Predictions?

Leeds 28 - 18 Wakey

Bit of a try fest: Leeds 32 Wakey 26

Leeds 26 22 Wakey

Leeds 12 Wakey 24

Is any radio station broadcasting this game guys?

Not missing anything those not here. Poor quality, no match sharpness as you would expect yet. Terribly inconsistent reffing. Not much to say.

Not a great game of Rugby league but it was never gonna be realistically both teams only been in pre season for about a month or So but valuable game minutes for players coming up to the season. Imo there are players in our squad we should just release if clubs do not come in for them pay them off, players such as Mullally, L.Sutcliffe, Walters and Ormandroyd ( the latter two didn't feature today but would not have impacted the game what so ever). And I do not know how we can justify giving L.Briscoe a 3 year contract he is Championship at best, We have good young players in Handley, Golding and Newman who all deserve more of a chance than him. Nice to win the game today though. MOT!!! ALAW!!!!

Peteru looked useful. Dywer too up until injury. Lolohea still overweight, sent out a couple of nice long passes tho.

What was the score?

You can't just release contracted players. You can pay players off but it would come off the cap figure which we can't afford. If contracted players dont want to leave there is little you can unfortunately.

I pretty sure we could afford to release a few that we don't need they won't be on millions but get what your saying.

Didn’t think L Sutcliffe did that bad today to be honest. His major weakness though is mentality,he just doesn’t seem to have the capacity to remain switched on, or have the heart for it.

Thought Dobaldson other than his dropped ball worked incredibly hard. But you couldn’t go with him and JJB in the same seventeen. Although he looked much better than the current JJB who simply looked even more than his age.

Tui looked like he had all the class, but will need to show more when the important games come.

Overall the fear about big enough still stands out. We did look weak in terms of physical size and ability to make yardage.

How was that not a sending off for Trinity though. Shocking cop out by ref.

James Donaldson went ok i thought defended well and can put abit of a shot on for his size would give him a contract could be a useful player to rotate with Ward, Ablett, Smith, JJB and Ferres.

We looked weak in the forwards, particularly coming off our line and for me the only thing that will change that are new signings. We also dropped the ball a fair bit, gave silly penalties away and switched off at times - all the same issues we had under McDermott. I caveat that with the fact that it's early in pre season

Positives were the evidence of a few nice set plays, one of which sent us in for the winning try. Tui looked good, Petreu and cam Smith looked good as well. Despite being very poor in the first half we defended well on our line and pulled out a win.

Lots to work on but some positives as well.

Now what do I do with these newly acquired bragging rights...?

That’s always been my concern with Sutcliffe. He clearly has the physical skills but I doubt he has the mental ones.

As for being big enough I agree in general though we’ve got Merrin, Singleton and Ferres to go back in who along with Ablett would add some size and/or stability. But I’d have preferred us to get another prop as well.