Quote: Istilldontbelieveit "I don't think either team showed their true potential on friday. Leeds edged an occasionally uninspiring game and that's about it in my opinion. Plus, you need to play to your best at Headingley. They're the world club champions and have turned a huge corner since this time last year.
However, its interesting to hear some people's opinions on our style of play. Personally I've always felt we should play to our strengths. The difference on friday was we were clumsy and sometimes made mistakes we generally wouldn't. It reminded me of the Wigan game at DW 2010 in the rain. It was complete suicide but the key component in our game these days is we defend a lot better. If most teams had turned the ball over against a team of Leeds' quality like we did on friday then I've no doubt the scoreline could and probably would have doubled in Leeds favour.
Plenty of spirit shown by the team, accompanied by some clumsiness admittedly. However, if in a couple of weeks we've ticked the box against Wigan and Saints then friday will just be viewed as what it was - a blip.'"
Fairly sensible assessment. a 10% improvement from Wire and some of those offloads stick and we are looking at a win for Warrington, 10% better from Leeds and it could have been over as a contest after 20minutes.
I thought both teams defended pretty well, some big collisions and not a huge amount of dropping off in the tackle.
Both teams seem to have a similar mentality, good defence will win them most games (and lets be honest, Wire would have beaten most teams performing like they did on friday) and when the attacking game clicks they can be unplayable, but even when it doesnt the defence just needs to keep the score close enough because at some stage, whoever they are playing, they will have 10-20 minutes of ball and they only need a few of the offloads to stick to put points on any team.
I think both teams will be pretty happy defensively but simply more stuck for Leeds on this particular occasion.
