMO as well as regular internationals involving the home nations v south hemisphere.

For the 3rd test, I would move Connor and Makinson to the right (it is their natural side), and put Percival and Johnstone to the left. With potentially no games next year, it would be a good opportunity to see if they have the necessary quality to prove themselves at international level

I’d stick with the team if fit and go all out for the whitewash. Incidentally, as I have said on here before we should always beat NZ. It’s been embarrassing in recent times to be beaten by them.

Why should we always beat NZ?

And yet The Kiwis beat Australia

The thing that pleased me about Connor, in a pre match interview, was his positivity when discussing his role and the expectations. No use of that dreaded (negative?) word "hopefully" that so many players scatter their language with these days.

Connor told the Hull Daily Mail that Bennett gave him a rocket at half time, and that spurred him on. To be fair i'd be scared of an angry Wayne Bennett too!

I’d go with the same injuries/suspension permitting. Whilst a good win yesterday still room for improvement, can’t say we were great in that first half and if not for Makinson’s 2 try savers we could’ve be trailing 18-2.

Makinson was pretty much a 10/10, if he was only an 8/10 that’s probably a NZ win so I’d challenge the same lineup to be even better next week. We’ve had two close scores with great individual tries bring the decider, I think there’s the potential for them to go out and win more convincingly by a couple of scores if they get things right from the off and maintain it.

I’d imagine Clark won’t be fit though so Greenwood would come in for me and Milner can back up hooker. If George Burgess is suspended then with no more forwards I’d pick O’Loughlin if fit but if not that leaves Ratchford on the bench for utility value.

Definitely same line up or close as is possible. We are building real momentum and to beat this kiwi side 3-0 with a few world class players missing makes a big statement.

Gildart wasn't quite on the same page as the rest of the team at the weekend, Bennett dropped Percival when he did something similar so I would expect him to do likewise with Gildart and give the 3rd test gig to Percival.

Can't see it, Gildart made a few errors in the first half yes, but his defence was solid enough and after the first test i reckon Bennett will give him another go.

For some reason he doesn't seem to rate Percival and the fact he picked a forward ahead of him at the WC and Connor during this series speaks volumes.