I don’t think he’s calling him a liar..... Tony Smith was just being economical with the Truth.

All coaches do it.

Nothing to get your knickers in a twist about.

"We’ve got no regulation over that anymore and whilst I’d be tempted to do it myself at certain stages… last week I probably didn’t put out the best team on paper but I certainly put out the best team that could physically cope"

That is what the man said. I don't think he was being economical with the truth. Your values on the other hand seem somewhat blurred.

Lol.

#WhiteKnight

That still does mean though that they still have to win a game before they come to Belle Vue.
Leeds losing last night was important to us in that respect.
I'm just interested in Wakefield Trinity being in SL next season - I dont care in which way that is achieved.

Honestly think London will beat Cats this weekend, they have done it once before this season in Perpignan and they are weaker this time around.

Cant see it myself. They still have a chance of the top 5.

If London lose in France tomorrow then last nights results is more or less immaterial, with the points difference Leeds will be effectively 5 points clear of London with just 3 games to play. Given two of those London games are against us and Hull KR then again with the points difference one of those will be below them.

And if London win in France we are probably done for anyway!

I think the script has already been written. It's coming down to that last game at home to London, and I think it may be us, not London, who need to win it to stay up on points difference. Sky will already be salivating at the prospect.

Thats me just intrested in us staying up if we dont win another game but london only bt us and we stay up on points diff so be it.but if that was to happen would we make and changes

I think they'll win at least one from their next three, maybe even two.

We simply have to beat Hull KR on Sunday, otherwise it's a last day survival job.

20pts is safe

I think Leeds, Hudds & HKR have or will all hit that figure before the last weekend, I can see London picking up a win and joining us on 18pts meaning it’ll all rest on the Trinity v London fixture.

If London don’t hit 18pts before they play us we’ll be safe win/lose in the last game because despite our terrible points difference theirs is worse.

My fear is that London play with great energy which could be our undoing and they have recent experience of a big winner takes all match.

Agreed, thought the same for ages. Saints at the top and almost a foregone conclusion so we’ll make the relegation down to the last game.

We wont win

I'm not expecting us to. Hull KR could easily put 40 on us.

I broadly agree with you but, I'm not too sure that Huddersfield will win another game. They Have Cas, Hull FC, Saints and then Catalan.
Although, if they dont make the top 5, there is a chance that Catalan may be on holiday by the time they play Huddersfield.
Cas, Salford and Hull are all pushing for a high finish and I dont see an out of form Huddersfield getting anything out of those games and their points difference could also take a severe hammering.

Equally, I think that we have 2 shots at safety.
Firstly the game tomorrow and then the last day, probable decider, against London although with Warrington going backwards even quicker than we are, if they have missed their chance by the time we play them, there could be a chance of getting something.
Further frustrations and a couple more bans here ad there would help us no end.

Finally, although London did exceptionally well beating Toronto in their own back yard to achieve promotion, Trinity are THE best club at surviving last day deciders.
In this respect, no other club comes close.

no other club has had to!

That's true but, in theory, we should have an advantage when it comes to a do or die decider.

Of course they haven't, because each time we sent them to the lower division and they didn't have another chance.

What's the points difference
?

Leeds 20 points -34 points diff
Trinity 18 points -137
Hudds 18 points -151
KR 18 points - 205
London16 points -254

The 117 points difference between ourselves looks absolutely huge but, if they were to beat us by 30 or 40 points, this would be a swing of 60 or 80 point.
They have Catalan, Leeds KR and ourselves to come and with them likely to struggle at Catalan and against Leeds, their remaining fixtures against ourselves and KR will be pivotal.
IF they win both of those games then is gets very interesting indeed and not in a good way.

Bought our tickets more in hope than expectation of a win.

I hope we can do it. But with Brough & Miller in the halves I doubt it.

I think London will beat Catalans tonight. Might focus a few minds tomorrow.

We will go down because the men at the top have seen what we've seen and opted to do nothing. Chester is a broken, beaten coach with no idea. Look at his post match interviews stumbling, mumbling rubbish with the same excuses week in and week out. No clue whatsoever how to change things around. He should have been relieved of his duties in may. What are London doing except sticking to an basic error free game plan with a decent kicking game, how hard is that? We should come out tomorrow with fire in our bellies ready to tear Hull KR apart, but will probably limp to another 30 point beating with no idea in attack with Chester applauding the effort. I hope I'm proved wrong I really do but I've lost total faith in the club.