Rugby League Season 2023

[WickyWain]

Bit frustrating not to score another try after the 40 20 or when the tackle count was wiped right near their line but we've come back into it well

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Our second rowers are really getting on my tits. Stef Ratchford must do five times the work they do in a game.

They’re probably our second and third biggest men tonight and they’ve done absolutely nowt.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

You'd have got good odds on a 20 pt Saints win before the match, but this has been more like the usual.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Easy for Saints that. Wire aren’t half a small team, think we’ll struggle in all the big games this season.

I’m on Currie and Nicholson watch over the next few weeks. The pair of lazy sods have done sod all in the last three games.

 

[Gundoggin]

Wire capitulation. Big bucks star man George Williams having two shockers on the bounce against the big boys .

Oh Cherry n white …….

:) :)

 

[Tim of the Oak]

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Wire capitulation. Big bucks star man George Williams having two shockers on the bounce against the big boys .

Oh Cherry n white …….

:) :)

I don’t think Wire are doing anything other that what everyone expected.

When you look at the squad, we look like a 3rd-5th placed quality team depending on who’s fit. With a number of the pack absent recently, we’ve looked exactly like we did last season when we arguably had the worst pack in the league.

We’ll be a solid 3rd-5th placed/semifinal team this season. At the start of the season I was just hoping to get into the playoffs and I think we’ll do that easily.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Contrasting draws for some of the big boys:
Catalan Dragons vs Warrington
Cas vs Hull
York vs London
Halifax vs St Helens
Hull KR vs Batley
Wakefield vs Leigh
Leeds vs Wigan
Salford vs Huddersfield

Safe to say that Saints will be happy with that!

 

[Gundoggin]

I don’t think Wire are doing anything other that what everyone expected.

When you look at the squad, we look like a 3rd-5th placed quality team depending on who’s fit. With a number of the pack absent recently, we’ve looked exactly like we did last season when we arguably had the worst pack in the league.

We’ll be a solid 3rd-5th placed/semifinal team this season. At the start of the season I was just hoping to get into the playoffs and I think we’ll do that easily.

It’s all to play for this season imho with Saints seemingly going backwards . Long old season and injuries to key players will be a deciding factor . Wigan need Jai Field back from injury if they are to sustain a Grand Final push we also lack a kicker and have done for about 5 seasons now . As to the George Williams thing every Wigan supporter will tell you he made Wigan a poorer team because he is a greedy player and selfish and error prone . He does have odd fantastic games though when it all comes together but they are few and far between.
Top 4 prediction at the end of the season from me in any order …….

Wigan
Warrington
Catalans
Hull KR

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It’s all to play for this season imho with Saints seemingly going backwards . Long old season and injuries to key players will be a deciding factor . Wigan need Jai Field back from injury if they are to sustain a Grand Final push we also lack a kicker and have done for about 5 seasons now . As to the George Williams thing every Wigan supporter will tell you he made Wigan a poorer team because he is a greedy player and selfish and error prone . He does have odd fantastic games though when it all comes together but they are few and far between.
Top 4 prediction at the end of the season from me in any order …….

Wigan
Warrington
Catalans
Hull KR

By the end of the season, I think Saints will have built themselves back up to challenge for it all.

Their pre-season and early season was all about the World Club Challenge. This is now a bit of a hangover from that but they’ll turn it around through the Summer.