Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:00 pm  

This weekend is one the of the half dozen or so free weekends when I could travel up, missed the Skolars game (weather) and Oldham (changed the bl***y k.o time). I will be honest whilst trying persuade myself (love being there........not so much the travel) their result at York is making that a tough sell.

Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Thu May 03, 2018 9:20 pm  

Looks like we’re resting Keyes this week unless he’s got a knock.

Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 6:41 am  

Keyes is injured, my lads on the bench

Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 7:10 am  

roger daly wrote:

Keyes is injured, my lads on the bench

Hitchcox to fullback, Lee Smith to centre and Pickersgill to Stand Off then? I originally saw that squad and assumed your lad would be in the halves, but if not, that lineup makes most sense to me.

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Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 8:00 am  

Bustin
Chisholm
Crossley
Flanagan
Garside
Gibson
Grant
Halafihi
Hallas
Hitchcox
Kirk
Laithwaite
Milton
Minchella
Peltier
Pickersgill
Ryan
Smith
Wood.

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Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 8:03 am  

If Roger says his lad is on the bench I'd go with this:

Hitchcox
Grant
Gibson
Smith
Ryan
Pickersgill
Chisholm
Crossley
Halafihi
Bustin
Garside
Laithwaite
Wood

Flanagan
Kirk
Peltier
Minchella

I'd leave Hallas and Milton out.

Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 8:37 am  

I'm not expecting a scoreline anywhere near what York managed

It's actually really hard to score that many tries in a game! Taking into account the time taken for kicks and kick offs, you need to score on virtually every set - and we make far too many basic errors to do that. I expect West Wales will see more of the ball than they did against York, simply because of our tendency to make mistakes. And that will slow down the try scoring.

I've seen people predicting that we'll score 150 or more - presumably based on 'we are better than York'. But I really can't see it. Obviously, I'm still expecting a big win, probably in the zone of our 82-6 cup game.

Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 9:01 am  

Think the team are onto a no-win situation for this. If we don't get 100 points we'll he in for criticism.

With Keyes out I'm disappointed we haven't giving Rowan Milnes a run out.

Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 9:24 am  

I like a few have already said don't expect a similar scoreline to York, but I will be bloody annoyed if the Team let in a try or two, if that happens the Team should forfeit their win bonus to the Bulls Foundation!

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Re: West Wales Raiders (H) : Fri May 04, 2018 10:42 am  

I also thought a scored in the 80s or 90s might be likely but with Keyes out I think we'll score fewer tries and kick fewer goals.

Us by 70 I think. Is it too late to alter my prediction?