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Wakefield Trinity marked their return to Super League with a surprise victory at West Yorkshire rivals Leeds Rhinos, as an opening weekend filled with shocks continued.
The Rhinos have undergone another expensive off-season overhaul as they enter an eighth season since their last Super League title. The expectation here was that they would be too strong and too powerful for a Wakefield side not only playing their first game back in Super League since promotion, but without a number of key forwards due to an early-season injury crisis.