I agree to an extent but.
It is not how you start the season it is how you end it.

A good end to the season maybe finishing 5th which is the best we could hope for sends out important messages.

Winning breeds winning
A good end to the season makes us more attractive to advertisers and potential players.
It could put an extra five hundred on season ticket sales.
A bit of feel good around the club would be due

Look at current points totals. We would need to win all 7 games left and hope cas implode and don’t pick up more than 5 points from their seven games..

Not impossible but unlikely

Can't believe your saying that, your the form team playing great rugby if results go your way this week you'll be in 5th spot with 7 games to go, best way to get players fit is to play them with the odd game for the young talent you've got, I bet your new coach has a different agenda to you.

Well, he seems to know what he’s doing, so whatever he does is fine by me.

But I don’t care about 5th. Top 4 is all that counts and we need to make up nine points on Cas/Wire in eight games.

It’s probably possible, but it’s not really going to happen.

We should aim to finish as high as possible, these things matter

Plus it'll be a real poke in the eye to the people who even at the start of the season said we'd be dead last

I’m not suggesting they don’t try and win, just pointing out that what we now have is a long series of glorified friendlies with absolutely no pressure.

The club can choose what it wants to do with this series of games. And getting players who may need surgery and a long recovery period back to full fitness is a perfectly valid choice. As is playing youngsters against good opposition with no pressure.

I think we continue as we are. Beat wakey- and then look to make us the team the rest dont want to play. Keep playing the nucleus of the squad we have. U19s have a shot at the playoffs so let the likes of the senior twins, wardle, Russell do their bit towards that. They will get their chances as Woolford has already shown.

you have a soft spot for the wildcats and castleford we know this



posted a wildcats topic not long ago on here too, can give credit on the virtual terrace if you really need too!!

this

but not sure about just throwing the youngsters in for the sake of it.

but just like last season when we made the 8, its job done....

We have a coach who has galvanised the team and made them into the form team currently second only to Saints. Can't see anything other than us going all out to get as high as possible with every game treated the same. Yes we may see some of the youngsters given a chance within the structure of the senior players and a winning team. That is where both they and the team benefit not by throwing them all in at once and risk upsetting the momentum we have gained or the first team players who have worked their a$$e$ off to get us so far.
If I was one of the upcoming academy players I would be working my socks off to prove myself for next season to ensure a SL future career regardless of which tier of RL I was in. Giants are on the up and we are a genuine appeal to any aspiring player to be a part of.

Agree entirely Code no player should go on the field thinking anything else but winning.

Yup, that's why I put unlikely in my post

Really poor attitude, bet you're a hoot to be with.

So your team didn’t do that in 2016 vastman? ? Remind me again how many super 8s games wakey won that year??? V

We were shot with injuries, you aren’t and are arguably the form team in SL

still missing a few

ikahihifo... 2017 dream team prop
leeming... engand knights hooker

and we have gone most the season with injuries..crippled at the start thats why we were bottom really

could add players that have gone too.. tom symonds (aussie took up a fair chunk of salary cap and a quota spot) and shannon wakeman... adam walne been a waste of cap space too

thats 5 that were supposed to be starters at the beginning of the season but we have got away with it with others stepping up

What was said was
“And getting players who may need surgery and a long recovery period back to full fitness is a perfectly valid choice”

Your pal said this was a bad attitude.

Nowvyour saying injuries are an excuse.

Clearly our early injury issues went unannounced- 13 out in the first few weeks of the season- do you not think some of those are still struggling and playing with injections etc?


Oh- and what WAS the cause of that 2016 car accident?

My point was now you have most of your players back and are in top form so should look to continue to win as many games as you can, whereas we in 2016 were the opposite

Is it against some rule to post about another club on here, I didn't know it was.

Your right i have absolutely nothing against Wakey, Cas or Fev, I watched them a lot when i was younger, But then i have nothing against any club, I'm a giants fan now and have been for the last 30 years or so and i want to beat them the same as any other club we play, Other than that i wish them well, and you don't have to read the posts if it bothers you.

It's the taking part what matters, better than languishing at the bottom of SL, Oh and one other stat for you, Salford v Shudds lowest attendance of the 30 weekly rounds for the 2016, an even worse season for you don't you think

Jules lovey, your still dining out on this seasons injuries as though nobody else has had any, the only people that have used injuries as an excuse are you and brearley.
Which car accident are you referring to, Tim Smith's or Keith Mason's'

I’m not dining out on anything- I’m pointing out- if we have no chance of reaching 4th - then don’t you think it would be clever to get previously injured players who may need ops to have them sooner- so they are fit and ready for preseason rather than wait until October then have them miss preseason and hence not be ready for a new season?

Or isn’t that how you would do things at wakey? The sensible way?
Explains Kirmond I suppose.

All season long you and brearley have let everybody and their dog know about your injuries, thankfully if it wasn't for you two we would not know you had any.

Why are you asking me I thought you was the expert on all things Wakey.

chissitt I think you know which car thing its that brand spanking beamer we are all jealous of perhaps we ought to discus it further mmmmmm

mmmmmmmmm, here we are 12 month on and your posts' are still rubbish


your jealousy and bitterness will eat you up let it go son, I'll not tell you what I've got now as I might go Friday night and I've seen first hand what your mates are capable of.

Anyway I'm off now, enjoy your 6 week summer holidays and when you go back in September knuckle down and get some good marks instead of hanging round car parks, make your parents proud of you, if that's possible.