PREDICTIONS: Can Wigan Keep Winning WITHOUT Bevan French?

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1:06Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Back 10 Predictions from the All Out Studio. I'm your host, Kyle Emore. Joining me this week is All Out Rubilee journalist, Josh McCallister and a man who is none other than a former NRL grand final winner, current St. Helen's Winger is Kyle Felt. Kyle, welcome along to the prediction show. How are you? I'm good, thank you. Good stuff, good stuff. Right, well, look, before we get into it, again, I'm going to keep banging that drum until we get towards that 10,000 subscribers. Don't forget to like, subscribe, hit the notification bell so we can keep on bringing you everything that you like to see. And here, here at All Out Rubilee, Back 10 Shows. So we're going to go through this week, the Challenge Cup Games, there is seven in total, sorry, eight in total. We usually have our set of six, but there's been a dodgy kick that's gone in and we're going to go for a seven tackle set. We're going to run through seven games before we pick our game of the week, which is Wiggin Against Bradford.

2:09Just before we get going though, special mention to Stuart last week who predicted that the Bradford Bulls would be Kyle Felt's St. Helens. He predicted 22 points to 18. Although he wasn't too far off in terms of the score line, he doesn't register any points. So close, but no cigar. Myself and Paul Cook, we got the set, Helens Victory Right, so we collect the point each. So again, as we get through the show, we'll get you guys involved once again in the comments and predict the score line for Wiggin Against Bradford. And we'll dive into that a little bit earlier on. Well, let's have a look how this weekend's results have affected the Super League table. Warrington and Wiggin, Wiggin sat on top of course, Warrington, still with a game in hand, but still have their 100% record intact. And then right at the foot of the table, Luke Robinson doing it tough with injuries at the moment. He's side of yet to register a single weight of the competition so far. Let's get into the seven tackle set for this week.

3:11Wigfield Against Leeds, Feltie. Difficult place to go, Wigfield Leeds flying at the moment. Yeah, and Wiggy is tough to go to. They are struggling with injuries at the moment, but I'm going to have to say Leeds. You'll go for Leeds, yeah? I'll go Leeds. Leeds are well and Makasevo at the minute is on fire. I imagine you've had a few items against him over in the NRL, and you will, will this season, but Leeds evils just on fire, isn't he? Yeah, look, I'm going to go Leeds as well, but just while we all think that it's going to be Leeds across the board, you mentioned Makasevo. He's got nine tries in three games. Feltie just very quickly as an older player. Do you still at the start of the season want to finish top of the tri-score in Leeds? It's nice to be up there, but yeah, it's as a winger, you want to be, I guess, top three. So, but yeah, nine and nine and nine tries in three games, that's... Did you know only six percent of people are getting enough fiber? That's why Quaker created fiber February, a month-long movement to show your gut a little more love.

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5:12Warrington should have had total control twice in the game. But York, again, fighting back like all these promoted sides are doing. I think York completely blow away, Keith Lee, if I'm honest, Josh. Yeah, York with the spirit and that performance, the resilience determination, the surprise in everyone this season. So I'm going to go with York. Celtic? Yeah, York boy. A good margin, American. Clean sweep across there. Moving on to a game that may be another blowout. Not too far from York though, but Gould. Gould take on Warrington Wolves. Felty, you probably have never heard of Gould, have you? No, haven't. I've just heard of a Gould in Fallout. That's a bad idea because he'll be sure. So I'll go Warrington. Yeah, Josh. Yeah, you've got to go Warrington, haven't you? Yeah, no, look, Kitella, we're blistering again. Sam Stolen, 38 tackles, two tries, triassist. Good numbers for the Bat Rower. So yeah, I think Warrington as well. Moving on to a game that, well, it's a repeat of yesterday's, isn't it? Huddersfield against K.R., Huddersfield again,

6:15picking up injuries like Luke Robinson must be. You know, think about what happened to him last year, as well with all the injuries. I don't know whether it's something that they need to make an internal inquest into what they're doing behind the scenes, but the number of injuries they've had is shocking and it's just really put him on the back foot, isn't it? Yeah, it's an injury nightmare there at the minute. And he revealed yesterday that he, Leo Kudger, and Liam Finner, to put the boots back on, in training to make up the numbers. I mean, that's not how bad it is. So it's going to be another tough week. And for them, I think I'm going to go with the robins. Max, $100 cash back for a month.

