Wakefield prop Mike McMeeken told BBC Sport:
“The main [requirement] was patience. It took us 60 or 70 minutes to break York down. We knew it was going to need an 80-minute performance.
“[Inclement] conditions like this are perfect for us to learn because if we want to get to the Grand Final come October at Old Trafford it will be a wet Saturday night like this.
“We’d like to get a home [eliminator] – that would be ideal. We were pushing for the top two, but now it’s just about getting that confidence back. This helps.”
York Knights head coach Mark Applegarth told BBC Radio York:
“First, congratulations to Wakefield. We wish them all the best in the play-offs and they’re a quality team.
“It was a really tight game. We spoke at half-time about showing more urgency on the floor, generating more tempo, getting more field position and investing more energy in the first two tackles, to slow the rucks down so Wakefield couldn’t roll us as easily.
“We told our lads to chance their arm a bit and go for glory in that last 20, so that’s probably why we ended up a little more sloppy.”
Wakefield: Jowitt; Myers, Scott, Hall, Walmsley; Sinfield, Trueman; Hamlin-Uele, Smith, Rodwell, McMeeken, Lipowicz, Pitts.
Interchanges: Lino, Smoothy, Tevaga, Faatili.
York: Mata’afa; Jones-Bishop, Galeano, Wood, Bennison; Hunter, Harris; Martin, McShane, Vaughan, Dee, Field, Balmforth.
Interchanges: Doyle, Va’a, Thompson, Hingano.
Referee: Liam Rush.
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