Pretty nervous about today. A win today could shape our season, results all weekend pretty much went our way. Its in our hands to brush aside Wakey today. Sometimes things don't pan out the way we want it to.

hardaker
marshall,sarginson, gildart, burgess
williams, leuluai
clubb, powell, partington
isa, farrell, smithies

bench: navarette, greenwood, byrne, french

left out: bourouh, hankinson

Making heavy weather so far. Silly errors in our half costing us.

Listening on the radio, sounds like some pretty basic and poor errors.

Hopefully we can see this game oit and pick up the two points and take advantage of the results this weekend and cement 2nd

CLEAR 2ND. GET IN THERE!

Get in there! Sounded ugly but who cares.

Liam Marshall’s had a class year imo, defence and carries have been class, nice to see back in the tries again.

Can someone let me know how French was ? What position? Did he play alright?

Scrapped our way through. Loved the Wakey fans moaning about the ref as we walked off, he was their player most of the day.

Stand off and in his short spell he looked a real threat. He’s off the cuff but showed some good skills with his passing and kicks through the line. I’m confident we’ve signed a pretty special talent.

Have I got this right that if we finish second and win the playoff game, our ‘reward’ is Saints away to qualify for the Grand Final??

No. Our playoff would be Saints away. A win means the GF, a loss means another bite of the cherry.

Thanks Nicky, I agree!

Yep

Week 1
A - 2nd v 3rd
B - 4th v 5th

Week 2
C - Saints v Winner A
D - Loser A v Winner B

Week 3
E - Loser C v Winner D

Week 4 (Final)
F - Winner C v Winner E

No Saints get a week off, it's as above

Assuming it’s the same as the champ if you came 2nd your play off game would be against the team in 3rd - the winner of that then play saints for a place in GF

Top Five

The current play-off system, used from 2019 onwards, was also previously used between 1998 and 2001. The same system was used in the NSWRL's Sydney Competition 1973-1994, the Australian Super League in its only season 1997, the VFL, 1972–1990 and New Zealand's Lion Red Cup, 1994–1996, and Bartercard Cup, 2000-2006.

The Top Five Super League Play-Off Structure:

Week One
Qualification Final: 2nd vs 3rd
Elimination Final: 4th vs 5th
Bye: 1st

Week Two
Major Semi Final: 1st vs Winners of Qual Final
Minor Semi Final: Losers of Qual Final vs Winners of Elim Final

Week Three
Prel Final: Losers of Major Semi Final vs Winners of Minor Semi Final
Bye: Winners of Major Semi Final

Week Four
Grand Final: Winners of Major Semi Final vs Winners of Prel Final

Thanks Grimmy

No worries, it's more complicated than it needs to be to be honest but does produce good games. Same system as 2001 if you remember then

You’ll do well to come across a saltier set of fans than the wakey lot today...totally embarrassing how they were going at the ref!

A lovely lady in the Wakey end on the way off was going wild at a steward, who was telling her to calm down, saying it wasn’t her fault she was going mad and that it was Wigan’s fault as we’re ‘the fu*king biggest bunch of cheating ba*tards she’s come across’.

And there was me thinking we’d had a pretty rough ride with the officials, especially second half when I counted 6 high tackles we didn’t get (got a 7th for one on Leuluai), twice the tackle count should’ve gone back to one but didn’t and on one occasion right in front of us a pass outside for Joe Burgess was flicked by a Wakefield hand and missed by the touch judge. Even taking those decisions in to account, I didn’t feel the need to go in to meltdown.

We didn’t seem to fire today and Wakey dragged us into a niggly match.

One thing to say is French needs lots of work if we are expecting him to be a starting half next year.

I can sympathise with some of the complaints from Wakefield. Marshall was around 7m right of the centre when he took the quick tap and I think we did get the better side of the calls today, but sometimes that happens.

Quote ="dh13"You’ll do well to come across a saltier set of fans than the wakey lot today...totally embarrassing how they were going at the ref!'" With tries coming from tap restarts like this, who could blame us? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPitchforth/ ... 32/photo/1

Quote ="dh13"You’ll do well to come across a saltier set of fans than the wakey lot today...totally embarrassing how they were going at the ref!'" With tries coming from tap restarts like this, who could blame us? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPitchforth/ ... 32/photo/1

I disagree thought we were hard done by with the ref

Quote ="King Street Cat"With tries coming from tap restarts like this, who could blame us? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPitchforth/ ... 32/photo/1'" Funny thing was though, did your fans even know that was the case until after the game when Chester pointed out? Good eyes if the ones kicking off on the end terrace could see that. It clearly looks like an error on that picture but I’d probably question the horrible defence if I were Chester rather than doing the current go to trend of ‘it’s all the refs fault’. I sensed a few try’s may have been chalked off with a video ref today.

Quote ="King Street Cat"With tries coming from tap restarts like this, who could blame us? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPitchforth/ ... 32/photo/1'" Funny thing was though, did your fans even know that was the case until after the game when Chester pointed out? Good eyes if the ones kicking off on the end terrace could see that. It clearly looks like an error on that picture but I’d probably question the horrible defence if I were Chester rather than doing the current go to trend of ‘it’s all the refs fault’. I sensed a few try’s may have been chalked off with a video ref today.

It was so wide of the mark, I could see it from the North stand at the time. You expect an odd knock on to go for or against you when you're not on Sky, but that's just blatanat cheating from Marshall and incompetence from the ref. They both know where the mark is. Marshall just picked his easiest way through and the ref let him run.

Just watched the try’s and I’m still to see evidence Wakey grounded the ball for first try (was convinced we’d kicked it dead at the ground) and BJB’s in the second half is so close as well.

Swings and roundabouts.