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| Be great to win both but given respective form of castleford and Wigan , would the cas game be one to give some squad players a run out, rest huby fafita, kirmond and play the likes of sio , aniline Crowther batchelor
Kirmond in particular I doubt could give his best in 2 games in 72 hours
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| There is certainly a case for rotation and I guess it depends what our opponents do rotation wise as well. I guess Wigan will put out as full a strength team as possible against Saints (local derby match they want to win more than any other) so maybe weaker against us (- if possible based on Wane's moaning of injuries). As for us, as much as I want to win both I see Wigan at home as the more winnable of 2 tough fixtures. I'd throw more weight to winning that one.
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| I'd be focusing on Wigan an all - of the two, they look most vulnerable to another upset; that would be a cheeky 2 points that no one would be expecting.
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| I'm not sure, Cas have got Saints away on Monday and I think they could split their small squad between the 2 to try and win both.
Personally I'd try to beat Cas at their place, we're in good form - they lost to Salford and nothing special against injury depleted Wigan. Gonna be a tough game but winnable if we carry on fronting up like we have been.
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| Yes. I think I'd play full team against Cas knowing we have good back up against Wigan even though it may be the easier to win.
Momentum is with us. Let's keep it.
Only rest those who are not 100%
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| It's the Adam Watene Trophy match - I'd really like to win it
We do need to rotate the squad though and Wigan look considerably more beatable at the moment
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| Lets win both games, Sio, England, Batchelor, Jowitt, Crowther, Walker will freshen the squad up for the second game..
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| Quote ="TrinityIHC"I'm not sure, Cas have got Saints away on Monday and I think they could split their small squad between the 2 to try and win both.
Personally I'd try to beat Cas at their place, we're in good form - they lost to Salford and nothing special against injury depleted Wigan. Gonna be a tough game but winnable if we carry on fronting up like we have been.'"
Small squad? We have about 30 players including kids. So much so we have rested Lynch for two games. I expect we will put out strongest team for game 1 to try and secure at least 1 win. Think that's what all coaches think too. Too much of a risk to either split teams or prioritise one. Plus it is a derby game and bragging rights are always vital.
Reckon our team will be: Hardaker, Minikin, Webster, Shenton, Eden, Roberts, Gale, Lynch, McShane, Sene-Lefao, Holmes, McMeeken, Milner.
Subs: Millington, Moors, Cook, Chase
That leaves Monaghan, Foster, Tom Holmes, Massey, Larroyer, Springer, Maher to potentially come in Easter Monday outcome pending. Maybe Hitchcox if he's back fit. We also have likes of Egodo and Fitzsimmons on loan, plus a load of youngsters, who can come in too.
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| Quote ="Fully"
That leaves Monaghan, Foster, Tom Holmes, Massey, Larroyer, Springer, Maher to potentially come in Easter Monday outcome pending. Maybe Hitchcox if he's back fit. We also have likes of Egodo and Fitzsimmons on loan, plus a load of youngsters, who can come in too.'"
Not much quality there though is there?
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| Quote ="Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo"Not much quality there though is there?'"
Talk about pulling the tigers tail
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| Quote ="Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo"Not much quality there though is there?'"
Enough to let us win 7 out of our first 8 games
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| Certainly isn't silverware winning quality which is the aim this year.
Collectively they'd get paggerred, but I'm sure we could rotate two or three into our squad without our team looking "weak"
I think our team has rotated itself naturally up to press with the odd niggle here and there.
I'd ideally like to see moors and mcshane have a little time off, but I think we will be at almost full strength for Wakefield purely cause everyone wants to start Easter with a win
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| yeah, I think mcshane has looked a bit jaded recently so he can play, moors.....nope, he needs a rest..
tbh, not to suggest Cas would be canon fodder without him but I think its up in the air a bit if Gale doesn't play.
Wakey have nothing to lose, they're not expected to win but they haven't been expected to win any, so business as usual.
