Pissflaps

personally I dont think fenton has been much of a step up compare To what we already have

He's not been as good as last year but I think off field issues have affected him. He's improved in recent weeks IMO.

Given that we're going to be down on number in the next few weeks losing him and McGowan is a blow.

How long is Gaskell out for?

How long is a piece of (ham) string?

It's a funny old game sometimes. A fee weeks ago McGowan couldn't get a game for us and now we need him he is back at his parent club playing SL rugby.

Fenton hasn't been anywhere near the form of last year but we are short of bodies in the middle so he will be a loss.

If we keep it to a couple of scores difference I'd be happy.

We could line up
Holmes
Lehman
Myers
Gill
Taufua
Ott
Lilley
Baldwinson
Souter
Doro
Davies
Fulton
Hallas

Appo
Peposhi
Bayliss
Scurr

Super effort from the team today. Tackled their hearts out. Wakefield deserved winners but that refereeing performance was the worst I've seen in years.

Yeh cannot grumble at the effort and commitment, especially on the back of away to Toulouse, whoever decided that in the fixtures was definitely no fan of the Bulls!

Some the decisions were perplexing at times and I'm genuinely not sure how our play was deemed so much less disciplined than Wakefield. Doro once again sin binned for a fairly innocuous tackle - is he a target for the officials as you could pick plenty of incidents today that might have been a yellow.

I thought Wakefield were the better side overall and defended really strongly and deserved the points. Powell having a moan about the size of the pitch on Radio Leeds and how many injuries they have - diddums.

How did those two blatant tip tackles not at least get a penalty? Both players clearly over the horizontal.

Penalty count 12 7 so not that onsided.i remember first game of season and bulls moaning about injuries and as for pitch we'll if u want to plsy on a under 7s size pitch then so be it

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I mean it was nearly double in favour of Wakefield and often in kicking range, I'd say that was pretty one sided! Add in a sin bin that pretty much killed the game. Wakefield are clearly the best side in the league by some distance, any side facing them is going to need a 50/50 share of decisions to stay in the game. I thought the officiating was inconsistent to put it politely.

Regarding the injuries it seemed a strange thing for Powell to whinge about when the side he was facing had similar numbers missing and also playing with 1 half!

Thought Wakefield ground the game out well and with Gale pulling the strings their ends of sets were far better better. Our kicking wasn't as precise and like many games this year we end up gifting possession with kicks that don't challenge the opposition enough.

We might have had a couple of scores and grabbed an unlikely draw if we'd been a bit more clinical. Our one chance in the first half saw the ball go past Fulton to Lehmann when Fulton had a clear run to the line. In the second Okunbor might have got in the corner if the two players passing in the line toward him hadn't had to juggle with the ball.

Not sure how Okunbor got the official man of the match award even if he was solid enough. IMHO Taufua worked harder than him. My man of the match would've been Souter who worked his backside off doing a full 80 yet his passing was always on target.

On the minus side Mason looks as if he needs to shed quite a bit of weight. He looked ponderous and was targeted by the Wakefield attack around the ruck. Has he played no rugby in the past year? Thought Bayliss did ok but was blowing hard after his first 20mins, another that needs some time to get match fitness.

We missed some invention at halfback. Lilley was skipper but having everything coming off him isn't going to threaten a well organised defence. Ott was alright but he's not a halfback. We struggled to create chances for the backs, Gill and Lehmann hardly got any decent early ball.

All in all it was a decent effort and I wasn't too disappointed with the loss.

In fairness, that last penalty we had was after the full-time hooter. So Wakefield literally had double the amount of penalties than us. I'll have to watch the game back as I can be vexed about a decision, watch it back and find out the referee is correct. However whenever we get an SL ref, they seem very keen to make themselves known, and become very erratic with their decisions. Stark contrast to the young referees we've had in recent weeks. The game didn't need to be that stop start and ruined what could have been a great game IMO Wakefield fully deserved winners though.

That said we're certainly nicely placed in fourth and have played the likely top two now. We've earned a point from Toulouse and kept runaway leaders to one try, despite numerous injuries (Wakey obviously missing a shed load too) we're nicely placed for the rest of the season. We need Gaskell back ASAP though.

'We've earned a point and scored the same amount of tries in the match as the runaway leaders'

You didn't earn a point, and you didn't score a try...are you talking about a different game?

Yes sorry meant a point from Toulouse game. Now edited so it makes more sense lol