Looking forward to this one, first chance to see the team in more normal conditions (touch wood)

Not seen anything from Hudds to be unduly worried over, but they looked decent enough vs Salford. Don't think we can afford to give Brough the sort of time given to Sneyd in the last game either.

I'd go:

Grix
Johnstone
Lyne
Tupou
BJB

Miller
Williams

England
Finn
Huby
Kirmond
Ashurst
Arona

Allgood
Fifita
Sio
Wood

Prediction: Hudds 18 - 30 Wakey

Whilst Mcgilvery is a beast with ball in hand, their right side defence doesn't seem the best.
We need to put plenty of traffic down that side, which will nullify his threat and we might score a couple in the process.

Definitely a winnable game and a couple of Fifita specials will do nicely.

Should be a good turn out from the Trinity faithful and lets hope for our first points of the season.

Hudds 16 Trin 22

I find the Huddersfield games are usually a marker as to how well our season will end up. We usually have a decent season if we beat them once or twice.

Max before Grix for me . i think Broughy will murder him

Dunno about that, Grix was MoM vs Hull easily and deserves his spot.

Prior to the Hull match I'd have fully agreed with selecting Max over Grix, however I thought Grix was one of our best players against Hull and I think he deserves to keep his place! Good performances merit reward after all.

Grix has been excellent in pre season and was MoM against Hull, why/how could you drop him on that form ?

Max will get his chance as the season progresses and I'm certain that he'll take it but, for now, Grix would be one of the first names on the team sheet.

I'd go with the same squad, subject to England and Ashurst recovering from concussion.

I like Allgood but Walker deserves to keep his place, as does Grix.
Same team apart from injuries.

Looking at the stats
The props were like this in tackles
Walker made 24 missing 1
Fifita made 27 missing 0
Huby made 32 missing 2

England obviouslly low with 3 and no misses

Arona made 47 with 3 misses
Kirmond 49 with 5 misses
Ashurst 26 with 1 miss
Sio 27 with 2 misses

So Walker shows up well enough.


One surprising stast.............Finn made 21 tackles and missed 0

Just looking at stats now - Walker stands up well with the ball as well - Better average metres gained than Huby although Huby does tend to look more for the offload than be a battering ram.

Fifita with most carries, highest average metres gained, 2 offloads and 2 tackle busts + 27 tackles for no misses is the pick of the pack though. Cracking effort that in the conditions and vs a very physical Hull pack.

Whilst Grix had a good game v Hull, it concerns me that Max Jowitt may miss games. I don't know what he did wrong last season to warrant Grix coming in and potentially taking his berth. I thought he was outstanding last season. Personally, I think we had other priorities, though I concede Grix can be utilised in a number of positions, which is useful for us. I just hope Max doesn't get fed up and hanker for a move

I dont know that he did anything wrong, other than he played too many games and once we got past the "magic weekend", beating Catalan in such dramatic style, many of the squad, including Max were running on empty.
They squad had bust a gut, surpassed all expectations and made the top 8, which was just unbelievable from where we were the previous season.

I'm certain that Kear & Chester wil have him in mind as we get through some games and it will be great to see the lad back in the squad.
There is no doubt that he is our future FB but, with Grix on the top of his game, I guess that Max will need to be patient.

Agreed. He got injured through over work. He needs to be protected from that.
I like him and he should be used to his best, often enough but not too often.