Not sure why you think you were shot down.
One maybe two thought he might not make a centre and I think everybody knew we were short on speed, just not a lot we could do about it.

Yeah, they played well together no doubt and Bill was also at his best in those 2016, 17, and 18 teams.

Funnily enough, one of the best seasons we had was in 2017 and TJ only played 12 games, MCB filled in for him and scored quite himself that season. In the 2016 season, we finished 5th and got to the CC semi he scored 20 from 25, and then again in 2018 he scored 24 from 24 games. We were blessed with speed back then with TJ, BJB, MCB, Lyne, and Tupou could shift when he had to.

Tbh though I hadn't realised how many games he missed for us after that 2018 season, just 41 games in his final 4 years. A real shame really that we couldn't have got him on the field more but what can you do when they get injured? That rest and recuperation before moving over to France seems to have done him the world of good.

Tupou was an attacking threat in his own right, he was powerful and had good pace but a ‘wingers’ centre he was not

One of the saddest things I've seen in sport was Tupou trying to play on with a knee that you could see was swelling from 40 yards away in his first and last game back after injury in a reserve outing. Hope he's doing OK now, he gave everything he had to us.

Totally agree, I was there and he clearly had the willingness to play still but that knee just ballooned up early in the game and he spent much of the match limping around. Was so heartbreaking seeing him try play through it. I do hope it’s settled down and he’s doing well.

Sounds like Sailor's move to Leigh could be back on but they will have to off-load one of their other overseas players, so who would it be out of Tom Amone, Matt Moylan, John Asiata, Ricky Leutele, Ben Nakubuwai, Kai O’Donnell and Edwin Ipape ?? I think Nakubuwai would still be the likely one, so maybe we would be interested ?? https://www.totalrl.com/tristan-sailors ... ove-looms/

Sounds like Sailor's move to Leigh could be back on but they will have to off-load one of their other overseas players, so who would it be out of Tom Amone, Matt Moylan, John Asiata, Ricky Leutele, Ben Nakubuwai, Kai O’Donnell and Edwin Ipape ?? I think Nakubuwai would still be the likely one, so maybe we would be interested ?? https://www.totalrl.com/tristan-sailors ... ove-looms/

Quote ="FIL"Sounds like Sailor's move to Leigh could be back on but they will have to off-load one of their other overseas players, so who would it be out of Tom Amone, Matt Moylan, John Asiata, Ricky Leutele, Ben Nakubuwai, Kai O’Donnell and Edwin Ipape ?? I think Nakubuwai would still be the likely one, so maybe we would be interested ?? https://www.totalrl.com/tristan-sailors ... ove-looms/'" I would take any of those to be honest. Always liked O’Donnell and was hoping we would sign him last year.

Quote ="FIL"Sounds like Sailor's move to Leigh could be back on but they will have to off-load one of their other overseas players, so who would it be out of Tom Amone, Matt Moylan, John Asiata, Ricky Leutele, Ben Nakubuwai, Kai O’Donnell and Edwin Ipape ?? I think Nakubuwai would still be the likely one, so maybe we would be interested ?? https://www.totalrl.com/tristan-sailors ... ove-looms/'" I would take any of those to be honest. Always liked O’Donnell and was hoping we would sign him last year.

I put a similar article link on a few days ago but from a different website and was lambasted for it. This looks like a regurgitation of that….

Dunno about “lambasted” however I did state that I believed he’d signed for london, which I still believe is the case

Absolutely agree would love to see O’Donnell at Wakey but it won’t be anytime soon.

One of the best secondrows in SL and still only 24.

Money talks but think he will be prioritising a move back to the NRL before he gets past his sell by date and becomes a permanent fixture in SL.

An absolutely top class player ODonnell, he has just extended for another 2 years, the biggest difference in Leigh in my lifetime is having a top class coach in Lam and Chester has made some unreal overseas signings.

https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/wakefiel ... 024-86611/

https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/wakefiel ... 024-86611/

I reckon we’ll see how Braden uele gets on early this season before making a potential play for him. He’s ooc at the end of the season

A nothing article once again by that joke reporter.

The down side to social media. Anyone can start a page and pretend to be a journalist even without the necessary skills or ability. Add that to the massive volume of data farming pages that the public just like, comment, share and click links on. It’s a huge black market is data these days and the amount of oblivious people who just offer up interaction is just mind blowing. It’s just a minefield.


As for SARL the articles are shockingly poor in quality, structure and lack any sort of cohesion.

Agreed, they are.

However, leaving empty shirt numbers like that, have left themselves open for debate, by both supporters ans social media pages alike.

It's not the first time its happened, and wont be the last either.

It does make it exciting though, as who could be 18 & 19.

What's even worse is that the SARL approach clearly pays dividends - their previous writer Callum Walker, who was the author of a ton of second-hand articles that were spammed across RL social media for SARL, managed to parlay that into a job with TotalRL. The latter outlet used to be a serious source of information when Matt Shaw and Aaron Bower were their two lead journalists, but now they have Walker churning out a nauseating diet of "stories", which are then relentlessly spammed all over social media in classic clickbait style, including rehashing stories from club websites back to that club's TotalRL forum.

What’s the problem?

Read it or don’t read it it’s not harming anyone

What positions are we short on?
I think full back is an issue with Max the only recognised full back.

Looking at the squad I would say we are short at prop especially.

But overall we are short at:

Fullback, second row, prop.

One thing that remains to be seen is whether we are tough enough

Full time training and a fair amount of class will set us above most and will see us through a lot of games but we will get dragged into some really tough games and we need to have the backbone to get results from those matches.

Cover at full back, a prop, and maybe a centre.

I think were ok at 2nd row, we've Ashurst, Pitts, Boothroyd, and I think we'll see Griffin more at second row and I think one of the young kids names in the squad is also a second rower.

Bain, Cozza and Pitts will probably fight it out for the 13 spot.

Couldn't agree more here.

It wont be a walk in the park for sure, but I do see us been too strong against most, if not all the opposition. I'm not expecting blow out scores every week, like some.

At the moment, I only really see Toulouse and Fev as serious threats, and do see us better placed to strengthen the squad further in the season, than others.

Pitts will play 13.

Bain will have to play prop.

The players can’t play two positions at once.

Ashurst, Griffin and Boothroyd are our second row. There’s no depth at all. Boothroyd I hope is good but yet to play above under 20s.

Pitts and Cozza will share 13 I presume.

Ashurst, griffin and Boothroyd second row.

Which ever way you cut it we are a bit light. In a few positions.

Centre we can probably get away with. Thornley, Pratt, Croft with Law too. Kay will cover a few positions in a back up role I suspect.

It’s a real shame we couldn’t keep Whitbread and Tanginoa because we would have looked frightening opposition to most championship squads.

We just need to replace these two with some high quality and we will look much stronger. No good though if they’re not good quality starting players. I can see why we are waiting to sign good quality players who will enhance the squad for this year and beyond.