He said: No one in our position looks at the top
He said: “No one in our position looks at the top of the table. I would just sooner give a lot of positives to Wakefield than make excuses They played really well. We had a couple of chances through Darren Albert, and maybe a couple of tries could have made a difference. We are normally great at taking chances, but we didn’t do that and they did. The opposition were stronger than us.”The defeat leaves Saints with more ground to make up on league leaders Leeds Rhinos, although Millward is not too concerned at this stage of the season. They have been playing really well recently, and were a bit more clinical than us. They finished off things better.”Losing Chris Joynt did not help, but it did not cost us the game.
Great Britain star Keiron Cunningham had joined the suspended Sean Long and Martin Gleeson on the sidelines and, although captain Paul Sculthorpe led from the front once again, the visitors were comprehensively beaten Millward said: “Wakefield deserved to win. I thought we have been really close at times this season – last week at Wigan we dominated the second half – but this was just sensational.”The Saints’ coach was quick to hold his hands up afterwards and admit that his men had been completely outplayed. I was particularly pleased with some of our young kids as well They really showed they are Super League standard All credit to the guys, they were sensational. Saints started at a rate of knots but, once we got to the pace of the game, we dominated.”It was one of the most satisfying performances since I have been here. We certainly had go forward, and bags of enthusiasm as well.”Ben Jeffries, with two tries, and the man of the match David March led the way for the Wildcats, although McNally was quick to stress it had been a real team effort He added: “The whole 17 played well. The guys have been putting in some really big efforts recently – against Salford, even though we won, it was really tough, Hull and Wigan – and it paid dividends for us We talked about two things: go forward and enthusiasm.
Wakefield’s coach, Shane McNally, revealed the secret behind his side’s shock Friday- night victory over St Helens – he wrapped his players up in cotton wool in the lead-up to the game.
The Wildcats have been involved in some bruising encounters in the Tetley’s Super League recently, and McNally adopted a softly-softly approach for the visit of Ian Millward’s Challenge Cup winners – and saw his men come up trumps with a marvellous and thoroughly deserved 41-22 victory.McNally said: “We have been pretty light on them this week – we only trained on Wednesday and Thursday. It is a reminder that not everything in rugby league is as he left it.. Now, with just one win so far this season, they are on their way to relegation. “I feel a more complete player because of skills I’ve learned in union that I didn’t have before,” he says.Time will tell. This afternoon, he will have the opportunity to see his new club demonstrate that, for all league’s increased speed and intensity since he left, there remains a big gulf between the top and bottom of Super League.Castleford were top-six candidates when Harris went to Wales.
