Wakefield 24 London Broncos 6: Amor the merrier as Wildcats strike - Daily Mail
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London Broncos sank to the foot of the Stobart Super League after going down to a seventh consecutive defeat with an insipid display against Wakefield.
The Broncos, whose disappointing performances prompted a mid-season review by chairman David Hughes, hit rock bottom after fellow strugglers Widnes pulled off a surprise 26-22 win over Huddersfield ahead of Saturday's trip to the Twickenham Stoop.
Unstoppable: Broncos could not match the power of Kyle Amor (centre)
Wakefield were hardly tested as they atoned for a 36-0 defeat at London in March and were 22-0 up before having their line breached for the only time in the game just after the hour.
The Londoners made life difficult for themselves by conceding five penalties inside the first 15 minutes and, other than occasional glimpses of the talent of exciting winger Keiran Dixon, were a sorry-looking bunch.
They certainly had nobody with the power of prop Kyle Amor and veteran New Zealand second rower Ali Lauitiiti, who destroyed the visitors almost single-handedly in the first half.
The former Leeds favourite put centre left Vince Mellars through a gap in the visitors' defence for the opening try on five minutes and romped over himself on 28 minutes, leaving a trail of London defenders in his wake.
Right centre Dean Collis also touched down, finishing off a flowing move, and former London stand-off Paul Sykes kicked three goals to put the Wildcats into an 18-0 half-time lead.
The Broncos lacked ideas on attack, even before stand-off Michael Witt went off with a shoulder injury after being trampled on by Lauitiiti, and paid the price for some indiscipline and indifferent defence.
They were down to 12 men on 50 minutes when winger Michael Robertson was sin-binned by referee Tim Roby for delaying a Wakefield re-start and Wakefield instantly took advantage, with loose forward Danny Washbrook getting second rower Danny Kirmond over for a fourth try.
An evening up of the penalty count enabled London to keep the score in check, without threatening the Wildcats' stranglehold on a disappointing game played in constant drizzle.
London prop Scott Wheeldon took hooker Chad Randall's pass to cross for a consolation try, to which Shane Rodney added the goal, before Sykes kicked a second penalty to stretch the Wildcats' lead.
London 2012: Rebecca Adlington receives abusive message on Twitter - The Guardian
Rebecca Adlington has been receiving abusive messages on Twitter after revealing "nasty comments" meant the double Olympic champion would be using it sparingly during London 2012.
The 23-year-old was catapulted into the public eye after her triumphs in the 400 metres and 800m freestyle in Beijing, with the Mansfield-born swimmer feted on her return to Great Britain.
However, not everybody was so pleased – something she discovered the painful way. Now she does not read on-line interviews she has given and neither will she be using Twitter as much during the London Olympic Games.
On Sunday Adlington pasted a message that has been sent to her on Twitter, prefacing it with: "I had a perfect example of what has been said in the papers this week tweeted to me this morning. I apologise for the swearing when I RT it!"
She then posted: "How lovely is this person…" before retweeting a message to her which read: "@BeckAdlington you shark fin nosed d*******, you belong in that pool you f****** whale."
Adlington quickly received support from many of her Great Britain team‑mates. The former world 100m freestyle silver medallist Fran Halsall tweeted: "what a small insignificant life that person must lead", echoed by the former double Commonwealth champion Caitlin McClatchey, who wrote: "his parents must be so proud to have raised such a pathetic idiot! Well done for ur amazing 800 hun BOOM! Good luck today xx"
The Olympic open water bronze medallist Cassie Patten addressed the perpetrator directly, saying: "It must be hard for you, you obviously have achieved nothing in your life, as you feel the need to Insult @BeckAdlington."
It all follows the revelation by Adlington to a number of reporters that she has been subject to abuse on Twitter as well as negative comments online. She had said: "I love the block button on Twitter. I don't know how people expect to send a nasty comment and not get blocked.
"With Twitter I think it's one of those things if you like it like Liam [Tancock] who is on it every two minutes – 'just having my lunch, just doing this' – he loves it, he is like that in real life. Whereas I am on Twitter every now and again, I tweet here and there but not every day all the time.
"I think I will be going on every now and again but I won't be checking it.
"I want to stay focused – obviously the messages of support are absolutely amazing and I love reading all of those but you have got the chance of somebody saying something just to annoy you and you don't want that added stress. For myself, I think I'll tweet once it's over."
She added: "I used to [read articles] when it first happened but I am one of those people who then scroll down to the bottom and read the comments and I learned very quickly not to do that. Because it is awful and I get angry: even if there are 10 nice comments you always get one idiot.
"It makes you angry and frustrated. I've now given up because it upsets me or makes me angry."
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