I am a great believer in the fact that you learn a lot more in defeat than you do in victory. With that in mind I think Saturday's events should stand us in good stead for the rest of the season and the play-offs. For a start, none of the players are going to want the experience of losing a big game again. They will realise how important it is to start well and stop the opposition getting momentum - once Warrington got their couple of tries to go 18-6 up they were so keyed up and determined that they wouldn't get caught. Hopefully next time we'll see ALL our players step up and grab the initiative - heads seem to go when Kev went off and they seemed to be looking around for someone else to make it happen. The game passed a lot of players by - again, they should be determined that this wont happen again.

I'd say that Smith got some things spot on - keeping Briers away from first reciever on the last gave him acres of space to get the kick away - but mostly the difference was in the players when they crossed the white line. Warrington played nervelessly and completely seized the day. Giants seemed to let the occasion get to them and played without the same confidence they showed in the semi. I'm sure it will be different in the next big occassion, we've still got a fantastic chance to win something this season.

Thanks for the sentiments, but you will have to put your support on ice for a week - we play Celtics this weekend! Hope you can do a job on HKR though!

Cheers mate, i try to give credit where it's due and Wire and there fans have always been smashing to me - never had a problem with them.
Some fans can be very bitter and hold grudges etc - and for theat i tend not to want their clubs to do well.
As i said before i couldn't have wished the cup back to a better set of fans.

I also expect to see you at OT decked in the C&G !!

If you watch game with your eyes open for [ieverything [/ithe ref did/did not do, you'll see that Ganson didn't ping Giants once for offside, whereas you consistently were. So no way was the ref 'sympathetic' to Wire. One example is for Monas's try - the markers at ptb weren't square ( Monas even pointed this out to Ganson ) and every defender was standing in front of the try line. Monas scored so if didn't matter, but it illustrates the point.

The point being you have no class.

You won....get over it!!