Give over nothing is more of a dump than bell vue, even the Cas ground is better.

Possible difference this year for Mathers is players who can replace him. With other options at centre both Smith and Sykes could replace him so he needs to up his game.
Saying that he has time to get it right.

Belle Vue has many faults but is still bigger and better than post office road + we have a proper pitch.

I normally back your posts Bren but we are in no position to moan at other club's stadium.

From the game point of view, both sets of players got their appropriate return on effort to me.
But it doesn't mean we'll play like this in first game. It'll be tough in Wales next week.

POR is a pretty bad stadium, despite the new empty stand. Difference between POR and BV is that Fev have space for improvements whereas Wakey. You were all shouting about your new stand today, but you'll never fill it or the others. Besides our pitch isn't on a slope.

Bigger yes, better have a word with yourself. The pitch is the only and I mean only thing going for you.

You may well be right but it's still better than the dump you play in.

So we are boasting that our stadium is slightly less crap than theirs because we have a flat pitch.

Yet we are a city and they are a street. We get significantly more funding than they do from RL and bigger crowds.
We should be better and I find it pretty "UN-classy" to pick fault with theirs. Especially after they just spanked us.

Let's move on to criticising our players

Seems to be a few sour grapes on here and for me the best team on the day won, more effort and enthusiasm, not sure where the earlier poster saw Kirmond putting in a decent effort, as I thought he had a poor game, Annakin was our best forward and maybe young Crowther would have run a close 2nd given a bit more game time, if Richard Moore is in the 17 for Salford I'd be amazed, on a day of por performace the positives I would take is, the 2 players that got the most slating last year went pretty well today (Fox & Lynne) not sure what was up with mathers but he didn't look like he wanted to be there, Sykes was dire for 60% of the game but actually went well at full back when RM went off, put in 2 try saving tackles, Wildie didn't look right at SH and we had no direction from anywhere on the field.
On the ground comments, PO road is obviously being improved and once completed will be a great little stadium, but the pitch needs to be sorted and entry/exit needs to be improves, to say that there was only 2.5k fans there it took a very long time to get out of the ground, no lighting at the back of the stands and having a couple of young ones in tow was a bit scary at times as you couldn't see what was happening or the ground under foot.
Well done to Fev tho they certainly were up for that game

Brilliant corporate facilities, brilliant atmosphere in the north stand. Obviously it could be a lot better and has suffered years of neglect but hopefully in the new stadium soon. POR will be a nice little ground when finished is the pitch getting levelled as part of the improvements?

My daughters future father inlaw went today,to see how Jordan went mainly,even though Wakey lost,he really enjoyed the game and is now getting a season ticket for BV,so at least some good came out of today's game.

Hasn't mathers just become a dad again in the last week or so? May explain why his head appeared to be elsewhere and his performance not the best.

Levelled and extended by 15m to the regulation size

Well me and mole rat could not stop laughing at mathers how bad was he today and boxing day, going to cost us some points this season fox went ok and yes PO Road is a dump