So two weeks away from the first game of the super league season. We are already hit with injuries to a number of players already with Harry Newman, Alex Sutcliffe, Rob Lui, Callum McLelland and Jack Walker on the sidelines, now we add Ash Handley to the equation. By the sound of Richard Agar: Hurrell, Gale, Tetevano, Eastmond will all be ok for the game, with a slight doubt over Tom Holroyd.

Thought Broadbent was very good today at full back and personally would give him the opportunity whilst we get Eastmond fully up to scratch.

Broadbent
Briscoe Sutcliffe Hurrell Briscoe
Myler Gale
Oledzki Leeming Tetevano
Mellor Martin
Smith

Dwyer Vuniyayawa Prior Thompson/Donaldson

Eastmond/Walters/O’Connor

Think Myler deserves to start at FB after last season.
Would go fit Broadbent on wing if Hanley out.
Eastmond will be good to go with Gale. Experienced and quality player....

Myler
Briscoe
Hurrell
Sutcliffe
Broadbent

Eastmond
Gale

Oledzki
Leeming
Tetevano
Mellor
Martin
Prior

Dwyer
King
Thompson
Donaldson

Both Briscoes will be on the wings if Handley is out which looks likely.

Yep coaches are generally cautious.I personally would play Broadbent on the wing assuming Myler at fullback and Gale and Eastmond in the halfs, Hurrell and Sutcliffe centres. My team would be
Myler
Briscoe
Sutcliffe
Hurrell
Broadbent
Eastmond
Gale
Oledzki
Leemimg
Tetevino
Mellor
Martin
Prior

Dwyer
Thompson
Smith
Walters

Wakefield Trinity (H)

For goodness sake we need to keep myler away from the half back position

Imo prior will always start if he is fit,it's just a question of where.So if prior starts at loose then: dwyer,smith,thompson,walters.
It looks a bit light to me let's hope holroyd is ok.

Yep it's your away game that you play at home. Crazy

Did Wakefield make their stadium available to host one of the opening two rounds of games?

Agreed. That's why Last season and this season are basically just training runs.
Why can't this game be at Belle Vue?

Because Sky are showing every game so it makes ‘sense’ to have them all played at a ground that can accommodate all the fixtures.

Quite, which in turn means season ticket holders can see the coverage provided by Sky.
It was known the first two rounds would be played in one location, and at two of the grounds covid-secured last year for multiple games to be played on them. If Wakefield didn't want to go to the cost or difficulty of making Belle Vue one of these then they can't complain when someone else did. Leeds, in turn, play a home game at St Helens the following week.

And if all the games weren’t being shown on sky people would just moan about that instead.

We have to accept that the first part of the season isn’t going to be a ‘normal’ one and crack on.

I think the players and coaching staff would disagree about "just training runs".

Anyone know if there's a fantasy super league being done anywhere this time around....? The official superleague one is still saying coming 2021 but I thought it'd of been up and running by now..

Does that actually matter in terms of Wakefield being the "home" side here.
With no fixtures having been played and a blank canvas for the fixture planners and Leeds hosting round 1, why on earth should this be anything other than a Leeds home fixture.
Had it been rearranged at short notice etc, then, it is what it is but, the decision to have the game as a Trinity "home" fixture is a little odd.

I'm guessing wakeys ground staff may well be still furloughed along with other clubs whose grounds are still closed. Has to be a cost cutter to share in the absence of crowds

Fair point.

One thing they definitely aren't going to do is penalise the teams who have gone to the trouble of making their stadia available by enforcing games there to count as home games leaving clubs who haven't done that to have more of their home games later, potentially with crowds.

Lets be honest here it is a bit ridiculous to class that game as our away game when the hope is we will be at home and away fixtures in a few week. Especially when its round 1.

Crazy in my opinion.

Am I missing something here? Yes we all know it should be Wakeys home game but it isn't so what they have to travel 10 miles. Week after we should be at Home to Cas but have to travel 60 miles. Move on!

Would you say same if we had to travel 60 miles to play Saints at Saints and class it as our home game tho? And then 2 months later travel back to Saints to play them in an away game when it could be played at Headingley?

Its madness really.

totally agree, they knew the opening two weeks fixtures were being played at Leeds and St Helens so why not make them home games for those teams, simple really. A little bit of thought stops is all that was needed.

Why disadvantage Leeds & Saints by taking home games away from them when they get the biggest crowd attendance anyway