19 versus the Wire:
Tinirau Arona
Joe Arundel
Matty Ashurst
Jordan Baldwinson
Danny Brough
Jordan Crowther
Anthony England
David Fifita
Ryan Hampshire
Keegan Hirst
Justin Horo
Ben Jones-Bishop
Max Jowitt
George King
Craig Kopczak
Reece Lyne
Jacob Miller
Pauli Pauli
Kyle Wood

Looking like Jowitt on the wing and Arundel as his centre?

This'll be a tough ask - Wire looking pretty solid, and a lot of enforced changes for WT.

Effort is all we can ask for - and someone to have a seismograph turned on when BMM and Big Dave come together...

Hampshire
Jowitt
Arundel
Lyne
BJB
Miller
Brough
Fifita
Wood
England
Ashurst
King
Crowther

Paulie
Arona
Kopczak
Horo

Hi all, Wire fan here and I come in peace. Looking forward to the game on Thursday night and I'm coming across on the train via Leeds. I've been told to catch the train from Leeds to Sandal and Agbrigg and the ground is a short walk from the train station.

What I want to know is, are there any places to eat between Sandal and Agbrigg train station and the stadium, or would I be better off eating at Leeds train station? As I'm on the train, I don't want to walk miles into the centre of Wakefield. Looking for the staple RL diet of a pie, fish and chips, pizza or all 3 if I'm really hungry. Ha ha ha.

Cheers in advance.



John.

S&A station is the closest...a 10 minute stroll.

The road you walk down (Agbrigg Road), is the road you are on when you leave the station - the main part of it has every kind of takeaway going.

Go right to the end of Agbrigg Rd (T junction), and turn left, the ground is 100m on the left. You can exit the ground onto St Catherine St, which gives a shortcut, back to Agbrigg Rd, after the game.

Probably best off eating in Leeds if you want to avoid food poisoning.

its a ground defo not a stadium ...

Thanks for the replies and apologies for referring to the 'ground' as a 'stadium'. I think I'll get out of the train station at Leeds and head to Pie Minister for a bite to eat.

How is George King doing? He was a hard working prop and will get a good reception from the Wire fans on Thursday night. Can we have him back and you can have Lama Tasi as a swap?

George is going well for us and seems to be enjoying his rugby here.

Get off at Wakefield westgate a bite to eat in Wakefield City centre and 15 min walk to Belle Vue.

Ruddy Duck was OK on match nights last time I tried it. Only 5 minutes walk from ground.

I reckon this'll be about right. Or possibly start with Arona and Crowther on the bench. Warrington squad looks very strong, so we will need to be bang on our game to get anything from this one, especially our kicking options.
Thaler is Ref, so we need someone to tape up Broughys mouth before the game otherwise he will be in the bin again.

Win or lose Wire fans look forward to chatting with our friends at Trin. My favourite away fixure.
Never seen a cross word between our fans.
Trin are my second team too because of the welcome I've always had.

Hate to promote Leeds but there’s a whetherspoons in the station.

Weatherspoons exists in Wakey plus plenty of nice city centre restaurants.

Welcome, don't be put of by the Wakefield doom mongers. There's loads of great bars within three hundred yds of Westgate station. Plus the there's quite a few good quality restaurants in the city centre. Enjoy the game but not too much of course.

Cheers bud, always time for the Wire supporters, always been a decent bunch IMO.

heard weatherspoons taking over the wakey tavern and extending from the six chimneys

Hi John,

As others have said theres loads of places to eat in Wakey - not so much near Sandal and Agbrigg (although there is a decent Aagrah on Barnsley road - 7 or 8 minute walk.

Depending on what time you get here I'd suggest you get off at Westgate and catch the (free) city bus round to the Hepworth. Theres decent pub grub (Ruddy Duck) over the road and its about a 10 minute walk to Bell..I mean Rapid Solicitors Stadium.

You could catch the train back from S&A.

I'd say this is the best advice so far.. Nice places in Leeds of course but assuming you want to be closer, Westgate and then over to Hepworth better.
The walk from Agbrigg is not unsafe but it doesn't look as welcoming if you haven't been there before.

Sounds good to me....certainly can only improve that corner of town!

If you are the cultured and sophisticated type come early, spend an hour or so looking round the Hepworth (well worth your time - they have some Henry Moore sketches done during the war of working life as a miner that are absolutely outstanding - amongst many other world class art-works) AND they have a superb cafe.

wakeyrule, I'm pretty sure the free bus stops running at six.

I thought so too.