wigan 24 - 22 leeds rhinos

[Danny Tickle's No1 Fan!!!]

Well Done Lads!!! My little cousin was mascot & he was so nervous running out,but he's so happy now he ran out with the lads against leeds & won. Same again next week n lets show them scousers who's the best!! :eusa3:

[DaveO]

GeoffN posted:
We certainly have...proud of the lads tonight, keeping their concentration in the face of blatant spoiling tactics that were allowed to go unpunished by the usual incompetent referee! Not sure how Bailey got around the "persistent high tackling" rule.
Excellent display by Moran & Orr, yet again, and also lots of work (for the full 80 mins!) from BC. Aspi mostly managed to keep Calderwood quiet, apart from the heart-stopping misfield near the end.
Sloppy defence allowing their first 3 tries, though...far too many missed open-field tackles. The less said about their last "try", the better...apart from the blatant holding back of Dallas, and the final forward pass.
The lads never gave up, though, and that try of Hanson's took a lot of scoring.
Can't decide between Orr and Moran for MoM....probably Moran, just.

Great support, yet again...the atmosphere, especially towards the end, was just amazing! Good to see I.M. come out onto the pitch at the end to acknowledge us all.

Bring on the scousers!

Great post Geoff. As you can see I have quoted it in full, as to do otherwise would not be fitting.

A good dose of realism in there as well as the good points (open field tackles etc).

Dave

[Doveoverdave]

DaveO posted:

GeoffN posted:
We certainly have...proud of the lads tonight, keeping their concentration in the face of blatant spoiling tactics that were allowed to go unpunished by the usual incompetent referee! Not sure how Bailey got around the "persistent high tackling" rule.
Excellent display by Moran & Orr, yet again, and also lots of work (for the full 80 mins!) from BC. Aspi mostly managed to keep Calderwood quiet, apart from the heart-stopping misfield near the end.
Sloppy defence allowing their first 3 tries, though...far too many missed open-field tackles. The less said about their last "try", the better...apart from the blatant holding back of Dallas, and the final forward pass.
The lads never gave up, though, and that try of Hanson's took a lot of scoring.
Can't decide between Orr and Moran for MoM....probably Moran, just.

Great support, yet again...the atmosphere, especially towards the end, was just amazing! Good to see I.M. come out onto the pitch at the end to acknowledge us all.

Bring on the scousers!

Great post Geoff. As you can see I have quoted it in full, as to do otherwise would not be fitting.

A good dose of realism in there as well as the good points (open field tackles etc).

Dave

A fantastic result from the boys.

It's good that the halves are making many of us eat our words at last. The team played with some backbone tonight and has started to believe the win is possible after going behind on the score sheet. On many occaisions hey have often disintergrated.

WELL DONE!

[MrsLam]

Still buzzing, last two games have been tummy turning!!! Good to finally see some deserved wins and that's exactly what it was. Tony (turny as they say in Leeds) is trying his best to take it away from us by whinging but the lads and the fans should be proud, know I am! Am still partying now

However, still not up to scratch there's still a LOT of missed tackles/can't be doing with tackling going on. We can't hold off, and let them run at us or it will backfire. Can't believe Orr and Moran are finally playing together, good to see them all enjoying the atmosphere at the end, Hansen taking a bow (what a try from him!)

[mike binder]

MrsLam posted:
Still buzzing, last two games have been tummy turning!!! Good to finally see some deserved wins and that's exactly what it was. Tony (turny as they say in Leeds) is trying his best to take it away from us by whinging but the lads and the fans should be proud, know I am! Am still partying now

However, still not up to scratch there's still a LOT of missed tackles/can't be doing with tackling going on. We can't hold off, and let them run at us or it will backfire. Can't believe Orr and Moran are finally playing together, good to see them all enjoying the atmosphere at the end, Hansen taking a bow (what a try from him!)

told you they would once they had a injury free run groveling appology on your knees accepted

[MrsLam]

mike binder posted:

MrsLam posted:
Still buzzing, last two games have been tummy turning!!! Good to finally see some deserved wins and that's exactly what it was. Tony (turny as they say in Leeds) is trying his best to take it away from us by whinging but the lads and the fans should be proud, know I am! Am still partying now

However, still not up to scratch there's still a LOT of missed tackles/can't be doing with tackling going on. We can't hold off, and let them run at us or it will backfire. Can't believe Orr and Moran are finally playing together, good to see them all enjoying the atmosphere at the end, Hansen taking a bow (what a try from him!)

told you they would once they had a injury free run groveling appology on your knees accepted

Am not exactly sure what I should be apologising for, think you have me mixed up with someone else since I've had the wee extracted from me many times on here for being "too positive" and not realistic enough about games we could win. I didn't even predict last nights score, all I wanted was a good show and a good atmosphere, got both and a win!

[WiganWarrior]

One word wow, what an unexpected win so glad i made it. I was speakin to someone in work who's a Wire fan and he said before the game wouldnt want to be you Leeds will be out for a battering after the final. How wrong he was.

My voice is dead after all the screaming, singing and shouting. Ive still not recovered im worried if its that bad for Leeds i may not be able to speak at all after the Saints game.

The performance was far from flawless, but we won and considering the team on paper i think we did very well.