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Limited Wildcats suffer fourth straight defeat
Hull FC 12 Wakefield Wildcats 8 WAKEFIELD Wildcats showed plenty off effort at the KC Stadium on Friday night, but not enough guile, craft, cunning and invention to break down Hull's excellent on-line defence.
Wildcats were first to score after ten minutes of what had been up until then an even contest.
Ben Jeffries kicked to the corner, Richard Whiting and Wakefield's Luke George went aerial and centre Daryl Millard followed up to dive on the loose ball. No conversion from Paul Cooke.
Eight minutes later Whiting came in-field and stepped through Wakefield's strung-out defence to level. And Craig Hall converted from in front of the posts to give Hull a lead they refused to relinquish.
On 26 minutes Sam Obst had a try ruled out by video referee Richard Silverwood after replays showed Cooke to have hacked the ball from Jordan Tansey's grasp in the build-up.
And two minutes from the break Wakefield paid the price when full-back Aaron Murphy fumbled a kick by Richard Horne, and from the follow-up attack Whiting got the better of an airborne tussle with Luke George to claim his second try, this time converted by Hall for a 12-4 half-time lead.
Wildcats mounted wave upon wave of attacks in the second half with percentage possession something like 70-30 in their favour.
But Wakefield simply couldn't break down Hull's on-line defence.
The Wildcats were just too predictable - five drives and a kick to the flanks. Boring and unimaginitive and it got Wakefield no where.
Sean Gleeson did have a half-chance from the drive-kick option on 63 minutes but couldn't keep control of the ball.
Eventually though, in the last couple of minutes, a Hull attack broke down, Jeffries darted through off Gleeson's astute pass and Damien Blanch dived in by the corner flag.
Wildcats elected NOT to take the conversion in the hope of scoring a match-winning try off the last play of the game. It didn't happen and if Wakefield's limited display is anything to go buy they could have played another 60 minutes never mind 60 seconds and still not scored.
For more Wildcats news, check out Friday's Wakefield Express and this website throughout the week.
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