morleys_deckchair wrote:could have sworn they said he was leaving.... may have been too buy laughing to hear the sky muppet properly in fairness... maybe they said 'heaving'.
May well have been heaving. The lad does look like he's been bashed about the face at the best of times. He always appears very sh*gged.
I will read through the thread properly later, but what a match that was. We need to be honest and say: we got hammered in many areas of the field and could have been out of it before we finally turned the tide in the second half. Even then, we showed a bit of naïvété in conceding that last try.
It goes without saying but Williams is quite an incredible player, perhaps as good as I've seen in the half back position for Warrington. Without him, we lose that game 30-4.
Vaughan and Musgrove need to give us more or we wil be rolled by Hull Kr and certainly Wigan. I dont quite know what went wrong tonight but there was no grunt, no yardage and all our metres were from backs escaping from difficult situations.
Philbins contribution in that extra time period was absolutely massive. Two huge runs of 10 and 15 metres a piece, to then defensively chase Lomax into going outside and having to play on the fly resulting in Percivals panicked kick.
Jb I think you have to give a lot of credit to Saints. They were quick off the line and did a good job of smothering us when coming out of defence. But there's a hell of a lot of resilence in the team. I fear HKR more than Wigan to be honest.
fez1 wrote:Jb I think you have to give a lot of credit to Saints. They were quick off the line and did a good job of smothering us when coming out of defence. But there's a hell of a lot of resilence in the team. I fear HKR more than Wigan to be honest.
I thought I (grudgingly) did give a lot of credit to Saints. For long periods they did a job on us.
Hull KR are a very good side but let's remember they have very limited experience of winning semi finals and finals; our job is to put them under pressure and make them nervous.
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fez1 wrote:Jb I think you have to give a lot of credit to Saints. They were quick off the line and did a good job of smothering us when coming out of defence. But there's a hell of a lot of resilence in the team. I fear HKR more than Wigan to be honest.
Leigh will take care of Wigan..................Hopefully.
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All those last minute victories that Saints pulled off against us, often when we had been the better team. I don’t recall the Saints fans complaining, just gloating “it’s the sign of a Chapion team”, “Never write Saints off” etc etc. We weren’t at our best, but we are in the semis and they aren’t. I’m going to enjoy the moment, and I really don’t understand how any Wire fan feels the need to be critical, straight after such a victory.
Just my opinions unless it's a FACT, in which case it's a fact.
Captain Hook wrote:All those last minute victories that Saints pulled off against us, often when we had been the better team. I don’t recall the Saints fans complaining, just gloating “it’s the sign of a Chapion team”, “Never write Saints off” etc etc. We weren’t at our best, but we are in the semis and they aren’t. I’m going to enjoy the moment, and I really don’t understand how any Wire fan feels the need to be critical, straight after such a victory.
Probably the difference is that Saints regularly won Grand Finals and we never have, hence there's more scepticism for us.
Yesterday was shaping up as a classic Saints script, late try to take it to golden point and charging down our first drop goal attempt. I knew what was going to come next - we'd concede a penalty, they'd charge up field and kick a drop goal themselves, season over.
But we didn't, and they went away from the script with their fifth tackle play on the following set and failing to get in a good kick.
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