His future is as the interchange hooker, Hampshire must come into the halves.

Do not hold your breath.

13 men this time and still couldn't get the job done against an old & knackered Leeds side - not good enough!

TBH as a neutral watching last year's game I thought Wigan were the better side and deserved the win aside from Flower's brain explosion. Not sure it was a 'moral' victory though!

Leeds' defense was solid all night & we didn't (couldn't) make any impression in that first half. Much better in the 2nd, but (yet again) some diabolical kicking & a few brain-farts let us down. Leeds deserve the win, they've been the team to beat all year & we just fell short. Notwithstanding they'll be insuferable for the next 12 months. At least it weren't the cabbage munchers again.
Bowen was a monster & it's playing like that which'll make him missed. The younglings did well too. And couple of our so-called senior players might well be lucky to not have had a 10 minute rest.

Ah well, start it all again in February. Just the internationals to look forward to now.

Unbelievably arrogant statement.

I dunno, I expected Wigan to put us to the sword after Phil Clarke et al on Sky repeatedly assured us that the Leeds pack were gone... I think in the end, the tough run-in Leeds had meant that they were more battle-hardened than Wigan, which explains our early lead. We had just enough left in the tank to hold on after the Walters try.

I blame Nobby for jinxin it on the radio early on. He said more or less the same as the Sly mob. Although he also reckoned Giants & the Stainers were going to win through too. It is mushroom season after all.

TBH it was apparent that the Leeds middles where looking out on their feet and half gaps where beginning to appear but then we went and took all the pressure off by kicking for 2 when we already had a 2 point lead. I think that gave your middles just that bit of a breather they needed to regroup. We should of kicked it into the corner and tried to win the game rather than taking the 2 and looking to close the game out.

It was a definite turning point in the second half. Leeds didn't make the same mistake when 4 points up, kept the ball down that end. It was a very very close game, margins so fine.

Leeds were more clever than we were.