Wakefield

Would you break up the patton ackers hb combination? tui at FB maybe but I'd want to find space for escare..

The 19 mam squad…

Escare
Sio
Inu
Burgess
Tui
Ackers
Seb
Lannon
Pauli
Roberts
Burke
Johnson
Atkin
Livett
Williams
Costello
Ormondroyd
Luckley
Hitago

Glad to see players back but not happy if Patton is dropped for Hitago who has been here 5 mins. For me a winning team keeps its form players. Fair enough if he is injured however if its more rotation then that is crap playing against a Wakey team missing bodies. Feels to me like Hitago and Tui may start. Patton and Ackers were dominant on Sunday and Aitken is not and will never be a 7. This is a game we need to be winning.

Burgess will surely play - as fans no one can second guess Marshall. Can only think Patton is injured after Sundays showing 

Trinity will struggle to raise a team this week, a statement by the club’s CEO, just about sums up what most fans of RL think about the disciplinary process.

CEO Statement
14TH JULY 2021
Wakefield Trinity CEO, Michael Carter, has issued the below statement following three suspensions handed to players of both teams after our game with St Helens last Friday.
The Club are extremely disappointed to find that following last Friday’s game against St Helens, three players find themselves suspended with one actually missing a Challenge Cup Final.
The game was everything rugby league ‘was’ renowned for. Two teams going hammer and tong at each other, and on the final whistle, congratulating each other on their respective performances.
Monday morning then brings some random charges against Joe Arundel, Ryan Hampshire and Sione Matautia. I’ve had two other CEO’s contact me asking what the incidents were, because they’ve watched the video and can’t find anything.
Jonny Lomax takes the ball to the line, and Rocky Hampshire literally pushes him open-palmed in the back. Jonny jumps up and takes the ball at first receiver on the next play. No complaint, no penalty, play on.
Joe Arundel loses his legs on a slippery surface but completes the tackle without any complaint from the opposition.
Sione goes to pressure a kicker like is seen in every single game. No complaints from the kicker who bounces back up and plays on. No complaints from us as a Club.
It was a tough game and the best team won. Sione now misses a Challenge Cup Final against his brother on the back of it. I guarantee I could find 20 worse incidents in our game.
I am all for eradicating foul play, but these are just one nameless persons opinion on a Monday morning. In the eight years I’ve been in charge, I think I’ve only appealed two charges. That’s because it’s impossible to win an appeal unless you’ve enough evidence to free Ronnie Biggs. Three people sit there, two of them not saying anything, with no experience of the modern game, an inability to take any sort of mitigation into account, and an overriding ability to just say ‘guilty’. It’s just pointless appealing. They just support the Match Review Panel!!
How can that be an equitable process? It would be really interesting to see, what percentage of appeals have ever been overturned. You have to prove your innocent, contrary to common law. What a way to feel in an ‘Elite’ sport.
At a time where we are all struggling to fulfil matches through various factors, to lose two players to these ‘offences’ just takes the biscuit. There is no accountability at all within this process.
Therefore, as things stand, we have 14 currently training and available to play, as our academy is being kept separate for Covid reasons. We will select some academy lads, but they won’t have a full training session with the first team, due to our current COVID protocols. We will, however, fulfil the fixture against Salford on Friday because unlike some others, this Club refuses to put a price on integrity!

Pretty much what my topic was about recently. No clarity no indication who's voting, zero transparency and zero accountability. This great sport is being run like a Sunday football league, he's absolutely bang on.

I agree with his statement absolutely, but can’t help thinking that his final statement is having a go at our club amongst others.