Wakefield Ram

Probably nearer 24

Luke Mearns is the interchange hooker for the last 10 minutes.

If two teams go into SL, there will just be 10 teams in the Championship.

Financially not ready as the two promoted teams won't get the same funding. Player wise not ready as the player pool is pretty limited already hence the expansion of quota for 2nd tier Antipodeans. Club wise not ready as with 7-8 months to next SL season no one knows what clubs will be promoted.

Must be a few tanning salons in Halifax who could help.. ?

Has anyone heard of what the proposals would be for Championship and L1 if SL expands to 14 clubs?

So no Toby Everitt, Louis Collinson and Menzies Yei, guessing they are injured? Ones to miss out expect will be from AJ Boardman, Louie Walker, Joel Russell and Tom Delaney. Has Jamie Field left the club? Last I saw he was sub at Shaw Cross.

Well if Mr Wood gets his way and increases SL to 14, then Championship is down to 11...

Powell complaining about the referee when he's lost.....is the Pope Catholic? He's done a very good job at Wakefield but moaning about the referee every time Trinity lose is embarrassing. Strangely when they win, it's never down to ref decisions that may have gone their way...

March staying? Well that's not based on performances or results. Unless MS has an inside track on next season and wants to save money.

One way would be to make the game more exciting. The 5 drives and a kick "arm wrestle" where the name of the game is avoiding errors and laying on as much as you can to slow the game down is frankly pretty dull to watch. Even 2nd half of State of Origin was boring. I'm old enough to remember the 10m offside was brought in to encourage open play. It's done the opposite. And if there were fewer bigger head on collisions, there'd be less CTE cases.... Just watch how fast, dynamic and exciting the 2000 GF was compared to the current game.

Having watched the full game, we did well to only lose by 6 points. Keighley ran from depth, had support players, Beharrell was organising them, had a good 6th tackle kicking game and far better line speed. They looked like a well-organised team who knew what they were doing. Our first 3 trips to Keighley 20 ended with a nothing grubber kick from Coates, not chased by anyone else straight to a Keighley player, Jack McShane trying to barge over from acting half (and failing for umpteenth time) and Dan Coates solo run. Hookems try was just an off the cuff run it on 6th tackle. We finally did put a contested kick up in 58th minute Jack Briggs in his 20 minutes (?) did more than Joe Summers in 80 minutes. I only counted Summers run with the ball 4 times in the game. Lots of his tackling is poor arm grabbing. Luke Mearns comes on with 10 minutes to go and doesn't run from acting half like McShane. 68th min on attack near 20 Coates kicks the ball into touch when we are losing! All we can offer is one man drives. We have probably the most dangerous running centre in L1 in Caelum Jordan. He barely gets a pass and from the scrum the pass goes to George Senior. We only start playing some rugby when we are behind with not long to go. We have good players, but we are flat in attack, no organisation, no decent kicking game, slow line speed, baffling substitutions - why bring Luke Mearns on with 10 minutes to go? - and team selections. If Joe Summers gets picked on Sunday you know that's nothing to do with his performance against Keighley. These are pretty much the same comments for every game. We have little chance of making Top 4 on this form. At the moment we are probably only playing better than Whitehaven (and we could have easily lost both those games) and Newcastle. I've watched Dewsbury 50 years now, so watching us lose isn't a problem, but this team is underperforming badly every week. And it's boring to watch. We will no doubt limp to the end of the season picking up 2-3 wins at the most. Hopefully we don't lose too many of our remaining players, note the only ones signed for next season are the 3 amateurs March signed. My biggest hope is we get a decent coach for next season. If March stays, I won't be buying a season ticket.

Link to the full game https://youtu.be/aTQLzBQihqY?si=Om6--Mdlyfseww1P

The whole point here is leadership. Doing what's easiest in the short-term isn't leadership. And are second rate Aussies really that cheap when you add on housing, travel, visa costs? But the base reason behind all this is to enable Nigel Wood to get his beloved Bradford back into SL. When the Aussies win the test series 3-0 at a canter, will we still thinking importing second rate Aussies is a good idea?

You'll beat the Rams easily, we only play for 40 minutes at best. You'll have it won by half-time.