Spot on analysis.

My twopenneth.

Smith look very accomplished at full back again.
Hall looked dangerous with ball in hand and made a lot of metres. There were few chances for the centres but Ablett defended well and Watkins just oozes danger whenever he's got the ball.
Donald saw little ball and fluffed the only kick he had to field during his short stint at full back.
McGuire played manfully and had an awful lot on his shoulders. Will be better when Burrow and Sinfield are back to take some of the pressure off.
Allan had a good game whilst not getting involved enough with the ball he tackled everything that ran at him. He went OK for a lad so shamefully written off by a few fekkwitts last week.
Ali looked a handful before his injury and I thought Kirke played very well.
I am going to start a separate thread about Buderus and Diskin.

Why on earth would they ban a Leeds player?????As if?

TBF re Baileys elbow into the face/possible suspension...

If we get Eastwood by then I would say Kirke is ahead of Bailey on form anyway so a suspension may not make any difference.

I am told Atkins was guilty of a stamp when he was in binned though I didn't see that incident myself.

Any comment Mr Chip on Shoulder?

Which shoulder?

Well summed up although im going to defend Donald here... He was looking up towards the floodlights when the ball was coming down. Have you looked at those floodlights since they "HD'd" them? Sends you blind for a good 15/20 seconds and then you still have the image there for a min or so



Also Gibson seemed to grow in confidence with every touch he received. Made some good yards in the last 10 down the blind side.

Not sure but won't you Wakey fans have a conspiracy theory anyway?

By the way how's the ground coming along>

there was at least 2k more than last week

Think you are right about McGuire with an awful lot on his shoulders. But IMO I dont recall the lad having a worse game in a Leeds shirt. He has the excuses though, so he should be forgiven. But his tackling was woefull and he seemed to be the one taking the wrong option every time when a break was on.

Also I would be interested to see those metres Hall made, because I must have missed him there and done him an injustice. He seemed In my eyes to do very little and make very small yardage. But he had a very good game the week before.

i have to say i thought gibson played very well. not as good going forward as watkins he was far better defensively. blanch, who i thought played very well, was a threat all night but ash really kept him in check. hopefully he can stay injury free and have a big season

Fekwits report....



The lad did OK. Nice early touch with a little chip kick into the in-goal that forced the position for Ali's try.

Busy defensively and with a bit more experiece would have made more of the break.

Took a big knock in the second half but stood his ground.

Not helped being played out of position IMO..............

6/10

I agree with all that.

I thought Allan played well especially in defence.At on stage in the seconded half he was completely out on his feet and then a few minutes later he first man in the tackle Ala Peacock style.

Yes had just taken a real heavy knock. Cant fault the lad for heart and effort.

Reasonable performance for this time in the season though I did feel our unforced errors did keep Wakefield in the game for far too long.

Nice to see Wakefield brought a few.........must have been due to the Wigan result!

They obviously enjoyed the goal kicking...........though the cheer for the 2nd was a rather amusing delayed reaction.......I guess they can't help being a bit slow



Anyone got any injury news as we seemed a little banged up?

Awww - missing us already!

At the end of the day the simple facts are that you lot don't like people questioning your incorrect assumptions that Wakey are badly done to and never get the rub of the green on refereeing decisions. Evidence points to the contrary on this matter but it still doesn't stop you creating embarrassing petitions to have referees struck off.

Should anyone dare to question these insane thoughts then a ban is the order of the day. Likewise should anyone dare to disagree on anything pro Wakefield or agree with anything anti Wakefield. You have some decent fans but you have some real vile ones too where it seems anything goes.

For example, in response to DoubleAone putting a perfectly valid argument together he was met with this.



The troll Barry Clegg regularly posts offensive material yet this offensive material is left on there.

The reasoning is simple, it's because you don't see anything wrong with calling someone a dick head or a c*** but a wrong word against Trin and woe betide you.

It's a lack of brains on the part of the mods to be honest but we should help them not deride them.

If I was really so bothered about posting on the Wakefiled board I'd circumvent the ban, no problem. I know you're wrong and you know you're wrong but keep flexing your cybermuscles anyway.

he dropped the bomb but took a great catch on the half volley from a kick

Glad to see Gibson playing well again for what time he had on the pitch.
Hopefully Kallum is ok though and the injury wasnt that bad.

What has been overlooked re Allen's contribution was his one on one steal from Blaymire(?) in the opening minute that led to Ali's opening try.
I thought his tackling generally was an improvement on previous performance but he does lack pace. Pity about the break with a little more composure he should have taken the 1st tackle or looked to come inside or arguably even better have passed to Scott Donald. But what I couldn't see was if the Wakefield player had got in a position to prevent that.
If so then he should have taken the tackle. It would have been tackle one, who knows what the next sets would have led to? But we're all great with hindsight.

I thought Ganson was appauling for both teams 17 pens in 20 minutes was shocking and not justified. The game struggled to recover from his appauling 20minute display. If we had 2 players back i.e. a brough or a scully we probably would have won. I really didnt think you guys deserved to win last night your 2 out of 3 trys came from terrible errors by us. Draw was a fair result

Not overlooked entirely...

just though the crucial element was different.



A much better all round performance than the friendly fixture and given this was within a disrupted team it is better then first appears really.

If this continues and with the Eastwood development then the lad may well have the opporunities..... a can see some real potential developing...but just not in the backs.

You've convinced me. The point is in the post.

I deserve 2 points for the Ganson comment

. Even the hardened of Rhino fan must say the game struggled to recover from that padantic t*at in orange .