Finishing 8th is a fantastic achievement for our squad of players. Anyone who wasn`t tinged with the red white and blue looked at us at the start of season and most said 12th some said 11th.
Hats off to all concerned. What games like today do show is how important our close season signings are going to have to be.

If at start of season somebody said 8th and a cup semi you'd have snatched their hand off. Best I thought was a more competitive season than last and avoiding the MPG by doing better in middle 8s.

Up the Trin

Whilst not meaning to be negative as I think you have done very well this year, if Salford hadn't broken the salary cap in previous seasons you would be in the middle 8s fighting for a place in SL next year.
As far as on-field performances go, you have been the 9th best team. Which is a dramatic improvement on being the 12th best team.

I knew someone would bring this up now. You could also say if this game was to be in the top 8, would we have played exactly the same, with the same team? The Semi would have come secondary at that point. Would we had a debutant on, as well as young Crowther and rested the Captain, BJB, Anderson and sent the likes of Howarth, Yates and Walker out on loan.

Indeed. I guess everything is hypothetical.
I'd much rather play Wakefield at home that Salford though, so I'm pleased it's worked out like that.
Hopefully, we'll get you the week before Wembley this time!

It's just we got that a few years ago when Bradford screwed up their finances.

I'll be very happy to play Cas the week before Wembley as well.

If Salford hadn't had a points deduction and we weren't guaranteed top 8 we would have at least played with a pack today.

I guess some teams this season have progressed, and some haven't.

Your obvious displeasure at Cas's regression has been duly noted
Try not to be too bitter about it though....lol

It's good to see us in the super 8 section of the forum this year. Much prefer it to the middle 8's

We got there by default.

Dont know how anyone can say that. Salford broke the rules and got docked the points. Other teams have done it in the past and had points docked including the precious pie eaters.

Anyone with a blank chequebook can put out a squad capale of beating anyone. Which given the players Salford have signed should have been scrapping for t4he top 4 let alone 8.

Whos to say the good doctor hasnt done it again

Really 9th ! Salford have not lost any players from breaking the rules so on a level playing fiekd we come 9th! but hey that is still a great acheivmnet from year and the fact we got lucky and were gifted 8th spot then happy days!!

but if we think this squad is good enough to get us here again we are dreaming

Had we not got a game next weekend, you may have been playing a different Wakefield team today.
But, your right, it's a huge turnaround on last season and everyone involved at Trinity deserves a share of the credit.

Next season will be more difficult, with Leeds, Salford and probably Huddersfield all expected to improve but, we'll take what we have and hope for some luck next week !

We're a point off 6th, and that only happened in the last game of the regular season ffsake

we must have chucked at least 3+ games away this season, I don't see 9th like I don't see a glass half empty, I see as near to 6th as makes no difference.

you gotta expect a few myopic cas dime bars coming here to bitch about 1 point, because its all they have, they're not going to win anything and they've not made any improvement over last season, their only comfort is finishing 1 poxy point above wakey......which, quite frankly is laughable when you consider how disappointing their own season has been.

well, it makes me laugh anyway

I'll raise a glass to Dr Koukash.

Thanks for being useless at cheating a rubbish system.

Still an outstanding effort by us, after what happened the season before.

The same could be said of a few games what we have thrown away this year but for every close one you lose against the grain you win a close one against the grain.

I would of been bitterly disappointed finishing the regular season in 6th with Powell picking from a full squad and rotating players regularly, but unfortunately it hasn't panned out that way with him playing lads out of position week after week many of them dead on their feet from not being rested with many fringe lads having lots of game time this year.
I no every team have injuries but this year has been truly horrendous, so as for your statement of cas fans not been happy because of no improvement over last year, is frankly quite laughable.

Good luck next week by the way..It would be good to see wakey at Wembley on TV in colour instead of all those black and white clips!

FFS go out and steal a newer model! I'll send you a copy of the Widnes v Wakey final in full colour to kick off your entry into the wonderful world of colour TV.

Your right actually ,forget about 79 where colour was the norm,just that long ago.
Why wouldl I want to steal one?

Lmao

I wish we had progressed as much as Wakefield this year.
I said from the beginning of the season that our recruitment wasn't good enough. Teams below us in 2015 (Hull FC, Catalans, Warrington) signed players to improve their first choice 17. We signed a past-it Joel Monaghan, NRL failure Ben Crooks and a winger from Featherstone who nobody had heard of.
Even though we have had many injuries (Shenton out for the year, Roberts has played about 5 games, Dorn has missed 10+) I don't think we would have challenged the top four.
Unfortunately our recruitment for next year isn't looking any better (Greg Eden!)
However, there is a long way to go before the start of 2016.

If you read the full report of the appeal panel which is on the RL site you will see that Koukash pays players for doing imaginary extra duties such as 'leadership training ' from an overseas company he controls. No doubt he is still at this as there is no way the RL can monitor it if the player keeps quiet. He got found out this time because the player concerned left the club and still asked for the money. Koukash refused so the player spilled the beans.

How would you know colour was the norm, you didn't even have black and white television in Cas then, even now most of your fans watch the game through Curry's shop window.

So I support Cas that must mean I live in Cas. ..great logic there Einstein!
As for the offer of loaning the dvd from your buddy watching wakey in 79 in colour for the first time.....I think I will save the witty remarks for this time next week,where I expect a wall of silence

Apologies for allowing our light hearted banter giving opportunity for the dumbing down of the thread.



By the way, we are under no illusions about what the probable outcome at LSV is going to be next week. The absolute minimum is that we'll just enjoy the build up and game on the day and be thankful for the National Media exposure and extra cash generated. Anything above that is a bonus.

Believe it or not there are one or two cas fans who genuinely would like to see wakey do it!
Just can't see it myself, looked a sharp well drilled outfit and powerful from 1-13 the other week against us

Well we got the bite back from the Cas fans. It was obviously going to come.
Season isn't over though.
The end of the season is after the next 7 games. I reckon we'll be above Cas by then, which is what matters.