I expected today's game to be much, much closer and nerve wracking (although I was still nervous at 30-6 cos we are capable of throwing that sort of lead away).

For some reason, Bradford had a terrible day at the office today; I believe they are far better than what we saw and will probably recover to give some of the others in the qualifiers league a hell of a game.

However, we have done this in the past several years; played well enough to raise expectations and then to capitulate in a big game, so it's nice to see a team capitulate against us in similar circumstances for once.

I had us down to play the Bulls in the 4v5 play off, and still think that's a likely scenario; however whatever happens I would prefer the Bulls to get promoted than Leigh!

I have to say the Bradford fans deserve some credit. They turned up in numbers, brought the drum and shouted loud for their team.
But most of all they came to an away ground, for a big match, with big rivals, and attended a minutes silence impeccably for a player who had nothing to do with their club but respected ours in respected silence.
Credit to them for that. Not every club would have been so good.

I'm terms of the game, our forwards played a massive part in dominating the game but Gaskill going off so early can't have helped them.

The first 25 minutes of the first half were the best I've seen Trinity play for a few years they didn't allow the Bulls to play .the second half they did really well as well. Tim Smith, Scruton and Anderson really led the way today...with Mullally at times unstoppable no wonder he was signed by Leeds...what were Huddersfield doing?....Lee Smith needs signing for next season.

Although only just under 4000 official attendance it felt like more and it was a great atmosphere. Made my weekend..fantastic thank you Wakefield Trinity.

Anyone who moans about that today wants their head testing, what do they want for goodness sake? The lads were up for that from the kick off, tackled their hearts out and gave their all for the red white and blue for the whole 80 minutes. I think the tackling has improved ten fold since Brian Smith came in and is getting better week by week. It's our biggest win over Bradford in years so I'm really gonna enjoy it, and hope we continue with the same level next week, a win at Leigh would be fantastic.

I can't say Bradford troubling any of the SL sides. They were completely dominated by our forwards who were superb. They just aren't big enough or fit enough to take on SL sides

Indeed, I had a little look back at the records this morning because my recollections of playing Bradford are mostly bad ones.

I had to go back to 1979, the season after we last went to Wembley to see a similar points margin. We beat them 30 – 5 in the Y.C at Bradford, when Bill Ashurst sold Mumby the most outrageous dummy to score a memorable try.

But to exceed the margin you’d have to go back to 1962 & a 45 – 11 victory at B.V, I’m sure one or two will actually recall, ironically the Rocky Turner era.

Even better, I remember seeing Trinity beating Bradford (Northern) by 73 - 5 in the early 60's, not sure probably 1962-3 time.

Neil Fox can't have been playing that day, as I'm sure Gerry Round was the goal kicker.

I was at the same game. In that era playing Bradford Northern was like shooting fish in a barrel. Things change over time.

Liked the look of Sio from game one.
He's a unit that doesn't mind where he play's and keeps going and going.
Could be one of the signings of recent years.

Agreed. I thought he pushed Scruton and Tim for the man of the match performance yesterday. He was everywhere.

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-7412036 First time in a long while I can remember us getting a decent write up in YP. Then again, we have been pretty dire for a while. Laughable comment - I assume by a Bulls fan - that Thaler was a biased hometown ref. I'd struggle to point to much he got wrong, and secondly I'm pretty sure he's a Cas fan. Additionally, I'd have thought most observers would have acknowledged that the gulf between the two teams on the day was really what swung it.

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-7412036 First time in a long while I can remember us getting a decent write up in YP. Then again, we have been pretty dire for a while. Laughable comment - I assume by a Bulls fan - that Thaler was a biased hometown ref. I'd struggle to point to much he got wrong, and secondly I'm pretty sure he's a Cas fan. Additionally, I'd have thought most observers would have acknowledged that the gulf between the two teams on the day was really what swung it.

Well - when we played HKR in the cup - the score was 50-30. So our defensive/your attacking effort is similar. Gaskell going off may have just been the difference between 3 tries and 5 tries for us. The result would still have been the same.

Best I've seen Scruton play. Your middle was great.

Any news on Owen? or Moore? - I assume he was replaced in the squad due to injury?