If your a Wakey supporter you will know that the people of Wakefield couldn't give a toss about Wakefield having a rugby team. You can throw as much money at advertising as you want and it would not make any difference at all.
Sadly the only thing that works is a winning team and due to the players not performing this season for reasons only they can tell us we will not get the fans back to the games.
The people to blame are the players themselves yet we are looking at them to keep us up

God help us

A poor few minutes from Trinity ends in Bradford crossing for a try.

Walker on from the bench has given 2 consecutive penalties away, Lee Smith made a lovely beak but then ignored his support and got a bit indulgent, should have been 36-0

Overall a superb half of rugby from Wakefield, we lost a bit of go forward when we spelled the starting props and we got a bit cocky with the ball, thinking it was a cake walk meaning we've bombed at least two certain tries

Get back to the game plan and do the things we started out with!

Easy win I'm the end. Certainly far easier than I expected. I didn't realise how poor Bradford were but credit to Trinity they never let the Bulls a sniff.

Agent Siejka worked wonders (remember him Scarlett)

Sort of related is thee fact that Smith has got rid of some very ordinary players who offered nothing. Whilst at last managing to get the best out of what quality we have, Also all his signings bar Tansey are looking better than the players they replaced.

Lee Smith was great in the first half (though clearly not good enough for Sandal) - I like Sio and Topou and Mullay and Walker,

Jeezif we'd have advertised and got Smith when Agar went we'd be top 8 now.

Anyways vast improvement though still a bit shaky in defence and prone to going off the boo; - all be it for much shorter periods.

Is that the best you can muster?

No mention of a near faultless first twenty minutes that blew Bradford away, you must be absolutely gutted this evening.

We still need to pack in gifting penalties with silly ball steals – note to Timmy.

Well no doubt if I praised Trin (and I do) you'd probably find fault just as much as if I'd cricitsed for say conceeding 18 points ( and I'm not). So wind your neck in DA

I agree Vastman, B Smith has reworked the team and got a decent unit out of them.
Sio is a vast improvement over Moore who is a poor player and Cas must be laughing their 6 toed socks off.

Tupou is very strong in the carry and the collision but as yet we haven't seen any pace from him either explosive or long distance.

L Smith has given us some solidity at the back while he also brings the ball back well and joins the line effectively

The return of Ashurst and the game time afforded to Molloy has given us some stability in the back row with Washbrook doing a solid job as a replacement off the bench.

I'm not convinced yet by Walker who was poor today, he gave away two penalties that lead to Bradfords first try. He consistently lost the collision or fell off the tackle after being first man in, one occasion gifting Ferguson his try in the 2nd half.

As I said earlier in this thread, the team just might click today and I think to a significant extent they did. Leigh are a different challenge completely to Bradford and we'll need to improve again if we want to keep them from racking up points.

3,900 with around 1k from Bradford. Not a great attendanc really.

I think it was a job well done. It what I would expect from a B Smith side with each player taking the field playing to plan. We havnt the best players on the field but you could not fault the effort and team work. Next week will probably be a totally different game with in your face rugby from the off, having said that we had them beat in the cc only to let them take control in the second half.
I think B Smith will already have a file on Leigh and would expect a full blooded game with a sneaky win for the Trinity. I think we are ready at last for the 8s.

It was a good win. Should give us confidence going into next weeks game.

Job done, didn't expect it to be that easy, but just what we needed. the forwards dominated from early on which gave Smith and Miller the room and time to do their stuff. If Miller could just improve his passing game, it does let him down at times, although his one to Sio for the try was excellent. Thought Scruton went well today and cut out his silly penalties etc. Think Leeds have got a good 'un in Mullally, wish we had him next season! All in all pretty good, obviously gonna be completely different next week, different atmosphere, different ref probably, need Salford to do Leigh tomorrow, puts them under pressure then for next week.

Sio/Godinet is a very good hooker rotation with Sio being capable of playing back row and Godinet being capable at half.

Kirmond, Locke, Lauitiiti and Johnstone could all make appearances at some point.

Regarding your praise, I’ll have to take your word for that, because all I’ve tended to see is tale of woe.

Now, don’t get me wrong I’m hardly one of the rose tinted brigade, but that first twenty was as good as I’ve seen for many a long year.

You on the other hand use an ex-wakey player’s abject performance as a prime reason for the victory.

Maybe you enjoy being a pantomime villain, but for once have the grace to complement a good performance, you never know, you may actually enjoy it?

Have a beer or two tonight & reflect on your team finally playing well – I know I will.

Well played today. We failed to shut down Tim Smith all game and it cost us. After Gaskell went off we failed to regroup and you ran us ragged. It was a good performance from Wakefield, but we were terrible. I've seen us play better than that this season but these are the games that matter after all.

Your next game, away at Leigh, is massive. Beat them, and you should be comfortably in the top 4.

Found it frustrating that there was no big screen at the game today.

Very disappointing really. I was expecting at least 6000 due to Bradford bringing 3000 of their own. Wasn't that what Marc Green promised us?

Very competent all round performance, the gulf in class between the two reams was obvious, albeit helped by them losing Gaskell and having to use Siejka who is still utter garbage. I predicted a win by 22 on another thread, i was being conservative! I though Simon was excellent and continually made huge dents in the defence as did Anderson, Scruton & Mullaly. This gave Tim Smith the chance to finally show his true colours. As poor as we have been there is nothing better to replace us and we will be in the top divison again next year even if it is via the play off.

Fantastic win for the boys today.
Bradford couldn't cope with our forwards or game speed!!!

Was expecting a tough game today and hopefully we can build for next week.

To avoid the "million pound game" we will need to beat Widnes and KR unless there are some surprise results but,
on todays performance, we should have no fear, even if we end up playing the decider vs Leigh or Bradford.

Indeed. They sold 600 tickets and brought around 1,000.

Still, more than a lot of SL teams have done this season to be fair.

No complaints from me regarding the match, we were thoroughly out played today and never looked like troubling Wakefield. We can do better than that and I just hope we have an opportunity to show that.

Must say I was disappointed with the racist chant from behind me by a large group of Wakefield fans and then having some drunk idiot goading fans in the toilet at HT. I've never really had bother at your ground before so I'm hoping it was just an isolated incident.

Bully Boxer Do you know as a Wakey fan I've stood on the terraces at Odsal for god knows how many years and took a load of abuse from you Bulls fans because you were at the top of the tree so to speak. Today I honestly think the majority of your fans thought you would blow us away and you didn't, subsequently I've never heard so much moaning going on about Wakey fans. If there was any racist chants then thats despicable but lets not think that we haven't suffered abuse at your place.

Well I can't speak for the majority of Bulls fans but it certainly wasn't my expectation. The bookies had Wakefield as slight favourites but I was hopeful rather than expectant. I certainly expected we would perform better than we did. I'm not suggesting that there never an incident at Odsal but it wasn't good today I'm afraid. I'm sure some Bulls fans were guilty of some of the language but I found the racial chant particularly unpleasant. Luckily my lad is only 4 months old so he is largely oblivious right now.

Good luck for the rest of the 8's.

Concentrate on the result Bully

and pick the faults out of a poor Bulls side that were outplayed from the KO....never mind