Certainly, any side that has aspirations of making the play offs has to win their home games against mid - low table opposition.
I still believe that the London game will bite us on the booty, although we do have another two games against them but, these ARE "must win" games.
I fancy us to win by 8/10 points but, we all know that this is a banana skin and we have to avoid slipping up.

Tbf a number of clubs have now had their bums bitten by London so bad as it was it could have been worse - we were set up for that game as we are against every promoted team, we were not meant to win and we obliged for once.

I hate games against this false club. For some reason we always save our worst display of the season against this lot. So lets hope we are well up for it and they get their cowbell shoved right up their harris.

Set up or not, this Trinity side is plenty good enough to beat London and something was adrift, either in our preparation of application or both and IF we are serious about being a top 5 side, that isn't actually good enough.
I know that these things can be in the mind but, we have to be more professional and dominate any lesser sides.
All sides slip up at some point and Trinity have very often been the side to beat some of the so called "bigger clubs" but, we cant afford to "sacrifice" points against the likes of London (or Huddersfield) if we want to e challenging at the end of the season.

In the past, the likes of Wigan , Leeds and Saints have been able to field weakened sides or throw some of their juniors in and not worry if they get beaten in the odd game, knowing thet in the long term, they will still qualify for the play offs etc but, at this point in time, Trinity certainly cant "go easy" on anyone. We will need every possible point to make the play offs and hopefully, we will be able to start and accrue some big game experience, which will be vital if we want to progress to the next level.

We need to approach these games as though we are playing St Helens, rather than Huddersfield.

That cowbell does my head in, can't decide which is worse, that or the drum and trumpet corps at Headingley.

How embarrassing for their parents.

I just like to ask DC/MC if we ever looked at playing this fixture on Saturday evening instead of Friday or did you have no say whatever,Just think Saturdays have so much potential with most people working 5 1/2 days of the week and certainly after the Wendyball season has finished would it be worth looking at.




Up The Trin

Without having to trawl through pages of posts why are our next two home games being played on Friday evenings? We're not on SKY so why is it necassery (sp) to play on a Friday?

Maybe its cheaper I don't know. Or maybe its easier to sell corporate? I'm Sunday all the way but looking at the crowd figure it offers no obvious increase in attendances.

Also, I think that we may be trying to negate some of the impact of the Easter fixtures.
By playing Fridays in the fortnight leading up to Easter, it should (slightly) reduce fatigue levels.

Most of the bigger clubs who use Friday as "matchday" also suggest that Friday is the best day to tap into the corporate stuff, as sponsors can bring their guests straight from work etc.
No as good for getting kids /families there, although at least it's not a school night AND it leaves the rest of the weekend free

Personally, I still prefer Sunday afternoons but, I guess that we get used to routine etc.

In my experience, the corporate bit was best done on a Friday night - so it doesn't impact on the weekend; since for most people, RL is not an all day event - some weirdos actually have other interests!

On a personal note, I like a Friday night game - sets up nicely for a few scoops afterwards.

Like i said to Wrencat i see it totally different, Saturday when the Wendyball isn't on from end of may you could make it a totally new experience for hopefully new fans to come on a Saturday instead of having to rush home from work on Friday's rush hour traffic, Compared with a Saturday where you have all day to spuce up and enjoy the event and go round the town afterwards.