Very close call then. Was in line with that and it looked flat to me. Trinity try disallowed.

Game over. Mellars in. Poor showing all round, take nothing aware from Crusaders. They soaked up the pressure and hit on the break.

Game over, 20-10 with kick to come.

I fear the worst when the rest of the posters come on here when they get home. It doesn't sound great on the radio with calls of no enthusiasm, bad body language, not coming on to the ball with any effort or speed. Morrison has been signaled out for going missing. No attacking idea's (according to commentators of radio leeds)

This has been coming poor performances from the warrington game onwards, today it sounds like it hasn't got better.

Had no attacking ideas since Brough left. Jeffries has reverted to type. Cooke ineffectual. Obst tries but doesn't have the distribution.

Disgracefull performance from Wakefield, the only thing seperating this from the Huddersfield debacle is that Crusaders are'nt good enough to totaly destroy us.

I know wev'e had some bad luck/management/interferance with Newton, Tronc, Brough (call it what you like) but the clubs got to act to arrest this slide because we hav'nt replaced the lost quality with quality.

Sams great on his day but isn't an organiser and can't be expected to produce something out of nothing in every game. Leo Latu can be explosive but he's sporadic at best and again isn't an organiser. Jeffries looks burdoned by the added responsibility and Cooke, early days, but he needs to start firing.

If we've got some players lined up then we need to get them here asap before our season degenerates into a farce.

From outsiders point of view....
poor ground
small crowds (small nucleus of supporters)

the only saving grace was the team playing well

franchise around the corner, unless the stadium is being built I am worried

Tronc has left already. Drop him.
No idea in attack, no spark from scrum half.
Unable to deal with a side willing to offload and pass rather then run straight at the defence.
Poor kicking.
Korki with those great 10 yard drives.
Didn't work out that the ref was allowing slowing down at the play-the-ball so were always on the back foot.

Small nucleus of supporters are you crazy we have a huge nucleus of supporters to get interested Wakefield is a big city. How far does the Wakefield postcode stretch ? With a new ground we will be like Wire and Hull our crowds will increase by 30-50 % easily !

Does it really matter how far the WF postcode stretches when you take into account there are another 2 teams within that area?

4 I think - Fev, Cas, Batley and Dewsbury.

A new stadium will add extra to the away fans, but we need to improve the on the field product from what has been served up since the Warrington game for any new fans to be enticed on a regular basis.

I don't like to be a doom and gloom merchant but we seem to be going backwards at present and undoing alot of the good work that has been done over the last few years.

Harlequins will be no push over in the cup and if we can't find some enthusiasm and spark from somewhere we could end up out of the cup at the first hurdle.

Absolutely dreadful performance!

Only paid a tenner and feel as though I've been robbed, we were that bad... the scoreline even totally flattered us today!

Crusaders were everything I thought they would be and I knew we had to play well to get anything. I think the players held the same view as a few supporters near me that they only had to turn up to win. They were obviously gonna be a well drilled unit and work hard in defence and that was all they needed to be to beat us convincingly. The difference in speed around the play the ball was very worrying indeed and something JK needs to sort ASAP.

Only 4 players came out with any credit for me...Paul King (mom by a distance for me) JD (lot better) Henderson and Murphy aswell as is usual.

Agree with an earlier post about Tronc, just no point whatsoever playing next week, lets get Gledhill back in and not waste a shirt. I'd also like to see Davey in aswell, ok he may not be a player with the wow factor but his distribution around the ruck is something we desperately need IMO.

One of Cooke, Obst, Jeffries and Latu has to go from the starting lineup for me aswell, I don't think we work with all these 4 on the field at the same time...

Finally....surprised at the announced attendance, didn't look anywhere near 4671 to me???

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Yes but watching dewsbury and feth is harldley enticing is it plenty of fans that could be had.

My first game attended this year having been down in Exeter. Can't remember a longer 80 minutes! We were clueless, one man up all game which was foolish considering that we actually looked handy down the flanks - but true to form we rarely went wide. Crusaders defended very well but we didn't trouble them.

Tronc's not putting his heart into it for obvious reasons and his offloads to nobody in our own half were atrocious - not that anyone was looking for it or expecting it. No team cohesion. No runners. Poor options on the last. Missing Brough's kicks. Cooke's defence was shocking and he really needs to start stepping up soon. Our wingers must start backing themselves! Why do they come inside straight away when there's acres of space ahead?

Positives:
King and Moore put in good stints
Korkidas but he needs to stop being put on his back!
JD tried hard (though he misses that yard of pace)
Murphy - solid, some good footwork
Crusaders fans were a great bunch
Cheaper entry than usual