“Shooting ourselves in the foot” – Wakefield Trinity boss names major problem in Super League

Wakefield Trinity head coach Daryl Powell has launched an appeal for Super League to make ‘quick changes’ to one of the competition’s major problems.

Trinity stole the show as they ended Super League Magic Weekend for 2025 with the West Yorkshire side beating rivals Castleford Tigers in convincing fashion, with Wakefield securing a 32-8 win.

Whilst Magic Weekend saw the Sunday attendance eclipse Saturday for the first time ever, not all remained in the stadium for that final game but the Trinity faithful who did were rewarded massively.

Outside of Lachlan Walmsley’s acrobatic finishing and Caius Faatili’s rampaging try, the game itself wasn’t a brilliant spectacle with a sluggish Castleford partly to blame as well as the ongoing issue in Super League.

That issue being the stop-start nature of games with the video referee being consulted more often than fans and spectators would prefer.

Wakefield Trinity boss names major issue that Super League has “got to change quick”

Castleford Tigers head coach Danny McGuire was one of those to criticise it as he labelled some of the stoppages as “horrific”, adding: “The game is ugly at times, it’s not fast paced or attractive any more. It’s taking what’s good about our game away from it, it’s taking too long. Make a decision and get on with it.”

His counterpart Daryl Powell has now agreed, calling on Super League to take note from the NRL and make it a smoother transition, insisting the changes to perfect it need to be made.

The Trinity boss said: “I watched the NRL this morning and you watch them give a try and then it’s either confirmed or they stop it and then go back and have a look at it, but if a try is given then at least there’s a chance for it to just carry on. If you just change that I think it’d make a big difference.”

Powell conceded that the NRL and Super League are two different products but that that the competition need to bite the bullet and fix the issue, for the sake of the sport and the fans.

“It’s tough for officials because our camera angles are not as good as they are in the NRL or other sports so I reckon there’s a challenge there,” he explained.

“I think we can we keep shooting ourselves in the foot really. We shouldn’t really be talking about it as we are, I think it just needs to change.

“Just get it done, whatever’s best for the for the sport and for the spectators really. You want it to be easy on the eye and sometimes that stuff is not.”

Multiple tries went to the video referee whilst other incidents such as Isaiah Vagana’s tackle were also looked at at length, and Powell thinks it could and should be done quicker.

He said: “You’re sometimes looking at it 30 times and I mean that’s too much. I can tell on some of them after two looks, surely these guys can. I just think we’ve got to do better.

“I’d like to stop talking about it, I think they’ve just got to change it quick.”

FULL TIME: Castleford Tigers 8-32 Wakefield Trinity

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