I said this game needed a strong referee and that's what we've got so I'm happy. Just hope I still feel that way on Sat evening however! Is this our first game of the season with a video ref?! Can't say I've missed that bit of being in SL!

Think that's fair comment FA. On attack, we try to play the ball far quicker than the vast majority of championship teams and generally clear the ruck quicker in defence too, but whilst on attack we can only play the ball as fast as the referee lets us, on defence it's easy to get into the habit of making the ten at the necessary [with championship refs] speed rather than the speed which would be required by a ref Like Thaler. Hence my comment about how we do it in training.

I'm sure Ben Thaler referees every game as he sees it and makes his decisions on merit.
That said if you were looking for some kind of bias in his officiating then on past performances Wakefield fans would say he tries so hard not to favour Trinity that he often gives debatable decisions to their opposition.

He's the best referee in the competition!

I rate Thaler so it's a good appointment.

I hope....

Haha, for what it's worth we always thought the same of Russell Smith! Agree about Thaler though.

Let's hope the ref isn't the talking point and we see a good game with the winner determined on merit

Yeah, but if it isn't, let's hope the dodgy calls go our way.

Well, naturally!

Well Marc Green's tweet this afternoon has caused near meltdown from mock outrage on the Wakefield board. This is a personal favourite...



What a revelation he's so clever he travelled back in time and impersonated Peter Hood allowing him to negotiate that particular deal with the RFL. Is he a T1000 like in Terminator 2?

Of course we know that the notion that Marc Green is a cyborg made from liquid metal sent back in time to negotiate with the RFL is a ludicrous idea. It was the lease not the ground that RFL bought.

Also not that clever in hindsight as he now has to pay to buy the lease back off RFL and the rent he's paying RFL is higher than the rent RFL are paying Bradford Council. Surely if you are travelling back in time hindsight is obsolete? It's a thing of the past.

Was a silly tweet from Green. We gain nothing from it apart from it motivating Wakey even more. Green has been one of the few chairman who uses social media, that has actually used it responsibly.

Near meltdown

I don't see anything wrong with his tweet. I am fairly sure Wakey will be glad of a decent crowd, as would we. It's hardly loaded with innuendo.