7:35Yeah, I'll have to go robins there. Yeah, easy done. No one. Well, of course, Willie Peters, furious with his side over in Vegas. And you expected a comeback, didn't you? Or on a reaction? And they got that yesterday, and I imagine, is there a danger, though, of when you've played the team the week before, that you get sort of a bit too confident, faulty, that you can just repeat that again? I wouldn't say confident. Or arrogance is just something that you've got to move on with. OK, OK. So we're all going with yet to disagree, yet to disagree. Oh, this one might throw one in. Lee against Whole FC, two sides again, busted at the moment. Felty, I'm going to throw you under the, uh, under the microscope. Who wins this one? Um, it's, it's a tough one to pick, to be honest. Like, like I said, they're both running low on troops. Um, but where's the game played at? At Lee? At Lee, yes. I'll have to say Lee. Lee, it's tough to be at home, no matter who they got in the jersey. Yeah, I have to agree with them there as well, the lepers. But as you say, both sides that hampered by injuries, and that seems to be the topic of soup league four weeks, five weeks in. But it's going to be Lee for me. There's a good game on it against Catalan, deal the day.

8:37Um, look, I'm just going to throw one out this. We're not all agreeing. I'm going to play Devils Advocate. I'm going to go junk cart rights men to get over the top of Lee. At Lee, Cass V. Saints, uh, Felty. Yeah, obviously us. Well, I'll take Saints, uh, right. We'll leave him out of that. Josh, go on, pick the bones of part of this game. Yeah, I'm not just saying it because he's next to us, but, but say it, Helen's. I mean, Cass of Food has shown, sometimes of improvement, aren't they? But I just like the way Settlands are playing on the board. I'm going to go with the Saints. Yeah, there is a danger, though. I've gone into Cass of Food, uh, and getting dragged into a dogfight early on. You know, so, uh, although I expect Settlands to win, uh, if Cass of Food can just rattle the cage early on, they might, they might find themselves in a bit of a, in a bit of a tricky game. But I do think Saints come out of that and advance through, uh, Catalan, the old and alcohol first to Catalan. You know, I think they just, I think this whole sort of been happening in an olden this year and they're a bit of unrest there and, uh, yeah, I think the dragon's a little, comfortably sweet by, uh, by olden. Yeah, I'll say Catalan's as well. Yeah, that's three for the dragons.

9:39Well, that was very quick fire. Some blowouts cause we do believe in, uh, you never know with this game, no, it might prove us all wrong, uh, but that's all that we've got in terms of our seven games before our game of the week, which is going to be, uh, Wigging against Bradford. Remember guys at home, we want your predictions to see if you can do a bit better than Stuart did last week who managed to collect no points of value and effort though. Uh, remember if you get the team correct, you get one point, the margin or the correct margin, you'll get yourself three points. And if you can get the exact score line, you will come away with five points. So again, throw your comments in there and while you're at it, swipe left and hit that high button as well. It'll do as a big favor here at back 10. Right, Josh, uh, Wigging, uh, let's start with the home team. Uh, a couple of week ago when they played against Lee, I couldn't see anybody if they replicate that, going, going with them. They looked incredible. Uh, they have lost, J Field and now they've lost Bevan French and,

10:41and we know the numbers and the statistics around when those two don't play what that turns Wigging into. Yeah, the, the, the can struggle without, without the two superstars, currently, I mean, that's another big name, Bevan French, the hamstring injury there that, that is a concern, Matt Pete will speak to, speak to media. Uh, yeah, that's a, it's a big concern. When he came off, uh, in the closing exchanges, I get to lose, but Wigging had just firing at the minute, aren't they? That the forwards are great. I'm really impressed by Sam Walters, Luke Thompson playing really well. Zach Ekko's Lee's killing it on the wing. So it's the, the fullback then is who goes in there and replaces him. Zach Ekko's the complete fullback. They've got a youngster coming through the, the ranks. I think he was named in the 21-month squad in Noah Hawkins. So maybe he gets a run-up because the challenge could gain. But you like the way Wigging to play in at the minute. Me also, either way, Bradford to play as well, right? Yeah, absolutely. Uh, but just on Field and French, how difficult and how important are they to Wigging? Yeah, like I said, uh, with them in the team, the winning streaks are unreal, but without them they struggle and they are two big names to fill, fill shoes for and, um, yeah, and they're, I guess, the main point of attack for them as well.

