Myler, still not fit for the 17... great stuff

iswt?
yeah - I agree (have mentioned on other threads earlier), we played excellent stuff at wrong end of season last year. but, we got the monkey off our back re LL sheild


I don't know if you heard the CC draw on tues morn or not? but when Leigh were drawn out, the next team drawn were - SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS - ........................................................................LEEDS - I thought we were champions by WINNING THE LEAGUE?????

i just don't get it..

we're doing ok, blooding youngsters, resting veterans for next week, getting 2 points albeit in a scrappy manner, the future's looking good, 3 trophies in 3 years, 3rd in the table, off field sucess as far as marketing (bigger turn over than wigan's) lottery growing every week, u 20's, u18's etc top of their leagues!
cheap bitter in the new corner!

so what's the effing problem... people have such short memories!

Very worrying. I've got a great idea, why don't we try resting Briers to get O'Brien more playing time. Are you with me?

Lucky to get the win today IMO. Salford controlled the first half yet somehow went in 12-10 behind we had a good 20min spell in 2nd half when we posted some points and took control. Think we lacked ideas in attack at times but with only 1 real playmaker in the team what can you expect. Positive we had 8(?) Home grown players in the side and still came out with the win. Thought Currie Riley and Hill stood out today for me.

Riley certainly did stand out! He has done well this season but was terrible today - probably the worst game I have seen him play in a long time.

A very patchy performance with only one real halfback playing but I actually thought Rhys Williams was our best outside back with O'Brien's kicking very good. Currie was immense, great defence and took his try well. Quite a few forwards did ok today too - Woody, Coops, Carvell and some great link up play from Waterhouse.

I thought Riley did well personally defence wise he was a little sloppy on 1 on 1's but he positioned himself well for kicks and helped to support the few breaks we made. Needs to improve his link into the line however but can't be easy when you have played wing majority of the year.

nice one lefty and nice one from the majority of wire fans who are positive and doom-mongerers (probably spelt wrong), £@%^ off
somewhere else. We've been blessed with 3 trophies in 3 seasons watching some of the best and entertaining rl I've ever seen from
any side. We've had a lot of bad luck with injuries, but come the end of the season, we'll hopefully have a fully fit and charged
set of forwards -Morley, Monaghan, Carvell, Benny, Harrison/Sol/Cooper, Grix, with massive potential in Waterhouse and all the
other players we've blooded so far. Myler and Briers will be back (still can't believe some of the idiots who slag Myler).
A back line blessed with Atkins, Bridge, Monaghan, Riley-who still finishes everytime despite his detractors who (probably reside
in the Myler is rubbish camp along with a few pie eaters). Plus Hodgson at FB who although aging is still class. It's a class
side with the the best coach in TS and the most vociferous fans when we all pull together to get that Fletcher End sound, which
has been replicated (despite the doom mongerers again) in the big games. i watched last year's challenge cup quarter v wigan the other
night all the way through and although we lost in the end; the first half was amazing and the atmosphere incredible- sounded
like at least 30,000. Even near the end when we had lost and the pie fans were singing "your not singing anymore" we all
started sing "oh warri warri" which blasted out of my tv-so proud to be wire. Let's just remember where we were and be
thankful that our club is in such great shape with so much to look forward to both in the near and distant future.

well said, although with very strange structure!

Cheers SW. I've had a few ciders so my apologies for the structure. I think it would be worse if I'd had none at all
in all honesty!

never apologize for drinking, that's my policy!

Cheers Sw. Now that's what i call a structured sentence!

next week is the acid test but its certainley not doom and gloom should we suffer the expected loss that some are spouting...next week will see some of the experienced players to the fold and if we lose we lose..then we get a break come semi final week to freshen our limbs...looking forward to august time when the real stuff begins...and a fully fit squad

Top post Lefty could`nt put it better myself mate .We seem to have some Champagne supernova fans these days

Quality post.

Hopefully we can do a Leeds of last year and concentrate on the big one. It would be great to go further in the cc but i think
it would mean so much more if we could do the elusive big one.

For those that remember it.

Cast your minds back to the last few days of Feb 1990.
We were drawn away to Bradford in the CC QF. No-one gave us a prayer. A ground where we rarely won. It was ####ing cold (I swear I saw a Polar bear walk past me with a Duffel coat on). Fast forward 22 years, and everything matches up again (apart from the day's temperature). Let's go on and win it, and the final too.

BELIEVE

Amazing post

Don't know who that's too, but wanted to get in on the act

Is that the game when we won 12-10 or something like that and in the semi, mark thomas gave the winning pass in another
close game v oldham.

stand up rocky turner kicked us to the semi..did`nt they delay the kick off cos of the thousands of wire fans stuck on motorway..got ed wet thru as well..but well worth it..thanks mr bob jacko for our try
think that was the night i met a bird called suzzanah,she now works on bbc breakfast,fit as a butchers

Always great or crap times at odsal. remember another close contest at headingly v bradford in the regal trophy final and
it was agians't a typically strong bradford pack but dessie lifted the trophy and we all ran on to and pitch at the end. the wire
side couldn't parade it around the ground as there were so many fans on the pitch. Memory is patchy nowadays but i remember
going to the semi at headingly about 5 years later and losing to a bradford side at the start of their golden period with players
including vaiklolo and we gave them a damn good game but the inevitable happened and we lost. I remember being
in the standing area of the brian bevan stand (some past posts have mentioned this game) when we were 20+ odd nil or 4 behind at
half time to a good bradford side and we came back- the catalyst being a kick off at the start of the 2nd half with danny nutley
taking on paul anderson and putting him in his place and we came back, backed by the roar of wilderspool to win something like
32-28.

You Sir, are mistaken.
The lady in question is faithfull to only one person
I challenge you to a duel to the death. The choice of weapon is yours. It will be irrelevant. You will perish after this slur.
I DEMAND SATISFACTION!

Desie did a fantastic try saving tackle in front of me saved the game for wire think it was on the leeds coach now lol.

Desie

What planet are you on? If you've been drinking I want some!

Here are the players that (for various reasons) didn’t play today.
1. Brett Hodgson/Stefan Ratchford
2. Chris Riley*
3. Chris Bridge
4. Rhys Evans
5.
6. Lee Briers
7. Richard Myler/Stefan Ratchford
8. Adrian Morley
9. Michael Monaghan
10. David Solomona
11.
12. Ben Westwood
13.

We are 1 point behind Wigan/Hudds. But people can still complain.

*I’ve included Riley, who did play. But, he is never going to be a FB. Was poor today, and I’m one of his biggest fans. Interesting reading posts saying he needs to do this or that or the other. The truth is he’s not an FB and never will be. I still give him some credit though, as throughout his career, he has done what has been asked of him, to the best of his abilities, and never let his head drop; until today.

It's worth looking at our strength in depth now. This is a team of all British players who are 24 or under apart from Atkins who I think is 26. I don't expect it to win a lot of games at the moment, in fact it would possibly be bottom of the table, but it does give us a good base for the next 5-10 years with a sprinkling of imports to be added etc.

1 Ratchford
2 Williams
3 Evans
4 Atkins
5 Riley
6 O'Brien
7 Myler
8 Hill
9 Dwyer
10 Cooper
11 Harrison
12 Currie
13 McCarthy

14 Blythe
15 Laithwaite
16 Riley G
17 Mitchell