Very disappointed to end the season this way but overall its been a fantastic season and finishing 5th was way above my expectations. Even more disappointing is that we will be "paid out" as though we have finished 7th/8th after tonights loss.

But best team won, I have no complaints. They had more passion, desire to win and enthusiasm than us and over the full 80 minutes it showed. I was particularly disappoined with our departing players who did not show up tonight. Drew looked like he was already in Huddersfield and Snitch and Wilkes looked like they were thinking about their better contracts elsewhere. The exception was Grix who I thought had a stormer for us. How would the game have gone if Brough had played, but he didn't so the rest is history.

Having said that an ecxellent season overall and I should like to wish the likes of Atkins, Wilkes, Snitch, Drew and Grix and other departing players all the best for their future and thanks for your service to Wakefield Trinity.

Looking to the future we have some superb players in Newton, Tronc, Morrison, Millard, Jeffries plus maybe 2 more quality players to come so I believe we will have a better team next season than this.

As I say, a disappointing end to 2009 but my mouth is already watering at the prospect of 2010.

You have got to be joking - how can you talk about JD's passes when Grix was chucking it either over their heads or at their toes. Please let Hudds take him - inconsistent petty boy poser.
For all of those arm chair coaches who wanted to see Grix given a chance in the halfs - well he had his chance and look what he did. Utter tripe.

Although I agree Grix and Drew were pretty average tonight it does seem a little coincidental that they are getting a load of stick..........and have now left the club??

Personally thought the majority of the squad were lethargic for far too long in the game this evening. All in all though you have to be pleased with how the season has gone.

I am utterly amazed that you thought Grix had a stormer - please watch it back on the tv as i have just done and look at the 4 consecutive passes that grix throws in the second half 2 of which go over the receivers head 1 BOUNCES before it reaches the reciever and the other one just about hits the recievers boot - stormer my Jim Royal

There is only 4000 of you think so - poor attendance from a team finishing in their highest position ever in super league. No matter what happened to you tonight this was always going to be your last home game of the season I would have thought more could have turned out for the players to applaud their acheivement. Cas will be taking at least 3/4 of that over to Wigan for an away game - if not more.

There was still a chance of a home game in semi.

Attendance was crap no doubt about it, nothing any of us can do about it other than turn up to the games!

Wakey would have taken a good amount away from home, our away support is better than home support

get over it

It seemed like they wanted it more than us at the end of the day...Like to put out a mention for Olly Elima..top try scoring forward this season and cant believe he didnt make make SL XIII.

Disappointing end to season. Both sides poor for first twenty, and we were perhaps the least poor. They woke up earlier, that's all. Drew had a shocker, and maybe he felt that he had to win the game for us on his own too much. I think they played the ref better. Bentham had clearly decided that both sides could wrestle all day if they wanted, and they realised it first. The amount of time they had to complete the tackle was shocking, but they played to it, and we didn't.

The negative for me was the crowd. Very poor numbers, but we are the ones who turn up, so what can we do?

The real positive for me was Luke George. He could be a special player next year.

I suppose we were never going to win the Grand Final, but it was nice to imagine it for a while.

See you next year.

typical cas fan searching desperately for a negative to pull wakey down! very sad!!



loads of players playing out of position all season i think(no wingers all year same story at stand off and JDs days as a centre are long gone for me)

we played tonight without an out and out half back and were always going to struggle against a near full strength(and very high quality) catalan side.

time to look forward to next season and the team looks to be shaping up very well to me!!





good luck cas tomorrow, hope they beat the pie eaters!

Overall this season has been top notch but tonight we were poor.

Absolutely gutted for the players that they have finished the season in such a poor way. Catalans were there for the beating and unfortunately the occassion got the beating of us.

We paniced and made basic errors in the first halve which allowed Catalans good field position. They took their chances and simply out enthused us. We turned up second halve but the games was gone.

Proud we finished fifth but dissapointted we lack the killer touch.

Too many players turned in untypical (for 2009) poor performances tonight. The ones on their way out were the main culprits.
I know Grix wasn't perfect but I thought he was the exception in the leavers and always looked likely to create something when running the ball down the left. Got sick of seeing the ball die down the right hand side!
I know we let in a few trys late in the 1st half but the one scored by the waife Pelo, pushing four Wakefield players off, really killed us both mathematically and mentally.

