3 games v Toulouse will ultimately decide who is relegated and this was always going to be the case this season.
Trinity have some excellent young prospects coming through and if relegation is avoided the future could be very bright.
Liam Kay is evermore looking like he offers far more than just been a winger he always had great potential and should have never gone in the first place.
The decision to sign injury prone players like Lineham Gaskell is something Trinity have constantly done over the years players way past their best.
I find is strange when the club has limited financial clout and did Trinity really need another winger?
I also fear Bill Tupou is all but finished at this level and will play very few if any games again.

think that neatly summarises what a lot of right minded supporters think, end of day we have severe financial restrictions compared to most clubs. But a lot of the signings made recently have been players that are a year or so beyond their best , and haven’t stayed fit - Brough , atkins looked like decent signings but gave us very little conversely westerman looked a high risk signing but was fantastic for us . Pretty tough if your the board

Getting back to the Toulouse being a potential relegation decider , they could easily have beaten Wigan and we have half a team unavailable for the game. Lose it and we will be firmly rooted in bottom spot win it and same applies to Toulouse.

Weatherman was terrific for half a season and the after his call up was anonymous or injured so even that didn’t go swimmingly in terms of signings.

Even on his worst day he was one if the best in the team.
Wedterman was a good signing.

When did we sign these two.

Wedterman is the German loose forward we signed but he couldn't get in the team because Westerman was playing so well.

are we raining men ?

Whose going to be missing that makes up half a team.

Even if we had 8.5 players unavailable that doesn’t necessarily equate to half the team that would have been picked.

This is my point, you only take the worst case.

Lyne will be back as will Hall. We don’t know if Jowitt is in trouble.

We don’t know regarding Miller.

Gaskell may well be fit.

In truth the only obvious players I know of who almost certainly won’t play is Hood and Lineham.

Croft can certainly play.

Let’s see what happens before we claim we are half a team down, please.

Miller failed his h.i.a so is automatically ruled-out for Friday, but assuming Walker is fit then he is the obvious replacement ??
Willie said last week that Gaskell and Hood are still a couple of weeks off.

I have asked before should Jowitt be banned which is possible with the current rulings who plays full back on Friday.

That is a very good question last season we had 3 who could play fullback this season we have only 2 and with Gaskell out injured and if Jowett does pick up a suspension then we have a problem! CC as left us in a bit of a mess not resigning Rocky.

Give Willie P a ring, he might have a clue

Nar he'l just consult this forum! There's people on here who think they know more than him

Can’t see Jowitt picking up a suspension. Was running full tilt with the Leeds player heading for the corner. Leeds player got tackled and fell down literally in front of Jowitts legs. No time to adjust and one of those things. There was no sliding in with the knees at all and it’s just clutching. Would be extremely harsh of there was anything come from it.

Jowitt plays for Wakefield so rule book gets thrown out of window

Have you considered the Paul Cullen factor

So that’s another team who’ve picked up their first points.

Bet it happens again on friday

Well whoever looses this one will either stay or end up at the bottom, so only 2 teams with no points.
Same old same old up to press.

This is a tricky one for some.

They all hate Miller and love Walker.

So theoretically this loss is a win?

I’m more than happy to see Walker and Lino play at HB.

Truth is and it will break some hearts is that the only real loss is Jowitt should that happen.

I’m struggling to see any options other than Robbie Butterworth?? He did ok on Boxing Day and in the reserves at FB.

Raw though he is I’d rather see him there than a SR. At least he knows the position.

This injury prone malarkey I don’t buy into ,it’s a contact sport and things twang or break that’s just a fact . Surprised how miller throws himself into tackles he doesn’t get Concussion every other week . Some of Johnstone’s head knock were inconspicuous but they all count and so we lost one of our best attacking weapons for extended periods . We have far more strings to our bow this season with the youngsters stepping up to the plate ,but obviously still need a decent spread of youth and experience to succeed. Most team will suffer this throughout the season , we’ve just had a particularly tough start with the fixture list ,but for me apart from the first 40 against leeds we have been competitive and more ,keep the faith .

You have a very unpleasant habit that seems to pervade a lot of your rambling pompous posts which is telling me (and other posters) what I think or what my motives are , this is something that you are patently not qualified to comment on so don’t.

it might not be a relegation decider right now but if we lose this one we'll look back view it the one game that sunk the ship.

Comical you feel the need to bring me in to conversations you’re having with other people which are nothing to do with me

Pathetic
Childish
Not able to spell ‘but’ correctly

But most obviously of all, you are clearly obsessed with me