Banter is great and those who give must also take

Wakey fans are bothered about facing Leigh. They even started up a thread about us prior to the draw!!

And, now, they know there's a good chance they'll be in that SL bottom 4 and they're bothered about that too, which is understandable.

Beating Halifax at home in the cup, though, isn't an achievement. They're clutching at straws.

I said in a earlier post, if Wakey are still in their current predicament when we play them, they'll not even have the confidence to compete against what we'll take there.

Bottom line Wakefield are a full time SL team and have been for a long period of time.
They start as outright favourites and will be expected to win.
This Leigh side though plays a brand of RL that is excellent to watch and have a damn good team spirit that money doesn't buy so will be up for the difficult task ahead.
Should be a cracker and I reckon we will take a lot of fans over regardless of it being on TV.

By then we are likely to be back to near full strength with the big notable exception of Scott Anderson who's our best prop.

The team will look something like this and though still finding some rhythm and match fitness it will be far better than what we've been putting out for the last 6 weeks or so.

Hall
Owen
Collis
Lynne
Riley
Miller
Smith
Scruton
McShane
Kirke
Kirmond
Washbrook
D Smith

Godinet
Lauitiiti
Paea
Simon

Some on here predicting a comfortable win for us are off their trolleys IMO.

I think this is a must-win for Wakey, it is their cup final.

They are already favourites for relegation, to lose against a Championship side, even one with our record, and on their own middin, would be a real kick in the nuts for them. I could see their season collapsing if we win. Webster has already given up on the season, he is only interested in the 8's, a Leyth win would just put the top hat on it.

They will throw the kitchen sink at us.

I would fancy us at home, no bother. As it is I'm not confident.

Anyone from either side predicting a big easy win is way off. I do think it's an easier tie than Salford though but that'll be undone by playing away. Wakefield will be favourites being a Super League Team at home against a Championship Team (all be it one of SL quality) but a team that's only won 2 games this season against one that's won its last 21 shouldn't be feeling confident. Think we'll win though.

Well I hope you're right LS, but as far as Leyth are concerned I'm a glass half empty type.

Been supporting them far too long

Just out of interest which of the 17 above didnt play against Warrington?

Ill go against you and think we will win and win well.

I'm with you on this one Ste.
I'll go Leigh by 12.

Sammut, 1st game for us this season
Riley,
Hall, out of position at centre
Arundel, debut for us
Owen,
Miller,
T Smith, played injured
Simon, 1st game back after injury
McShane,
Griffin, on loan 2nd row playing his 1st game for us
Kirmond, playing injured
Washbrook,
D Smith.

Trout, junior playing his 1st game of the season
Ryan, just back from injury
Godinet, 1st game back from injury, reinsured during the game
Lauitiiti.

But that's not the whole story, we were so busted for players that for definite Kirmond and T Smith played with an injury and we had no preperation leading into the game(s) because not enough players were fit enough to put a decent session on.

Every championship side should be hoping you guys go over there and come away with the win. It would give those with any aspirations of gaining promotion a real boost heading into the middle 8's.
A narrow defeat would be disappointing, but I think it would still set us all up quite well for the end of the season, knowing that a bounce of the ball or a few 50/50 calls could change the result.
The worst case scenario is if you go over there and are comfortably beaten. I don't for one second think this will happen, but it would certainly deflate me and many others about our chances of going up if it did.

I can't wait to watch it regardless of the outcome, should be a cracker!

A point to consider between us and Salford is that our pack battered Salfords when we played them earlier in the season, we did the same to Sts pack in our narrow loss to them and destroyed the HKR pack when we beat them comfortably.

How come your bottom of the SL then if your pack is so awesome

12 is hardly a battering, especially the way we play, I was thinking Leigh win somewhere between 1 to 2 trys. Not forgetting cup games tend to have a few scores at the end as the loosing team gets desperate, one team or the other usually scores. Was on about fans from either side thinking their team would just walk all over the other and win by some great big margin with the other team never in the game. It'll be close, the lead could go backwards and forwards a few times but in the end I think we'll win, possibly by 6 or 7 with a nice Riddy drop goal 5 min from the end to steady the nerves (was convinced Salford we're going to score those last 2 min on Saturday & ruin everything, don't want that stress again

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It's up to you but do you not think you may be setting yourselves up for a fall?

If you don't win this forum will get hammered - trust me - and there will be no acceptable excuses from you lot after the bragging some of you have been doing.

Surely it's best to keep your powder dry until the deed is done, just a suggestion.

Personally like many Trinity fans I'm nervous of playing you but at the moment I'm nervous of us playing anybody. However I'm less nervous of this game because the pressure is off - SL is far more important for us at the moment as I'm sure you understand.

So if you win great and best of luck, if not never mind.

Thanks for your time and enjoy your season.

To be fair that thread has nothing to do with the CCup game - it was more to do with who would be the hardest opponents from the Championship in the bottom 8 comp.

The bit about Halifax is a poor comment, they looked just about as good as you did IMHO, but hey if you're that arrogant so be it.

The rest of your post is just opinion and the less said about it the better.

I never said a battering. And 1 to 2 trys could be 12 and that's what i think we will win by.

We're at the bottom because we have not been good enough simple as that, as regards the pack 4 of the 6 props missing 3 second rowers out from a small squad, that's 25% of our squad not to mention other players' out like our 2 main centres', it's not difficult to understand why we are where we are.

So just for my understanding the 17 you say will beat us all played against Wire?

Wakefield 12 v 36 Leigh

Good man roll on the 17th May.... another great day to be a leyther... I increased my score prediction based off my understanding 'The avenger' says the team will be the same that turned up at wire

3 points for you to consider :-

1) our pack smashed wigan in Feb

2) weve won 21 games on the trot... 25 if you count friendlies

3) we lost to last years winners by 13 points in the last 7 mins away from home as a PT team by playing 55 mins of the match with 2 subs and no centres

bring on the 17th May.....

OK - and thanks for your input.