Was very impressed with the following

Jordan Crowther - young lad from Wakey academy. Started at LF playing good minutes and looking strong with a few good touches and drives.

Batchelor - England academy player. - again see above. These are two very exciting young forwards who have big futures.

These were the pick of the young lads wakey fielded.

I liked the look of golding who was busy.

Be good to see fifita, hubby, miller, mason brown, Gibson added to the team we had out but was mostly pleased for our pack with a couple of young lads in with a handful of appearances in Sl getting the better of players like garbut, Delaney, singleton etc.

It is only a friendly but there was a massive lack of direction in the Leeds team. Was shocked at how clueless they were tbh.

Thanks for the input TH..

It was a lot worse than what you imagine.
I have never been so bored at a rugby match as I was in the second half, including all the other boxing day fixtures.

In 80 mins of RL Leeds only did 3 bits of skill worth watching (covering less than 1% of the game), Sutcliffe put in a boss kick, Golding and Lilly did some nice quick hands and made a half break, and Ormondroyd showed some strength to score.
These weren't really highlights, the Leeds team of 2015 would do maybe 50 bits of equal skill.

I went to watch it because I (like many of the nation) like watching some sport on boxing day, but if the Rhinos coach and players don't care then next year me and my family will try get tickets for the united game.

Always going to be difficult when the opposition play a near full strength side.

It's shame we didn't create more from distance but we got over their line plenty of times which was encouraging and showed we were making opportunities at least.

Overall hard to judge really with 9 first team players absent. It's virtually a different team.

True but not true, you see if Leeds want to be genuine contenders there will be times in a season when they will have nine out but be expected to win.

Also not every one of those missing players was a pivot player vital to the team.

Fact is friendly or not if it weren't for Trinity being a bit rusty themselves you were looking at a fifty point humiliation on your own middings - not acceptable under any circumstances against a mid table local rival!

BMs comments were pathetic and he's clearly out of his depth now he can no longer depend on the team other better coaches created. Personally I hope you stick with him.

i fear for our chances in the Lazenby Cup game next year, in what is undoubtably our biggest shot at silverware.

it is only following on from what was served up all 2016.Only Segeyaro could provide it and he is long gone.

Sadly this is so true!

LeedsDave, I know and accept that we put out a stronger team than Leeds, and no doubt that effected the result. But to suggest that we had a near full strength team is a bit of a stretch. We had a lot of youth in that team. Including 3 players under the the age of 21 that all played decent mins. Furthermore we missed some of our most important players the like of: huby, jowitt, fifita, MCB and some of our other, and in my opinion better, fringe played like annakin and Gibson.

I'm sure come the season the result will be closer, I hope it is as it will be more entertaining. It's a friendly and too much shouldn't be read into it. However a bit of acknowledgement to Wakefield instead of excuses about the team selection is deserved I feel

taking nothing away from Wakey, you should be fighting for super 8s. it looks tight at the minute, i see a top 5 who will be secure then the rest could be in any order really. And i include Leeds in that battle.