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| Tidying out the loft and came across my old videos - and found the video player.
Cc semi final 2010
Warrington v Cats at Widnes stadium.
Great nights viewing.
Mathers, Riley, Atkins, King, Hicks, Briers, Monaghan, Morley, Clarke, Carvell, L.Anderson, Westwood, Harrison, subs Wood, V.Anderson, Solomona, Myler
Just how good was that side?
Pure class.
Forwards were animals, Briers was skill personified. Sublime kicking.
In the words of John Kear who was commentating for the Beeb after the 4th Wire try 'Absolutely sensational creative play from the Warrington Wolves'.
4 passes and 2 kicks across the line left to right then right to left - wow, just wow!
Solomona pass behind his back to set up Briers for the 5th - OMG. 'Worth the admission fee alone'.
Hat trick by Louis Anderson.
Benny Westwood kicking conversions from all over the pitch.....
Monaghan mom.
Result 54-12
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| Quote: wirecation "Like has already been said many times. It's hard to look back and put your finger on how that side (2011-13 especially) didn't win a grand final. '"
2011 and 2012 when we were at our absolute peak, we ran into an all time great Leeds team who were relentless winners when it came to playoff and Grand Final rugby. In those years we could blow most teams away with our attacking power but Leeds were good enough not to be blown away and to get us into an arm wrestle where they had enough leaders and players with experience of winning games of that intensity, to get the edge over us. Because we were a good side its easy to forget how that Leeds team dominated Super League - the 2012 win over us was their 5th Grand Final win in 6 years.
2013 Grand Final we got two bad injuries that disrupted us. Wigan weren't the great team that Leeds were but they were good enough to take advantage when we lost our shape.
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| Quote: wirecation " Now with Powell we seem to be a million miles away from the TS & Price eras like we've gone backwards at a rate of knots.'"
Honestly speaking, with the exception of 3 or 4 games the Price years were awful. I'd rather have DP given the choice between the two.
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| Quote: sally cinnamon "
2013 Grand Final we got two bad injuries that disrupted us. Wigan weren't the great team that Leeds were but they were good enough to take advantage when we lost our shape.'"
One of the reasons I really dislike Wigan was because of this game. I hated their game play which I believe led to the 2 injuries you mentioned. Michael Maguire techniques are still prevalent - and now seemingly adopted by John Asiata.
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| I think the Wire are not ruthless enough to win games that matter. The winners employ all sorts of gamesmanship & are willing to exploit the rules & referee to the nth degree. Leeds started a fight in back play as we were pressing their line & that possibly saved them from getting beat. As a result ,in the confusion ,Leeds managed to get back up to our end & i think they scored again. As for Wigan ,they were disgusting with their tactics to injure players.
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| Blake Green bossed us in that Grand Final. If we had been ruthless we should have sent Westwood out to take Green out in the first couple of minutes. Punch him in the face as he's going down in a tackle. Do it in a sneaky way so the ref doesn't notice.
The problem is we just let Wigan play dirty while we were the choir boys.
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