Warrington

Stefan Ratchford, Tom Lineham, Bryson Goodwin, Toby King, Josh Charnley, Blake Austin, Declan Patton, Chris Hill, Daryl Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Jason Clark

Subs: Joe Philbin, Sitaleki Akauola, Matty Smith, Jake Mamo

Smith on the bench is that a cautious decision on Austin.

About bloody time Ben currie turned up to a game!!

Danny Brough has got all the mobility of Andy Pipkin.
Run at him all night

In terms of entertainment, that's the best half of rugby I've seen us play in a LONG time.
More of the same, Wire.
Goodwin looking sharp. Worried for Currie after that knock, but seemed to run it off, quickly

Back to normal now

Some team talk.

Closer than it should have been.
Still, 2 points.
Onwards and upwards, Wire

Talk about tale of two half’s, God knows what team talk went on. Made that far harder than needed to.

I get the feeling that having built the foundations in the first half, we came out in the second half with the intention of opening it up. Unfortunately, their 2 quick tries put paid to that and we then seemed confused. I'm not sure as to whether the ref made some bad decisions or if our discipline was poor, but the flurry of penalties in their favour helped to keep them in the game.

So.ple question to Price and the players - what happened?

1st half great.
2nd half...?????

The non attempted tackle be Austin, really took the wind out of our sails.

Regarding the ref. He was anonymous in that first half. That's the sign of a half decent ref. The second half, he was like a precocious 9 year old girl, trying to get on Britain's Got Talent. It all about him, then, when he shoehorned Wakey back into the game, he started looking for penalties to give us. A baffling performance. Mind you, some of our fans are as bad as Saints. Some of the booing against him, was bordering on the paranoia. We were as offside at the ptb, as they were.

There's 0.001% of me that actually does agree with St Helens' blonde eyebrows chairman

Maybe Wakefield NEEDED a win, you guys could have 'just done' with one ?

Wakey targeted a weak spot on our right without Hughes and Wakey just ran their plays at BMM. It paid off for them eventually scoring 2 by him, he was then substituted.

I bet you would've found fault in the days of briers, Monaghan, Hodgson etc! You ever happy? We just won the challenge cup ffs!

WTF are you on about..
I've praised the team, and we got the two points (see page 1). The post you've highlighted, questioned the erratic performance of the referee. I fail to see where I have "found fault".

Do yourself a favour, put me on ignore.
What's the matter? Has Mark Hilton paid you a visit?

Mixed game really, good bad and ugly at times!

First half we looked great, offloading, aggressive and finally passing to our wingers!

Second half we got sloppy and to fair to Wakey they hung in there, Austin needs to start putting his shoulder in and defending better, he looked rusty at times. Patton’s foot in touch was embarrassing and could of cost us the game at the end, and then Smith 3 minute pointless appearance was a daft one. It’s as if Pricey has chosen him to reinforce us bringing him in, we already had cover in the backs with Mamo.. it’s a shame Westwood didn’t get one last run out

Traitor.

Is that you Boris?

Agreed, there were a few near me, inc 50+ year olds, in the SBW south stand who could only see one side of the game and were pretty vocal about it. I've been watching the Wire for nearly 60 years and sadly that type of one eyed supporter appears to be on the increase.

You should of heard the fans near me when Patton got pinged for the foot in touch, it was so obvious a blind man could of seen it, that is except some of the fans around me

Nothing wrong with a bit of booing IMO particularly at officials and the opposition. It's a traditional method of a sporting crowd showing disagreement, is fairly harmless and gets the crowd involved in the game in a pantomime villain sense. An incident worth a boo can bring a game into life if the crowd are considered participants

The alternatives don't bear thinking about, get it off your chest with a BOOO it's better than a tirade of expletives, or being a keyboard worrier and using this new fangled social media thingy to vent your spleen after the event ie harassment

Ok - so I criticized them before, but what about the fantastic 2nd half try with the loop around.
Straight off the training field me thinks but it works a treat.
Fast, incisive, accurate.

An enjoyable game & once again our penalty count hindered us. I wouldn't mind getting Tangenoa (?) on board for next season.

Quite so, silver2
At one stage in the second half, I thought I'd gone back a decade, and transported myself to the popular stand in WA10. WOW! Short of shouting FORWARD at every pass the opposition made, it was a carbon copy.

I do, however, agree with Uncle Rico's post, where we can get at referees, but there has to be a sensible balance. It's almost like we're incapable of transgressing.