The signs were there in pre season. Only friendlies but they give you a bit of an indication. Struggled against championship sides lost to a very weak Leeds side and got absolutely battered by hull and actually did better with a team full of youngsters on the field rather than the first team players. Worst side and worst coach in super league history I’m afraid. Sad to say I can’t see any changes forthcoming and we will just continue to dwindle our way into obscurity. For the CEO to say pre match that they’re basically planning for championship next season shows the level of ambition and fight left at this once great club. Absolutely scandalous yet they’re still asking for more support through the turnstiles! We have a poor fan base anyway and it’s getting smaller by the week. I used to look forward to games but now it’s a chore and I only go for my son and because we have season tickets.

The stats speak for themselves 0/12 and already and we're not even halfway through the season, we have the unenviable record of failing to score more times than ANY other side in SL history.
Our "attack" is utter garbage.

We managed to march Hull back up the field reasonably well but, in their 20, just nothing (ok 1 try and 2 drop outs).

It's getting harder and harder to go to home games, the frustration cant be good for anyone's health

I get the planning for every eventuality I really do ,especially in our current predicament, but by papering over the cracks and not being decisive , he is accentuating the problem every game we lose and so making our long stay in super league all the more likely to fail

The frustrating thing is that now - having dared to watch it - our stats in the 1st half [iattacking wise[/i were excellent!


......Until we got into their 10....


Reminded me of Dirty Leeds away tbh....
Oh for someone like a Pauli Pauli or Big Dave close to the line.....
I'm pretty sure we'd have score a few tries with someone of their size....
And that would have made the team confidence soar....
But then cue to abject defending......
"After you Claude" as the Hull players jogged over the try line........
Made a note in my diary - simply says Bo**ocks.

High fives and laughter on the balcony, high fives etc in the changing rooms, meanwhile, Tony Smith was drilling his instructions into his team.
Embarrassing and an insult to the word amateur. We’ve seen some crap down the years but this takes the biscuit ( or pie and peas).

We had Lineham shoot off his wing to tackle Mr Invisible, leaving a stroll in and then 2 tries where players were literally looking at each other, expecting someone else to make a tackle. You tackle him, no, you tackle him and then. Oops they've scored (again)
Lineham is pretty good going forward but, he doesn't have enough desire to defend, just what was he doing for their first try.
He saw something or somebody that wasn't there, it was bizarre.

I have to say in Lineham's defense, this was by far his best game for Wakefield.
They targeted him with high balls and he took them all under pressure. There was one attack where he had 3 coming at him at speed and he snuffed it out, with help from Dagger covering.

Dagger's defense kept us in the game for a long time. Much as I like Max, we'd have been 18 nil down without Dagger in the first half.

You can probably say that about a lot of the team for 90% of the game. They just seem to switch off periodically. I honestly don't get it. We attack their line. Make a small error but then sit there crying about it as they storm up field. It's not a one off, it's a consistent thing. No idea why.

What I don’t get is our ‘attack’ and game management.
Last night for instance we ran a kickable penalty we had when our chance of crossing their line was remote. Needless to say we fluffed that chance and 2 points we could have had.
We are no threat with ball in hand.
Gaskell and Langi are surely the slowest centres in SL and the Smitg/Lino partnership isn’t good enough.
Dagger pulled off some great tackles but he isn’t the threat in attack that Jowitt is.
All told, roll on September and put us out of our misery.
I can’t watch much more of that rubbish.

To be fair wrencat, I saw that player that he was looking to tackle too....
Mind you, I'd had a few by that point....

Yes I noticed the difference in the changing rooms on Sky TV. I hope some of the board do aswell. Pictures such those paint a thousand words about the difference in an experienced SL coach and an inexperienced one.

As a result Trinity start second half sluggish and allowing runs from dummy half whereas Hull are all fired up.

Did Proctor just play first 20 mins then just last 10 mins of match?

He just managed 10 minutes in the first half but was blowing after 5 not sure about the second.