Bowes played well today. Its a shame him and Dagger are not still on board. We do seem like an old team.

That's a fair assessment - exactly what happened.
It was the golden point lottery and we failed again.
I'm not knocking individual players because every wakefield player gave his all.
Luck and a pigsty of a pitch won the game for rovers.
Their ground is barely championship standard.

Fortunately was not able to make this game but but what I have seen are attrocious conditions and a highly motivated opposition on their home patch who are one of the better teams in the competition. The result will always be a lottery in this instance and it was a bounce of a ball that decided it.

There's not really anything that tells us how this season is going to pan out, but from the off I have always though our weakness is the halves. A past it former MOS, a headless chicken and a young, albeit promising, kid.

You would have also thought that our experienced team would have dealt better with the conditions too.

Really?!! Why don't you go tell Atoni that!
He ran his blood to water today - did you actually see the game??

Agree…
What I’m hoping for now is that on Monday morning when doing the game review…
The players listen and learn from the mistakes made during the game.. so that should it should come to pass that were involved in another mud bath game .. they are able make the right decisions..

We need two quick half backs and a fast 9 ,the ones we got are all way past there sell by date Think questions have got to be asked about how come our two so called big signings in the back are no were to be seen .Griffin is way to slow to be in the (We are going down the same road as last year of playing a back 7 of mostly slow injury prone players .Know the pitch was shocking but still no excuse for a disgraceful performance like that

That game could have gone either way today but we bombed it and Fev took their chances well, so all credit to them for that.
The season proper starts on Friday. We scrape the mud off, analyse the video of where we went wrong today and work our little booty's off to try and ensure that doesn't happen again. Today could have been a blessing in disguise but time will tell

Yes, I saw the game.

My comment was more of a collective, and wasn't singling anyone out.

In that first half we were totally outmuscled by their pack, of which Atoni spent time in the bin, along with one of theirs.

Amyway, its done, forget it, and move on to the league and 1895 cup.

Looking at the forecast for the week ahead, looks a bit drier

I have to shake my head in disbelief any anyone questioning the pace of any player today.

Usain Bolt couldn't run on that potato field.

It's a good one for experience, but dust it off and move on.

So far this year we have performed similarly dire against some very weak opposition and the writing was on the wall that we were going to get beaten by the 1st decent team we came up against. Ball spill, offside, six again, head high and repeat.
Nothing we did today suggests that we will be any different v Bradford on Friday.