Nah, just bash em up down the middle and stroll in for as many tries as we want.
They'll have to be under the sticks though cos Finn's kicking boots have gone missing.

You are Chris Chester and I claim my £5

I agree with both.
Smash them down the middle but then choose left or right.

I like the variation now if they are going to continue with Grix one side and Miller on the other. Miller has to keep his passing at the level he had on Friday but it stops teams guessing the play by watching Grix.

Exciting times.

Good post. Saying that didn't Wigan just completely abuse the left side of Salfords' defense, so it'll be quite hard for them to remedy that in a week. Like you say though left or right, it doesn't really matter they're both strong.

For the first time in ages, it must be a genuine quandary for opposition coaches to work out how to play WT; the pack is huge and can be devastating - and when Huby is fit, it adds another dimension, since he's a compulsive offloader - and with Grix' ability to back up, that's a real danger. Meanwhile, our 2nd row is big and quick, and then both edges are genuinely dangerous - particularly TJ, who seems to have a couple of extra gears, and a genuine ability to go from 0-60 almost instantly. I don't think you can 'plan' to defend Miller, since he's one of those players who doesn't seem to know himself what he's going to do until he has the ball in his hands - which works very well alongside Finn, who is much more methodical and always appears to be a few plays ahead of himself. Putting together that squad is a work of genius - making it perform to the best of its ability will be the challenge.

The biggest weakness from the HKR game was the middle part of the game, where we dropped off the pace and gave away a string of needless penalties - better teams than HKR will punish that kind of sloppiness, so that will need to be addressed. Looking forward to Friday - I'm predicting a comfortable win for WT.

The aspect of the 2018 left right side comparison that impressed me most was the defense, both sides seemed to be equally good. Now I know that our right side received most of the traffic against Hull KR, but in Ashurst and Horo we have two intelligent back rowers who read the game well, make great decisions and tackle well. Defense wins matches.

Squads realesed id assume we’d line up like

Obrien
Evalds
Jones
Sau
Olpherts
Lui
Littlejohn
Mossop
Tomkins
Tasi
Huaraki
Griffin
McCarthy

Wood
Burgess
Nakubuwai
Kopzcak

Must Win.

reasons noted in the must win first round.

More of a must win than last week but still not a must win as noted last week.

Must win, to ensure that we remain above Cas in the league

Will be a much tougher test for us than last week

Its always a bit iffy in early season with no game time fine tuning, but s'pose its the same for everyone, its been a long time since we gave that many pens and bb pens in a game, I don't even know how many there were but it felt like a lot, it certainly fed HKR's come back periods
I think if we play that game again without the pens, we'll see Salford off with a bit to spare..