Wakefield coach Daryl Powell labelled the reasoning behind only giving George Delaney a yellow card for his controversial tackle on Friday a \u2018joke\u2019: but admitted it had no outcome on the result after his side were well-beaten by St Helens.<\/p>\n
The Saints were 20-0 in front in the final ten minutes of the first half at the DIY Kitchens Stadium when Delaney caught Lachlan Walmsley high.<\/p>\n
Match official Liam Moore admitted Delaney left his feet when making the challenge but said that there was \u2018low-level force\u2019 and mitigation which brought the incident down from a red card to a yellow.<\/p>\n
That left many surprised by that decision \u2013 and when it was put to Powell the reasoning behind it being a sin-bin, the Wakefield coach said: \u201cInteresting. It\u2019s a red but the game is the game, we got beat at everything tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a joke if that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. Get on the end of one of them and see how low level it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Powell was quick to admit there was no complaints about the result, with the Saints stronger in every aspect and Powell left to wonder if his side\u2019s momentum had been stunted by the week off for the split round last weekend.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI\u2019m not taking anything away from St Helens, they were way too good for us. We\u2019re still in a big battle and we can\u2019t let that derail us.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see a lot of rustiness from us tonight; handling errors, lack of co-ordination.. we\u2019ve trained okay but when you\u2019ve got Saints coming at you like they do.. they fully deserved it. It should have been a sending off but they were ahead of us by a distance tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe the week off hasn\u2019t done us much good tonight they had way too much intent for us. It was really disappointing from our perspective and we need to improve from that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wakefield coach Daryl Powell labelled the reasoning behind only giving George Delaney a yellow card for his controversial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-53728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}