Aww that was your cup final tonight wasn't it? Against your more illustrious, more successful, much bigger rivals. Well done, put your feet up and enjoy the preseason. You leave it to the big lads to have a crack at winning the Grand Final...again.

It was a poor show really. No energy no sparkle.

Percival and savellio were great, honorable mention for swift.

The rest, meh.

LMS had a mare, as did via. Mose was back asleep. Just not good enough.

Similar to the semifinal against Leeds we hit a good game and then nose dive a week later.
We can't blame turn around as Warrington had a shorter one.

Thankfully we can write it off as a bad result.

If we play better next week no one will care.

I thought Swift played well for you, although apart from Savelio non of the forwards turned up, really. It may just be me, but I'm not sure what Greenwood does to warrant the hype. He's a big unit, and he runs good lines near the try line, but is his all round contribution good enough?

Aren't most of the top teams showing that the Super 8s is just harder than the simple league system? It will take players a while to get used to more regular intense games, but its an absolute must in the end to improve standards. Assuming the system stays in place it will be very interesting to see how coaches balance player fatigue and trying to get as good a league position as possible.

The two things that need addressing are getting rid of the now pointless extra Millenium game (or whatever its called) and moving the CC to finish before the Super and Middle 8s kick off.

We'll put our feet up and be looking forward to our big club-esk signings for next year, while you'll be out next week and looking forward to Poundstretcher Peyroux and fags.

Lost the physical battle, with our huge unstoppable pack ? Never!!!

Mugwump will be along to explain (maybe)

There was only Sav taking the ball up with any enthusiasm, Via trying too hard, LMS the worse of a bad bunch. Good job Percival was playing otherwise the Wire could have scored 50. No aggression in any shape of form, think I would like Burns to come back into the side when available.

Despite us being very poor (and the 2nd best team), we still could have snatched it with 10 to go.

Take out LMS’s hatful of ridiculous penalties and errors, we may have even led earlier on. Hell, if Jordan Turner (a normally very good finisher) doesn’t lose that ball, things could have turned out very different. Its hard to be too critical of LMS as he obviously tries very hard, but he’s full of stupid (and pressure relieving) mistakes. Maybe he’s doing too many minutes and the fatigue is addling his brain.

However, we are (again) being totally out played at the ruck. We never show the ability to slow the oppositions PTB, whilst allowing them to slow ours. This is the greatest problem we have by far.

Walsh simply is not offering enough. He’s not injecting himself into the game, sitting back, 10 yards from the line and then offering a laboured drop off is doing nothing. His long kicking is not happening, either, being out shone by Wilkin and Turner (and Sandow). We’d be better moving Wilkin to 7 and taking the extra big man.

We look rubbish. But we did last week and beat Wigan. We also looked rubbish this time last year and won the whole thing. I find it hard to believe that will happen again this year, but I said the same last September.

i'm reading between the lines on last nights game. Wilkin was at the fans forum the night before and current players tend not to show up the night before a game, Alex Walmsley and Burns where rested and it also looked like we played to avoid injuries. I also believe that KC is counting on Leeds winning the title and i think he would rather play leeds away then wigan away.

Hey, you never know mate, next year might be your year...

Last night just felt a bit weird. Like the week before a challenge cup final were nobody wants to get hurt.

I'd have preferred a home game, but is there really much advantage to that amongst the top 4? Our place isn't the fortress like Knowsley Road. Leeds are beatable at Headingley, we've done Huddersfield on their 3/4's empty patch and we bring that many people to the DW it's like a neutral venue.

It's anybody's.