is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:21 pm  

when he first got injured we looked clueless, now with gidley and ratchford in the halves we look decent.

i think the whole side had to adapt massively when he got injured.

now we have figured out the plan B... when he is fit again plan A will be back again.

for me, its great that we now have both game plans... better than losing him just before the play offs and figuring it out then.

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:38 pm  

Or move Gids to FB and see if we can create plan C

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:40 pm  

I was thinking this during the game. I was nervous going into the last three games, but I'm not nervous going into the next 5 anymore.

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:50 pm  

You're the most obvious favourites since the Wigan-always-win-it days. Unless someone comes along and proves a Melbourne-esque level of cap rorting, you'll win the double this season. Bar a red card in a semi or final I don't see how anyone else is going to challenge you.

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:55 pm  

yeah, we all thought that in 2011

I'd say 2011 team was better than 2016 version but SL has fallen overall so possibly level

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:57 pm  

Nothing beats that 2011 team, that has been the greatest team in my lifetime, we had the perfect balance throughout the squad and we took the mick out of teams.

Just went to sleep when it mattered, but that is the greatest team NOT to win SL.

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:13 am  

Still have nightmares over the Semi Final. Penalized for accidental offside I think it was and Sinfield slotted it over on the hooter. Think this was after King had a try ruled out for being short when for my money he was clearly on the line. Definitely a fantastic team that I haven't seen bettered in my years watching Wire.

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Fri Apr 29, 2016 5:47 am  

WireWireWire wrote:

Still have nightmares over the Semi Final. Penalized for accidental offside I think it was and Sinfield slotted it over on the hooter. Think this was after King had a try ruled out for being short when for my money he was clearly on the line. Definitely a fantastic team that I haven't seen bettered in my years watching Wire.

I'm not so sure about the accidental bit; but, what a heartbreaker. I'll never understand why Briers didn't drop a goal when he had the chance a few minutes earlier.

Traumatised.

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:23 am  

Well I did say it when it happened that we need to learn to win without Sandow. I would still prefer all the key men in positions of key areas. That is a natural FB Gidley 6 Ratchford and 7 Sandow.
All this Ratchford is nothing but a centre I've read over and over is proving many poster talk some tosh.

Re: is the sandow injury a blessing in disguise? : Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:28 am  

All being fit I suspect we would see them playing the numbers on their back, question then is what to do with Matty Russell, or rather what to do with Lineham?