Re: The 8s are you ready. : Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:10 am  

we will be playing S L next season, I don't even expect us to do it the hard way .B Smiths the best thing to happen to the club for a long long time. He will prepare the players on an individual and team basis they will take the field fully up for it and with a game plan . Any team that's played us can expect a totally different game from our earlier meetings.
Our days of bobbling along are about to be put well and truly in the past. The days of turning up expecting a win may be a little off , but you can turn up knowing we will provide effort, guts, team spirit, and a see a well coached side taking the field. Im not sure that some just know what we have in B Smith, you can rest assured the player will .

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Re: The 8s are you ready. : Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:29 am  

I agree with you Lampy about Smith. I have no doubts about him.
I have a couple of doubts about a couple of players that may well scupper his plans.

I don't think it will be easy by any means. I can see us winning all of them and I can't see us losing al but there are a few hard games in there that could go either way and that could, when the pressure is on, land us in the playoff game, which would be tough going for anyone.

Re: The 8s are you ready. : Sun Jul 26, 2015 4:51 pm  

So the regular seasons over, and not a bad way to finish off .Only 5 teams have scored 20 points or more against Shudds all season. St Hel , Wigan, Leeds x2 Rovers, Wid.
The hard work now starts and B Smith needs to know his best starting 17. With a week off it gives some time for the new guys to bond and hopefully take up the gauntlet.
I still have a concern about the half back pairing and T smiths the problem for me .I know on his day he can swing things but I don't think he s the guts for a battle.
The club need to look at ways of encouraging fans through the gates for the 3 home games and make sure the place is rocking.
Come on Wakey our seasons about to start

Re: The 8s are you ready. : Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:07 pm  

Play like we did today and we will be OK. Also remember we only had one recognised half and then finished the last 20 mins with a second rower at stand off.

Looks like Brian Smith has finally started to turn it around.

However my real worry are the refs ,any more performances like the clown we had today and every game will be a lottery. Also well done Brian Smith for standing up and speaking out about the idiot who was in charge today.

Re: The 8s are you ready. : Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:24 pm  

jack in the box wrote:

Play like we did today and we will be OK. Also remember we only had one recognised half and then finished the last 20 mins with a second rower at stand off.

Looks like Brian Smith has finally started to turn it around.

However my real worry are the refs ,any more performances like the clown we had today and every game will be a lottery. Also well done Brian Smith for standing up and speaking out about the idiot who was in charge today.

Killed us in the 1st half,what a tanker he was.

Re: The 8s are you ready. : Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:54 pm  

It's pretty obvious that Sky/RFL/Councillor Box wants us relegated and replaced by the Leigh Thugs and there state of the art sports village which has been generously built for them so expect every referee in the next 7 games to penalise us to death. Expect Leigh away to be the first game and to be on TV with Trinity set up as sacrificial lambs. Don't underestimate the challenge, everyone is against us and sometimes even lady luck seems to kick us in the teeth eg Locke's injury. It will need a fantastic effort to finish in the top 3 but the one rating you can say is we have defied the odds many times before but we can only do this if every player gives 100 percent and plays for the shirt whatever there destination next season.

Re: The 8s are you ready. : Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:04 am  

ball-in-hand wrote:

It's pretty obvious that Sky/RFL/Councillor Box wants us relegated and replaced by the Leigh Thugs and there state of the art sports village which has been generously built for them so expect every referee in the next 7 games to penalise us to death. Expect Leigh away to be the first game and to be on TV with Trinity set up as sacrificial lambs. Don't underestimate the challenge, everyone is against us and sometimes even lady luck seems to kick us in the teeth eg Locke's injury. It will need a fantastic effort to finish in the top 3 but the one rating you can say is we have defied the odds many times before but we can only do this if every player gives 100 percent and plays for the shirt whatever there destination next season.

don't think any mid 8s are televised

Re: The 8s are you ready. : Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:21 am  

snowie wrote:

don't think any mid 8s are televised

Sky are showing one game a week from the middle 8's.

Re: The 8s are you ready. : Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:27 am  

The first game to be shown will be on Sat. They are showing super 8 games on thur and fri.

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Re: The 8s are you ready. : Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:33 am  

ball-in-hand wrote:

It's pretty obvious that Sky/RFL/Councillor Box wants us relegated.............. .

Unfortunately we only have ourselves to blame if we are relegated