Feedback from the players seems to suggest...their skin is revived and glowing, feels fresh and incredibly exfoliated.

Apparently, they all look great.

Some players also report they collected enough potatoes for a week's worth of chips.

Stayed up to watch… and now have to get up for work in half an hour!!! Given that was probably one of the few times I’ll get to see the team live I was obviously disappointed!!!

The right edge defence were at fault for both Featherstone tries… the defensive line speed and intensity overall was slow… only Vangana looked anything like with go forward…Doyle at loose was a weird and ineffective decision.. the spine looked tentative and soft… for the most part Lino was awful.. but was still better than Gale…

The conditions spelled out why we moved the game to the summer season… moreover because we have a couple of generations who have no idea how to play in mud!…

Congratulations to Featherstone who .. on balance probably deserved the win!

agree with that. The only thing is Thornley would have been playing if he was fit, is he scheduled for a return next week? would be a big plus.

The only thing I can think of with the bench and forwards, because Powell's not thick and coached at Featherstone for years so knows about the slope and pitch is that Cozza and Bain weren't fit.

Would you do Lawford for Lino or Gale? I thought Gale kicked alright in the second half, with his bombs and a few decent kicks for repeat sets but that's about it. The best kick Lino did was that one in our 20, over the top for Walmsley that so nearly came off, apart from that all I can say his defence is decent.

I think Mr Powell will have the right words to say to the right players on what are the right and wrong options when playing in those conditions.

Bowes played well today. Its a shame him and Dagger are not still on board. We do seem like an old team.

That's a fair assessment - exactly what happened.
It was the golden point lottery and we failed again.
I'm not knocking individual players because every wakefield player gave his all.
Luck and a pigsty of a pitch won the game for rovers.
Their ground is barely championship standard.

Fortunately was not able to make this game but but what I have seen are attrocious conditions and a highly motivated opposition on their home patch who are one of the better teams in the competition. The result will always be a lottery in this instance and it was a bounce of a ball that decided it.

There's not really anything that tells us how this season is going to pan out, but from the off I have always though our weakness is the halves. A past it former MOS, a headless chicken and a young, albeit promising, kid.

You would have also thought that our experienced team would have dealt better with the conditions too.

Really?!! Why don't you go tell Atoni that!
He ran his blood to water today - did you actually see the game??

Agree…
What I’m hoping for now is that on Monday morning when doing the game review…
The players listen and learn from the mistakes made during the game.. so that should it should come to pass that were involved in another mud bath game .. they are able make the right decisions..

We need two quick half backs and a fast 9 ,the ones we got are all way past there sell by date Think questions have got to be asked about how come our two so called big signings in the back are no were to be seen .Griffin is way to slow to be in the (We are going down the same road as last year of playing a back 7 of mostly slow injury prone players .Know the pitch was shocking but still no excuse for a disgraceful performance like that

That game could have gone either way today but we bombed it and Fev took their chances well, so all credit to them for that.
The season proper starts on Friday. We scrape the mud off, analyse the video of where we went wrong today and work our little booty's off to try and ensure that doesn't happen again. Today could have been a blessing in disguise but time will tell

Yes, I saw the game.

My comment was more of a collective, and wasn't singling anyone out.

In that first half we were totally outmuscled by their pack, of which Atoni spent time in the bin, along with one of theirs.

Amyway, its done, forget it, and move on to the league and 1895 cup.

Looking at the forecast for the week ahead, looks a bit drier

I have to shake my head in disbelief any anyone questioning the pace of any player today.

Usain Bolt couldn't run on that potato field.

It's a good one for experience, but dust it off and move on.

So far this year we have performed similarly dire against some very weak opposition and the writing was on the wall that we were going to get beaten by the 1st decent team we came up against. Ball spill, offside, six again, head high and repeat.
Nothing we did today suggests that we will be any different v Bradford on Friday.