Quote Tricky2309="Tricky2309"We're lucky London decided to tap when 12 10 and penalty in front of posts otherwise it could have been a different story'"
Couldn't believe they didn't take the two. I know they wanted the win but taking the two to make it 12-12 would have meant the drop goal was back on plus they'd have got the ball back. There was plenty of time left.
To quote an old cliche, it was a game of two halves.
First half we looked like we'd been training in good weather fully expecting it to be good tonight. Unfortunately the heavens opened and at no point in the first half did any Wakefield player realise this. Our knock ons must have easily been in double figures. London adjusted straight away and took full advantage of the fact that we were playing with a bar of soap. It was only due to London's poor decision making that we didn't go in 20+ down, they had enough ball to have killed it off by half time. Some of our players looked completely disinterested.
Webster must have woken them up to reality at half time as we came out and played the conditions much better, although we still made some shocking errors. London through no lack of effort never looked like scoring. I don't think they would have scored in the second half had they have still been playing now. I heard someone say a draw would have been a fair result. Personally I think London were more clueless in the second half than we were in the first and it was only a matter of time until we got ahead.
TT put in some graft tonight and Kirmond looked like a new man with Tim Smith buzzing around. Great pass from Tim to Owen but I think Owen was so shocked at actually getting a pass that he was celebrating the fact before he tried to take the ball in! Mathers didn't let anyone down. Matt Ryan put in some good tackles although I thought Walshaw just shaded him for MoM. Bringing a fresh McShane back on so late into the game helped us get forward.
London put everything into that game, one of their lads came to the fence to meet his family and he looked to be crying. They were out on their feet at the end. To come away with the 2 points in those conditions was a job well done, despite how bad we were.