With the greatest of respect to both York and Sheffield, in terms of buns on seats at Wembley, this would've been the best final.

Fascinating to see how Bradford react after last week's defeat when they appeared to put the cue on the rack too early. Will they come out and bare their teeth or will they go into their shells especially if they find themselves behind early? Can they sort out their on field discipline ? In far too many games this has let them down

Swinton are a tough side to beat at home and will push the Bulls very hard. Tough one to call but I will go for a home win

I didn’t, it’s a man’s game and they need to be tough - he needs to take it on the chin, I’m all for it, a no blame culture is a losing culture. One proviso, is that is across the board, fairs fair.

I thought exactly the same, also I'm struggling to see which players were offside from the 2 kicks that were dropped by Bradford, although i would also admit there we a couple of "flat" passes from Wakefield that resulted in tries.
The 2nd half was total domination though and even the first 30 mins wasn't as strong for Bradford as the commentators on the radio were portraying, they only scored once plus a penalty in front of the sticks

I agree, there is a lot of positives to take from individual accountability and I also don`t think there is anything wrong with calling it out publicly, I think it creates a winning mentality, I mean we can all see it anyway. Powell has always done it but so have coaches like Wane. On the flipside I have heard DP is a really good man manger and makes a big effort to develop close relationships with each player, they will understand what is expected of them, he won`t just be calling them out out of the blue.

Yeah, I thought that watching it back, seemed like a shoulder charge but hard to see tbf and it happens quickly.