I'd take 44-46 next week ( to us, of course) . RA just needs the team to be a bit more focused on attack, in training this week.
Daft pill lock, i hear you say ?
Well, maybe, but I don't believe we can turn our defensive frailties around in the space of 6 days ( RA has lost his remaining hair trying this season - a club contact of mine saw him in a vest- underarm hair, Gone!)
... But, fine- tuning our evident attacking prowess, is Doable.
" we'll throw our best football at them " (quote RA, & he wasn't talking about the one in the boardroom that our 1960 team autographed).

Positives, how about a seven game winning run, confidence must be sky high.

The pack has been superb of late, giving Timmy room to control the game.

Negatives, out inability to defend on final kick plays out wide, it’s been a problem all year & whilst they are difficult to defend, we seem very shaky.

Also, our wingers, especially Fox shooting out of the line leaving us exploited out wide, Agar has probably talked about it, however, you can’t educate pork.

Positives......

Paul Sykes's kicking - Early in the season we lost a couple of games down to missed goalkicks.....such a massive boost when your kicker keeps banging em over from out wide....can't praise him enough for that and his all round game to be fair....

Tim Smith - Absolutely fantastic pair of hands and such a quick thinker....always seems to be a play ahead of others.....2 or 3 times he switched and went down the blinside....think we scored from one and nearly did another.....when he's at the top of his game we've a genuine chance of beating anyone.....

Frankie - Has been a revelation lately coming from off the bench but asked to start and did a solid job and always looking a threat out wide.....

Our back 3 - All have come in for a bit of stick at times but they were excellent and caught just about every high ball put up to my knowledge....the work Fox & Cockayne do from acting half when in our half is probably one of the biggest assets of our game...they are superb at easing the pressure on the pack....both got on the scoresheet again too...

Support - Fantastic again....like a 14th man without a doubt and clearly very much appreciated by all at the club seeing their comments....

Negatives.....

Defence at times - Needs a bit of work as Salford looked like worldbeaters at times....to be fair to them there was absolutely no pressure on them and they were given license to throw the ball about as they liked and that's a dangerous opponent to defend against.....just worries me a bit as Leeds play that type of game and at times we looked all over the place.....think we did ease off a touch though and did things in the final quarter we wouldn't have had it been a closer game....

Pitch invasion - Absolutely braindead thing to do....put a dampener on what was a fantastic occasion and a great time to be a Wakey fan....why can't people just stay where they are and enjoy the whole team coming down to thank the supporters......?

DA
I agree with your comments about our wingers but isn't that the flip-side to their attacking panache ?
I'm not saying that the attacking aspect makes up for the defensive gaffes, but maybe that's the only way they can play the game at the moment. Whether RA can coach them otherwise will become apparent after another close season, though I'm not holding my breath (can you teach an old Fox new tricks?).

Seeing Mathers "super slam" Holdsworth was a postive!

Mathers orchestrated a dignified end to the daft pitch invasion - good lad, thought he handled it well.

What a bunch of miseries! So some youngsters want to run on the pitch and celebrate with their heroes on the last game of the season, big hook. I bet you popped the beach balls as well.

Quite a lot weren't youngsters!

I saw no negatives to be honest.

I'd read nothing into the Salford tries. Defence is all about putting your body on the line. In what was essentially a dead rubber would you really want that!

I don't think our defence has been too hot all season tbh and no matter what happened yesterday it is obvious that a huge effort will be required against Leeds - that said in attack we looked good without ever really breaking sweat.

So 100% effort next week in attack and defence and we have a decent chance.

Attack is the best form of defence for us; our philosophy should be Death or Glory
Our mantra ... "attack,attack,attack":SHOOT:

Quite a few were grown men and some even middle age. Very poor form indeed. Sorry site to see some fans behaviour there. Also when these same fans came clapping crowd and raising arms along with players I found myself more reluctant to clap and cheer. I dont need encouragement to cheer my team on after match as it's a matter of course. It appeared some fans on field were trying to boost their ego big time.

Looked poor on sky when interviews were happening too.

Hopefully this doesn't happen again. I can understand that these fans may be passionate as are we all but that's not the way to show appreciation.

Anyway moving on...

I thought we had two quality 15 minute spells where we dominated both halves. The rest I thought we were poor in discipline and respecting the ball. The win was achieved though and again credit to the team despite playing below what they are capable of playing.

Plenty to work on for next week but I'm backing the team next week to go and stick it to the rhinos.

Come on wakey, 7 from 7. Top banana