I agree.....once.
I'd like to see us at Wembley so 1895 would be great but once we've done it I'd rather be competing in semi finals and challenging the big boys.

Hopefully its just a stepping stone for bigger and better things in the not too distant future.

Tickets bought and hotel booked.

The abysmal play from Wakefield at the minute suggests neither is likely.

Barrow must be gutted after conceding that try following a sustained period of bossing the game.

Wakey was firmly in charge in the opening 30 minutes or so quickly going into a 12-0 lead, followed by about 10 minutes of poor play and errors. Still, the defence has been solid and Barrow hasn't looked like scoring, in fact, I can't remember them within 10 meters of our line. Then Griifin popped up for the try just before the halftime hooter to make it 18-0. Not the greatest game but the ball looks very slick in hand, so no wonder there's been handling errors in this crap weather. Hopefully, Powell will put them right like against Siddal and we can pull away and finish the game more clinically this half.

Barrow finally get the try they deserve. I bet the Fev coach sat in our stand can see his side beating this rabble next week regardless of how the game developes as Barrow tire.

Awesome start to the half from Wakey, not. Both teams are playing like the balls a bar of soap. Wakefield need to pull their fingers out here.

Atoni finally finishes a move-off in their 10 meters for a change. We seemed to have tried to barge our way over every time we've got down there this second half instead of going for a kick, which has been strange from us from what I've seen so far this season. There must have been about 4 or 5 times Barrow has started from nearly their line after we've not finished our sets off in their 20 properly.

Pratt losing the ball on that 1st tackle from the restart eventually gets punished as Barrow score again.
Wakefield are actually playing to hang on.

24 -12 now
Thank God for Renouf Atoni with 2 try’s
Barrow got their 2nd try because Trinity didn’t play to the whistle, basic elementary stuff

Harvey Smith with a solo run for a try, evading a number of tackles

30- 12

This performance has generally looked like one of a team that's played a few too many easy games, although the weather hasn't helped for good RL, still not to our usual standard. As Powell said in the week we probably could have done without that many and a couple more against opposition in our league to get us more ready for the season. Anyway things to work on and we'll have got more out of this game, although it was all a bit subdued at times and lacked a bit of intensity IMO, than a walk over, onwards and upwards.