Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 5:45 pm  

2 weeks off now, let's hope some of the injured players are back for HKR. Also they come back with the desire and enthusiasm shown by all those guys today.

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Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 5:55 pm  

Wow.
Well done to the players, the supporters that kept the faith, the supporters who didn't (myself included) and most importantly
well done to Mark Appleyard who must sleep a little easier this evening!
They have given us a tiny glimmer of hope, only a tiny bit but it's a lot more than we had at 2.59pm this afternoon.

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 5:57 pm  

How about those kick offs!

They all got stuck in, can't fault any of them. Dagger and Smith made a surprising good partnership.

Highlight for me, Eddie waving his umbrella around after we forced a Leeds error.

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:00 pm  

Great effort all round, that was one hell of shift they put in with 12 men and they fully deserved it. Seeing Leeds not able to do anything right whatsoever was also very amusing! The battle for survival is up and running, onwards & upwards.

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:04 pm  

Sacred Cow wrote:

Great effort all round, that was one hell of shift they put in with 12 men and they fully deserved it. Seeing Leeds not able to do anything right whatsoever was also very amusing! The battle for survival is up and running, onwards & upwards.

Well done guys but do not get carried away , you were only playing Leeds and you probably need to win another 6 games to stay up and you do not play us 6 more times

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:47 pm  

80 minutes of grit and determination won us that game. Yeah, we could (and should) have been 4 tries down at half time but the guys just kept turning up for each other - all 17 of them
On paper Leeds had the much better squad but we just out-enthused them over the 80 minutes and I honestly didn't even see Bentley until he got subbed and it was announced over the tannoy
Well done guys (and Mash)....onwards and upwards

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:52 pm  

Hood should be no were near the team again this season,,Hope the coach as learnt is lesson about playing old men instead of youth Most of the old men out of team to day and it showed. Good movement of ball, getting across the park faster to cover in defence.Put a bit of pride back into the club Procter looked a different player playing at Prop and .put a good shift in Just hope we keep the faith in youth but do not think we will

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:56 pm  

Wire fan here...after our awful last season's performance I have plenty of sympathy for you guys. Massive well done on the win, even if it was only Leeds (lol), let's hope the monkey is now off your backs and it's the first of many - Good Luck for the rest of the season!

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:56 pm  

Well Mash was clearly impressed with the youngsters, so who knows ??

Wakefield coach Mark Applegarth told BBC Radio Leeds:

"I'm just really chuffed. People have probably been questioning the team spirit behind the scenes, and they have answered quite a few questions today.

"The lads who went out on that field stood up for one another. When we went down to 12 men it would have been quite easy for them to roll over and think 'Here we go again'.

"I knew the young lads I had in the academy, what their temperament and character was like, as obviously I've worked with them for a good six years, and the two French lads who came on trial, I knew we'd get a lot of enthusiasm out of them.

Re: Team v leeds : Sun Jun 11, 2023 7:13 pm  

Special praise for Dagger , no one wanted him here ,he gets shipped from piller to post yet still puts in solid performances week in week out , max could do far worse than to watch his tackling technique , exemplary . Those french lads look hungry and old Hugo will be getting a dinner date with Helen Skelton after that pile driver of a tackle . Still clunky at times and defensive lapses , 3 bombed tries in first half alone , but we held on and got stuck in and came home with a wet sail ,can’t ask for much more really ,