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I agree with both.
Smash them down the middle but then choose left or right.

I like the variation now if they are going to continue with Grix one side and Miller on the other. Miller has to keep his passing at the level he had on Friday but it stops teams guessing the play by watching Grix.

Exciting times.

Good post. Saying that didn't Wigan just completely abuse the left side of Salfords' defense, so it'll be quite hard for them to remedy that in a week. Like you say though left or right, it doesn't really matter they're both strong.

For the first time in ages, it must be a genuine quandary for opposition coaches to work out how to play WT; the pack is huge and can be devastating - and when Huby is fit, it adds another dimension, since he's a compulsive offloader - and with Grix' ability to back up, that's a real danger. Meanwhile, our 2nd row is big and quick, and then both edges are genuinely dangerous - particularly TJ, who seems to have a couple of extra gears, and a genuine ability to go from 0-60 almost instantly. I don't think you can 'plan' to defend Miller, since he's one of those players who doesn't seem to know himself what he's going to do until he has the ball in his hands - which works very well alongside Finn, who is much more methodical and always appears to be a few plays ahead of himself. Putting together that squad is a work of genius - making it perform to the best of its ability will be the challenge.

The biggest weakness from the HKR game was the middle part of the game, where we dropped off the pace and gave away a string of needless penalties - better teams than HKR will punish that kind of sloppiness, so that will need to be addressed. Looking forward to Friday - I'm predicting a comfortable win for WT.

The aspect of the 2018 left right side comparison that impressed me most was the defense, both sides seemed to be equally good. Now I know that our right side received most of the traffic against Hull KR, but in Ashurst and Horo we have two intelligent back rowers who read the game well, make great decisions and tackle well. Defense wins matches.

Squads realesed id assume we’d line up like

Obrien
Evalds
Jones
Sau
Olpherts
Lui
Littlejohn
Mossop
Tomkins
Tasi
Huaraki
Griffin
McCarthy

Wood
Burgess
Nakubuwai
Kopzcak

Must Win.

reasons noted in the must win first round.

More of a must win than last week but still not a must win as noted last week.

Must win, to ensure that we remain above Cas in the league

Will be a much tougher test for us than last week

Its always a bit iffy in early season with no game time fine tuning, but s'pose its the same for everyone, its been a long time since we gave that many pens and bb pens in a game, I don't even know how many there were but it felt like a lot, it certainly fed HKR's come back periods
I think if we play that game again without the pens, we'll see Salford off with a bit to spare..

Just want to remind everyone that the KO for tomorrow night has been brought forward to 7:35 with a lot of tickets already sold, don't get caught out like Boxing Day, either purchase online or get there extra early

we win we go top for 1 day at least

That is a strong 17 considering the players Salford lost in the close season. Wigan's scoreline last week was misleading with a lot of basketball tries.

I fancy us to win this but expect a close game.

Have to be honest I agree. I reckon on any other given day half of Wigans tries wouldn't have happened. They rode their luck and all credit to them but it wasn't a fair reflection on Salford.

I agree. We'll need to improve on last week to get a win.

Think we have to be careful not to start believing our own hype again, Salford are a dangerous side and have decent strike all over the place. Cut out the lazy pens, get a decent completion rate and we should have enough but need the leaders to keep our feet on the ground.

Indeed, if we play to our potential we will be far to strong for them but get complacent and they could spank us. We know this because that's exactly what we used to do.

We are not the underdogs anymore so a new mindset is required because people now raise their game for us. It's a compliment but it comes with strings attached.

I think we will do 'em easily. Better in the forwards, better in the backs. IMO of course.....

Wakefield by 20+

You can wrap the Wigan victory up however you like - Fact is Salford were absolutely dreadful all throughout the game and were lucky Wigan only put 40 past them. They would have to improve drastically and Wakefield be off there game, unlikely but we know it can happen. Just dont see it myself.

Wakefield 28 Salford 16
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Att. 4361 (disappointing but all Trinity's "fans" are watching in their local)

Come on Trin !

Regarding kick off time I can see it being delayed till normal kick off time due to a crafty little bugger called the M62.

Only if the team bus is caught up in it, the 2 supporters taxis won’t trouble the KO

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No delay at KR last week and there were hundreds of folk that missed the kick off and/or turned round

Breezed through the 62, hardly any traffic it's all cleared