The defensive effort from tonight coupled with the short turnaround resulted in tired players making more errors then usual and poor discipline due to fatigue.
I'm not going to bemoan the ref as we were our own worst enemy at times and out last tackle plays were disappointing but a win is a win.
Wakefield had won 2 of our last 3 meetings so credit to the lads for their mindset to stick in the grind.
Who knows how the team of last year would have fared in that arm wrestle.
This is our best start to a season for 12 years now and whilst we will have poor patches occasionally I'm enjoying this new journey so far, even Swift alluded to our happy camp this season so despite a below par performance I'm happy with the win.

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massive effort from the team in defence.defended 5 repeat sets on our line.
What is a concern is that indiscipline is creeping back into the team.Last week also against Warrington.
This puts so much pressure back on defence.
I dont know whether Sneyd is still playing with an injury but he has to start taking more control as our last tackle plays are so poor.
Looks like we willl lose Bowden for several weeks and Faraimo likely to get two match ban
Fonua will come back in and luckily we have Jack Brown available for Bowden but it does highlight our lack of depth in the forwards

11 tackle busts

Plus 19 carries and 113 metres.

Big figures from Carlos as usual

1 try
133 metres
15 carries
4 runs from dummy half
1 tackle bust
1 clean break
20 tackles

Seems like the win has come at a cost. In addition to Shaul, Reynolds, Ma'u and Matongo on the sidelines we've now got Griffin, Sneyd and Bowden with issues and Faraimo maybe getting a ban. Never mind, only Wigan next.

Good to hear BH post match when asked about the interception that the play was on, the execution was off so we definitely don't want to be discouraging that sort of enterprise.

Shaul and Matongo haven't been here since game 1 so hardly a miss.
Not sure how far away Ma'u and Reynolds are away from fitness.
Bowden out of all of them seems more likely to miss the Wigan game.
Try not to focus on the negative, Wigan also have key personnel missing too.

That's a new one, I must remember that.

Shaul is a miss because he is an experienced player in our squad who is unavailable. Matongo would have come into contention with Ma'u and Bowden out, so is a miss.
Ma'u is a 3-4 week injury based on last week's update, so 2-3 week's still. Reynolds was said to be 4-6 week's 2 weeks ago. So neither will be back according to stated timescales. As you say Bowden is likely to miss out, so that's 5-7 players missing against last year's Grand Finalists. Not negative, just factual. As you'll see from my posts after the match, I'm pretty chipper about our start to the season, but we haven't played a top side yet and now have to do so with a chunk of the squad out, possibly evem both first choice halves.Good to keep a sense of perspective I think.

Shaul being unavailable however has proved an opportunity to Connor who I feel is flourishing in that role and offers so much more in attack, so not the miss you're making it out to be in my opinion.

Ma'u and Reynolds are definite misses but again timescale not definitely known.

Matongo is a back up player at best but him missing on a positive provides an opportunity for Brown who I rate to be better.

Bowden looks to be a definite miss too so out of your 5-7 missing, I think in real terms about 3.

So keeping a good sense of perspective I prefer to look at the positives.

We've played Warrington who you keep reminding us are a top 4 team.

I suspect Wigan will be too good for us though but even they have injury problems and were playing Farrell and Isa as centres and Smithies in the back row.
French has only just come back and Field is missing also.
Just to put it into perspective and not making rash assumptions regarding players missing.

I'm glad you've been pretty chipper because we look a far better team under Hodgson but you still like that negative spin to downplay our chances, let's be positive eh.

I would like to go the season without us falling out

He really needs to step up his positional play though as Fev caught him out with kicks behind the line.

His effort or lack of for the Wakefield kick behind the line was pretty terrible, he just didn’t follow the play at all and wasn’t even in the frame when Batchelor collected the kick.

Wane has talked about the GPS stats for high intensity efforts during the game which Connor doesn’t seem to do.

This will never happen.


I'll partially concede on the Warrington point (Big 4 club for sure financially but fans baying for the coach to be binned off) but on current info we have 5 of our squad unavailable for selection next week (Reynolds, Ma'u, Bowden, Shaul and Matongo)and may end up with that number being 8 should Griffin's shoulder and Sneyd's leg prove issues and Faraimo cops a.ban. Next week is a massive test for us even at full strength and we hear nothing else about Wigan than that they never seem to weaken with players out because the next cab off the rank from the academy is of equal capability. I hope we can dig deep and find our best performance of the year so far to win because that's what it will need to be IMO. Let's return to the risk assessment after the disciplinary and squad announcements.

Didn't matter in the end but why did Thaler send this up as a No Try and why didn't the video ref overrule it?

It's very easy to say that looking at a still picture, but Thaler was on the wrong side to see the grounding and the ball came pinging out so it would have been hard to give a try on the field. Then on the replay it did look like his hand might have come off it before he regathered again. I don't really have any issue with it being disallowed.

Thaler was on the wrong side all night.

I'd be very surprised if Faraimo escapes a ban, and it looks like we will be without Bowden for a couple of weeks at least. Sneyd certainly seems to have a knock but it appears to be manageable. He still did most of the kicking last night which suggests he wasn't struggling too badly. No idea about Griffin.

Hopefully Reynolds is only a week or two away.

Reynolds is running now.i guess the club are trying to get him fit for the C/C game
Cant see us getting a win next week but hopefully if we have Reynolds back for the C/C we can put in a performance and get the win

At your age you'll struggle

Thought he spoke superbly after the game to

Because the refs and video refs are completely useless

Relived we got the win in the end ugly as it was ,The team looked absolutely gassed but credit to finding a way to keep unbeaten . Our defence has been totally transformed from last season ,

Up to third tonight by the looks of it.

Pleasing start to the season given Josh Reynolds has missed two of the four games,

playing us doesnt seem to have taken too much out of Warrington.
Shows how far we have come to be so near to a win against a very good Warrington team
Cant see a win against Wigan but if we can get Reynolds back for the C/C i think we can win

To be honest I thought Catalan were disappointing and certainly didn’t give Warrington a hard game. I’m surprised they didn’t get at Warrington physically or up the intensity. It was a very limp performance from Catalan.