Purchase enough knee protectors for both teams to wear, sorted. Moving games away from Belle Vue will cost the club thousands of pounds, an absolute disaster.

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Quote ="Sacred Cow"To be fair to Gaskell we did win a couple of games last year with him at fullback. Given the lack of options i’m willing to give him another 2 or 3 games to find some form there, he has played there a good few times over the course of his career. If it doesn’t work though then we need to look for some genuine cover for Jowitt moving forward, even if it means loosening the purse strings a little.'" Could this season get any worse, McNamara and Tom have lost any respect I may have had for them. Dumping us in the poo like this. https://www.totalrl.com/wakefield-trini ... nspection/

Quote ="Sacred Cow"To be fair to Gaskell we did win a couple of games last year with him at fullback. Given the lack of options i’m willing to give him another 2 or 3 games to find some form there, he has played there a good few times over the course of his career. If it doesn’t work though then we need to look for some genuine cover for Jowitt moving forward, even if it means loosening the purse strings a little.'" Could this season get any worse, McNamara and Tom have lost any respect I may have had for them. Dumping us in the poo like this. https://www.totalrl.com/wakefield-trini ... nspection/

Quote ="Dunkirk Spirit"Could this season get any worse, McNamara and Tom have lost any respect I may have had for them. Dumping us in the poo like this. https://www.totalrl.com/wakefield-trini ... nspection/'" It's hardly Tom's fault. We'd have moaned if he'd been our player with these injuries.

Quote ="Dunkirk Spirit"Could this season get any worse, McNamara and Tom have lost any respect I may have had for them. Dumping us in the poo like this. https://www.totalrl.com/wakefield-trini ... nspection/'" It's hardly Tom's fault. We'd have moaned if he'd been our player with these injuries.

Agreed, i doubt he and the other Catalan players wanted the injuries and subsequent infections. The fact it happened means it should be investigated to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

I lost respect for him when he posted that photo of his legs and showing the caption about Trinity fans saying he was Whinging. It was bad enough McNamara whinging, but for Tom to join in after all Trinity have done for him looked after him throughout his last few years of long term injuries, he should have just kept quiet.

Not complaints from Hull the game before though. Don't think their players or ours have had courses of anti biotics.

Not sure we ever put any of the Hull players on the floor for it to be a problem! Apparently there were some complaints from the Halifax players after their friendly though.

It’s quite simple really. If it passes the RFL inspection it’s ok. If it doesn’t, it isn’t. Time will tell.

It's their work place. The clubs have a duty of care.
Tom did the right thing to draw attention to it.

The pitch will sort itself our sooner rather than later that’s a fact ,once it get some sun on its back , the team and the coaching systems may take a little longer , but hopeful of putting some pride and passion back into the shirt and some fight in their bellies this Friday , that for me will go a long way to say they are having a dig , and all hope is not lost .

There is at least 1 player i know of

They’re confident that remedial work will allow the game to go ahead. The fact that that work has had to be carried out kind of proves something wasn’t right with it though and will have probably cost to put right.

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Him..interesting. Only seen it from the stands but it seemed OK but I suppose you don't know till you actually play on it. However thinking back with the wonderful thing of hindsight, could we have jumped in to soon to play 3 friendless on it so early in laying it down.

That and possibly training on it too for men’s, academy and women’s teams recent weeks.

Perhaps the pitch just wasn’t ready for that exposure.

Hopefully now it’s starting to get milder that will improve as the weeks go by.

Not sure it was hindsight, we were told the club knew it was a risk to use it as much so early in its life before it had bedding in properly. They also moved the training back to BV pretty quickly from Dewsbury, i presume to save the rental cost. Seems it may not have paid off. It will probably right itself eventually but will likely now take longer and cost more overall.

daft really having all that traffic on it so early

To me the pitch looked like it had a few bit of sand on it and i remember playing footy at college grove in the day and it was very similar came home looking like what tom did so maybe that was the problem just a bit too much been put on.

I remember as a kid watching Trin in the 60's you could smell the wintergreen as soon as the players came on the pitch even when at the opposite side of the ground. They had so much of that stuff on their legs plus a plastering of Vaseline, they could have played on loose gravel

I do find it strange the team who have played on it the most haven't reported issues or had player's either with infections or on antibiotics. If it was a major issue everyone would have knees like Tom.

Besides I though the ref inspected the pitch before l games and advised of its suitability.

Anyhow we have pushed it too much unnecessarily so give we usually play all our friendlies away. It should have been training for the first team only a week or so before the Catalan game to get a feel for the ground. We are where we are, if its not suitable on Friday then the 'healthy tension' between ground staff and others with regards overuse of the pitch wasnt worth it. The Bath should've been the man to decide when it is played on.

This was from John Davidson last week. He’s one of the better journalists out there and isn’t usually too far off the mark.

[iCatalans are not the only team crying foul about Wakefield's new hybrid pitch. Halfiax played Trinity at Belle Vue in pre-season and their players were badly cut from the new surface as well. One spy told us it has not bedded in properly at all yet, and surely certain players won’t be risked on that kind of surface like we have seen in the past at Widnes. Apparently the blackbirds aren’t helping the situation by landing on the surface and eating bits.[/i

Probably what the sheets are for.

Could use Gaskell as a scarecrow like he was at FB on Friday night. No birds will go near it then.

Most teams have complained, Halifax and Fev 100% have and had cuts from their games, Look at the pictures after the Fev game and half our team have cuts on elbows and knees

Infections and antibiotics though?

Do you honestly believe the club would broadcast it if that were the case and invite criticism?