Warrington it is!

Quote: Gotcha "Having predicted the demise of this season back at end of 2009, and commented about past it players and loss of hunger, I am prepared to eat my words tonight, just for this year. Although I can also take credit for been in the camp of supporting the coach which was very much in the minority on here.

Just been speaking with one particular player this morning, and was speaking to another earlier in the week, and there is just something in their eyes. Due to the critisism and writing off of the team (so us that did that can claim some part in that
Good post. I was thinking this before the CC final, I remember saying to my mate before watching the final that I thought the current Leeds team were at the end of an era but had enough players who had been there and done it to have one big finish in them, I thought Leeds would get the trophy that had eluded them at Wembley but it wasn't to be. Having said that I didn't think they were going to have a big finish against us and put us out today! You have to take your hat off to Leeds and Sinfield, they came to a team who were in hot form and have been blowing sides off the park and edged us out in a battle of will.

If Leeds win the GF from here it will be the best Grand Final story yet, for a team coming from 5th who had had their worst season in a decade in terms of form, to make two Grand Finals is a huge feat and to win it would be great and I'm not one for the whinging about a team finishing 5th winning it, I think if you can win big games in playoffs away from home and fight your way to the final then you deserve it.

As a Warrington fan and Leeds resident this has been a season of tables being turned for me, I think I mentioned on here earlier in the season how a game always stuck in my mind when Wire played at Headingley early in the 2005 season (when Leeds were in the best form I remember from any team in the SL era) and Leeds just played superb rugby under Tony Smith. Then this year when we won at Headingley we played similar rugby to that and I thought the tables have now been turned completely, you are back to where we were then (decent 4th-5th but not good enough to challenge for trophies) and we are where you were back then (the best in the league). But the irony now is that in 2005 Leeds made 2 finals and we ended up disappointed in the playoffs (when we had Andrew Johns but lost at home to Hull) - and the same thing has repeated itself now despite the form through the season being so different.

Ah well I'm a disappointed Wire fan but this is still the best era to watch Wire in my lifetime and so I'm happy for what we have achieved in the last few years, I will be supporting my (adopted) home town club in the final once again.