Funny that.

Was impressed with Mago. Lad made a fair few more tackles that he usually does and also took it up a few times. Didn’t look to be blowing out his backside afterwards. Be interesting to see us next week. Might be going into that first game against Cas a little undercooked maybe? To be fair plenty of time to fix things. Chan shooting out the line was a concern hopefully can knock it out of his game think king was murder for that at the start of last season sure it’s just him getting use to trusting in the team

I thought Chan looked a bit uncomfortable at second row, which isn’t hugely surprising with him usually playing prop and loose forward. I still thought there were positive signs from him and you can see what he’d bring around the middle but with some time and match practice (likely to be in the reserves or out on loan) he’ll hopefully be able to give us that extra second row option.

You ever thought about growing up a bit Sgt Pepper?

I’d of thought you’d be delighted the floodlights failed as your nearly full strength team was being taken to the cleaners by a tin pot championship team.

Nicky kiss, at least we own our ground we don’t rent it whilst playing second fiddle to a third rate football team, just a thought.

We’ve all spent time in the lower division mate, including Wigan

The fact you even had to type this out to a Wakefield fan shows how utterly insecure you are lmao

Warrington haven't

Was it a full strength forward pack? Farrell and Harvard are first choice every day of the week. Cooper, Nsemba and Isa are all there or thereabouts too. It was a strong pack, for sure, but it wasn't full strength by any means. In addition 5 of the pack were playing their first munutes for Wigan and Chan trying out in a new position. Not exactly what you'd call a settled unit!
There was only 1 of our first choice 1-7 playing too.

Wakefield were good and deserving of their lead at the hour mark. But let's not get silly here pretending it was against anything close to a full strength team. Even with the injuries to Harvard and Nsemba there'll be around 7 changes come the first game of the season.

Both sides were far from full strength
Wakefield probably had the advantage of being closer to the start of their season than Wigan
Wigan have the advantage of a much deeper squad in terms of quality so some replacements are still 1st choice standard

While Wakefield did look pretty comfortable and deservedly won the game (62 mins) it doesn’t mean much. Wigan will still be there or there about at the business end of SL and the CC while Trinity will be plying their trade in the Championship and hopefully winning the 1895 Cup.

In the coming few years & seasons though, if the words of Wakefields new owner become reality, we’ll be right up there fighting Wigan for honours.

Hope so. These guys like Ellis at Wakey, Beaumont at Leigh and Hudgell and co at HKR are driving clubs forward and it’s more the merrier. I believe he’s going all out for Tom Johnstone and Mike McMeekan next year, so clearly he’s not messing about and it’s been good to see the people of Wakey responding.

Friday didn’t mean a great deal for us but I thought it was a great way for Wakey to start this new era at home (the light issue aside).

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