I said this in another thread... guess i'll put it here.

"All I want to know is since when did our balls drop off? I seem to recall about eight years ago with the likes of Farrell, Lam, Newton and Radlinski etc. we ran the fookin' ball every time we got a penalty... kick to the corner and go for the try whilst we have momentum and confidence. Now every time we get a penalty we take the two... bit of a concern that we lack so much belief and confidence in running it. There's only a few occasions I would understand taking the two... either when it's close to half/full time or if you're struggling to even get over the opponents try-line, I didn't see either of those tonight... their defense wasn't all that and they conceded penalty after penalty. On numerous occasions we opted to take the two and we had an enormous amount of possession during the game. If I want to see kick after kick i'll get myself down to Sale Sharks... time to man up, grow a pair and put some fear into the opposition. Teams must be bloody celebrating every time we go for the two... it completely takes the pressure off the side and the ball ends up on the other side of the field for very little gain."

Agree with that right up until the last line

On the 2 occasions that you decided to take the 2 points I was chuffed that you did

I remember in the 2009 Cup semi-final. Wigan deciding to take the penalty to go 8-0 up but all it did was say to Warrington "Actually, we dont think we can get across your try-line" Pyscological advantage of keeping them out automatically goes to the defending team, even if they concede 2 more points.

I havent even read the rest of the thread but this sums it up perfectly for me. Every time we took the 2 Warrington were on the back foot and we gave them an easy way out. Building pressure and making Warrinmgton play out from their own line would have been invaluable, never mind the fact that we may have actually scored tries on the back of it anyway. As it was we took the 2 and on every occasion Warrington scored a try immediately after because we then made a mistake and by taking the 2 had given them easy field position so they could then attack our line.

Spot on, couldn't believe the first one - I saw it as a sign of weakness/lack of confidence.