Game talk please, any and i mean any personal crap and you can sit the week out till the game is over, no warnings, straight week ban, any problems with that then PM me

They poxed a last minute win out yesterday so that should see them in good stead, we had a comforable win over Salford so both teams have a little form coming into the game.

And we smashed them the over week



Us by 14

And Salford smashed us at home.
And Hull
And Saints
And Leeds
And Castleford

The fact is our home form is poor. If we play for 40 mins out of 80 again we will lose.

Question has been raised on the Wakey board will Scully and Korki be elligable to play this week. Do you know?

In the bag from the first minute if you don't mind.


Can't see a Wakey win but "home forms not great is it " so you never know.

Anyway it will be nice to catch up with some old faces at the game

i think we should and could win i just dont think we will.



Our Home form is dire ( although only 4 SL teams have better home records than away). I have no idea why.

The games against Cas, Hull and Salford at home stand out as our worst performances all season ( apart from wire away).

I actually find it quite depressing going to home games this season.. Even my kids who mainly go to home games say they do not want to go because we never win and then dad is in a bad mood



I think it will be close and will come down to the ref, injuries and probably a big slice of luck.

Wakefield by 4

Cant see why not though i dont know for sure

As I've said on the Wakey forum, I think the dominant forward pack will win this game for their team. I thought the Castleford forwards were very good against us the other week and showed Wakey what they need to do to win. I'm hoping NB doesn't use the forwards in the same way he tried against Cas' because it didn't work.

Our only injury worries are Fatz and Jammer, everyone else has clean bill of health as we speak

Wakey forwards put Quins on the backfoot yesterday but one or two took knocks, we have a few possible injurie worries but after our game last time, they will have a point to prove.

Time will tell.

Gonna be a tough game, but I think so long as we dont put in another salford/cas/hull type performance we are doomed

If we put in a performance like Hull KR we will blow them off the park.

Probably the most obvious thing to say but how we start is so important. In our poorer performances an early mistake has resulted in the other team scoring and we have subsequently struggled to get going.

We don't necessarily need an early score just a few solid sets of six and then not do something dumb. Against both Salford and Cas we were winning the early stages, coming away from our line well and generally restricting the other teams field position. On both occasions though a poor kick, one from a penalty the other in general play, gave the other team good field position from which they scored. We then get anxious try to push our passes and start dropping ball all over.

Will be in Pittsburgh this upcoming weekend so will be missing this on the radio, likely too hung over to wake up for 10am



Giants to take it in a close one, maybe a last minute drop goal by Robbo or Hodgeson

Not sure about this one actually - usually its a case of oh its only our feline friends , we'll duff em but with our home form at the moment and the fact they will be smarting from a mega thumping at their place then i can see a finger biter.

I'll stick my neck out and go for Fartown by 12 - after all its only Wakey

I thought Castlefords forwards other than Seageant were very average. IMO we easily won the forward battle. We lost due to poor decision making from the halfbacks, unforced errors and hesitant attacking play from the outside backs.
Cut these out and we should win, carry on with the errors and we will get beat as Wakey play a no frills simple game playing out their sets and relying on Broughs kicking game.

I think Stella has it spot on, our forwards win the battle week in and week out, its the backs that let us down, or to be specific the halfbacks.

I think its been said already, but as long as we dont give up a soft try against the run of play, we will win.

I thought that the way the Cas forwards rushed to close down the 10 metres was pretty effective. I agree with the comment about our half backs though.

You seem to play better away from home than what you do at home.....

It will be a complete diff game this time around and I am sure it will be on the players minds about what went on at our place!

They were a long way offside though to be fair

Listened to a lot of the Wakey game on radio Leeds and most if not all Wakefield's points seem to have come off the back of penalties. Tries or kicks. If we can cut out giving way silly penalties and stop dropping the ball when it would be easier to score than not get over the line, we'll walk it. Oh, and if we keep Brad Drew quiet.

To be fair if you look at the majority of tries scored in all games most come off back to back sets and penalties.

Apart from our opposition, then they come from intercepts

Ref P Bentham

A big improvement on Fridays performance will be needed this weekend, Salford were woefull and although we won easily we were a long way off anything like our best form.
If we can improve from last week and our forwards can get on top, keep Drew and Brough quiet then I expect a good win (10 - 15pts) but Wakey are no mugs, and with our inconsistant home form and the expectation that Wakey will be smarting and wanting to make amends for the drubbing we gave them at Belle Vue a narrow defeat wouldn't surprise me either.

Oh for a bit of consistancy









Hope we get some decent weather and a good crowd this weekend

Course you will we are coming to town

Be strange seeing a crowd over 6000 for you lot then, make the most of it