Only 5 days to the game and we haven't even started a thread on it yet




Anyone going....are we likely to struggle again like we did against Swinton...any of our injured players returning ??

Travelling up by car calling for lunch on the way. Not played there since 1998 promotion season when the players led by Garen Casey sang to the Wakefield fans for the first time. I expect us to carry on the way we are going tiring teams out, Whitehaven will give it a go but I fully expect us pulling away in the second half.

Opposition just need to watch how Swinton played with their deep, long kicks early in the tackle count to make us start in our own half. They were difficult kicks to execute so it will be hard to emulate.

Trinity just need to cut out errors and penalties and we'll be fine. Some variation from the power game would be nice.

Few things I’d like to see:

Jowitt at FB
Walmsley on Wing

The experiment is over and we need to build consistency with players in strongest positions.

Pratt had a defensive mare and while I’d be happy to see him in again I’d be happy for Croft to get a shot.

Uele will likely return and sounds like a niggle.

I’d like to see Bain at 13 too. He’s got some hands on him and an offload. I’d like to see him employ a Westerman style of play in taking it to line and drawing defenders before looking to release the ball. Could add something to our attack in middle.


I would like to see a much stronger start this week too. Can’t keep letting teams get on top at periods in the first half.

I was there waiting with the team for the score to come through from Hunslet.

Me too

not going unfortunately, cant do either of the Cumbria trips this year due to prior engagements which I'm disappointed about, they were the ones I'd picked out before the season

Looking forward to this, loving the Championship tour so far. Going back to places I have not been for what seems an age

We'll be there.

Setting off Sat am, returning Monday.

Looking to have a stop off on the way up for some nosh somewhere in the Lakes

Match officials

Whitehaven RLFC v Wakefield Trinity
26th May, KO: 15:00
Referee: K. Moore
Reserve Referee: P. Clayton
Touch Judge 1: S. Jenkinson
Touch Judge 2: T. Gibbs
Time Keeper: G. Hewer

Driving up myself and going to make a couple of days of it.

It will be interesting to see what type of team we have if Gale and Lino are both still injured

Went to Whitehaven once, in a mini clubman, £8 filled the tank and the radio was busted.
Got there 10 mins before kick off to find the game had been called off due to a waterlogged pitch.

went home....:/

The Trinity 2024 Tour is giving us some new experiences, that's for sure.
It's a whole new adventure.
With Barrow, Whitehaven and Toulouse plus, Wembley, it's all good fun.
Throw in the old favourites of Odsal and Post Office Road, Mount Pleasant et and its way better than I imagined.

I went that evening a Wednesday night, finished work early and drove straight up to Whitehaven. We got to the top of the hill overlooking the ground and it seemed very quiet at the ground, a local said the storm drain had backed up and flooded the pitch. So we drove back to Cockermouth for a couple of beers and fish and chips.

We're hoping to go every away game this season by public transport. Apart from Toulouse and Whitehaven, we can get to Whitehaven but can't get home we can only get black to Leeds, and that's if the train turns up.
Every trip is an adventure and we're looking forward to away games in a way I've never done before.

I was also there, stood on the pitch waiting for the result from Hunslet -wasn't it our former player., Goddard that kicked the goal from which we benefitted?
Also, did Sonny Whakaru get sent off in that match? May not have, may just be my failing memory that makes things up!

I don’t remember any player being sent off, but like you I can no longer guarantee my memory for accuracy.

Are you sure that it was a Wednesday match?
We travelled up on the supporters' bus and it was flagged down by the team bus, somewhere up in Cumbria.
David Topliss came onto our coach and said that the game was off. He said the team had done their 'loosen up' and gone back into the dressing room, whilst our Aussie half back, (Helliwell I think) stopped out to practice his kicking. He went and found the rest of the team and said that the water on the pitch was over his boots. As he was the team joker, he wasn't believed until a Whitehaven official followed him into the room and confirmed it.

Well, not to spoil things, the Lakes & Cumberland have been flooded on & off for a month with record rainfall - Sunday is forecast for rain from noon to night, so, mud & bad weather awaits us & the team ?
However, it will not be the first time they have got the forecast wrong, but, oh those Aussies will be left wondering again ???

Why the hell does Start/TrinTrin only pipe up when the dingles are winning.

Funnily enough, Hull has just remembered how to play RL since about the 60-minute mark and have just been playing off-the-cuff stuff. They certainly can't set up an attacking play to save their lives though. It's now 30-22 but they're gonna run out of time.

Definitely an evening game as we arrived towards the ground as we were told the game had been postponed it was on the radio John Dunn radio 2 , 6-45 sports news said the game had been postponed. Spent an hour in the Wordsworth Arms in Cockermouth, then fish and chips then home.

Ben Reynolds just got in the way during that last 15 minutes. stunting Hull's come back attempt.

You know it does rain quite a lot here in Aussie… especially around Sydney / Wollongong … and don’t even start me on NZ… also every morning this week my car has been frozen over…

I think it’s obvious