I think I said when I joined this forum I was away on holiday when we are at Wembley , gutted to be honest but there's worse things in life I guess .

We leave this morning for 10 days so just wanted to say to everyone on here have a safe journey down , have a great day or weekend and sing your hearts for the lads .

Bring it home .

Up The Trin

With Boothroyd, Vangana and Cozza out but Griffin due back I think the forwards pick themselves. It’s the wing where Powell will have a headache I reckon, who do you keep out of Walmsley, Olpherts and Jerry?

Griffin seeing a specialist this week so might not get the clearance to play

Massive headacre for Powell with selections for wembley but i do think Derrel Olpherts has earned is place tbh and Bain looking very good now

There's 19 players who all deserve a place based on form. We're going to have two unhappy ones.

If fit:
Jowitt
McGilvery
Thornley
Pratt
Walmsley
Gale
Lino
Bowden
Hood
Atoni
Ashurst
Griffin
Pitts

Kay
Rodwell
Uele
Bain

Olpherts has really stuck his hand up for a Wembley shirt.
Excellent again yesterday but, if he's fit, McGilvery has to play but, its a great problem for Powell to have.
All three wingers in great form.
Already buzzing at the thought of Trinity playing at Wembley.

People won't like it but to me the form wingers are Olpherts and Jerry.
But on the open spaces Walmsley could be running the length.

Olpherts and Jerry are the right wingers and it would be Olpherts for me. McGillvray has missed alot and Olpherts has shown up well in his place.

Walmsley is our top try scorer and played well yesterday.

Id be happy with Walmsley and either of the other wingers.

Has to be Walms and Jerry.
They were signed as our first choice wingers.
Has good as he has been, Olpherts unfortunately has to miss out for me.

I don't actually think the difference is that great between Olpherts and Walmsley.
They are completely different players but it depends what you want.

In our half Olpherts gains ground and gets us out of trouble.
In their half Walmsley is lightening and scores tries.

I don't think we can really make a bad choice.

Have a fantastic day and shout the sauad, coaches and owner to victory.
Savour every minute
I'm devastated I will not be amongst you all.

Kirmmo was on radio Leeds earlier and said that Cozza had a grade 2 head injury, which means he can undertake HIA retests this week so may have a chance, a slim one IMHO, of making Wembley

We have three obvious advantages our forwards, the size of the Wembley pitch and our full time fitness.

Lachlan and Jerry this year; Derrell can have a go when we go back again next year, along with TJ.

Olpherts already experienced a Wembley appearance in Cas's 2021 Challenge cup defeat so has had the big game experience, or should we give Walmsley a chance to have a possibly once in a lifetime appearance on the big day? Glad that I don't have to make the choice. I think the size of the Wembley playing area will suit Lachlan's style rather than Derrell's.

If your going on this season contributions you’d go …

Walmsley (15 games 18 try’s)
Olpherts (10 games 3 try’s)

McGillvray (5 games 4 try’s)

Be unfair to leave Walmsley out playing most games and most try’s by a distance.

I’d probably go Walmsley / Olpherts but I think Powell will go Walmsley / McGillvray.

Tough choice, who’d be a coach. Regardless I think the players have the right attitude if not selected.

Walmsley played last year for Halifax in the 1895

You're dead right RWB. I'd forgotten that Halfax had been there last year until TC mentioned it on his Friday night match commentary.

The referee has been announced as Tom Grant. Their will be no video referee used for this game despite it being used in both the other finals

That seems crazy.
All the facilities and the tech in place and it's a final.

Just seems another example of this game being undervalued??? 3 finals and only 2 getting the attention a final deserves . Shameful attitude by the RFL towards the 2 teams and fans of the 1895 final !!!!

Totally agree, but TBH, should we be surprised??

Am I alone in not being bothered? Having seen some of the farcical VR decisions in recent weeks I'd rather keep the game flowing.