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| Quote: vastman "With Saints nose diving under Cunnigham and the near collapse of Leeds the two great entertainers are gone. Warrington are the best I've seen this season, they are good to watch but not what I'd call "entertainers" more a machine made of quality parts. Now we can't tackle as well as most team though we have made a dramatic improvement. We can't always keep it together for the full 80 and our dicipline is at times questionable. However I defy anyone to find another club in SL who is playing the brand of cavalier unpredictable rugby we are. The amount of tries we are scoring from our own half is quite stunning and three interception tries in the last two games is always worth a watch. What is especially entertaining is that when the "better" teams think they have the measure of us we pop back up and stun them with a maverick bit of trickery from nowhere, for example Lyne against Salford and BJB against Warrington - who knew Jowitt could kick - and who kne BJB would have been aware enough to follow it up!. You can't Coach that it's just there and it's a very rare thing especially at Wakefield. I think it's fair to say that I have seen as many great tries both individual and team this last two month than I have in the previous 15 years of watching SL. I've certainly never seen them in such concentration, not even in 2004 where Solomona was the main provider. Very few of our tries are "flop" overs to quote the sage, most go through the hands and nearly all start beyond the 20 meter mark. Some like TJ's special start on or very near our try line. It's not text book RL and I fear one day soon we'll have a big misfire and look like chumps. However I don't care, I can take those so long as most of the time we play as we are playing. If we are honest we've not seen much in the way of great RL in the last forty years at BV, but what we are getting at the moment is special, even Saints fans would like to see their team playing like we do at the moment. Keep calm lads and keep it going. We are IMO "the entertainers" and so long as the players don't buy into the hype to much and just enjoy it for what it is we can see the season out that way. I appreciate the "how dare you sneering brigade" from certain other clubs will be on here but frankly stuff them, I know what I've seen! Finally lets get the message out, 5,200 against Warrinton wasn't good enough and was less than this team desrves.'" The league express have us down as 6,100
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Quote: bazzo44 "The league express have us down as 6,100'" Mine doesn't, 5180 as announced - both in the report and scoreboard. League Weekly?
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I agree with Vasty. Over the 30 years that I have followed Trin, I have never seen the amount of quality, long range tries. Confidence certainly helps, when players begin to chase lost causes and back up, just in case and we are witnessing this every week. We also have a superb team spirit, with excellent scramble defence and a never say die attitude (Widnes away being a prime example) There's still plenty to work on, defence is loose at times and discipline could also be better but, we are THE form team in the comp and long may it continue. Nobody but, nobody, gave us any realistic chance of being in the top 8, especially after losing 5 from 6 at the start of the season. Our for has us right up there and we have beaten Leeds, Huddersfield, Warrington and Wigan along the way. Trinity have nobody to fear and if we can maintain our form and stay confident, who knows what the end of the season has in store. One cautionary note though. Widnes managed to win 6 from 7 and now, they cant buy a win so, feet on the ground but, lets enjoy the ride.
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We have a difficult run of games to end the season - so I still think top 8 could elude us - but provided we continue to compete and don't revert to type, we've had the best season I can remember in years. We may still end up in the M8's, with some sides around us who are due to improve - what if Leeds, Shudds and Salford hit a purple patch at the business end and suddenly, the M8's becomes a really scary prospect? I would caution against hubris - we're in a good place now, but the season is far from over.
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Short term targets for me. They are certainly entertaining but I want to get to that next 3 wins as quickly as possible to get to 20 points with (depending on what other people do) a reasonably confident top 8 hold. If we hit a few close loses and we are having to battle for that last place at the end of the year, it could knock confidence and suddenly as Bren says, the M8s look scary and the crowd will turn. On the other hand if we win the next couple and we secure a top eight spot early, we can start recruiting properly, and can play with the entertainer tag through the 8s and frighten some of those "big clubs" above us. With Leeds, Hudds and Salford all cut adrift (though could still mount a charge) there is still that 9th spot very open. Even though KR have it now, we along with Cas and Widnes are pretty close to it.
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After Catalan we have Salford away Hull KR home Giants away Leeds home We could (in theory) have sewn up top 8 by then. But if not the next 4 are tough Sts home Wigan away Catalan away Cas home
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Quote: PopTart "After Catalan we have Salford away Hull KR home Giants away Leeds home We could (in theory) have sewn up top 8 by then. But if not the next 4 are tough Sts home Wigan away Catalan away Cas home'" Reckon three home wins, one away win and a plucky draw would be enough. Would hope we could win our remaining home games though.
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WSL2024 | 14 | FeatherstoneW | 6 | - | 32 | York V | |||||
WSL2024 | 14 | Hudds W | 36 | - | 0 | Wire W | |||||
CH | 26 | Barrow | 34 | - | 14 | Whitehaven | |||||
CH | 26 | Bradford | 16 | - | 14 | Batley | |||||
CH | 26 | Dewsbury | 16 | - | 28 | Swinton | |||||
CH | 26 | Doncaster | 30 | - | 14 | Widnes | |||||
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NRL | 28 | Canterbury | 22 | - | 24 | Manly | |||||
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Wigan | 26 | 657 | 336 | 321 | 42 | ||
Hull KR | 26 | 693 | 311 | 382 | 40 | ||
Warrington | 26 | 684 | 319 | 365 | 38 | ||
Salford | 26 | 550 | 483 | 67 | 32 | ||
St.Helens | 26 | 584 | 370 | 214 | 30 | ||
Leigh | 26 | 548 | 386 | 162 | 29 | ||
Leeds | 26 | 514 | 462 | 52 | 28 | ||
Catalans | 26 | 451 | 423 | 28 | 28 | ||
Huddersfield | 26 | 434 | 648 | -214 | 18 | ||
Castleford | 26 | 415 | 701 | -286 | 15 | ||
LondonB | 26 | 317 | 862 | -545 | 6 | ||
Hull FC | 26 | 324 | 870 | -546 | 6 |
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Wakefield | 24 | 892 | 256 | 636 | 46 | ||
Bradford | 24 | 618 | 373 | 245 | 32 | ||
Toulouse | 23 | 662 | 340 | 322 | 31 | ||
Sheffield | 24 | 594 | 472 | 122 | 28 | ||
Widnes | 24 | 513 | 433 | 80 | 27 | ||
York | 25 | 613 | 439 | 174 | 26 | ||
Featherstone | 24 | 566 | 472 | 94 | 26 | ||
Doncaster | 24 | 470 | 527 | -57 | 23 | ||
Batley | 24 | 378 | 513 | -135 | 20 | ||
Halifax | 24 | 475 | 617 | -142 | 20 | ||
Barrow | 23 | 418 | 648 | -230 | 19 | ||
Swinton | 24 | 446 | 606 | -160 | 18 | ||
Whitehaven | 24 | 414 | 806 | -392 | 16 | ||
Dewsbury | 25 | 308 | 821 | -513 | 2 |
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