So many positives and negatives from last night I think it took a night to sink in! For me they are:-



Positives



- Number of Wakey fans, wow what a turnout! I knew we were bringing a few but every time I stood up and looked at our end people were everywhere! Brilliant show folks. "We've got more fans than you!"



- Atmosphere, it's a long time since I was at a game where the fans sang all the way through the match and in such good spirits.



- Songs, some real greats there including "We're all going on a top 8 tour", "Glover, Glover give us a wave", "There's only one Andrew Glover" and even "There's only one Richard Agar!"



- Cuteness - James Elston posting on twitter a picture of their little boy at the ground



- Performance, whilst not great it was an improvement on last week and we scored plenty



- Beach ball





- Tries, my favourite was the one from Lee Smith although there were many good ones



Negatives:



- defence is something I think we really need to work hard on. We conceeded a lot of tries at the end although that maybe due to the result not being in doubt



- Lauitiiti not playing



- Smokers in the ground





- Invading the pitch. All those idiots who put a dampner on things at the end by invading the pitch. I know the atmosphere was great, a real party which we all enjoyed but was that really necessary???? It wasn't just youngsters too there were quite a few middle aged people on there too. I felt sorry for the stewards and I felt angry at the idiot who pushed the steward over (you know who you are!) Not only were many of us in the stands ashamed of you but the players clearly looked embarrassed and uneasy by it all.

PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS AT HEADINGLEY - for the reputation of our great club.

Oh I forgot a positive - Leeds next!

Great set-up, great ground, great performance, however please cut out the slackness in defence and no pitch invaders at Headingley.

Regarding Ali Lauititi. He didn't look too bad when sat on the bench,could his migraine have come on as the Bulls result came through? Possibly resting him for next week? Cynical I know.

I actually thought the opposite when I got home and watched Sky I thought Ali looked out of it in the hoody.

RA knows he won't have received a match ban before we meet leeds

I'd take 44-46 next week ( to us, of course) . RA just needs the team to be a bit more focused on attack, in training this week.

Daft pill lock, i hear you say ?

Well, maybe, but I don't believe we can turn our defensive frailties around in the space of 6 days ( RA has lost his remaining hair trying this season - a club contact of mine saw him in a vest- underarm hair, Gone!)

... But, fine- tuning our evident attacking prowess, is Doable.

" we'll throw our best football at them " (quote RA, & he wasn't talking about the one in the boardroom that our 1960 team autographed).

Positives, how about a seven game winning run, confidence must be sky high.



The pack has been superb of late, giving Timmy room to control the game.



Negatives, out inability to defend on final kick plays out wide, it’s been a problem all year & whilst they are difficult to defend, we seem very shaky.



Also, our wingers, especially Fox shooting out of the line leaving us exploited out wide, Agar has probably talked about it, however, you can’t educate pork.

Positives......



Paul Sykes's kicking - Early in the season we lost a couple of games down to missed goalkicks.....such a massive boost when your kicker keeps banging em over from out wide....can't praise him enough for that and his all round game to be fair....



Tim Smith - Absolutely fantastic pair of hands and such a quick thinker....always seems to be a play ahead of others.....2 or 3 times he switched and went down the blinside....think we scored from one and nearly did another.....when he's at the top of his game we've a genuine chance of beating anyone.....



Frankie - Has been a revelation lately coming from off the bench but asked to start and did a solid job and always looking a threat out wide.....



Our back 3 - All have come in for a bit of stick at times but they were excellent and caught just about every high ball put up to my knowledge....the work Fox & Cockayne do from acting half when in our half is probably one of the biggest assets of our game...they are superb at easing the pressure on the pack....both got on the scoresheet again too...



Support - Fantastic again....like a 14th man without a doubt and clearly very much appreciated by all at the club seeing their comments....



Negatives.....



Defence at times - Needs a bit of work as Salford looked like worldbeaters at times....to be fair to them there was absolutely no pressure on them and they were given license to throw the ball about as they liked and that's a dangerous opponent to defend against.....just worries me a bit as Leeds play that type of game and at times we looked all over the place.....think we did ease off a touch though and did things in the final quarter we wouldn't have had it been a closer game....



Pitch invasion - Absolutely braindead thing to do....put a dampener on what was a fantastic occasion and a great time to be a Wakey fan....why can't people just stay where they are and enjoy the whole team coming down to thank the supporters......?

DA

I agree with your comments about our wingers but isn't that the flip-side to their attacking panache ?

I'm not saying that the attacking aspect makes up for the defensive gaffes, but maybe that's the only way they can play the game at the moment. Whether RA can coach them otherwise will become apparent after another close season, though I'm not holding my breath (can you teach an old Fox new tricks?).

Seeing Mathers "super slam" Holdsworth was a postive!

Mathers orchestrated a dignified end to the daft pitch invasion - good lad, thought he handled it well.