Only real negatives for me the kicking game & defence. Had the kicking game been better we might have been able sway the tide in the first half a bit and had the defence around the ruck been better we might have been able to keep them in our half once or twice. We also never learned and allowed them to offload at will.

That said the defence in the first half was largely sound and we did loads of goal line defence, two of there tries were from spilled balls. Maybe that amount of defence showed in the second half and we started to get bullied in the pack a little.

All in all I was happy enough and expect us to improve with each game. Only worry really was Westy, the workrate in the middle took something out of him in attack.

I agree about Green, was unlucky on his first hit up, got hit right on the bottom of the ball and popped out.

Its the same as Sharp. I thought he was one of our better players yesterday but some jerks sat near me and on there and the radio was calling him saying he'll never be a SL winger. They must be watching a different game to me.

dont think these forums,or facebook etc help! a degree of brain washing happens! 1 or too plant an idea it builds momentum and then people cant see the good anymore! sharp went ok i thought concidering how much went that way for him to deal with!

first game out, people are surprised we look a bit rusty?

it is 13 days until our first meaningful game, that is a heck of a lot in professional sport.

Sharp had a good game, he's just a scapegoat these days.

It was Hornes 1st game with Seymour and under Gentle. Im not Hornes biggest fan but he is the best 6 we have. The last couple of seasons are irrelevant, hes a professional and will go out and do what Agar tells him to do. If Horne gets injured and we bring in Ellis or Nicklas i'd give it 2 games before people are moaning about them.'"

defence was poor, especially some of the communication, but it will improve. what you have to remember is in friendlies the aim to to get match practice. if you look at the old hands, for example lynch, tickle and manu, they do the minimum required as they know their place is assured and they just want a warm up game or two without injury. i've watched tickle for example in a lot of pre season friendlies and he always starts the same way, come the start of the league the intensity lifts. look at rovers, they went at it full on yesterday and got 3 injuries - what use is that?

TBF medial knee after 2 minutes and a broken leg can hardly be attributed to 'going full out'.
I agree friendlies are a build up, FC have another game to build up, we were in our last before the season proper. If as you say the old hands do the minimum as they are assured a place then maybe they need to have a kick up the ar5e otherwise whats the point in them even bothering turning out.

Why on Earth would that be a good place to send him? I'd agree about some time in NL1, probably a dual contract, but no way would I like to see any of our players receiving any more coaching from Richard Agar. He'd probably only end up playing as a last 5 minute impact winger anyway.

I was thinking of a club what would take him as I very much doubt a half decent team would take him. Where somewhere like a wakey or maybe even castleford would have him. It could help him either learn and get better or basically show us he is out of his depth.

It goes without saying that a decent SL team wouldn't currently want him as a frontline player, otherwise he'd be holding down a place for us. I just think that Wakefield should be pretty much bottom of the list of desirable places for us to send our youngsters to develop, given that the man in charge there was a large factor in why we haven't had any players emerge in the past 4 years. Even if he did miraculously get regular first team rugby from Richard 'who can we move about instead?' Agar, that still doesn't mean he'll learn anything if he's not getting the right help/instruction. I for one would honestly rather see him go to almost any other club.

He needs games at the top level if possible so I would think wakey,castleford(maybe),London or Widnes may have him. I personally think he is over-rated and has to improve a hell of alot for me. And id rather have him do that at another club then play for our u-20's.

some poster are not over reacting about R Horne on one game
We have made excuses for him over the passed seasons .On Sunday
he was poor ..poster have been having ago at him not based on just
Sunday game .When you change things you change things ..In friendlies
you try different things and that should have been at halfbacks Ellis was
given a run out With R Horne it should have been with Seymour ..
Because Horne/Seymour wasn't working