I shall give them some encouragement while holding my pint

Looks a lot like the Dewsbury game last pre season and for those who cant make their mind's up whether to go.

These games are are rare chance to see the Trinity players of tomorrow (quite literally, the day before kick off) and it's a good chance to visit somewhere that Trinity dont go to very often.

£10 is damn reasonable.



Come on Trin !

Trinity team to face Batley: Hooley, Kershaw, Ashen, Lewis, Croft, Jowitt, Ackroyd, Wray, Hiddleston, Crowther, Newbound, Moxon, Batchelor. Subs: Bailey, J. Schofield, Aydin, T. Schofield, Kamano, Gwaze, Colthorpe, Jones.



Interesting max at 6

Hiddleston seems to be playing well at hooker

Good first half from the boys but this second half the young lads have been generally very good in defense but a few too many mistakes when we have the ball & Batley have scored off the back of them, making the most of coming down the hill.

That’s a very young squad with 5 having had just one year in the Academy and 5 Just stepped up from Scholarship, including Aydin, Schofield and Kamano who are all 17 year old Front rowers.

Yeah, these lads will have got a hell of a lot from this game and CC will be very proud with how they've played against a generally much older bigger experienced Batley side.

Did anyone go today?

The comments on FB are quite positive.



Just wondered if anyone could add any detail about how the young guns played.

Especially Max at 6.

All played well against a physical Batley side, with no help from a poor ref. A good mature 80 minutes performance from all the young kids, proud of them all

Just listened to Mark Applegarth interview on Trinity TV, sums it up perfect.

That's massive understatement about the Ref BLM, he was horrific, 2 tackles in the 2nd half that could have ended in serious injury went totally unpunished, how long did we go in the game before we got a penalty despite the high/late tackles being committed by Batley. Shoulder charges a plenty and a half time penalty counts something like 7-2 in favour of Batley, then in the last 5 mins the ref gives us around 6 pens in 6 sets like we don't know what he's doing to even up the count.

All,in all though I thought that young team did very well against what is likely to be close to Batleys starting team, Max went well at SO and his try was an absolute pearled, he spotted the gap from way out and was shouting for the ball to get to him. I think there's an awful lot to be happy with at the moment with our academies and the the possible future they offer Wakefield Trinity