Hull swamp Wakefield

Wakefield 6-34 Hull

It was a quagmire at Belle Vue as Hull swamped Wakefield with a thoroughly professional performance.

The visitors produced five well-worked tries in atrocious conditions.

Full-back Ben Sammut led the way with 18 points from a try and seven goals.

Hull scored three tries after the break through Deon Bird, his second, Wayne McDonald, and Craig Poucher.

Wakefield produced just one moment of skill throughout the game, scrum-half Glen Tomlinson dummying his way through a minute from time and Graham Law converting.

Weak performance

Wakefield coach Andy Kelly said: "I am bitterly disappointed and we got exactly what we deserved over the 80 minutes.

"Maybe the six points at the end flattered us a bit. Players have to go home and reflect on what they have done today.

"We work very, very hard and we are very self-critical and appraise our weak performance.

"As coaches there is no lack of effort on our part."

Satisfied Hull coach Shaun McRae added: "We showed lots of patience and control in difficult conditions.

"We were very methodical in our play and the discipline was the highlight. "When you go to someone else's backyard and they score only one try, you've done well."

Fighting

Hull could have been 20-odd points to the good by the end of a dull first half but had a seemingly good try ruled out for a knock-on just after the half hour, and Sammut missed a couple of relatively simple penalty shots.

The most excitement came four minutes from the break for the wrong reasons.

Ex-Hull forward Andy Fisher and Hull's Paul Broadbent were sin-binned for fighting.

Sammut had opened the scoring with a penalty on nine minutes, then extended the lead with a self-converted try five minutes later.

Hull winger Bird flew in for try number two just before the mid-point in the half of a terrible pass by home hooker Ryan Hudson.

Sammut goaled to leave Hull in the driving seat at the break at 14-0.

Teams:

Wakefield: Prescott, Sampson, Price, Hughes, N. Law, G. Law, Tomlinson, Stephenson, Hudson, Masella, Jowitt, Fisher, Poching. Replacements: D. March, Watene, Field, Jackson.
Hull: Sammut, Poucher, Simon, Collins, Bird, Cooke, Horne, Hick, Jenkins, Felsch, McDonald, Maher, Grimaldi. Replacements: Gene, Broadbent, Wilson, Maiden. Referee: Steve Presley (Castleford)