Think it is worth giving some credit to the high performers in the team.

Tupou is currently topping the chart for the league for metres gained with 2434.
Reece is also in 4th with 2149.
Neither are work shy clearly and are really testing opposition defences.

Some say having running centres stops your wingers scoring but we have two in the top ten
BJB is 3rd with 13 tries and TJ is 4th with 12.

Miller is 3rd in the try assists with 17.
We don't lack beef either

Matty Ashurst is 3rd in the top tacklers with 638 and Arona is 7th with 591. Arona has often started on the bench too.

Fifita is 3rd on the list of tackle busts with 76. They are effective in different ways for different people. Bill's tackle busts lead to long metres. Finifta's tackle busts lead to hard yards and a tight defense that can't get out to defend the wings.


We have some great players at Wakefield at the moment. I'm enjoying watching them.

Good to see

I can tell you there are a couple of clubs enviously circling around Bill Tupou, after a mixed settling in period he really has become one of the better centres in the league.

Couldn’t agree more - there not just a joy to watch from 1-17 they also have more potential than any team we have put out in SL imo.

The 2004 team may have achieved more up to date but that team wasn’t as balanced and had nothing like the depth. Good though they were they were a flash in the pan where as this team is now hopefully in its third season as a top 8 team.

We haven’t been that consistent since the 70’s maybe even the 60’s,

All good players for us who are playing really well.

Feel sorry for Arundel, as I thought a while back he was our best centre, but I do believe right now Reece and Bill playing really well. Don't get me wrong, still like Joe and sure when fit again, will provide us with options

Chuffed to bits to see Reece playing well. He's had his critics on here and on the terraces in the past. He seems to have silenced those

Reece’s last try was a belter and had it all ,tackle busts and speed to get to the try line .
Exciting times ahead with the team playing like that .

Yup and I suspect you were one. Arundal is unlucky as imho he’s the most natural centre. Tupou has a wingers instinct and it shows occasionally. It swings and roundabouts in that he score more than most centres but doesn’t feed his winger consistently and Lyne is similar. Will be nice to see Arundal available to offer an alternative if needed.

I wasn't actually.

I thought, even back in the Agar days, the lad had potential.

Just wasn't quite sure at the time what his best position was. I don't think Agar did either

If you say so but in my defence keeping up with your sysmic changes of opinion and mammoth panic attacks it isn’t easy.

Yawn

Ditto

Agar made a good decision for us with Lyne.
Chester has done well to improve his skills as a centre.
Tupou was signed by Brian Smith. There has been lots of "he'll never make a centre" but he's just made the best centre his skills allow. He's not a Collis with the little pass he's a runner who busts first and passes second. Again credit to Chester for recognising what he is rather than try and make him into something else.

Tupou, runs like a centre but seems to hit very hard in the tackle.Our backs (from 1`-7) all seem to be going well and with Hampshire and Finn working well together, lets hope that we can have a strong finish to the season.
The pack always looked strong and they can compete with any pack in SL.

Tupou took some time to shake off that nightmare debut in the middle 8's at Salford. Failed to pass out to an overlapping Richard Owen (?) and bombed a certain try by getting collared. We lost by a tight margin. Nice to see him give a rare pass to Johnstone on Sunday that lead to TJ creating a try out of a half chance again.

Who played opposite Inu on Sunday? Was it Lyne or Tupou? Whoever it was Inu had him in his back pocket all game. Inu is classy, but made his opposite number look dreadful in defense on a number of occasions.

Inu was that bad he was desperate to take the kick offs so he didn't have to chase them....

Granted his match fitness was not up to scratch so to speak, I doubt many players would be with it been his first match back from injury in a long while so if you ask me that was quite smart to conserve his energy.

Is there a hint of jealousy there that he turned you down to join us? You know you were in for him!

Inu is a fine player and I would have taken him at Wakefield maybe back in 2012... He's a has bin who showed a bit of form in the early part of the season prior to breaking his leg. He won't be the same player he once was, just stealing a wage!

How odd as both centres scored twice and one won MOM - did Inu score? Because he certainly didn’t bother to defend.

Funny, because I walked past Inu as he was talking to a couple of Widnes fans at the end of the game and that was the first time I'd actually noticed him all afternoon.

I think that sums it up perfectly.

I can absolutely guarantee you that we have never been in for him

He won't have conserved much having to kick off with the number of tries' we scored

I should lay off him, having a battle of wits with an unarmed man is not fair.