Wasn't it perhaps more of a case that Sammut was ABLE to be "devastating" because he (like Kearney) was able to play behind a dominant pack?

Interesting to hear a neutral describe Bradford as "Big & Powerful". Most Bulls fans have been bemoaning our "lightweight" pack hitherto.

I suspect next week at your place will be a much better indication of the strength, or otherwise, of the Bulls' pack.

Have to agree with most of the comments, but one thing for certain we can get better, come on get behind the team.
its a home game next week and a win will make everthing look different.
dont forget there has been seven loosers this weekend and its up to the lads to make sure we are not amongst them next week

Seeing that my original post has been deleted, I'm still not disguising how disgusting we were today. Must do MUCH MUCH better!

Didn't get to go today, been sat in Casualty all day, by the sounds of it I had the better afternoon.

Not being wise after the fact but I said before that today was going to go one of two ways, we were going to win impressively, or lose impressively, obviously it was the latter today.

By the sound of things the team didn't turn up today at all, which has been a bit of a theme this weekend in SL, apart from a couple of the games and sounds much like the game we had against the Bulls last season early on.

Nothing else to say but must do better and pick themselves up and show the fans what their made of.

Change your avatar love as you are clearly the biggest and most hypocritical troll on the forum - jog on little boy.

Did not go today, but by the sounds of it we were not good. But lets not hit the panic button just yet. Saints wont, and they got battered too. Iam sure we will work hard and improve from here.

Well said, but remember first rule of forum is that if you didn't go you are not allowed an opinion or spoil the grief of those who did

My comment was made in all sincerity.

Maybe had you posted more of your usual utter drivel on this thread, I would not have been able to say as much.

Blimey - you really are a bitter chappie aren't you?

What a plum you are.

Thought we lost the game in the 1st 15 minutes. Mathers failure to deal with that bomb, Collis then losing the ball on the 1st tackle, Poore slipping off Kearne, Wildie being particularly ineffective, all set the scene for a depressing afternoon.
Can't believe that the law of averages didn't give us at least one of those dozen or so 50:50 loose ball decisions from Thaler!

Terrible game from start to finish.

Whats up, win next week and we are in the top eight, simple as that

Who win the bulls X factor thing? Uncle Vin was my fav

Vastman = Biggest baboon on RL Fans FACT !

its was a rubbish gane and we were very rubbish.

sorry new to this, will that do ?

Manafakoa? Sidlow Langley scruton whitehead all looked big. Blythe in centre is a big lad. Certainly far from lightweight I'd say.

How disappointing. All most Wakefield fans want is the team to be competitive.



It was mistake after mistake. No composure or grunt from the pack who were terrible from 8-17.



Poore needs to have a long, hard look at himself in the mirror and ask himself if he thinks that is good enough. He is ex-NRL and State of Origin & our man of grunt/pack leader/hard man, is there a fitness issue or worse is it in his head?



There is a positive. R.A. recognises the problem area - the forwards who were a joke & seemed to be easily outmuscled & over run by Bradford. Hopefully Andy Raleigh will be back with Tim Smith next week but they can only do so much.

Agar before the game - "We got to know last year what a good performance looked like. The players could really relate to what style of football and what a good performance actually looked like and what they need to do to get their jobs done in a good fashion, so we need to find that quickly."

Another performance like that and I'd be sending Singleton back to Leeds and the other sub standard forwards into the reserves giving Annakin and Trout a run.

A lot of players didn't look fit today. The ones who have been injured and not played in the friendlies could be excused, but the others? They had no excuse!

One thing that must be cut out in future games is Aiton throwing forward passes from dummy half on the 2nd and 3rd tackle. He was guilty of it last season on many occasions. You might as well just put the ball into an opposition players hands and say ''here, have 6 tackles instead of us''.

So did Walker too.

I wasn't seeking to refute what you said, in the slightest. I was saying it was highly interesting to hear the observations of a neutral on this subject. Many Bulls fans have been bemoaning - and fans of other clubs deriding - what they judged to be a "lightweight" pack - and not just because we are deemed to be at least one prop light. Today, and your observations, make me wonder whether the concern there might be a tad overdone?

That said, we are critically short of strength in depth in some areas, so a few injuries and it'll likely be a different story. And next week will be an extremely stern test.

It was fairly evident most of the pack we're unfit. We've too many players returning from injuries or who have been unavailable to play enough games in preseason.

Even so, we lacked enthusiasm, fitness and organisation. That performance was unacceptable, and Tim Smith wouldn't have changed the result. Bradford deserve alot of credit they played attractive rugby and thoroughly deserved the victory.

It's round one, we started last season poorly and managed to finish with a bang. Hopefully we can't perform any worse than we did today but today was a reality check for some. Attitude is far more important than ability and we were found wanting in both today.

A welcome reality check to be honest, it took a lot of hard work and spirit to put the playoff charge together last year. If any of them were getting complacent then it definitely showed today.

Still, it's a new start, new season - let's not judge Poore too much at this stage either, he's definitely got a presence and if he can adapt to SL over a few games he's got the potential to be a cracking enforcer.

The players will be getting a beasting in training this week ahead of the first home game, hopefully Smith will be back and we will see the real Wakefield stand up against KR.

Statistics on this morning Super League full time programme showed us having only a 52% completion rate and being hammered 8-17 in the penalty count. Add to that the fact we got zero from about a dozen 50:50 decisions from Thaler and you can't win a game with those sort of numbers.

Having said that Warrington managed to win with only a 54% completion rate!

Mathers getting stick on twitter already off whoever set up that fake Poore account, some people

From where I was stood it looked a lot less than that!