Leeds Wire

The first boos were on 20 minutes. Longest they've ever lasted.

Look at the performance of the Academy and Reserves this season and last - you can count on one hand the number of defeats between them. It's very special and demonstrates that the club is now built on solid foundations. We are still miles off Wigan in terms of player production but it's a thousand times better than it was not very long ago! Anyway, I don't want to distract the thread away from a very good Wakey win today, so maybe this is for another time. Both clubs are clearly heading in the right direction. Did anyone honestly predict both Trinity and Wire for the top 4 at the start of the season?

Great game for the BBC to cover. Top quality rugby in front of a big, colourful crowd would have provided a superb tv spectacle. Congrats to Wakey, ultimately deserved winners. Fantastic entertainment by two really well matched teams until late on... I thought Thewlis was excellent today, he gets better every week. Great to see Yates back and McKler is clearly going to be an absolute star. Lots of positives.

No Ewan Irwin again, but Taylor-Wray and Eddie Yates* are back. Mikey Lewis did a great job of taking Irwin out of the comp. Hope he's back for Toulouse, but to be fair to Hayes he's been much improved at 7. *one for the kids there

We once went on a coach to Wakey for a midweek fixture feeling confident about the result. We got off the coach, went through the turnstiles and the terraces were icy. The dreaded voice then came over the tannoy saying it was abandoned. We never win at Wakey.

We don't win at Wakey, apart from about 6 or 7 years ago as a one off when we went about 50 nil up but still nearly lost. Write this one off. Forget it. You might as well put the 2 points on their board now. I don't know why we're even going.

Maori reggae, anyone?

We've got players coming back but are also losing key players like Sipley, who has been immense off the bench. I think this will be really close, but who knows which FC team will turn up?

Serious question - does anyone know?

Massive bullet inadvertently dodged... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/cx2vd0e08xdo Oh crikey they paid us too! https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/wolves/wolvesnews/26113735.warrington-wolves-receive-transfer-fee-tevita-pangai-jr/

Thankfully not, but that's only because I've only just moved in and there were 3 females here previously! I'm starting to think that sitting down might be a better option.

Yet here you are, commenting. The first bit was ok, although you were obviously a bit leathered; but then you really lost your way.

I've not read the rest of this thread yet but, replying to you, I think Peters got his tactics all wrong tonight. HKR are better than that, I think, but they deserved to lose and will face some suspensions that will finish their season. Nasty stuff. They should have just played rugby.

This is so good