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The Phantom Horseman replied to wakeyranger's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
That was a ridiculously weird month all round from a Fev POV. As you say, in early April 2012 they shipped 60 points at home to Sheffield, including four interception tries for the Eagles. 4 weeks later, they again conceded 60 points at home to Halifax, losing 12-60. Between those 2 games, they beat Castleford 23-16 in one of the club's finest-ever victories, and 2 weeks later were leading Wigan at half time, both in the Challenge Cup. -
I'm normally the last person to comment on this sort of thing but I hope we've done our homework on the referee this weekend. I've watched a lot of Championhip games on YouTube this year and in my opinion the younger referees such as Cameron Worsley and Liam Rush are being really zealous on the new interpretations of the rules especially around the ruck and incorrect play-the-balls. We've had regular SL referees in Jack Smith, Ben Thaler, and Scott Mikalaukas the last 4 games and I hope we can adjust because when I've seen Rush this season he has been very strict on these type of areas, and Wakefield have the advantage of having seen him at first hand when they played Barrow recently. Not a criticism of the ref, he's only applying the rules, but we need to be squeaky clean on Friday.
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Fishwick and Gorman in the 21-man squad on DR. Brad Day is not in so presumably his suspension starts this week because it was a challenge cup game? Unsurprisingly Lacans is absent, Massey, Bussey and Arnold still out injured, Roberts still suspended.Tanner is back in the squad so let's hope he's able to play as we're looking pretty threadbare.
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I don't think it will be surprising if that happens, though I thought that before the Cup game too. They won't have to play Doyle (who we exploited badly) as a middle again, I think Thornley might be back so they won't have to play Griffin at centre, and they have a couple of possible newcomers to add strength to the pack. Add to that the fact that they're a full-time team who have had a week off to focus solely on this game whilst we were in a bruising game at LSV and they have to be hot favourites. Still looking forward to it though, once again all we ask is that they have a dig, and it wouldn't half shake the league up if we can push them close or beat them again.
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Interesting debate about the full back half back options and not really sure where I stand on it. For me, Aekins is an 8.5 out of 10 Championship player at full back, but only a 7 out of 10 at half back. But I think Bowes is only a 6 out of 10 at half back (don't get me wrong, he's done a really good job filling in, but it's not his natural position either). So if Gorman is, say, a 6.5 or 7 out of 10 Championship full back AND a significantly better goal kicker than anyone else we've got available, is our net position better with him at 1, Aekins at half and Bowes on the bench? It's a close one for me.
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I'm sure you are right on this on reflection. I had checked via the RFL website (more fool me) and found this https://www.rugby-league.com/match-review-panel which says 3-5 matches for Grade E, but I'm pretty sure that's an old version of the guidelines that they haven't bothered to update. Who knew that the RFL website could be unreliable?
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Think MarkLasPalmas is on his travels at the moment so I thought I'd step in to start the match thread. So...round 2 in both senses of the word. We landed a famous win against the odds in the Challenge Cup, but that counts for naught on Friday and they will be bristling for revenge. In terms of line-up...pending updates but it seems very unlikely Lacans will be available. That will mean Bowes continuing to fill in at half back and presumably a first start for Turner, who showed definite glimmers of his ability at Leigh. Far from ideal that the two halves who were at the helm of all our pre-season work are now gone (one permanently, one temporarily) but that's the hand we've been dealt. Day will miss out, assuming he doesn't challenge his 1-match suspension, and with Bussey still out, looks like England and Tomlinson might be a back row combination that we wouldn't have anticipated a few weeks ago. Yei would be available to play as his tribunal doesn't take place until next week, but he didn't look anywhere near fully fit to me at Leigh and it might not be a bad idea if he uses his ban to get his knee strength back. Remains to be seen if Tanner is back, but you'd think we will be looking to Hull KR for a little support in the pack here, depending on who's available. The forecasts at the moment look to be more for showers than heavy rain but that could change. Either way, we'll be firmly underdogs once again against the league favourites. But it's been a fun ride being underdogs so far this season.