11:43Once, once they get together, it's pretty hard to stop. And when they get a roll on with their big middles, it's, um, even harder to stop. Well, look, let's have a little word on Bradford as well because, uh, I almost feel a bit disrespectful now. I mean, look, it is only round four and then we are into a challenge cut. But it's an impunction above the way. So I think if we, if we go back a month ago, we would say that they're punting above the way, right? Uh, you know, what, what were you most impressed with, uh, Bradford on the weekend? I think the way that they really stayed in the fight, like, um, really, once we got the early try, they, they rallied around each other and, um, I guess, tried to wrangle back the game, which they did and, um, they're good at throwing the 40 round. Uh, it's the hardest thing to defend, like I said. It's, it's tough and the way they can just drag it down to that level, um, and just try and put you in that dog fight. It's, it's hard to get out of and that, um, continuous flow football. If you can get into that, I think, um, the, uh, better team will come out there. And the short as well, though, that they can do it when the chips are down. You know, they were, uh,

12:43the red card and, and the out to finish, what, the last sort of 20 minutes of the game, was it? We've, we've only 12 on the field. So, you know, they're turning up for one another, aren't they? Yeah, they are. I don't think it would be harsh or disrespectful to say that the three promoted teams are already exceeding expectations. You know, there was, there's a lot to ask to put together a super league squad in the weeks that they had. And they are competing in every game they've played. I know, as you mentioned, you're fought to the end, Bradford fought to the end. They are really to lose for to the end. They are exceeding expectations. So yeah, I've been really impressed by Bradford. And, uh, you say that, that's for the world baller, and obviously they're coached by Kurt Haggity. He was poor, all his assistant at Solford. And that's the kind of, uh, the systems that they've played. So you can probably see similarities there in the way that they chuck the ball around and that to, to play us to wedge. And Ryan Sutton's been a good pick up for them. And they he's been pretty solid through the middle of the field there for them. Um, look, Wiggins, uh, record at home is second to none, isn't it? You know, they, they, but you cast your mind back to last season. Felty, they got knocked out at this stage by a hole. I think it was a hole went there. And so they're not,

13:44they're not unbeatable on their own patch. And, uh, again, you know, the huge, the huge story line heading into this one that will give Bradford some hope is that the two most dangerous weapons in the competition aren't there. Yeah. So there's a real opportunity for the balls. It's, it's a great opportunity to take on Wiggins right now. If you're, if you're on Bradford and I think going there, it is tough to go there. And, um, if any team is going to get up for it, it's going to be Bradford, um, like Logan spoke before it's, it's a good game. Really good game to keep your eye on if you're a fan. And, um, if you're a Wiggins fan, I'd be looking even closer to, to be honest. Okay, right, I'll go with you, um, give us a, give us a score, give us your score line. Who wins this game and by how many? I'm going to say 28, 14 Bradford Bradford turn. We can all the 28, 14. Wow. Wow. Go on then. Yeah, I was, I was 26, 14, but so Wiggins, so we're kind of on the same lines of the game, but just different, uh, different outcomes for the teams. Just to mention, Ben and French, he's, he's so fast and skillful. But I think what he's really proven last few weeks

14:46is how strong he is as well. I think he carried a couple of bodies over the line, uh, to score his try. He's such an influential player and he's so strong. So it's going to be a big mess, but I just think we're going to, a fire in at the minute and they'll be okay without him for now. Well, look, you know, Felty, your prediction will go down. Certainly well with set Hellen's fans, no doubt about it. Might get a few booze at your return to the DW, or the brick community stadium, rather, uh, later on in the season. Look, I'm going to go for a Wiggins win. I'm going to go for a, uh, uh, I'm going to go for a 20 points to 12 Wiggins win. I think it'll be, uh, I think I don't think it'll be as free-flowing with tries given that those two are missing. Uh, and I just think that there'll still be solid enough to think to get over Bradford. So don't forget to let us know in the comments section below your scores, your predictions, and see if you can help, uh, your part in terms of knocking our guest co-host and myself off the leaderboard. We'd love to hear from you. Don't forget to fire them across, uh, also as well. Like, subscribe, hit the notification bell,

15:46so you don't miss anything here at all out Rubilig. Uh, finally, from myself, Josh and Kyle, whatever you're doing this week, enjoy the Challenge Cup. We will be back, of course, next week in preparation for round five from the Super League. Uh, but for myself, take care. Bye-bye for now.