He has been - I think he's on the mend though.

I thought Rinaldi was one of our best players today.

he played in the reserves yesterday

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Thought our pack did little on nothing today and therefore left no room for the creative players (alleged) to work with, and once again at the end of both halves we gave up cheap tries, someone please talk me through what millard was on when he tried the pass to cooke!! Rinaldi I liked, what i think of cooke would incinerate the swear filter, and the fight at the end defies belief, the korkiphiles on here will get all moist but for gods sake what was the point in pole axing dobson with a 30 odd point gap on the scoreboard and 5 mins to go?????

Fed up with it all, dont blame kear though, for some reason.

Davey is injured.

I'm in the minority, i don't rate Rinaldi. Sorry all, but whilst his pass accuracy is good he's far to slow in his distribution and lacks any real creativity. Latu should have been on far earlier for mine

Strange how we all see the game and players differently, i think Rinaldi brings something to the team, on the other hand i can't figure out why we play Latu at all.

Still we can agree to differ.

I couldn't get there this afternoon, but 'im indoors has just come back and said the same thing. He's wondering if we can get our money back for tomorrow night, he says one pantomime in a week is enough.

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GROW SOME FRICKING BALLS YOU TURDS!

ITS NOT VERY OFTEN I LOSE MY TEMPER- BUT I HAVE LOST IT TODAY, LOST ABILITY NOT TO USE CAPLOCKS TOO! GRRRRRR

I can see why people like Rinaldi, he works hard in defence and is consistent but i'd like to see more from a hooker. We desperately require some creative players and Latu is one of them whether we rate him or not

Agreed thats how he plays, he's not classy but digs in, not good enough i know but we don't have many options.


I agree we need creativity but i watched him today and see nothing tbh.

Play the ball too slow, passing too slow, too many flat balls, relying on the inside pass far too much, no passing the ball out wide, wingers not getting passes. A quality team would have got 70 today.

HKR weren't as good as the score suggested, if we'd have played some quality rugby today, we'd have probably got 2 points. We've got to be beating these teams on home soil. The crucial moment was at 4 - 16 when Millard bombed the try to make it more than likely 10 - 16. Instead, HKR go up the other end and make it 4 - 22 and game well and truly over.

Not good enough today in the slightest. It's 1 out of 3 so far from the 5 vital games.

He was in the crowd watching the game!

Whilst not suggesting that JD does not deserve his testimonial, if the players are having to concentrate on learning their lines as well as trying to put in decent performances would it not have been better to have gone for a 6 or 12 month testimonial? At least that way, the possibility of players not focussing on the day job could be avoided.

I agree with this

I do not think they are spending so much time on the panto, . I also think its a good think they are doing it , it should help with team bonding etc and may stop some drifting into the usual gamblin/ drinking habits they have been accused of in the past.

me too.

I think Rinaldi was head and shoulders the best Wakefield player today.

Re young Davey - The lad is nowhere near good enough for SL. It's as simply as that. Same applies to young Morton. Big hearts but simply not good enough.

I am to angry and disappointed at the moment to comment further. The heart, attitude and character of our team and coaching setup must be questioned as today was simply not acceptable.

This is true.

I don't deny that it should be something good to help with team bonding & neither do I think they are spending any less time then usual in training.

Given the on field performance (with the exception of a few games) in the last few months, there's an argument for them needing to spend more time in training..............or at the very least the drinking & gambling that has been associated with more successful times

Far, far too many things wrong today - in no particular order:

Trying to thrown he ball about in blustery conditions (wonder passes by Cookey for 1)
Poor ball retention and poor completion rate (see above)
Terrible discipline, often at key times
Failure to capitalise on a good position (3 sets on the bounce in the first half)
Complete lack of penetrative runners and lines (as posted by bigstuff on the other, run at spaces, not faces)
Zero organisation from Cookey or BJ (Make your mind up who is playing what roll and then at least try to do it)
Leano looks very powerful but grossly unfit
Non existent kicking game in all aspects including kick offs. Watch the video on how Dobson kicked off,
We kick for Millard and end up with a score in the first half, did try a second time?
Inability of our 3/4 and full back to count
Inability to realize that all we had to do for the first hour was to close Dobson down not let him play in a dinner suit.
Mental collapse at just before half time letting them score. Tries either side of half time ruined any chance we had.
The under 13 standard ball handling and distribution from our interchange "hooker"

Have I missed owt?

Rinaldi.

& Possibly Kingy (at a push.

Rinaldi best player for us.

Indeed more time spent holding onto the ball and making tackles than pratting about with pantomimes and getting sloshed at the races.