Well it’s that time again for our favourite pundit mr Schofield to predict Wakefield to be last again lol.
To be fair to him this time we really have come off the back of an awful year of performances but to put Leigh straight in above us as an un tested quantity hmm...
Can’t wait for the season to come when he thinks we will make the grade although that will probably the last nail in the lid if he ever does for us


Got to love him though

This is old news, I know it's on TRL but it first went on weeks ago, it's just a re-hash.

Who cares what the old gin soak thinks. It says more about LE and what a rag that has become, can't stand Martyn Sadler, I assume he still milks it for his pension.

He has to come up with something but, to keep tipping Trinity for the wooden spoon is just lazy.
Perhaps he started doing it to wind up his lad and cant help himself ?

no you've not got to love him,

he's never liked Wakefield probably due to not getting a free pint in any of its pubs doubt he's backed his claiming again with another naked run

Aye that was funny.
Fair do's for him keeping his word on that one.

I’ve never met the man but he is probably the only player I have never heard anybody have a good word for.

I seem to remember two or three seasons ago, possibly on the back of that purple patch that we had, he was quite complimentary to Trinity and gave some good remarks in LE. It sticks in my mind because it was so unusual. Being a Rothwell lad you'd think he might be a little more kind.

If I'm honest I'm not feeling that confident about the new season, I've seen snippets of the team performing well over the past few years and there have been mitigating circumstances but I cant shake the feeling that we are a team in decline. Hopefully I am wrong am we end up with a 2017/18 season more than a 2019/20.

As for Scofield, I'm always more wary when people start tipping us, it's a sure bet we will wilt under such pressure and falter. Trinity are much better as the underdog.

I see it so differently, I see us as a team that’s about to peak if fortune is kind.

True there are some players on the decline but all teams have those but I don’t think the team as a whole is.

However that’s not the point, what’s so ridiculous is he’s putting Leigh, a team that as yet barely exists above us, that’s truly pathetic.

I’m Hoping that when the going gets tough ,which it will at times ,we now have three heads to iron the problems out .I would imagine coaching can be a pretty lonely place when things aren’t going right, and plenty of us armchair coaches ,me included at times thought we knew more than Chris in the coaching department .It’s a well worn cliche but we do need to be up for every game and treat as a must win .I’m sure Chris must feel so much better this time around with two more set of eyes and brains plotting our domination of super league this time around .
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Me personally, for what it’s worth, I think we will be up there in the mix

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He was a brilliant player but Is easily the worst rl pundit to ever exist, maybe with exception to Terry O’Connor

Great players but clueless when trying to articulate them selves

Gary has less rl media credibility than fisherman’s cap does on this forum

Something you can only aspire to.

I'm placing a lot of hopes on Andy L and Willie P this season. A change from the old out-dated coaching styles of the last backroomers may make all the difference.

I'm sure it will.

To be fair to Schoey he’s bang on this time

Of course he is, if you say so he must be right, what on earth were we thinking of

Either post something constructive rather than just badly troll or your visits to this forum will be a lot less frequent.

Awww don’t do that Wildy, this is all this empty vessel has in his life, it would be cruel.

True but it's tedious and stale now. More of a case of putting it out of it's misery really.

This season looks impossible to predict to me. I reckon its between Wigan and saints for the top two places and after that anyone could finish anywhere. If GS wants to have a go at a prediction table then good luck to him because he will need it.

Not sure why people are upset by the prediction, all the bookies, pundits have us, Hull Kr and Leigh to be the bottom three. From recent form over the last two seasons Hull Kr and us obviously should be predicted to be at the bottom. Leigh as with all promoted clubs also have to be predicted to be at the bottom. Looking at signings I don`t think an impartial judge would see to much at the three clubs to suggest they are not going to in the bottom three. ( think our signing of Nora does give us a better outlook than when GS made his predictions ). It would be considered madness if a pundit or a bookie predicted / gave odds for us to finish above : Saints, Wigan, Warrington, Leeds, Catalans, Hull, Cas or Hudds. Going on recent form the same pundits / bookies would quite rightly add Salford to that list, Grand final and CC final speaks for itself. It will be interesting to see how losing Watson effects them, most judges feel that Richard Marshall has been a great success in all his previous coaching roles, has served a good apprenticeship and should do well. So it leaves us with Hull KR, Leigh and us. Like others have said I like it when we are tipped to fail as its the only time our players seem to play well, as soon as I hear players start talking about top 6, that they are looking up etc it seems we always end up in the million pound game. Pundits and Bookies will look at Tony Smith and in their minds see a top coach so I think they will see him as the difference and tip Hull KR to finish above us. I thought Hull KR had a poor squad last season it has improved, they did play an expansive game which I think is not ideal for a relegation battle. So the pundit / bookie now has to pick between us and Leigh, they look at us over the last two years leaking 20 plus points a game, we have the better squad, will Leigh be more determined, will coach Duffy be able to get a desire and camaraderie going in the squad like Andy Kelly did with us, like Ward did with London . Will Last and Poaching be able to improve our defense, our structures .Will we be fit. So many questions. All that been said there is always one team that exceeds expectations, proves the pundits and bookies wrong lets hope its us. Overall I don't think GS should be criticized for his predictions there is an argument that they make sense. For me we have the players to prove the pundits wrong.

Cant argue with any of that Belly, although, Schoey ALWAYS tips us to finish bottom, even during our good times (when we were genuine play off contenders, something that we seem some distance off at present.
If Watson at Huddersfield can convince his squad and his many new signings that they are a decent outfit, they could be the surprise club this time and they will be pushing for a play off spot.. Mind you, it will be tough to get in among Wigan, Saints and Wire, plus, maybe Catalan.
Dont see either Hull or Cas being in the mix so, Leeds or Hudds pushing the top 4.

With our best team on the park and the wind in our sails we are a match for anyone on our day.it’s when the injuries start to bite into the squad ,but that goes for quite a few clubs where they don’t have huge squads .Look on schoey’s comments as motivation to prove we’re not the easy beats .For my mind it’s consistency that has always been our Achilles heel ,and eluded us for far too long .I’m hoping that with the coaching set up we have in place now we can start to chip away at this monkey on our backs and really kick on this season .Stay injury free and put some good performances in and you never know where we might end up.As I’ve said we have the roster to trouble most when fit and on the park ,we just need Lady Luck on our side and I’m positive we”ll be up there amongst the so called big boys.

Wind in our sails is a great way to put it.

Truth is all the signings in the world are not worth a good start to the season where we are concerned. That and some luck with injuries.

The talent is clearly there and if Lino fires then I see no reason why we can’t challenge.

But in fairness to the negative nellies, there is no doubt that it’s on a knife-edge. Get ourselves in a rut as in the last two seasons and we are in serious bother. Normally I'd have a customary ding dong with Belly on this and accuse him of posting the same old stock doom and gloom he does every year. He is the ultimate boy cried wolf but for once I'm not willing to put my neck on the line for this team just yet. The mini-revival last year was nice but even then they didn't seem to have the minerals to take it all the way, something was still definitely lacking for me.

Of course, that applies to many teams but this current squad has shown an alarming lack of resilience on occasions. Not a Trinity trait usually and one made even more concerning due to the fact that IMHO this is a very talented team.

It’s a worry, everything should be right but that’s not seemed enough of late.

What I am hoping is that the vastly improve coaching set up will help but at the end of the day if the players haven’t got the guts it won’t help much.

We the fans and those who run the club have done our best to keep the team together in difficult times. Now the players need to step up, it’s down to them and only them.