That he is! I was discussing this with a mate of mine yesterday who was saying we'll miss him this season as he's one of the best support players we've ever had.

You can't fault the lads commitment but maybe your right and should have held him down. Next time maybe

Too true! Most other players wouldn't have bothered chasing back but you can see the desire to be successful which has been missing for a few seasons!

Truly great when the crowd are entertained and they begin to sing! More positive displays and the crowd will be out 18th man again!

I'm reluctant to fault Raynor for avoidance of professional fouls after Cardiff.

Nice to see the terrace looking full again. Hopefully it won't be long until attendances can get back to the levels that they used to be on a regular basis.

Good point!!

In all fairness whats the point in holding him down. One try big wow we were 30+ points up anyway lol. He did the right thing



we are currently averaging 14,091 after 2 home games

Wigan and Wakey.

The boys did really well today, thought Olbison's try was well worked and Roystons were amazing and Kopczaks were great.

another loss for them, we've beaten saints, we've beaten leeds, i'm looking forward to next week playing wakey, we could give them a shallacking,

we'll be scoring tries here,there and everywhere.

Spending the whole game taking photos instead of watching the dire rugby - a day in the life of a Bulls fan.

Should be a massive win for you, 60+ points.

That was taken at half time if you look at the boys and girls out on the pitch.

i find that kinda interesting, i've never been in that stand before, i don't know what dismal stadium looks like from that angle.

must say i'm a bit disapointed now.

I enjoyed it but it was a poor game redeemed by encouraging effort I thought.

By my counting Wakey gave a penalty away defending on the fifth at least three times, and gave away possession on the first inside their own twenty at least as often. Whoever their 21 is missed every tackle he tried to make. They had enough field position to score three times? Bit disappointed that they scored more than 6 tbh.

Lots of good things though, not least the number of players who were really throwing themselves into it. Raynor and Ainscough nailed themselves into my first team today, and the whole pack had a pretty good go. Herbert was rusty but some of his attacking kicks were pretty good, and he directed things enough to give Kearney some space to run. Looking forward to there bing more options out there.

Need a bit more direction and fewer errors to stand up against Huddersfield though.

That's two home games on the trot where I've guessed the crowd to within a few hundred fwiw. I used to be consistently a thousand or so too high.

Although he's been a bit of a bad boy in the past, its good to read about Raynor having a decent game - I've got a feeling he will be among the top try scorers this year

How do you do it? for some reason i always under estimate at warrington games, its part of the pre match interest, quid on first scorer 2 quid each on estimating the crowd.

While I was doing my pre match commentary I said 12,500 so I was 300 out today.

Did anyone go on any of the fair ground rides today?

Was that a ghost house that I saw in front of the old Trevor Foster lounge?

Odsal's fairly easy cos people go to reliable places. Away fans go to the end out of habit, home fans stand on the popular side but away from the curved end. If the further right you look towards that hut thing and the curved end is densely packed then it's a good turn out.

He went well for Crusaders last year despite being well past his 30th birthday. It's a shame he wasn't given a second chance by the club really because he could have been a good asset this season, although he is coming towards the end of his career and at the time it looked like the right decision to get rid.

Surprised you didn't get a ticket to ride Mick

Another win and we're starting to show some real good stuff, although we're nowhere near the finished article just yet.

A couple of points that stood out for me today were Royston's support play and Ainscough's defensive play. Like many have said on here when we were attacking the Wakey line Royston was hovering round the ruck looking for work which was brilliant. He combined well with Lynch in collecting a number of offloads during the game. Wakefield couldn't handle Lynch today, fantastic display from our captain.

I also thought Ainscough went very well today. His work rate and commitment to giving 110% effort was good to see and he took his try well. Most importantly for me was his positional play when defending our line in the second half. He fielded most of the high kicks put on him (apart from the last one on the hooter which looked a bit shady). I hope he can back this up next week against Huddersfield. I can see that most sides will target him because of his size but I think Platt backs him up well and the combination looks to be coming together nicely.

Other points worth mentioning:

Ah Van's conversion rate, he's racking up the points. Olbison fitting into the first team squad very well (Donaldson may find it hard to reclaim his place at this rate). Our backs (Raynor & Ainscough in particular) running from dummy half gained us extra yardage and gave our forwards a well deserved rest. That 20 minute spell in the second half where we could have let Wakie back in the game, we successfully managed to kill them off and guarantee the 2 points.

Final point, 12,835. Another week where the Bulls topped the highest crowd for the weekly rounds. That's the second time in 3 weeks we've done that. Great effort from our fans!

Bring on the Giants.

He was given a chance to re-sign for Crusaders I think but opted for Bulls instead.

We made a lot of errors with ball in hand but for me two real improvements stood out today. When we get it together we play really well and scored some high quality trys today also the defence looks to have improved massively and that's what wins games. OK Wakefield don't look that creative in the halves but we withstood a lot of pressure in the first 15 mins of both halves and only conceeded 1 try during that period.

Good to see Raynor's cross field back track in the second half it's a shame not enough of his colleagues were able to get back to prevent them scoring on the next play because it deserved to keep the score at 6 points to wakey.

Absolutely fantastic to see two pacey wingers really hungry for work they both have points to prove and I reckon they will show the doubters up.

I thought the number of errors we made when we had the ball was significantly less than last week. Still too many for comfort but getting there.

Just watched the highlights of todays game and maybe I'm being a wee bit pedantic here but the last try to Hyde came from a Luke George knock on.