It feels reassuring to be going into a game with hope rather than expectation

Yep I’m afraid it’s the Trinity way. When or if that changes we will know we’ve finally graduated from the also rans.

I understand why we are where we are but my god it’s getting tedious. Especially the Cas bit which has now gone way beyond a joke.

Very tedious. I hope the ground works open up more opportunity to build a team we can challenge the playoffs regularly with.

I hope it does too TH but what we really need is a serious investor to build on the hard work done by MC and co. Are we the only team in SL who lacks a sugar daddy?
I totally agree that homegrown players are the nucleus of a future team, but wouldn't it be nice to compliment them with one or two players the likes of which we can only dream of.
I'm afraid without such investment we will never challenge the top half of the table seriously.

With the lack of an investor I think the club are absolutely doing the right thing investing in youth. The issue with that is it’s long term and will only come to fruition in 3-5 years time when the promising 17/18/19 year olds are in their early to mid 20s.

Is Shaw a prop? If not, there’s no props on the bench at all.

The team I saw had Gaskell as the fullback

He is a prop yes

Gaskell
Murphy
Lyne
Hall
Minns
Miller
Lino
Battye
Kay
Ayden
Tanginoa
Adebiyi
Batchelor

Ashurst
Pitts
Walker
Shaw

That’s a light weight pack and bench…..

So, including long-term injuries, we are missing :-
Jowitt
Johnstone
Tupou
Lineham
Kershaw
Fifita
Hood
Arona
Crowther
Whitbread
Bowes

All of whom would realistically be either first or second choice...and we have a rookie and a centre likely up against two of the most potent, fastest players in Superleague...it could be a long afternoon

Well that's a good start.
Minns try after good pressure

Live commentary on BBC Manchester...sounds to be all Trin for the first 10 minutes and Minns just gone in at the corner......Lino hit the post with the conversion...Minns gone off for HIA...4-0 Trin !!

Typical that Minns would be injured and we’d have to reshuffle after a great 10 minute start.

When will we learn not to kick to field with an open field to run at.

And what’s with kicking on 3rd tackle?

Just gonna say same 3rd tackle kick by us and they score wonder if it was gaskell who kicked

Walker. Their fast men are ripping us to bits. That’s probably game at 18-4 if we don’t pull one back. Not great to say we have 7 fresh legs and Wigan played 2 days ago…

Not sure what Poching is thinking in Pitts at prop and dropping Eseh who’s an actual prop

Wigan in for 3rd try...sounds like French and Field are ripping us apart

This is going to get very messy!

Ouch, every set it’s looking like a try for Wigan. All going horribly wrong and we could be staring down a 50+ result. Shocking considering we should be ‘fresher’.

Fresher makes no difference if you’re not good enough . Our pack is struggling big time and the class and pace Wigan have means they’re scoring for fun .

Doesn’t help when Pitts throws ball into touch. Killing ourselves. We finally managed to get the ball after many sets and try’s and we give it back cheaply! Now we are under pressure and dropping out

Doesn’t help but seems like Jack smith the ref is pinging us with six agains and pens. Maybe bad discipline or losing the arm wrestle?

Another torrid Easter period but we probably won’t hear a thing from those in charge.

Tanginoa couldn’t take a try ball. Kicks the ball and gets binned…. Don’t we see that every week players kicking ball away?? I’m sure we have historically been the only team to ever fall foul of this rule lol

Never going to be anything else but a Wigan win even before a ball is kicked . Different mindsets at that club compared to ours , and until that changes these are the scores we have to expect