Bigger yes, better have a word with yourself. The pitch is the only and I mean only thing going for you.

I think it was a fair assessment.
It wasn't our best side (assuming the three overseas players are going to be successful and smith and lautiti to come back in) but we were beaten in all departments by fev today.
The experienced players came up short today.

You may well be right but it's still better than the dump you play in.

So we are boasting that our stadium is slightly less crap than theirs because we have a flat pitch.

Yet we are a city and they are a street. We get significantly more funding than they do from RL and bigger crowds.
We should be better and I find it pretty "UN-classy" to pick fault with theirs. Especially after they just spanked us.

Let's move on to criticising our players

Seems to be a few sour grapes on here and for me the best team on the day won, more effort and enthusiasm, not sure where the earlier poster saw Kirmond putting in a decent effort, as I thought he had a poor game, Annakin was our best forward and maybe young Crowther would have run a close 2nd given a bit more game time, if Richard Moore is in the 17 for Salford I'd be amazed, on a day of por performace the positives I would take is, the 2 players that got the most slating last year went pretty well today (Fox & Lynne) not sure what was up with mathers but he didn't look like he wanted to be there, Sykes was dire for 60% of the game but actually went well at full back when RM went off, put in 2 try saving tackles, Wildie didn't look right at SH and we had no direction from anywhere on the field.
On the ground comments, PO road is obviously being improved and once completed will be a great little stadium, but the pitch needs to be sorted and entry/exit needs to be improves, to say that there was only 2.5k fans there

it took a very long time to get out of the ground, no lighting at the back of the stands and having a couple of young ones in tow was a bit scary at times as you couldn't see what was happening or the ground under foot.
Well done to Fev tho they certainly were up for that game

Brilliant corporate facilities, brilliant atmosphere in the north stand. Obviously it could be a lot better and has suffered years of neglect but hopefully in the new stadium soon. POR will be a nice little ground when finished is the pitch getting levelled as part of the improvements?

My daughters future father inlaw went today,to see how Jordan went mainly,even though Wakey lost,he really enjoyed the game and is now getting a season ticket for BV,so at least some good came out of today's game.

Hasn't mathers just become a dad again in the last week or so? May explain why his head appeared to be elsewhere and his performance not the best.

Levelled and extended by 15m to the regulation size

Well me and mole rat could not stop laughing at mathers how bad was he today and boxing day, going to cost us some points this season fox went ok and yes PO Road is a dump

The fev winger made Lynn look third rate.

was looking for you today mate, hope you were not hob knobing in the private boxes

well done to the lad today

Outplayed in every facet of the game. Well done Fev on the performance, it was cold for their players as well I expect, and well done on being such a professional organisation both on and off the field. The ground will be fabulous when completed, not many better places for creating a good atmosphere than Post Office Road.

The question on the ground levelling has been answered all ready. I know someone who has been in the corporate boxes and he does rate it highly, so I will give you that.

I think BV has always had decent atmosphere just like POR and Wheldon Rd. The only issue at Fev is that it's hard to generate and atmosphere every week when some visiting teams bring less than 200 fans, BV would be no different in the Championship.

Will Sharp,decent player,finished well.having said that you would have thought that after 2 easy tries down the same wing you would have mobilised extra cover to prevent it happening another 2 or 3 times,but you can only coach it,if that between the rib cage says no, there is no coach in the world will make it happen.

Apparently stating the obvious about POR is being bitter. I ain't bitter, I thought fev played well and took advantage of our mistakes, poor attacking and defending, but that doesn't mean that the state of POR can be excused.

No Baz,was sat with the clampits as norm,chuffed to bits with him,so grown up since being with the 1st team set up.

Agree

I thought the first 12 minutes that we dished up today were the worst I can remember seeing for some time.

As a Fox critic I feel I should say I thought he was possibly our best back today and deserved credit.

In the pack I agree with other posters about Annakin and young Crowther also showed up well.

No one so far mentioned Smith, I thought he looked good and was our best prop by far.

As far as Mathers is concerned, he did the warm up in a tracksuit and looked like he did not want to be there. The way he played also gave me that impression.

With your comments on the ground, if your not bitter then you are delusional because many of your fellow Wakefield fans have been very complimentary on our ground improvements.

Not come on here to gloat at all because it was just a friendly and you can't read too much into friendlies. Little annoyed with some of the comments on our ground which I just don't agree with.

With your past money troubles and the players you've lost then you need to keep right behind your team and coaching staff.

All the best for next season especially against Cas

Far too many delicate flowers on here today; I call it as I see it and I won't patronise Fev by suggesting that their ground is wonderful since they've put the new stand up, because it isn't; the lights were not strong enough, the car park and access road was a swamp, the steps were crumbling away and the whole place looked a dump. They've obviously got big plans and best of luck to them, but there's a long way to go before I wax lyrical.

As for the rugby - it was pretty grim, but congratulations to Fev on the win - they thoroughly deserved it.

I am impressed with the changes. Once the stands are fully functional, you could do with a decent pitch. Obviously there are other areas that need improving as it's not the finished article but I certainly applaud the progress.



Today was such a cold, grey, murky day and the pitch looked chewed up after 10 minutes. Fast forward to the stands finished, played in sunshine on a firmer pitch it looks a whole lot better!

Old Trafford it isn't but it's certainly looking a lot better for mine.

Ps remember to stock up on the 'ten bobs'

Was worried I was going to get a cold coffee when the electric went off 5 times whilst queueing up..

Pretty grim afternoon....

Best team on the day won, they wanted it much more all over the park and that was the difference.....

Where we were 2-3 months ago though I'll still take some positives from today.....Fev are a good side in their own right on their own patch.....a very difficult place to go....pitch looked very heavy to me and was very hard work.....after a nightmare opening 10-15 mins and two big errors that were punished....there wasn't much in it.....we bombed a few good chances....Fev looked a bit better composed and a bit better all round.....which was to be expected I think....

Certainly not the end of the world and plenty to build on.....a tough game.....a kick up the back side.....everything a pre season game should be......glad to finally have feeling back in me toes!!

Wakeys attitude and application was appalling in that first 15 mins and thats what the difference for me was - did they feel they just had to turn up and we would let them steamroller us? it looked like it from that first pass which was nonchelent at best

Although most seem to be blaming Mathers, Richard Moore was about as quick as a 2 legged cheetah in dealing with his initial error

Aside from that first 15 mins dont think there was much in it barring we took our chances that came our way through a combo of patience and good play and wakey appeared to panic when they got close to the line

Nice to have the local bragging rights for a change - it has been a while