rumours then about cookie ??? broughy was very quiet tonight

After watching that shower I doubt Cookie would want to come!! Brough was invisible but then again he didnt have any kind of platform what so ever to work from. Jeffries gettin injured early on really hampered us but I doubt he'd have saved us from shipping in 50.

we might have scored something though.. why didn't we go for a dg..at least we wouldn't have been nilled !! onwards and upwards..tonight forgotten and looking forward to friday..i blame the tv makeup for sky !

I just think that the new breed of coaches coming through the Aussie ranks are smarter footy coaches than our's, whether that be the old school like JK or the ones coming through our system like McNamara,McDermott,Agar etc.
They exude a confidence in their methods that we don't. You could not really name one British coach that could walk into a job in the NRL, yet we have their assistants able to come over here and cut their teeth in our top league.

Bless,yep that's what us suckers do!!!

No i put a text to a freind at the game as soon as i saw the bench 3 props v Huddersfield and a centre who is past his sell by date in the 2nd row that it was going to be a very long night it was 0 0 when the text went

Players ratings:

BLAYMIRE: -10
MURPHY: -6
GLEESON: -9
MORTON: -6
BLANCH: -6
JEFFRIES: -7
BROUGH: -9
TRONC: -8
LEO-LATU: -8
KORKIDAS: -8
FERGUSON: -7
MORRISON: -6
DEMETRIOU: -9
OBST: -7
HENDERSON: -8
MOORE: -8
MILLARD - 7

No these were not made up, just honest recollections.

morrison played out of skin

No positives allowed, doom amd gloom only please.

Sorry - don't buy that at all - not as being the reason we lost, or that we didn't perform.

IF the players had turned up ready to play, we perhaps would have had a game and perhaps the 3 prop thing may have hurt us. But I don't think Hendo did much wrong - in fact he was one of the few who gave it a go last night (Mr Dependable).

I do agree that we should be trying to get a 4th prop in the side and, although Blanchy went well, I did think it was a waste of a bench spot.

What seems to have happened is that, from 2 years ago when we played well when all the senior players were injured, then fell apart when they came back (some too early), we now seem to have a system where we pick the 17 from those in the shirt and those who have played well in the A-team - which is fine, unless you have 12 backs and half-backs playing well and only 5 forwards. If you take out converted backs and half-backs from last nights squad you will be left with Korki, Tronc, Morro, Fergy and Moore - that's 5 genuine forwards in a squad of 17.

So yes, I agree with the principle you suggest, but it wouldn't make an Ha'peth of difference last night - unfortunately!

Correct and Hendo did for me. Moore might have pushed the offload on too many occasions but wew were chasing the game so I can't blame him for that at least he was trying something.

I presume these are out of a hundred?

They're =#BF0040minus points!

Oh crap

I think we've got bigger things to worry about right now!

That performance was unacceptable.

Even if we’d turned up, I don’t think we would have won, Shudds are a good side and in the first half, especially, everything stuck.

However, the team didn’t earn their money tonight, they let down the club, the fans & their boss. If I was J.K and the R.F.L. came sniffing I would feel tempted, this morning, to sack it off and work with a group of players who would put in the effort.

I don’t expect to go down the Cas route of pacifying the fans with sweeteners, all I want is 100% commitment from the players, starting on Friday.

I appreciate we have fronted up against last seasons Grand Finalists in the last two matches, but if you come into a game half cooked and the opposition is up for it, you will get beaten. The majority of the team are on very good wages, far more than the average fan, yet, it’s us who had to pay to watch that abject display.

Couldn't really knock Morrison, Tronc, Korki, Moore or Latu for effort and performance. They will and probably have played worse than yesterday and ended up in a winning side.
It's difficult to quantify the effort put in by the others but the performance of many was certainly nil out of 10.

It's bad enough turning up as a fan every year knowing we're going to get shafted. How do the players deal with this attitude of pre match capitulation?

I can see your logic and I agree I would not have had blanch on the bench.

However lets not forget we had three 'props' and Huddersfield only had two (Crabtree and Griffin) Raleigh is normally SR I believe, but if he has moved up to prop it was still three against three.

can i just say it was a nice surprise to have so many Wakey fans complimenting our team and fans on the way out - in previous years there's been none of that and lots of animosity so cheers those that i spoke to it must have been hard after watching that to want to say anything oh and its still the best £20 i've spent all year



BTW we were screaming for you to drop a goal in the 2nd half so we're not all evil and twisted



You will do ok this year, you were just unfortunate to meet a team who got 99% of everything they did right last night - we blew you away and didnt let up on you but not every team will - dont let one bad result take away the good start you've made!

Shame you whinged about it before the game

did i ? you sure that wasn't Meast ??

It could have been, old age a a poor memory

i was the one you spoke to after the game, Meast was chatting to Ponner before outside the turnstiles !!

Oh right, your the better looking one then

certainly am