Well done Luke George. Another great show.

Bad Drew...for Wakey.
Luke (warm) Robinson for Shudds.
Both match-losers.

Disappointed, but not downhearted. I thought we looked disjointed tonight, probably down to positional changes and some below-par performances. Apparently the muppets on Sky said we were at full strength, with the exception of Danny Brough - no mention of Blanch, Petersen, Bibey, Gleeson & Martin being injured. I`m not saying we would have won with all those in - but I think we would have performed better as a team.

Reflecting on the season overall I think we have progressed as a Club, both on and off the field. Certainly more highs than lows - new Stadium in the pipeline, highest ever points total & position, a tremendous season by the Academy lads, and the emergence of players like Dale Morton, Blake & Davey.

Considering the adversity we have overcome with Adam & Leon, and 3 players having to take compassionate leave to travel to Aus following bereavements I think all at the Club can hold their heads high - we gave it our best shot but came up just short. Am I optimistic for the future? - you bet I am!

big effort in the 2nd half hats of to the lads who will not be with us next season at 22 2 down they could have thrown the towel in but credit to them they made a game of it
its being a great season cant wait for next

Spot on.

3 cheers for good old Cas

Whilst on the topic of poor performances, this is the main reason why our crowds are so poor IMO. Every time we have an opportunity to show our potential we blow it, semi final last year and again last night. It wont matter what our stadium is like if we don't start winning something or at least get to a final we will not attract more supporters, especially charging 20 pounds. Its the barren cup years that are costing us most not the stadium....don't misunderstand me I know we need to move but people will not come to the matches just to enjoy a nice seat or cover.

That is a good point - we flatter to decieve at times, and always, but always fall when we have the opportunity to shine!

Hull in the CC
Wigan in the CC
Catalans in the PO
Leeds in SL

We desperately need to break through in one of these games and, based on the fact that we did so in 2004 at Hull - who finished 3rd that year - this season is only on a par with that one and is not, IMO, our best season in SL!

How boring the majority of Cas fans are.

In relative terms this has been a super season. Well done and thank you to JK, PB et al, good luck to all those moving on (except for their games against WT!).

Catalan throughly deserved to beat us. Well done to them and good luck going froward.

On the night I thought that we got our answers to the Grix as starting half back question. His handling too frequently fails to deliver - passing to the floor or causing the receiver to break his run. A very valuable squad member, no doubt but not a starting half back for me, not yet anyway. I don't agree with some that Drew had his mind on Hudds - but he did have an off day.

I don't understand why Obst doesn't spend more time at 1st or 2nd receiver. I like him as a pivot, I think he has a decent handling game, is more than capable at taking the line on and offers more than an adequate threat with his boot. I think our turn around in fortune in the 2nd half on Saturday coincided with his return to the field.

As for the crowd. Dissapointing for sure BUT a) people are broke b) the game was on TV c) the game was on at a very unsociable time for families (I had to go alone but at a more sensible time I would have brought a full car).

The worse thing about the loss is the tripe, garbage and nonesense we are all going to be reading and writing now over the winter.
Arrrrg - when does the season start again.

I can understand why the posts are quite negative on here as we lost a game we could easily have won, but I don't agree with the "didn't turn up" statements.
There was no lack of effort on the part of Wakefield, it just wasn't working.
Without Brough we didn't pin them back like we normally do, and it meant their big forwards could work us over a bit. I thought our forwards did well at making tough ground, we just didn't do anything on the last plays.

How many times would the passes from JD have gone to the winger (can't decide whether it was Murph or JD at fault) - that would have been 3 tries alone.

In addition, when Grix kicked through for George, he was opposite a big forward who had no chance of getting to him. That forward stayed on that wing the rest of the game but we didn't kick again. Brough would have given him a nightmare.

It might be an anti-climax but at the end of the day we had a great season and have learned a lot about the team and what they are capable of. We are strengthening for next season, and the kids are looking great.

Bring on next season and the playoff adventure again.

Agree then we will really start to move into the next level. ie competitors.