#wakefield — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wakefield, aggregated by home.social.
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Been doing a little work on picking out historical 'Team of the Week'. Still some work to do before presenting more figures, but here's the overview from the first #rugbyleague season.
This is based on the highest gain of Elo ratings points for a result in a particular week, so rewards the most impressive or surprising performances.
#Huddersfield, #Stockport and #Wakefield all had four each during the season, and the best was #Broughton's Boxing Day win over the champions-to-be #Manningham.
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Half time. What I wanted coming into this game, with no real expectation of an actual win, was that we didn't play for 30 minutes then collapse like we've done in the last couple of games, and in that respect I've had my wish fulfilled. Not in a good way.
We've not actually been terrible, but this has still been disappointing. That feeling that comes from a good start to the season starting to shrivel up and die in front of your eyes.
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I'm genuinely impressed that the video referee system can so consistently have cameras in all the positions but the one that would prove or disprove the on-field ref's poor judgement.
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"Middle Aged Man" strikes again!
Dogs should never be used as weapons 😡
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There was hope for a long while but we only have ourselves to blame for that loss. Far too many soft penalties. Two strong, even teams but Leeds are grudgingly deserved winners.
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Matt Ellis has to drink his Guinness from a plastic pint glass just like everyone else.
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12-26 win for Wakefield over Bradford but that was a really tough, really even game.
Second in the table for now.
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Inside Jamie Varley's prison life as nurse reveals why child murderer is refusing to eat or leave his cell
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20-0 up at the half against Castleford and it should probably be close to double that. Nice.
#RugbyLeague #SuperLeague #MagicWeekend #Wakefield #WakefieldTrinity
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I'm selling my old but low-mileage Vectra C 150 CDTi SRi, 56 plate, 108k miles (mostly major roads), MOT to October and not expecting any major problems.
West Yorkshire area. Looking for private offers, as I hear #Vectra enthusiasts will be interested in this one.
Would especially suit motorway or distance drivers. It's comfy and responsive.
Boosts appreciated.
e: [email protected] (Personal site, not a business)
#car #Leeds #York #Wakefield #Yorkshire #Vauxhall #Bradford #Sheffield
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Hell of a game for a neutral, which I'm not. Right result for Wakey but it swung one way then the other throughout. Interception try in the last minute to win it. Cracking entertainment.
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News -- Artichokes in Wakefield is closing. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/06/artichokes-in-wakefield-is-closing.html
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Mason Lino, you absolute beauty.
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@ChrisMayLA6 #Burnham is no "progressive", & #progressive #voters shouldn't vote for him - nor should they allow themselves to be scared into voting for him on the basis that he's preferable to the #Reform #candidate. Caroline #Lucas should be ashamed of herself for that #defeatist & #disloyal argument. #Greens should vote for Sarah #Wakefield in #Makerfield.
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That was a harder win that it really should have been.
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Ahh a bit late to post this but I’ll be at the Craft & Flea in Wakefield tomorrow!
Come along and say hello if you’re in town!
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10-0 down to then win it 58-10. Absolutely devastating performance from Wakey against Catalans in the second half. Beautiful dominance.
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Faatili's crawl to score a try with two Catalans players hanging on him was absolutely hilarious.
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For #ThrowbackThursday it's back to this day in 2010 when we watched our very first Rugby League match in person. This was at Wakefield where we'd actually gone up to see Bradford play but ending up liking the city and people and area so much that we changed team allegiances afterwards, and this despite Wakey getting soundly beaten.
#Photography #TBT #Rugby #RugbyLeague #SuperLeague #Wakefield #Yorkshire #Sports
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52-12. Very satisfactory.
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Ah, not to be. Good close game, though.
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Lovely to see Chris Kamara there. Big connections with Wakefield but he's a living legend here in Portsmouth too.
#RugbyLeague #ChallengeCup #Wakefield #WakefieldTrinity #ChrisKamara #Portsmouth #Pompey
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We have pies (steak and gravy). We have pints (local beers in our new Guatemalan craft ale glasses). We have Wakey on the TV (currently winning).
#RugbyLeague #ChallengeCup #Wakefield #WakefieldTrinity #Alcohol #Beer #CraftAle #CraftBeer
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I correctly identified the accents of these two as from #Yorkshire - the older man and the lad (they are father and son) are from #Wakefield
to be fair he can't be blamed for sometimes missing the bucket, especially using that 1970s style pit where he has to hold the bucket at an awkward angle and remove the sump plug (at least on that #car its vertical exit for oil rather than horizontal like many others)
when I did my first oil change on my previous VW Polo I spent several hours afterwards swabbing the concrete in the yard, having underestimated how far oil spurts out after removing the sump plug
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Dark and DoomyI never imagined I would meet video game legend and first-person pioneer John Romero, and especially not in Yorkshire.
Last week, a packed-out WX Wakefield Exchange played host to Game Republic‘s Dark and Doomy gathering. The main draw being a Fireside Chat with the bitch-making ‘rockstar’ developer of Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and (of course) DOOM. Hearing about the event through the Creative Wakefield network, I made sure I was there to meet the man responsible for bringing a touch of Metal to the gaming world.
Equal respect was paid to his wife, Brenda Romero, who had many stories of her own from her work on tabletop games and the Wizardry series. The chat was a fascinating hour of anecdotes and insight, covering how both found themselves in the industry before it became an industry, and touching on id Software’s collaboration with Trent Reznor on the Quake soundtrack.
While I sidled up to grab his Doom Guy autobiography and pose for a very awkward photo (with thanks to Alex from Rebellion for doing the honours) we had a chat about the Doomed 486 days. I spent many entertaining early-nineties nights in the computer labs at Bradford University, waiting eagerly for the shareware edition of Episode 1 to drop, dying repeatedly in countless deathmatches against my peers, and playtesting one of the first-ever .WAD files developed by a classmate. In retrospect, it’s no wonder I flunked.
Although I’m not as eager a gamer as I was back then, I took the opportunity to investigate other game developers sharing projects old and new inspired by Romero’s work. Local luminaries Team17 were in attendance, offering an emulated edition of Amiga classic Alien Breed 3D. Of special interest was Manchester’s Paranomalous Games, showcasing an early (yet playable) build of Voxel Keeper. A spiritual successor to a certain Dungeon-themed game of yore, with more than a hint of Minecraft to empower the 3D domain-tunnelling.
The main event of the evening was The Dark Room, a raucous ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ game presented by Australian comedian John Robertson, adorned in fetching glowing spaulders that mostly survived the show.
Starting (and very often restarting) in the eponymous room, the game was presented as a sequence of four options, each leading further along the route to freedom or death. Picking a member of the audience for each run through, he improvised his way through their choices as they led themselves to their inevitable demise. With the clock ticking down and a dual effort by the Romeros failing to make it out, things became increasingly manic and sweary – ultimately offering democratic decision to the crowd factions who could shout the loudest.
We did not escape.
It’s a very exciting time to be in and around the WF postcode, with a big push from Creative Wakefield to showcase more engaging events in the region. Many of the technologies used in modern film production, especially virtual sets and volumes, owe their origin to the games industry. The divisions between disciplines fade as we find the common ground to tell our tales.
Game Republic: https://gamerepublic.net/
https://heathenstorm.com/2026/03/29/dark-and-doomy/ #creativewakefield #doom #gamerepublic #gaming #johnromero #thedarkroom #voxelkeeper #wakefield
Voxel Keeper: https://www.voxelkeeper.com/
The Dark Room: https://www.thejohnrobertson.com/thedarkroom/
Creative Wakefield: https://creativewakefield.net/