If we're going to stop being mediocre then dropping underperformers is a priority. At least we have a few options now. Clark-Wood and Jenkins will come into the team, and hopefully Sinfield/O'Connor.

The first priority has to be to sort this pack out. Its been a powderpuff mess for years. Fix that and a lot of the other problems can be solved. Don't and it doesn't matter who else comes in.

Good post.

At least we managed to keep one skill from last season.

The ability to kick the ball straight to a member of the opposition every time.

I actually saw the ball hit the grass once from a kick in the second half but missed who kicked the ball. I am sure that a review of the game will allow the coaching team to identify this player and quickly teach this issue out of him.

I do think there's been a bit of an overreaction to the defeat. It was a poor performance, it's the first game, let's see where we are in 7 or 8 weeks time.

Absolutely not, that's far too balanced an opinion

But its been the same old same old since 2018 pretty much, we start poor flounder buff and bluster in the middle then fall short, so hard to be optimistic as it already looks like the writing is on the wall. I’m sure we all want to get proven wrong.

More concerning than the result was the performance. If there was evidence of some intelligence or ideas but execution failed then fair enough, however yet again we look like we met in the car park before the game and picked playing positions out of a hat. Edge defence horrific. All the back bar maybe hall poor. We've exciting players when in space yet never attempted to make space for them. Forwards the less said the better. Don't know what people see in cam smith. Wouldn't be disappointed never to see hackers in a Leeds kit again either. Positives though at least some youngsters should get game time next week

I have calmed down a bit from yesterday, I do have some serious concerns and i might be on my own but it isn’t the forwards.

What I will say is all this talk of season over etc is a bit hysterical after one game.

We've seen Wigan lose without scoring a single point, Catalans get walloped at home against Hull, Hull KR celebrating like they've won a GF after beating Cas by a drop goal in golden point, and currently Warrington are getting beaten and outplayed at Huddersfield.

What I want to see is a response on Saturday

You cannot predict how a season is going to go based on one game, but I can understand people being worried after yesterday. It was the kind of performance that got Rohan Smith sacked, one where the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing. We have tthe much maligned Lachie Miller to come back, and not much else if yesterday was classed as our strongest team. The Aussie centre that has never played NRL may come in and be up to scratch, but he may be another “Momster”. Brad Arthur’s had most of them for half a playing season and a full pre season, I’m sure most people are worried about how much more he can squeeze out of this current squad.

yes if i read correctly in to this post , it is saying we have not signed any decent players , so how is anyone expecting us to do much better than last season . you could have Wayne Bennet or his brother Gordon coaching this lot , it would not make much difference as there is little talent to coach.

Oh and the plastic supporters in the plastic South stand create no atmosphere , its like a Library even before we go behind . Knock it down and put the old one back up

As a Wakey fan attending the match yesterday I expected us to beaten by Leeds (not by as many as some fans stated early on this thread) even moreso with some of our 'better' players like Rodwell, Griffin, Atoni, Nikotimo missing from the pack. Our bench was pretty light but as a club we reset last year with a clear attack and defence structure which last season and so far this season has seen us hard to score against. What was really pleasing is that 9 of the starting 17 played throughout the Championship last season. Looking at Leeds there wasn't much cohesion and we matched you and .ore down the middle and the edges. I did think we would get beaten with the sinbinning of Lino but credit to the team they held on. Two key decisions was the disallowed effort by Pratt and try given to Newman, either could have gone either way. Good luck for the season and we will be back soon at Headingly where you can try again

Some interesting stats here showing how weak our pack was https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15etaz ... tid=wwXIfr

Some interesting stats here showing how weak our pack was https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15etaz ... tid=wwXIfr