Think this is bob on. Now just needs sorting out.

Poore is making Brent Todd look like a great player. I look forward to seeing something from him to suggest that he played NRL he would not get in the Stanley Rangers ladies third team on present form. The biggest problem we have is that Aiton is just not a hooker, Diskin and LeStrange once again showed what we are lacking, he does not understand the game, his passing is poor, his game management is poor, he never takes us forward, we are so easy to defend against when he is at 9, he has the heart of a lion and his work rate is great but he is not a hooker. What is it that our coaching team cannot see. Last year it took an injury to get him away from the hooking role and guess what we started to play when Ellis got his chance. Priority one is to go out and find a hooker. Why did Singleton get a game today, Anakin has out performed him in the pre season, Anakin is a Wakefield player who gives 100%, Singleton showed today that his defence is weak, play Anakin or Trout. Think our players started to beleive some of the hype about them been good and just turned up expecting to win. Only players who gave their all were Mathers and Ali. Why is Kermond the captain he simply does not look like he can get the troops going when the chips are down. Very very bad day at the office, most lack luster effort I have seen from a Trinity team in 40 years.

Out enthused and out played accross the park.
Bradford looked like a team ready to play and we looked nervy and uncertain from minute 1.
The Bulls played well but, we certainly allowed them to boss the game and our ball controll, especially in the first half was shocking.
On the plus side, nothing is won or lost in round one so lets hope we are ready next week.

Come on Trin !

We had zero creativity out there today and I think only made one break all game.

Not many positives to be taken but I thought Charlie and foxy were our only stand outs and both grafted and put their bodies on the line (as usual) and mathers got stuck in.



As for our forwards ,they were awful in defence and attack.

I thought Bradford out played us everywhere. We were poor the ref was poor Bradford got the rub today on just about every decision, i thought we were caned at the penalty count, lots to work on and if there were any positives I thought Mathers and Aiton showed up today. The pack was beaten so I wont judge the halves suffice to say I did agree with the early interchange at half back.

well...from where I was stood....

we made too many unforced errors
our ball retention was very poor
our decisions out of half back were worse than our ball retention
our contact in the tackle was championship esq
we didnt smother the ball in the tackle
our last tackle play decisions were awful
the pack looked fatigued
we did too much chelping to the referee

subsequently we did too much defending and played the whole game on the back foot.


on the positive....i thought fox, cockayne and mathers were solid and tidied up well and Paul Aiton was the only one who showed genuine fight and commitment. It was great to see aiton, the 5' 8" 11 stone hooker dispatch manuokafoa the 6' 5" 18 stone prop forward with a thundering tackle.....he didn't come back for any more did he?

Agar's going to have a hard week ahead of him and its paramount that we respond well next week.

The aiton thing is bang on, he is devastating in broken play and good from dummy half when it's a quick ptb, (which we never got today) but he does not do the simple things well, like the short pass bringing the next drive on quickly to create some go forwards.

I think we are very weak in this area since Ellis went.

Thank heaven the rugby has started, and we can have proper mature threads rather than "my cathedral is bigger than yours..."

Very impresed with the objective and mature analysis on this thread so for.

Why would Agar go looking for a hooker? He had a perfectly good one in Ellis that he punted out of the club because he believes that Aiton, Wood & Wildie are better dummy halves. None of those three are natural hooker imho, but thats the way we have gone and we are stuck with it. We have no funds to bring anyone else in without someone leaving and if that happens Agar has already said he would go for another forward.

It's as Agar says - we can't really judge the creative side of the team, we had no territory all game and so were forced to keep plying it up the middle.

When the backs did get involved they played ok, but the forwards need to carry the piano, so that they can play it.

Oh dear poor sweet dim Mystic. You must be one lonely sad individual if this is how you get your validation. One can almost hear it in your voice "I'm a big man again, well for this week anyways".

For the record I never suggested we'd win today, never stated we are better than Bradford - not the least bit surprised by this result in that it was my worst case scenario.

Now lets see when the fuss dies down and the season proper starts as to how it all goes shall we big man.

I'd buy the pot noodles and special brew in if I were you to help you trough the long summer nights or finally get a girlfriend whichever helps the most

Awful discipline from Wakefield today. Constant chatting back gave Bradford the easy yards and they took full advantage. I'd suggest everyone keeps their gobs shut next week.