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Reds look to make amends against Wildcats

The City Reds are look­ing to put last week’s dis­astrous per­form­ance behind them and come out with all guns blaz­ing against Wake­field Wild­cats at The Wil­lows this Friday.

After a second half per­form­ance that Head Coach Shaun McRae said was the worst in his 401 game coach­ing career the play­ers must now look closely to see how they can change their for­tunes for the remainder of the season.

Kiwi Half-Back Jeremy Smith is keen to put it behind him and said: “We have to be a lot stronger defens­ively. Even though we were win­ning at half-time we could prob­ably count ourselves a bit lucky. They had bombed a couple of op­por­tun­it­ies and we had taken some good ones.

“We know we have to con­trol the game bet­ter and build our own game because like we did against St Helens it won’t just hap­pen to us.

“I know I’ve taken some flak from a sec­tion of the fans but to be hon­est it’s not been too bad to be fair, they call it as they see it and I was filthy with myself for one or two errors against War­ring­ton and I have to put that right.

Mean­while Aussie Luke Swain said: “I rate Wake­field almost as as War­ring­ton, they are a pretty good team. Everything has already been said about last week and I have never been through a game like that. The second half was relent­less. It was a very unpleas­ant experience.

Head Coach Shaun McRae has added local teen­ager Lewis
Pal­frey to the 19-man squad for the first time this sea­son. Lewis is highly rated and grew up with a view of The Sta­dium from his house.

Jordan Turner has joined the list of injured three-quarters and is likely to miss sev­eral weeks with a trouble­some back injury.

John Wilshere mean­while needs just six points to break the 700 bar­rier for the Reds.

Reds 19 Man Squad to face Wake­field Wild­cats:
Wilshere, Henry, Smith, Pal­frey, McGil­v­ray, Cashmere, Alker, Stapleton, Swain, Lit­tler, Leu­luai, Paul, Ratch­ford, Adam­son, Nash, Fitzpatrick, Sid­low, Sib­bit, Myler

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