agree with that thought Goulding looked injured and miss a lot of tackles. Campese also looked unfit with wakey looking like scoring every time they attacked our edges. I'd like to use sio more either at fb or centre

I said at the end of last season that I didn't believe Chris Chester was the right man to take us forward but that I would reserve judgment until we had played a few games under him or at least words to that effect.
I do still hope that he will be for the clubs sake and that my concerns will be proven unfounded but, at the end of the day you get what you pay for I suppose and if Rovers appointed him simply on the basis that he was the cheap option then it may turn out to be a false economy.
Although its only a couple of games in there are already some worrying traits emerging, including some of those been mentioned above and unless there are some radical improvements made very soon then its going to be another long hard fruitless season.
I keep hearing people saying that we have a new team and that it will take time to gel, that's true to a point but with two games played and two lost with 84 points conceded, plus Wigan and Warrington games on the horizon, we don't have that luxury of time.

Our fitness levels or lack of which were a talking point last season still looks look questionable, we must have the slowest PTB in Super league, our line speed at times today was pathetically slow and the less said about the teams terrible defense in the last quarter and on the left fringe the better, some of the other basic mistakes today were also simply inexcusable imo, they cannot simply be down to lack of playing time together. We were lead to believe that many of these issues were supposed to be resolved by the appointment of Pooching but at the moment I see no sign of any such improvements been made.
The clubs coaching team and conditioners need to get their act together and fast, otherwise fans will become disillusioned once again, the thing is ...how much more disillusionment and false dawns will a lot of fans(especially the fickle ones of which there are many), take before they start to vote with their feet.
We now have got two weeks to somehow rectify these problems but I fear the worst against Wigan and Warrington who will both certainly pose a greater attacking threat than Wakefield (no disrespect to Wakefield) and will certainly fancy their chances after todays performance.

Yet would still have received no points today. Bit like Hull on Friday. So you can't really talk can you. (Unless it's out of your ar$e,as per.)

We're only 2pts off the play offs and 4pts off top spot just thought I'd put a positive spin on it

Can I personally thank all of you that travelled over for today's game. you came over in great numbers which is invaluable to a club like Wakefield. I'm sure you will produce better performances in the games to come. Honestly believe anyone can beat anyone on a certain day.

Anyway, thanks very much.

As an ardent Wakefield fan no I didn't expect quite such a good start, however I certainly didn't get the worst team in the comp tag which for me was just a lazy choice.

That said can't see why you expected Cas to be there. There team is very average on paper and on grass it would appear - a flash in the pan team if ever there was one. That said it was one hell of a flash so credit where it's due and it certainly gives hope to the rest of the also rans which includes Wakey and HKR along with Cas and the rest.

I thought watching from the stands today that we seemed to have a lot of possession. Wakey not so much. Our intensity was not as great as wakey. Our red zone defence was shocking, no organisation. To flat an slow in attack. Hopefully the structures will soon start to show, if there are any.........

The very definition of daft is anyone who engages with JC on any level whatsoever. Every single post he makes is designed to get a rise from someone.

Stan that is a quality post you have probably articulated what a lot of fans were feeling.

I'm sure Chris Chester is aware of these issues too, but resolving them is the difficult bit.

Best away fans in the league, travelled in great numbers and were great for a laugh.
Best of luck for the rest of the season.

Pretty much spot on, you must have been stood near me.

I'll accept the gelling comments and we knew that but what I can't accept is the apparent lack of commitment, we lost the game due to lack of line speed and intensity, it's obvious if you're up against a pack the size of lauatiti and Paea then its crucial not to let them get up a head of steam. I lost count of the number of times a hand wasn't laid on a player until they'd traveled the full ten, thus making an average gain of a minimum of 15 yards a tackle. No team will win games giving away this amount of ground never mind one that once in their own twenty roll over and let the oppo walk it in.

I'm not one for calling for a coaches head but I have to ask what they're doing during the week as line speed should be a given. Listening to Poching made it even worse, his reasons for us losing were we handed over too much ball. This wasn't the issue, the issue was not being able to defend once the ball was handed over. Did we defend a set on our line all game? I can remember one I think.

Good teams are built on defence, set the platform then switch on the style, we have this in completely the wrong order. I agree Rome wasn't built in a day, but I'm pretty certain they'll have started with the foundations not the Colosseum.