dire second half

we should of taken the two points at 22-6 instead we went on to play for the 6 points then salford scored which made them 10 points behind, the nerves kicked in and we was lucky to come through that game.

my satisfaction was that we then steadied the ship to add to goals taking us to a sufficient enough lead to hold on.

if you look back at the first half we should off buried the game within the first 30 mins

not a pretty win but a win nerveless so heads up and look at the next game this season is going to be a grind

well done lads

well what

Thought Kirmond had another impressive performance. And Matt James looked good going forward off the bench.

Pedestrian ??? How's that work then ??? The yardage we were making every set was far from pedestrian, just the type of rugby we need for 80 mins. Total domination is what I'd describe it as, backed up by the sky sports team. 40-0 wouldnt have looked out of place at the break. How the hell Aiton dropped that ball over the line is still puzzling me. Good win !!! If we hadn't been hanging on at the end it wouldn't have been a WTW performance. Comfortable wins are not in our script ! Ever.

Turning point was Bentham not awarding us penalty when they ripped the ball out we would have finished the game off then. That said we made it hard for us and easy for them in the 2nd half but we still won TRINITY FOREVER

Hence the wink Cheers, you too.

It's a win but not pretty. We should really have blown them away in the first half -what gave them a bit of a hand was their first try from nothing, completely against the run of play.Once again though we don't know how to do it for 80 minutes.
On the plus side Wilkes was the best forward on the field for me and was my MOM. Promising show from James and the best yet from Collis.
Let's hope the win lifts their confidence!

I thought Collis showed how good he will be when fully fit - he was a real handful in the first half.

Aton was outstanding - as usual.

Danny Kirmond is fast becoming genuine Captain material.

We did our best to throw it away in the second half, but the rugby we played in the first was totally dominant in every area; we can't be far off finding the right formula to sustain that for the full 80.

As I said earlier in the week - an ugly win will do, and ugly it was.

Agreed. And our set completion was excellent. With a bot of luck and composure we would have been 24-0 up. the worry is the second half but that is partly confidence after a bad trot

Glad there wasn't another minute to play or we'd have lost - Salford seemed to be breaking us on every play towards the end.

Very lucky that Salford were useless, in fact - one less spilled ball and they'd have been ahead.

Admittedly a couple of decisions didn't go our way.

Great first half - Collis was class. Terrible second half, only Mathers seemed to want to kill the game off.

As a complete neutral (Swinton Lions Fan) I thought you boys were terrific in the first half and should have put that game to bed then. In the second the Barton Reds were always going to try and up the ante as they were useless, so although it ended closely it would have been a travesty if they had nicked it.Well done on making saturday tea time so good.Good luck for the rest of the season.

Firstly a win is a win. Some people are just never satisfied.
So they nearly beat us.....but they didn't. Sometimes I think some on here will only be satisfied when we beat Leeds by 50.

I watched at game and now on tv and we deserved the win. No doubt.

For me Kirmond and Wilkes were outstanding. Smith saved us at least 3 times with covering wild passes or dropped kicks.
Aiton was his usual self. Great player.

I felt that quite a few decisions went against us too. They could easily have had a man in the bin with holding down when we broke away and got stopped short. Both were penalties but he didn't consider card.
We had ball knocked out when on their line too.

Equally Aiton's non try was great skill but just failed to complete. Ki forward pass non try could easily have been a try as we had already broken them just didn't execute.

Add to that they were throwing the ball around on catch up and it came off for them.

We have to fix our second half concentration but that was as much about panicking because of recent form as anything. Didn't think anyone played badly and cost us the game.

There seems to be two groups on here.
Those that sing "Wakefield till I die"
And those that should sing "I'm Wakefield till they make a mistake then I'm not supportive and will be overly critical and negative and might as well be supporting Cas"


Get a grip. We won. Enjoy it.