Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:03 pm  

Any idea if the full ground will be open for the cup game, or will we all be in the main stand?

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:17 pm  

Only the John Street stand will be available for the game.

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:51 pm  

Radford has some tricky decisions to make now. We can't afford to take Sheffield lightly, but we have a few guys that could really use a week off. It's a tough balancing act.

Shaul
Lineham
Michaels
Talanoa
Naughton
Rankin
HTW
Feka
Cunningham
Bowden
Sa
Turgut
Abdull

Thompson
Howarth
BTW
Westerman (try to keep his minutes to a minimum if possible)

There should be enough quality there to get the result. At the very least we need to give Pryce and Mini a break, and if Houghton plays I really hope we don't flog him for 60 minutes again.

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:54 pm  

I'd rest plenty and if we get beat so what? We need to concentrate on winning league games and the cup is a distraction we don't need

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:58 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

I'd rest plenty and if we get beat so what? We need to concentrate on winning league games and the cup is a distraction we don't need

I disagree. Even if we finish middle 8 it's highly unlikely that we will go down. We have zero chance of winning the league or even being properly competitive. However it only takes a couple of favourable draws and one upset ala Warrington 13 and we are going to Wembley again.

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 4:00 pm  

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

I disagree. Even if we finish middle 8 it's highly unlikely that we will go down. We have zero chance of winning the league or even being properly competitive. However it only takes a couple of favourable draws and one upset ala Warrington 13 and we are going to Wembley again.

It would take a massive turnaround in performances for us to be in with any chance of wembley but it's quite feasible that we will finish 11th leaving us with only 3 home games in the middle 8. Does anyone know what the fixture format is for these games?

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 4:05 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote: It would take a massive turnaround in performances for us to be in with any chance of wembley but it's quite feasible that we will finish 11th leaving us with only 3 home games in the middle 8. Does anyone know what the fixture format is for these games? There's a matrix here. 9th and 10th play four home games, 11th and 12th play three home games. the 9th placed team will be at home to the other three SL clubs and the top ranked Championship club.

Jake the Peg wrote: It would take a massive turnaround in performances for us to be in with any chance of wembley but it's quite feasible that we will finish 11th leaving us with only 3 home games in the middle 8. Does anyone know what the fixture format is for these games? There's a matrix here. 9th and 10th play four home games, 11th and 12th play three home games. the 9th placed team will be at home to the other three SL clubs and the top ranked Championship club.

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 4:07 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

It would take a massive turnaround in performances for us to be in with any chance of wembley but it's quite feasible that we will finish 11th leaving us with only 3 home games in the middle 8. Does anyone know what the fixture format is for these games?

Look at 2008. We are no worse this season than then, but we got good draws are rode out look to the final. Hell we led the final with less than half an hour to play.

There are at least 4 championship teams in the next round. You only need to draw one of them and get someone like Cas or Widnes at home in the quarters and it's possible. It's optimistic I know, but we shouldn't sacrifice a competition that we might be able to win for one we definitely can't. I know we are rubbish, but personally I'm not concerned about relegation at all.

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 5:16 pm  

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

Look at 2008. We are no worse this season than then, but we got good draws are rode out look to the final. Hell we led the final with less than half an hour to play.

There are at least 4 championship teams in the next round. You only need to draw one of them and get someone like Cas or Widnes at home in the quarters and it's possible. It's optimistic I know, but we shouldn't sacrifice a competition that we might be able to win for one we definitely can't. I know we are rubbish, but personally I'm not concerned about relegation at all.

I've seen us lose at wembley enough times for now so will be quite happy to concentrate on the league

Re: Sheffield CC : Sat Apr 11, 2015 7:32 pm  

rubbish to the Cup .
Play the U19s .
Staying up this season is all that matters.