Fed-up Wakefield Trinity chief says some contracted stars should be "worried"

Not for the first time this season, he accused some of his squad of letting their side down after the emphatic defeat - a tenth straight loss.

The West Yorkshire club remain bottom and still await a first win since the sport restarted in August after lockdown.

Ruthless Saints, perhaps hurt having toiled when only beating Trinity 20-16 last week, were 30-0 ahead by half-time with England winger Tommy Makinson helping himself to a hat-trick.

As good as the Super League leaders were, Chester conceded: “We have to defend a lot tougher than what we did tonight.

“We spoke all week about how important that first contact is in the tackle but Alex Walmsley and James Roby tore us to shreds.

“It’s the story of our year. We’re consistently inconsistent.

“We have to defend a lot tougher. We have eight or nine guys busting a gut and the rest letting their teammates now.”

Chester remains “confident” he can turn things around especially with players like captain Jacob Miller, Bill Tupou and Tini Arona all set to come back into the squad.

But he admitted the standard of the display as forced him to reconsider his plans for 2o21.

“It’s a simple fix; just bring in better quality players,” he said, having already admitted they are looking at signing Canberra Raiders half-back Sam Williams.

“That’s what myself, Michael (Carter) and the rest of the board will be doing tomorrow.

“There’s players played tonight that are off contract and some that are under contract who could find themselves under a lot of pressure.

“They need to be a little bit worried.

“We have to go for more quality than quantity.

“The performance wasn't good enough as a staff or the players. It’s not acceptable.

“We had a recruitment meeting for next week and we’ve pushed that forward to tomorrow morning.

“We’ll have to make some tough calls and we’ll see where that takes us.”

Chester added: “We’re all fighting for our jobs. Had there been no relegation we’d have been in a real fight.

“I’d like to think not but I think we have quite a few players who were relieved by that news who have put the cue in the rack since that announcement.

“That’s disappointing. We showed last week in parts we can compete but then deliver an inept performance like that.

“There was a real disconnect tonight. After a decent performance last week, to come up with that was really disappointing.

“We need to change some attitudes of some players.

“Ninety five percent of the game is about attitude and ours wasn’t very good tonight.”

On-loan Huddersfield Giants winger Innes Senior did score an impressive 80m interception try - his first of the season - racing away from Regan Grace to make it 30-6 before the hour.

Chester added: “That's probably the only positive to come out of it.

“We did okay for 25 minutes at the start of the second half and Innes took his try well.

“Matty Ashurst is always eight out of 10, Tom Johnstone tried hard and Kelepi Tanginoa had a good stint while Jack Croft showed some nice touches.”