After nearly 60 years of being Trinity fan, finally isn't it just great to be a Trinity fan. June 8th can't come quick enough .

What a great atmosphere.


I think we dished out our worst 40 followed by our best 40 of the .

A few bumps so s I be looking to rest a few over the next few games

Listening to Powell's post match interview it sounds like Gayle, Atoni and Walmsley are just minor niggles.
Hopefully Griff is just 1 week out but we won't know the extent of Lino's injury for a day or two ??

Totally agree.

With Lino not having the ability to jink and jump about everywhere he actually looked better with his pass selection. Perhaps something he can look to continue.

Uele, Max and Magilvey were very good, but I thought Liam Kay was top drawer and got us on the front foot in the second half, not getting the Lino hipe I’m afraid, but a great win from a very nervey first half where Bradford were the better side

IMO His pass selection was excellent, nearly all our tries bar 2 came down the middle area, off excellently timed flat passes off Lino, the Rodwell try, Ashurst x 2, and Atoni's. He ran at their defensive line which then created that doubt and he'd set up one of our middles/Ashust with a nice pass to run onto and score. I can't grumble with his game management and 4 try assists. His kicking was generally excellent as well. It was just a well-thought-out and managed game from him, without any real errors or penalties that come to mind.

I also thought that Rodwell and Ashurst were excellent as well, Doyle as well seemed to make things happen when he came on. You could take your pick from several players today after that awesome 2nd half-performance.

Impeccable pre match 1 minutes silence from both sets of fans.

That’s was imho Linos best game in the last 18 month. Nothing flash just did his job and created for others. I can’t complain because it’s what I’ve been demanding for ages.

I'd imagine we might have a rotate a few in the coming weeks with the knocks we've picked up, Gale sounds like he's going to be out for a few weeks and lino could be too...

Lino was man of match, guess you just got it in for him To me when Gale on pitch every thing as got to go through him so.Lino gets pushed out ,looks like Lino out next week, so will see how we go Kay played ok in second half but Powell said he was in two minds to take him of at half time because it was not working playing him at 6 . Powell said though injured Lino ran the game on both sides of the pitch .Hood brought nothing to the attack and every pass he through out was a hospital pass Great pack performance again .But we have problems as a go forward team at 6 and 9 and we got to get some speed in these positions of we will struggle in S L

After 18 months of being a Trinity fan, yeah it's great!

I always thought with the greatest respect to these teams that the next three fixtures would be perfect for Lawford to have a run out.

Powell was brutally honest in the presser about Lawford wasn't he - stopping only just short of saying he bottled it at Batley. Which to be fair is nail on head - he will get there and maybe the next 3 games will help, agree.

Lawford needs games to work on things. Next few games are an opportunity for that. With Lino limping I can see Lawford coming in next week partnering Gale.

I thought it was poor of Powell to say this in a press conference, what he thinks about a player and his performance in a previous game should stay within the dressing room, no doubt he will have spoken to Lawford since the game telling him what he needs to do going forwards, and that should have been the end of it. He could've answered the question by saying that he went with Kaye because of his greater experience in big games.

I've watched Powell's interview twice and I'm struggling to see where the criticism is coming from.He told it like it was,in his opinion,and even said that near half-time and struggling a bit,they were wondering if they should maybe have included Myles after all.Coaches are interviewed all the time these days and if they start telling porkies they'll be found out in no time.That's not to say though that at certain times somethings are best left unsaid.But if a coach is asked a straight question he should give a straight answer.

Have to agree. That was something I didn't really like about Powell's style at Cas.
He clearly has the dressing room so he clearly handles it well but personally I'd keep that within the team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpDRZ9_ ... eldTrinity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpDRZ9_ ... eldTrinity

Watched the game again last night.
Is the tackle by Taufua on Thornley a legal challenge? He doesn't appear to make any attempt to use his arms. Will be interesting to see if the MRP look at it

I didn’t, it’s a man’s game and they need to be tough - he needs to take it on the chin, I’m all for it, a no blame culture is a losing culture. One proviso, is that is across the board, fairs fair.

I thought exactly the same, also I'm struggling to see which players were offside from the 2 kicks that were dropped by Bradford, although i would also admit there we a couple of "flat"

passes from Wakefield that resulted in tries.
The 2nd half was total domination though and even the first 30 mins wasn't as strong for Bradford as the commentators on the radio were portraying, they only scored once plus a penalty in front of the sticks

I agree, there is a lot of positives to take from individual accountability and I also don`t think there is anything wrong with calling it out publicly, I think it creates a winning mentality, I mean we can all see it anyway. Powell has always done it but so have coaches like Wane. On the flipside I have heard DP is a really good man manger and makes a big effort to develop close relationships with each player, they will understand what is expected of them, he won`t just be calling them out out of the blue.

Said exactly same at game. Absolutely no wrap or attempt to wrap. Was shocked the ref ignored it.

Also agree about the offsides (especially the first one). Froze farm and all clearly on side. The commentator, trinity players were completely baffled by that and rightly so too. There was a lot of laying on too slowing down allowed too.

Again though the forwards rolled sleeves up and turned the engine room up. Class set of young forwards.

Yeah, I thought that watching it back, seemed like a shoulder charge but hard to see tbf and it happens quickly.