Carnt believe it turning points down in front of post's, typical Wakefield salford are not going to lay down, hope they don't regret it at final whistle.

Not at the races today. Look poor and lethargic as a whole. Salford up for it now.

Well a win is a win. Child killed us with that last penalty, that happens 5 or 6 times a game. A lot of work to do.

Eddie still can't help himself. He's gutted. As an aside where the hell is the match analysis. Does it always just end like that when Trinity play?

A win is a win but our line speed at times in the second half was very slow and Salford made easy yards and their half backs were allowed too much freedom.

It’s early season and conditions weren’t great but I was surprised how well Salford kept going in the second half given they had to do a lot of defending in the first.

Scott Grix and the missed kicks from o’brien allowed us to sneak home we have some work to do

Nah we were nowhere near our best but at this stage of the season, while the teams are still trying to hit their straps, I'll take it. For me, we should have been further ahead at halftime if we'd have been a little bit slicker in attack but as Tricky says conditions weren't great. CC won't be happy with the Lui try where he went in untouched and Pauli will be gutted he couldn't have gone over. Great tackle by Grixy on the Salford wing near the end of the game though. Again much to work on, personally, I can't wait till the weather picks up not just cause it's freezing but I think that's' when we'll see the best from the side. I thought we'd have a bit of a field day down their flanks but their defense seemed to have improved massively compared to the Wigan highlights I saw.

It wouldn’t be Wakefield if we made it easy! Onwards and upwards..

I'll take the win but probably the best team lost tonight.

We certainly wasn't at our best tonight that is for sure. Far from it.

A win though is a win, and would take that any day of the week.

If we have top 4 aspirations we need to be better than that.

The defence on our left edge was very worrying.

Thought Rocky was class when he came on, and don't think it will be long before he is pressurising Miller and Finn for a starting spot.

Grix MoM for me.

We won't remember how we got the two points in a few games time.
We should have had more points in first half.
We really missed big Dave when he went off
Not keen on some of TJs positioning in defence.
And I hope PP doesn't turn in to a Tautai. Needs to keep old of the ball.

Grix was excellent.
Hampshire, Finn and Hampshire all showed great touches.
Glad Huby is back.
Wood was very good at acting halfback. He just keeps improving

So overall we didn't do badly. Salford are not mugs.
At least we held on under pressure when we weren't at our best.
Training will be tough this week.

I don't know about that, we were better in the first half and like I said above should have put more points on them and they had the better of it in the second generally. It wasn't like the Leeds game yesterday imo where Hull KR was generally the better team most of the game apart from when Leeds scored. I'd personally say we just about deserved the win.

Thought rocky turned the game for us in 2nd half hed start next game for me

Agree we did miss the go forward of Dave when he went off. Bit unfair on Pauli, he hasn't in all the previous games come across as feet for hands kind of guy and as an Aussie coming over here to play in alien conditions, it's going to take games for him to hit top form imo. Anyway onwards and upwards.. I'll have to have a better watch of the game when it comes on Trinity TV.

Similar to last years home game with Hull. Better to get these type of games or "performances" out of the system now whilst the season is young.

He's having a similar effect when he comes on to last year with Miller when we were playing Finn and Williams in the halves. He really does makes an impact.

Funny you should mention that I said exactly the same at the game, exactly the same freezing cold damp conditions as our first home game last season.

ATEOTD like you say it's better to get average performances out of the system at this time of year and gradually peak towards the end. It's what teams like Leeds and Wigan have been doing for years.

Can't understand the game management, 14-8 up in front of the Salford posts and we don't drop a goal . Instead we opt for a 50/50 kick to the corner!! A win is a win so on to Catalan.

Couldn't agree more Pop Tart regarding TJs defence.

Fair enough he scores plenty of classy tries, but there is no hiding place these days for a player who's defensive reads and positions are weak. All the great wingers have been able to defend well when needed.

The concern is coached of other teams could watch the video of this game and exploit that, if we don't fix it

Ball control and completion not good enough and cheap turnovers from not playing the ball are schoolboy stuff.
Mind you, rather an ugly win than play well and lose.

We are top of the league, we are top of the league, it wont be for long with Wigan playing Hull in the morning but, 100% is as good as it can be.

It's one play FFS.

No doubt Tj, when he came up had some defensive issues like all young wingers tend to have and we had threads on the subject on here. But as he's shown as he's got more experience, that part of his game has massively improved. No doubt he wasn't at his best defensively or positionally today and got caught out but imo I wouldn't think a Coach would pick him out in particular because of this game.

Our execution with the ball is still a bit off and we need to cut out the daft penalties but the first bit should come with game time and better conditions and the second will have to improve if we want to beat the top teams.

Don’t get the questioning of TJ defence as BJB got caught too far in for evalds try. In addition, the players inside allowing Salford’s playmakers to run across the line untouched was also a factor albeit not for the Welham try

Don’t like singling out players but after last weeks performance and this weeks performance, I would rather of had Kirmond out for the next game. Penalties and errors put us under pressure, he is definitely not a loose forward.

take the 2, learn from it and sweep it under the carpet, but blimey...all those penalties killed our game, just like last week.

Does JK want a Sunday job..



Its early though, its 2 points and all part of the big build.

Another example of switching off in the middle part of the game - and too many penalties; although as is Mr Child's wont, some of them were a bit baffling - particularly the one near the end for Big Dave not playing the ball correctly; watch it back - he played it exactly the same way as most players do, in most matches.

Hey ho - not the best to watch, but it had some grit; and Miller's try was a peach. The table will say 2 from 2 - that's all that matters.