Blimey, Batley have some wind in there sails! 15 mins of defending!

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Full time Batley 18 Wildcats 14 Well played Batley

Well done to the young wakey team today. A good effort from a very young team.

Alot of these players will hopefully have a bright future in superleague

Anyone know the Batley team?

Agar out?

Was morro in charge ? Morro out

Good performance by our young team now onto widnes away with the full team looking forward to a big season

I reckon we should sign that Gareth Moore, he looks like a good player.

Poor quallity game but a hard workout and thats always needed, tough Batley side that defended very well and deserved the win (no doubt JK enjoyed it)

Hope MW is ok he looked shook up to say the least.

Shame more Batley fans did not turn out.

Why OMG? talk about over reacting!

That was a turgid affair. The kids put the effort in but the application in the main was poor, not helped by some pedantic refereeing. Fair to say nobody stood out and demanded selection on Friday. Positives were Olly got some game time in his legs and ran the ball in strongly. Wood kicked well first half and Trout put plenty of decent work in. The young winger Fletcher seems to have a bit of promise. Of the first team candidates, Amor and Raleigh did a stint each, Amor was Solid, Raleigh looked like a back rower playing prop. Mariano looked a little off the pace to be honest whilst Motu Tony was busy without really achieving much. Walshaw really needs to learn to pass when he makes a break. Wildie was in cloud cuckoo land when he was helped off. Both Ellis and Davey were quiet, wouldn't be surprised to see Wood get the interchange hooker spot on friday. Morton didn't do much other than one touchline conversion out of three and a dropped bomb near the end.