I'm pretty sure he didn't wait till that time on purpose.

It comes down to a bad call by the ref or luck , As in Lineham getting ankle tapped as he was getting into the clear after Jowitt made the break

I said earlier that I have nothing but complete respect for the squad today. I hope any that decided not to play because of some irrational vaccination fear look at themselves in the mirror and ask am I doing the right thing.
I look forward to seeing the squad selected for another easy game against St Helens and hope that they are worthy of the payers they will probably be replacing.

It's been a long time since I was as proud as that in defeat. A couple of years ago we sent a full team out there and got spanked, totally pathetic performance compared to that, great effort boys, will be very interesting to see the 17 at Saints........

Top beer belly though......

Q, who was our skipper tonight?

Pitts

I’m more bothered about Miller!

Jowett was the man today

Outstanding performance from the team ,a few silly mistakes that were capitalised on by les cats was all that separated us on the field in the end . Proud as punch for the lot of em and the coaching staff who combined went over to France and gave as good a performance as I’ve seen even with our so called stars sat at home . Couldn’t have asked for more, effort ,enthusiasm , in bucket fulls and the future/season is looking bright at the club knowing we have these lads to step up to the plate and pushing the first teamer’s for a place .Roll on saints

I told you they would do well



You wouldn’t want to play that team every week but anyone with any RL nouse should spot that there wasn’t a player on that team sheet who wasn’t going to take it seriously. In fact I don’t think there is a player in our squad who isn’t up for it regardless of ability level.

This will be the key and hopefully narrow loses will become narrow wins.

Great effort, especially from the youngsters.

Good thread this


Very proud of them all, genuinely thought the ref was awful but loved the never say die team spirit.
Max was immense, but credit to all concerned.

Max is your typical confidence player. By that I think he needs to feel believed in rather than playing brilliantly all the time. I thought this might be WP biggest asset.

I’m not a CC hater but I did used to cringe when he used the lack of money as an excuse. He was correct but nobody wants to here that least of all the players.

Tactics etc are just the fine detail, the most important job of any coach is to convince all his players that they are good enough. Do that you stay up and eventually you win things. That and a chunk of luck.

Ref was poor wildthing but we made some schoolboy errors at crucial times which les cats capitalised on and cost us in the end . Not taking anything away from the lads they did us proud , but for me that was the difference

A loss that feel like a win (almost).
What a stunning effort from 1 -17, makes you proud to be a Trinity fan.
Jowitt was the best player on the park, for either side and young Walker wasn't too far behind him.

Forwards really stood up and the backs played some great rugby

And Catalan didn’t. Sorry but I hate the term schoolboy, they are just errors and all teams make them, even Saints.

So sorry again but I do think your raking it away from them.

I think he’s right in what he’s saying.

Silly things like running behind your own man, we were all taught not to do it right from the off so how it happens numerous times in a professional game is a schoolboy error.

Ashurst knocking the hookers hand on the 5th tackle, on our line was a schoolboy error from a senior player.

We can’t pin the loss on anyone in particular though, I hope it doesn’t come across as that’s I’m trying to do. There were good and bad things from everyone.

Very impressed overall with the fact the younger lads especially wouldn’t just roll over and take it, despite a frustrating ref.

Just hope we can flip the result going forward and make sure we come back with the points.

After yesterday, Walker should be in the halves next week. No if's but's or maybe's.

The never say die attitude was so evident in the lads last night and as most have said not completing sets in the first half was our downfall.
So proud of everyone and confident with performances like that we'll win more than we lose.
If there is one thing I would like to see though is the introduction of the captains challenge as it may just lift the refs performance as it must be demoralising for the players when they see some calls go against them. That said though take nothing away from the lads. They kept going and Catalans were definitely on the back foot at the end.

But there not silly things are they, they are exactly the things you’d expect from an as hoc team. Let’s have some realism here, players in all teams make errors and in teams lacking experience they tend to make more.

Why not just concentrate on the positives. I don’t get this idea that you can’t just say well done without some side to the odd negative. Sometimes it’s needed but IMO this is not one, what exactly do you think it achieves assuming you think WP should do the same?

So you don’t think battye not playing the ball correctly isn’t a school boy error which led directly to a try , well it is in my book

Wouldn't we all, unfortunately unless Sky decide to show all the games like Fox sport can't see it happening, like it is now without the cameras too much of a disadvantage, left to a referee whose reliant on a touch judge who can't see the end of his nose, it might help Saints and Leeds and Wigan/wire who are always on Sky but not the rest.

Agreed, the lad has got a great rugby brain & with proper coaching I think he could make a good standoff. After yesterday he deserves another run-out next week, regardless of who's available.

Regarding the game, it's a shame we looked under cooked in the first quarter, however the fifth tackle penalty for the alleged high shot on McMeeken was a killer.

I was expecting a right shellacking yesterday, what a pleasant surprise, & the team should take that performance into next week.

Can't find the actual incident on the replay, but I think you'll find the penalty was against Pitts for being off-side and picking the ball up rather than Ashurst hitting the player's arm, as the penalty is given 5 metres to the left of the sticks rather than directly in front, where Ashurst was ??

Ashurst knocking the hookers hand on the 5th tackle, on our line was a schoolboy error from a senior player.
Catalan got a scrum when the Catalan player knocked the arm of the Wakefield player .Do not see the diffrence.Any body see the Catalan player bend down to play the ball ,then brought the ball back up then played the ball .The ref gave Wakfield off side because they had moved up when it looked like the Catalan player was going to play the ball at the first attempt, Only about 10 seconds difference ,but is that cheeting