Hopefully we can do a Leeds of last year and concentrate on the big one. It would be great to go further in the cc but i think
it would mean so much more if we could do the elusive big one.

For those that remember it.

Cast your minds back to the last few days of Feb 1990.
We were drawn away to Bradford in the CC QF. No-one gave us a prayer. A ground where we rarely won. It was ####ing cold (I swear I saw a Polar bear walk past me with a Duffel coat on). Fast forward 22 years, and everything matches up again (apart from the day's temperature). Let's go on and win it, and the final too.

BELIEVE

Amazing post

Don't know who that's too, but wanted to get in on the act

Is that the game when we won 12-10 or something like that and in the semi, mark thomas gave the winning pass in another
close game v oldham.

stand up rocky turner kicked us to the semi..did`nt they delay the kick off cos of the thousands of wire fans stuck on motorway..got ed wet thru as well..but well worth it..thanks mr bob jacko for our try
think that was the night i met a bird called suzzanah,she now works on bbc breakfast,fit as a butchers

Always great or crap times at odsal. remember another close contest at headingly v bradford in the regal trophy final and
it was agians't a typically strong bradford pack but dessie lifted the trophy and we all ran on to and pitch at the end. the wire
side couldn't parade it around the ground as there were so many fans on the pitch. Memory is patchy nowadays but i remember
going to the semi at headingly about 5 years later and losing to a bradford side at the start of their golden period with players
including vaiklolo and we gave them a damn good game but the inevitable happened and we lost. I remember being
in the standing area of the brian bevan stand (some past posts have mentioned this game) when we were 20+ odd nil or 4 behind at
half time to a good bradford side and we came back- the catalyst being a kick off at the start of the 2nd half with danny nutley
taking on paul anderson and putting him in his place and we came back, backed by the roar of wilderspool to win something like
32-28.

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Desie did a fantastic try saving tackle in front of me saved the game for wire think it was on the leeds coach now lol.

Desie

It's worth looking at our strength in depth now. This is a team of all British players who are 24 or under apart from Atkins who I think is 26. I don't expect it to win a lot of games at the moment, in fact it would possibly be bottom of the table, but it does give us a good base for the next 5-10 years with a sprinkling of imports to be added etc.

1 Ratchford
2 Williams
3 Evans
4 Atkins
5 Riley
6 O'Brien
7 Myler
8 Hill
9 Dwyer
10 Cooper
11 Harrison
12 Currie
13 McCarthy

14 Blythe
15 Laithwaite
16 Riley G
17 Mitchell

Just read through all 5 pages & can't believe the amount of negativity that some people come up with. Smithy took a calculated risk to keep our senior players fit not only for next week but for the play offs @ the back end of the season, what's more it payed off & we won.

Not only that but he has given our youngsters valuble game time which will do their confidence a world of good & improve them for the future. Lets face it the majority of us here had not heard of Dwyer or Currie before this season & they have both come into the team & performed well.

It was a very bold and positive decision by Smithy to leave so much talent and experience out. It paid off in plenty of ways as Lefty said, no harm done. The only negative I can think of is continuity of the team working together. But how much this will affect us next week, I've no idea.

It's definitely a bright future for Wire, I can't see why there's so many "pot half empty" people on here? Imagine being a Widnes fan, you'd be suicidal.

Slightly O/T - our effectively second string team beat a play-off contending side today. Does this again not highlight there's too many average teams in the league or too many places available in the play-offs?

Don't start this again. Leeds ARE the SL Champions. Wire won the League Leader's shield. You have to get to the GF and win it to be champions.

and Tony Smith has so obviously decided that Challenge Cup and Grand Final can best be approached by rotating the squad more than he did last year. I guess home play off tie is the priority, not finishing top, although we'd all like that. We all hate seeing our team lose (although we've only lost away at Catalans and Leeds and at home to St Helens this year; we've beaten the top two away from home) but we'd soon forget even a loss away at Widnes if we win the Grand Final.

I don't think anyone can really take anything away from yesterdays performance in general. The main problem was the lack of experienced playmakers so the lads had to come up with different ways of creating try scoring opportunities which ,in itself , limited our scope for actually scoring tries. Yes, there were some head scratching incidents at times but we managed to come out of it with a win.I was also pleased that we managed to keep our penalty count down.