Have to also say BLM, that Big Ging did well to say he's only just stepped off a plane....

It wasn't really a contest and I kind of knew it wouldn't be but I went along more to support the Challenge Cup and the Rugby League family of which Goole are a part of more than anything else .

Trinity were hugely professional and kept the intensity going for more or less the full 80 minutes .

I thought TJ played well within himself and it was good for him to get a game in his legs in preparation for next week .

Agree about the Lino - Trueman partnership , we could be on to something here , fingers crossed Trueman keeps fit because he's a class act .

Trueman looks full of confidence which is great to see as I haven't seen him play like that since he was playing at Cas, he has looked brilliant in pre season.

The pass was fine. I was in E1 and in line with it. With no player within 10 yards of him he fumbled it. Should have been taken.

Walmsley doesn’t make as many errors and made very few last season. He is prone to the odd one though too.

Yes Powell did mid season say that about Walmsley, though towards the end of the season he then praised the improvement in Walmsley for his 100+ metre carry games. He made a comment about it a few months ago but that was more around toughness in staying down injured rather than running the ball out. Walmsley improved that side enough that he’s adequate. He will finish try’s from all over though on the right and has the pace and we need that. Not everyone is as confident Walmsley will be good in SL and that’s fine. We will wait and see how he goes.

He certainly did alright chasing back and catching Sivo on Boxing Day

True, I was impressed with his defensive game, especially only having one session and a quick turnaround, I don’t think anyone in the ground today would have predicted a winning margin like that before the game just goes to show how far Wakey have come and progressed in just a short time, I had the pleasure of having a good natter with John Kear and Steve Mills during the match and was even more confident of the season ahead

And handled Ryan Hall well for 80 minutes too.

I’ll support and cheer for whoever pulls on the shirt though in the end.

Despite the big score it was the 0 that impressed me the most.

The defensive effort and attitude was top notch from the first to the last minute.

Line speed was smothering and hopefully set the standard for the start of the league campaign.

Some cracking performances but for me we have a potential star of SL in Uele. Done very well to get him on a long term contract.

Think the same applies to Rodwell (of those yet to play SL).

Uele looks even fitter than last season, clearly he has been working hard. We are incredibly lucky to have prop forwards with engines like we do.

One thing that also impressed me was last season we had periods of maybe 15 mins where we dropped our intensity but yesterday was continuous every minute we looked very dangerous. Really hard to mark players that didn't have a good game. I keep saying hooker with Doyle injured is our weakest position but how good was Hoody yesterday?

As a natural worrier where Wakefield are concerned, I'm really thinking we just might have something here. It's not the internationals that make me feel this but until his injury Cam Scott looks total class. Storton just looks like someone who does the 1%er really well,

Walmsley makes virtually no yardage playing out of defence , neither does hall and Pratt despite being able to break the line rarely makes more than a few yards out of defence so purely in our ability to drive out under pressure would have Russel starting ,

That’s the thing isn’t it. Powell is big on yardage out of our own end. Johnstone is very good at it and Matty Russell is also. Unfortunately that’s not a strong part of Walmsleys game. When Harry Smith has got you pinned down in your own 20 most sets you need that punch coming out.