Dunno about the pies, I suppose they'll be watching last seasons game before the match for.....motivational purposes...lol
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| Quote ="Upanunder"
Dunno about the pies, I suppose they'll be watching last seasons game before the match for.....motivational purposes...lol'"
Whilst sticking cue cards of excuses down their socks for the inevitable thumping
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| As well as it pains me to say it, our dear neighbours are playing well, they didnt look unbeatable the other night.
As for the depth of their squad, I have doubts of their quality here, and I think the friendly against them proved that
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| went for tickets today to club shop, was told there was less than 60 left!! apparently Cas have sold in excess of 8,000 , Going to be a cracker!!!
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| DP always picks his best possible team for the first easter game and leaves it to the players to put their hand up for the second.
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| Both sides will play their best sides for this game , absolute madness to suggest resting players and using them for the second game. Plus from a Cas angle, I doubt powell will make too many changes over easter, chase may play longer minutes, Webster and Monaghan may play 1 game each and the bench may start the second game and springer may play longer but I really don't envisage us using the majority of players Fully suggested.
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| Quote ="Eastern Wildcat"As well as it pains me to say it, our dear neighbours are playing well, they didnt look unbeatable the other night.
As for the depth of their squad, I have doubts of their quality here, and I think the friendly against them proved that'"
A second half which consisted of a team of our Under 19s plus Chase and a spell of 1 or 2 others doesn't really prove anything other than that you played well when we had about 13 first teamers off the pitch. Which isn't going to happen unless we suffer an injury crisis of epic proportions this season, and certainly not before Friday.
If we take the first half, we wiped the floor with you, when it was our first team.
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| Quote ="Towns88"Both sides will play their best sides for this game , absolute madness to suggest resting players and using them for the second game. Plus from a Cas angle, I doubt powell will make too many changes over easter, chase may play longer minutes, Webster and Monaghan may play 1 game each and the bench may start the second game and springer may play longer but I really don't envisage us using the majority of players Fully suggested.'"
Interesting piece with Lynch in paper today, where he explained that Powell has said he will give everyone a rest at some point and that's why he has sat out. Doesn't want anyone playing 35 games.
That's why I think we will see changes if we win on Friday. Definitely think that all our main first teamers will see action across the weekend.
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| Quote ="Fully"A second half which consisted of a team of our Under 19s plus Chase and a spell of 1 or 2 others doesn't really prove anything other than that you played well when we had about 13 first teamers off the pitch. Which isn't going to happen unless we suffer an injury crisis of epic proportions this season, and certainly not before Friday.
If we take the first half, we wiped the floor with you, when it was our first team.'"
My my we do get touchy don't we
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| Quote ="Fully"Enough to let us win 7 out of our first 8 games
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| Quote ="Fully"Interesting piece with Lynch in paper today, where he explained that Powell has said he will give everyone a rest at some point and that's why he has sat out. Doesn't want anyone playing 35 games.
That's why I think we will see changes if we win on Friday. Definitely think that all our main first teamers will see action across the weekend.'"
He's sitting out as for me he offers the least out of anyone in our pack and is out of form. I'm sure at some stage the odd player will be rested here and there but at the very most I reckon 3/4 changes for the second easter game. The plus side is we have a great squad of 19/20 are all involved, the rest on DR or injured. No oneed sat on the sidelines with splinters in their arris'
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| They do dont they Big Lads Mate.
They also seem to forget we played several kids in that 2nd half too. At the end of the day the likes of Max and TJ are still kids themselves.
Didnt Batch get on the scoresheet too.
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| You can read absolutely nothing into that second half in the friendly and trying to make out as if it proves anything is ridiculously small time. They battered us first half and then took most of their players off.
If I had to choose I reckon five of our lads would get in their 17, those being Huby, Fifita, Ashurst and our wingers (I reckon Johnstone would probably have 15+ tries this season if he played for them). Arona wouldn't be far off either. Big issue is that their pivots are much better than ours. We're definitely capable of winning but it'll take pretty much our entire 17 to be on top form and a few of theirs to have poor games (or the ref to have a shocker in our favour).
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