Don’t like to come away from games talking about the ref but that was absolutely shocking. The guy was clueless and couldn’t keep up with the game at all. Hopefully he’ll have a few weeks off for how long the Wakey doctor was on the pitch before he paused time.

Second to this, we seem far behind the rest of the league when it comes to exploiting the ref. Took us until well into second half to see forward passes were fair game!

If the Disciplinary goes true to form, Taylor will be cited in there somewhere, Ellis will get 1 match and Paea will be warned about his running style

Copy and paste every week

Just got back after the match (to my South Midlands home). Didn't I say that we'd tire out the massive Wakefield pack?!





Seriously though, I thought it was a typical week-after-Easter game; both sides looked exhausted in the scond half and made loads of mistakes (although not as many as Mr Moore!) But well done the lads, including the tactics from Lee.

The ref was equally as poor for both sides but to add a little balance and contrast there was an interesting comment from Ganson last week regarding the standard of refereeing.
He said if you are a young rugby player you have reserve grade or loans at lower leagues to learn, improve and make mistakes. A referee as such doesn't have that luxury due to the low numbers and so their training when they step up to being professional has to be on the job.
Fair comment I think, we all have to start somewhere and improve from learning from our past experiences.

Ha! The last quarter was awful, wasn't it? Errors, inexplicable penalties, forward passes. Easter period needs looking at with backing up on Friday too, players must be knackered.

Completely agree with this. Definitely a pattern that the referees you dread getting are inexperienced/new, only for 5 years later to be praying to get them.

Can anyone tell me what the penalty we won in the last minute was for? I assumed obstruction at the time, but having watched the highlights, I can't see anything?

I think the ref is still trying to work that one out himself so we fans have no chance.

backchat

Hull by 16 anyone ??

The voice speaks lol

he called a forward pass and got backchat for it.
the crowd called it, he called it, but there wasn't one
nevertheless, you can't gob off about it, especially pointless since the game was gone.
5h1t happens

Think you need to tilt your prediction pendulum more toward optimism than your current pessimism position. Your realism is about right!

Can’t believe a thread on the Wakey board saying Ellis is poop and basically a cheap shot merchant!!!!
Pity they don’t say the same about Pauli paulis two high shots which at least one was worthy or the same punishment Ellis got as in a yellow. Amazing also how they fail to mention the grubby h0use stuff the Kirmond does during a game.

Ellis should not have even been in a position to do a tackle if that rubbish Ref had blown for the blatent obstruction he missed in the first place.

But thought it was only Hull he could call for obstruction through the 80 mins or it definitely seemed that way.

Just glad we made it 4pts from 6 over Easter just hope it’s nit come at a cost.

I had to listen to Gollum on radio, god he’s a terrible commentator, well played lads a good two points. How did Greeny play.

He wasn’t too bad to be fair considering how long he’s been out. He rang the ball in well and don’t remember him making many if any mistakes.

Lane would be in my 17 every week.

Don't get your point about Bowden, does it matter how long he has been out for, this still injured and would be in our 17, so he is a loss.


Thought we were the best team for 60mins, had Ellis not been sinbinned I think it would have been over by half time, there is no doubt they had key men missing, but so do we and down to 2 subs for the majority off the game after Easter shows how good a win that was.

Good position to be in, 3rd with our squad and injuries is miles ahead of were 99% rugby fans thought we would be.

Cheers Chris, we just need Bowden back now, and hopefully a return of Tag mint Bowden Greeny Mickey P and Massi gives us a bit of that go forward which served us so well in the past, we maybe don’t have a Dave Fafita but we do have a tried and tested front row.

who was it that sent ellis to the sin bin?.was it the ref or was it big gob fifita,good player though he is he was like poverty yesterday,he would be in.every referee decision ,he had a go at the clown of a ref.lookingt at the replay,the fash tackle was just as bad,but no one went to the bin.probably a repeat performance this Friday with part time ref Tompkins.

What annoyed me most about Fifita, when Ellis was sin binned, was, he applauded the ref.
There was far to much talking to the ref, going on in yesterdays game, and Jake Connor was one of the worst offenders.

I thought Connor was too busy giving Lynne absolute hell. Even before kick off

No errors, average gain 11.71m, highest of any player in the game (admittedly against a tiring defence it still).

Another monster stint from Griffin as well - 166m, and 128m from Tag.