Another big game for us and Huddersfield improving so, it's going to be another tricky game.

Tinirau Arona
Joe Arundel
Matty Ashurst
James Batchelor
Mason Caton-Brown
Anthony England
David Fifita
Liam Finn
Ashley Gibson
Scott Grix
Keegan Hirst
Craig Huby
Ben Jones-Bishop
Danny Kirmond
Reece Lyne
Jacob Miller
Bill Tupou
Sam Williams
Kyle Wood

Assuming both are fit, we have to keep Finn and Miller in the halves.
Huddersfield now only have one fixture over the weekend (with a postponement due to clash with Town's big game) and so they dont need to think about resting/rotating their squad, which just isnt right.

Cant see too many changes from the Magic squad, unless Chester has a master plan for Mondays game at Wigan.

I hope that we have our ball boys ready if its a close game to either speed things up or, suddenly be unable to find a spar ball if we are in front - the tactics at Shudds were a disgrace and we certainly owe them one.

I certainly think it's going to be a bigger challenge than our recent games. I wonder if Williams is going to play off the bench with Miller & Finn starting to bring some periods of speed into the game

Probably a good call.
We've packed our 19 with three quarters' : Arundel, MCB, Gibson, BJB, Tupou and Lyne.
So, if Williams gets a bench spot, 2 of those are likely to miss out.
I'd like to see Batch play again and if anything we look a bit light on options in the pack.

Really looking forward to this one.
Its forecast to be a decent day on Friday, let's hope it's 2 more points for the Mighty Trin !

Agree re forwards and playing an interchange half back , with another game on monday am sure whoever doesn't get a game friday will be needed then - Does any one know how allgood recovery is progressing ?

I suppose we'll probably be looking to kill Hudds with speed and keep the forwards fresh for the arm-wrestle against Wigan

Don't forget feigning injury in the in goal area as well.

Ballcocks to Monday !!!! lets get the Friday game over with first. 2 points is the priority and worry about Monday and Wigan after that.

If we win this and Warrington beat Leeds then we head into the Wigan game in 4th place!!!

Based on current form, we have the beating of this Shudds team; they look soft and all over the place, in both and attack and defence. But - they have some quality players, and you would expect them to click at some point - and we do have a habit of gifting them easy points.

I'm sure that Shudds fans will call us poor losers but, the stuff going on over there, in the last 10/15 mins was shocking. It took time wasting and gamesmanship to a whole new level and IMO, the person/people controlling the ball boys was culpable as well.
Before it got close, there seemed to be a ball boy with spare ball every 20 metres along the side of the pitch but, all of the balls disappeared from sight, when we were pushing to get back on terms.
Balls kicked off the pitch, they took the mickey big time, although it also helped get them 2 points.

With 10/15 mins to go on Friday, I hope that we are looking to put icing and a cherry on the proverbial cake but, if it's tight, I hope that we use every trick in the book and them some.

Totalky agree with all of this. The fans there were incensed at the time.

I think the extra day Wigan have to recover before Monday could give them a slight advantage but I feel confident going into any game at the minute.
Looking forward to Friday, good weather forcast, a few beers and Trinity playing well.

All those years we couldn't beat Huddersfield so I hope we hammer them on Friday! Way they played v Catalans it shouldn't be a problem but you never know!

Their last 3 results have been pretty good.
Beating Catalan, running Cas very close and beating Leeds (one of the shocks of the season).
This will be our toughest game of the 4 "easier" SL games.

Any kind of win would do nicely and if Saints can beat up Wigan, that would be a bonus

Hard one to call. You guys have been consistantly decent all season with a fair few great performances thrown in too. We haven't had a great performance all season in my opinion. In fact I think our best performances have been in some of our losses, which shows we haven't been quite there.
If we sort out a few things we could win you.
We are due a run away score at some point this season so I'm hoping it's tomorrow.
I don't think Monday will be in the minds too much from your players and coaching staff so I'm expecting your typical good showing.

I'll go with a 2-6 point win either way.

Monday wont be in your minds at all



I agree that it will be a close game and we should expect loadt of you fans to make the trip as you dont seem to have another game this weekend

I dunno, everything about this game screams Wakey by 3 scores
We've had a few squeaky wins and losses this season but they were against teams playing ok
Shudds are looking like their league position, pretty low
They're coming off a dire few point win over Cats, who haven't hit a barn door all season.
Never ever ever rule anyone out, its fatal, but Shudds are gonna have to pull a major finger out or Wakey will have to have a stinker, neither of which seem likely.
I suppose the unknown is the pivots at Shudds, didn't work out too well for Widnes though.

Don't you just love Ian Millward? Wakefield lack speed??? BJB, Lyne, MCB

I know he is a bit of an 4rse but really?? He has surely lost the plot this time.

I reckon that man for man - every one of our players is slightly better than their Huddersfield counterpart, we're also playing more cohesive rugby where every player knows their role. I don't think it will be an easy win, but with the size and stamina of our pack and the speed in our backs I'm hopeful we can get the win. We've scored at least 6 tries in each of our last 4 games where as Huddersfield have struggled to get over the line as much. In the last 4 games we've scored 27 tries and only let in 10

I would say speed is our best assett this year. Is it him or is it a parody? Really

He is an 4rse, but he's not wrong in one sense - whilst we have some of the quickest backs in SL in terms of footspeed, we do lack speed in terms of thought, passing and movement off the ball. Watch how Cas create a try from their own 10 metre line - that's all about speed of thought and quick, clean passes to the outside - we don't have anywhere near that fluency yet.

Tonight is crucial. Win tonight and we can think about where we finish in the top eight, not whether we do. Win tonight and we will exit round 16 in 5th spot at least, whatever happens on Monday. Can't see how we could get pulled out of the top eight with seven games to go. Even a losing run would require too many teams to have winning runs.

If we win tonight it will be a fantastic achievement. Kendal has been given this game for one reason only and that is to make sure his team wins. I reckon his involvement is worth around 18pts start for Huddersfield.
The guy has no morals when it comes to reffing the club he loves. He did us big style at their place. He made sure they won away at Leeds and he will try his hardest to rig the game for them tonight.

There's some confidence there !
Tonights game is our last "easy" fixture, with the exception of Widnes away.
Despite our lofty position on the SL ladder, 5th is just mad

, we are only just above Wigan and Saints (both of whom we would expect to improve towards the end of the season and with: Wigan, Salford, Leeds, Hull, Wire, Cas and Saints to come, a drop in form could see us struggle.

I aint counting any chickens until we're mathematically safe.
However, if we can start to mix it with the big boys, a top 4 spot is possible.

Exciting times indeed, roll on 8 o clock !

I don't think it's confidence, it's a statement of fact!

Realistically, only 2 teams can pull us in: Hudds and Catalan.

If we win tonight, we'd be 4 wins better than Huddersfield and Catalan (assuming Salford beat them tonight). Even if they win each win the other bank holiday game (postponed in Huddserfield's case), out of the remaining seven games, they'd have to win four to overtake us if we don't win another match all season, and by points that claw back points difference. But we are unlikely to go seven games without a win at all.

Can either of them do it? I doubt it. It's just too much.

Tonight could make us a team that is unlikely to drop out. Too many teams below us.