It may be only April, but the door feels like it is beginning to shut on Wakefield Trinity’s Super League status already. They are four points adrift of safety after nine defeats from their opening nine games, but it is the numbers behind those defeats that will cause great concern to supporters of one of rugby league’s grandest old clubs.
They have scored just 47 points in those nine games, and 24 of those came on the opening night against Catalans. That means that from their past eight matches they are not even averaging a try a game. In fact the Leigh winger Josh Charnley, who scored two tries in this commanding win to take his season tally to 12, has more points to his name than do Wakefield.
