Wakefield stun Wigan

Wigan, who had Australians Mark Riddell and Amos Roberts on debut, were a big disappointment and left the field to boos from the 14,377 crowd.

Wakefield led 10-0 at half-time thanks to a brace of tries from debutant winger Dave Halley and it could have been more for they had two other touchdowns disallowed.

Wakefield, who gave a debut to Australian prop forward James Stosic, made light of the absence of regular half-backs Danny Brough and Jamie Rooney, with Sam Obst, Brad Drew and Scott Grix combining superbly to cause all sorts of problems for the home side.

With his clever kicking game and deft handling, Drew demonstrated just why Huddersfield are so keen to take him back to the Galpharm Stadium while the elusive Grix picked up from where he left with Ireland in the World Cup.

Halley, who is on a month's loan from Bradford, finished off a break from Demetriou to open the scoring after just 56 seconds and collected Obst's grubber kick to add a second on 12 minutes.

Wigan created little in the first half and, when second rower Gareth Hock dummed his way over, he dropped the ball over the line.

Demetriou also lost his grip on the ball over the tryline before going off with a wrist injury while stand-off Grix also had a try disallowed for a double movement.

Wigan were simply awful in the first half but they looked much livelier after coach Brian Noble's half-time pep-talk.

Prop Andy Coley dropped the ball stretching for the line but the home side eventually found their scoring touch when skipper Sean O'Loughlin sent over substitute Joel Tomkins following a break by scrum-half Thomas Leuluai.