Yes. With Shaul, Naulago, Faraimo, Bowden, Minichiello and Lane out, Tuimavave and Hadley lost mid game, Kelly and Logan struggling, it was terrific. We will need some very good injury news to put out a side to beat Catalans but if we can get the same shifts again from Ellis, Tag, Paea and Sika, who knows?

good result, Kelly griffin really good today, effort and commitment was where it should be, hope the injuries are not to bad, COYH

Thankfully your doom and gloom prophecy did not come true, told you to have more faith.
You've again listed who we had missing to further big up our victory but you really didn't need too.
Shaul, Mini and Faraimo are the only main ones missing. Naulago was dropped, Lane is only ever back up, Bowden has been missing since last season so his absence has been accounted for but it was good to see Green back, who played well.
Wakefield were far more affected by injuries than us.
Hadley definitely won't play Friday so we'll have to see about the rest.
A good win though and a good team effort from 1-17 although special mention from me would go to Griffin, Taylor, Kelly and Wynne.
Hopefully this will give us a further confidence boost for Friday against a Cats team that has also been spanked today.

Just listened to Radford's post match, we have 14 players out. Hadley failed a head test so definitely misses Catalans. Carlos is Achilles.



Didn't mention Faraimo but I guess if a dead leg he could come back into contention.

It was a good win I thought against some real adversity. Plenty of injuries already, 2 interchanges down early on. Centres on the wing, back rowers in the centre, a sin binning, one armed Kelly for most of the gam, one legged Logan late on and a ref who needs to go back to the lower leaguez for a while.

I missed out Savelio and Dawson Jones obviously. Hard to keep track when you're also losing your season best player in the first half and carrying a crocked Kelly and Logan with just 2 subs. 14 out now according to Radford, will néed a huge shift again on Friday but who knows. Attitude was spot on today.

Great summary. Kelly got a "stinger" so not sure what that means in terms of return. Ref was awful. Total lottery on the obstruction rule.

What did Pauli have to do to walk? Scragged Houghton to the ground then proceeded to bounce his head against it. Full on punch to Fash’s face and a head high tackle on Griffin before halftime and another close to full time. Think the fullback? took off and flew at FC players head resulting in a penalty? The shepherding and forward passes were a joke at times. Lower leagues deffo. Can the match commissioner not take a hand in this?

Sorry Mrs B, but he wasn't as good as awful. He was completely out of his depth and was the epitome of inconsistency.

….Barry Lilley

Certainly inconsistencies on shepherding and high shots, hope no action against Ellis as he was great again today.

Don’t like to come away from games talking about the ref but that was absolutely shocking. The guy was clueless and couldn’t keep up with the game at all. Hopefully he’ll have a few weeks off for how long the Wakey doctor was on the pitch before he paused time.

Second to this, we seem far behind the rest of the league when it comes to exploiting the ref. Took us until well into second half to see forward passes were fair game!

If the Disciplinary goes true to form, Taylor will be cited in there somewhere, Ellis will get 1 match and Paea will be warned about his running style

Copy and paste every week

Just got back after the match (to my South Midlands home). Didn't I say that we'd tire out the massive Wakefield pack?!





Seriously though, I thought it was a typical week-after-Easter game; both sides looked exhausted in the scond half and made loads of mistakes (although not as many as Mr Moore!) But well done the lads, including the tactics from Lee.

The ref was equally as poor for both sides but to add a little balance and contrast there was an interesting comment from Ganson last week regarding the standard of refereeing.
He said if you are a young rugby player you have reserve grade or loans at lower leagues to learn, improve and make mistakes. A referee as such doesn't have that luxury due to the low numbers and so their training when they step up to being professional has to be on the job.
Fair comment I think, we all have to start somewhere and improve from learning from our past experiences.

Ha! The last quarter was awful, wasn't it? Errors, inexplicable penalties, forward passes. Easter period needs looking at with backing up on Friday too, players must be knackered.

Completely agree with this. Definitely a pattern that the referees you dread getting are inexperienced/new, only for 5 years later to be praying to get them.

Can anyone tell me what the penalty we won in the last minute was for? I assumed obstruction at the time, but having watched the highlights, I can't see anything?

I think the ref is still trying to work that one out himself so we fans have no chance.

backchat

Hull by 16 anyone ??

The voice speaks lol

he called a forward pass and got backchat for it.
the crowd called it, he called it, but there wasn't one
nevertheless, you can't gob off about it, especially pointless since the game was gone.
5h1t happens

Think you need to tilt your prediction pendulum more toward optimism than your current pessimism position. Your realism is about right!