The Tomkins spill was anything but an unforced error, it was forced by an excellent high kick which spiralled away from him toward the touchline. Any full back in the world would have struggled with that.

Lest we forget that two of Wigan's tries came from Jamie Jones-Buchanan coming up with soft one-on-one misses because he was too busy trying to anticipate what was going on behind the play and lost the lead runner.

Far from it. It's his big weakness.

JJB was a statue at times yesterday in the defence and Wigan exploited it perfectly.

I've stated this before. Without a doubt it's his achilles' heel.

I've not read all the comments in the thread but I thought the majority of Wigan fans were great in defeat yesterday. I can't speak for others but my friends, family and myself all left the ground and congratulated loads of Leeds fans, even shook a few hands and wished them luck for the final. Not sure what more we could do? After a bad performance from our boys we only lost by 11 points to a good side, I'm sure we'll kick on from this and if we don't we'll no one else to blame but our selves!

Yep, I had not one problem with any Wigan fans yesterday. All the ones I met were perfectly civil, both before and after the game.

In fact, the only really unsavoury stuff came on the very, VERY overcrowded (and late) train back to Leeds when a couple of Leeds fans decided that a suitcase near the door was worthy of having a fight over. Happily their girlfriends/wives calmed them down by telling them to stop being such daft buggers.

Some of the comments from a small minority of so called Wigan fans on here is embarrassing and totally cringeworthty(ie "only won by 9 points, gifted 3 tries, bad ref" etc, etc.. - not forgetting "well done BUT blah,blah.....) - why not just say "well done" and be gracious in defeat. I feel like I'm reading comments from someone from a primary school playground. We lost - congratulate the opposition, leave it at that & get over it.

We were beaten by far the better team. Burrows was absolutely awesome. Leeds throughly deserved the win.
The vast majority of Wigan fans I know who stood near me were all of the same opinion. Good luck at Wembley.

A statement I made after Webb fumbled that high ball in last years final. Both horror show balls.

Trad.Arr "When you're getting beat by Leeds,
With ten minutes left, you won't be pleased
And we'll see you all ....
Doing the Wigan Walk"[/i

I thought your last post was supposed to be your last pontification on the subject ....

There's more bites here than Fish-O-Mania

I have to say I thought Wigan were never in the game once Leeds scored their second try. It had that feel of a game where Leeds are always chasing but never catch up except this time it was the other way around. Yes, Wigan could have come back but I just didn't feel it (and I'm a really pessamistic supporter).
I also thought Wigan played well, but Burrow tore them a new one again and again and Sinfield got everything right. I agree Burrow took the wrong option when Hall was caught short second half - Hall's after match interview indicated he was playing on one leg in the second half, which probably explains why he looked so sluggish going for the corner - still a great tackle.
We got the rub of the green definately, but Wigan had a little luck as well. When Tomkins made his break that set up their first try the space was clearly made because the tackled player moved 2-3 metres off the mark when he played the ball (something Wigan seem to do a lot) which left no Leeds defenders.

Leeds forwards actually looked fresh - the extra couple of days to turnaround might have made a difference, but for me it was Burrow who just took Wigan to bits on the back of some great play the balls. Noble called it before the game and he was spot on. Credit to Darth Millward for backing Leeds.

I can't find negatives from Leeds here - just a great team performance with some individual pieces of brilliant skill when needed. Wigan were always going to score some points, they've done it for fun all season so far.
There's life in the old dogs yet.

Will eagerly await the result of todays game to find out who Leeds will lose to this year in the final (told you I was a pessamist).

He wasn't the only one. There were 2 "one-legged" wingers going for the corner together at that point. Charnley was really struggling in the 2nd half.

Well done Leeds. I've watched the game again this morning and despite errors early in the game, you beat us fair and square. Thought the usual suspects, Sinfield, Burrows, Maguire, Peacock, Hall, along with Hardaker, Watkins and BJB were excellent, especially Sinfield. It's amazing what pressure can do to top players but Leeds once again have shown they can master it.

I'm just off now to be sick.