Post subject: Re: 2012 Challenge Cup Final - Match Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 4:23 pm
SaintsFan
Club Coach
Joined: Jul 22 2008 Posts: 16170 Location: Somewhere other than here
Warrington played well, especially in the second half, and definitely deserved to win, regardless of stupid Silverdud trying to blow the pea out of his whistle and then getting it wrong.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill)
Post subject: Re: 2012 Challenge Cup Final - Match Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:21 pm
bren2k
Club Coach
Joined: Mar 24 2010 Posts: 15521 Location: Ossett
Leeds lacked intensity and Wire were simply miles better - barring a couple of duff calls and some attention grabbing from Silverwood and his young protege Roby, the result was a reasonable reflection of the game.
Post subject: Re: 2012 Challenge Cup Final - Match Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:42 pm
Mark_W
Club Coach
Joined: Oct 12 2004 Posts: 4142 Location: SouthStand
bren2k wrote:Leeds lacked intensity and Wire were simply miles better - barring a couple of duff calls and some attention grabbing from Silverwood and his young protege Roby, the result was a reasonable reflection of the game.
Post subject: Re: 2012 Challenge Cup Final - Match Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:09 pm
Dally
International Chairman
Joined: Dec 22 2001 Posts: 14845
Tale of two coaches. Smith targetted Leeds' pathetic right-side ,where the two young lads were out of their depth. Brian McD played his usual conservative style, get field position and hope to pick up something on the end of it. In the first half Leeds kept Warrington away from their line for most of the half and the score was kept in check as a result.
I did predict at half-time that Warrington would probably run away with it as they looked like scoring every time they had got near Leeds' line; Leeds lacked any penetration; and it was inevitable that Warrington would get field position at sometime (as Leeds defence was not intense enough). That happened and Warrington ran away with it.
The rigid game plan should have been torn up when Warrington got two tries ahead but the conservative approach persisted until the last few minutes. The plan had ceased to work, the players should have had free rein to play off the cuff before Warrington went so far ahead. Leeds did not give themselves a chance. As I said a tale of two coaches. The positive one won (incidentally that tends to be the pattern in finals in all major sports - the team that goes for it generally wins), the negative one lost.
Post subject: Re: 2012 Challenge Cup Final - Match Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:52 pm
mikej
Player Coach
Joined: Apr 05 2010 Posts: 2866
Disallowed try ............now extensively discussed and considered correct. Hodgson knocked on, play on, Leeds players knocks on, ball is dead, go back to first offence.
Briers knock on ..........Ball was knocked back by Briers, hit the ground and bounced forward. Proven by BBC graphic. Not knock on.
Briers obstructions for Leeds penalty in first half........ initially I thought harsh but in hindsight (and possibly due to fact it didnt affect the result) I now think it was correct.
After having the opportunity to watch the game back, I think that Leeds (tactically and in execution) made more mistakes on Saturday than the officials. I will now go away and wash my mouth out with soapy water !
Mummy duck is now thoroughly depressed. SHE was the one that was famous for losing five in a row........until the 2011 GF!!!!!
Post subject: Re: 2012 Challenge Cup Final - Match Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:38 pm
Wire Yed
In The Arms of 13 Angels
Joined: Mar 15 2009 Posts: 20628
At the game, was baffled by every decision, on TV though i actually think all of them are right, well done referees regardless of all the grief they are getting on here.
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