Live Updates: Carnegie Floodlit 9s

Just got back from the games.

First I'd like to thank Rogues and Hogan for the tickets.

Wigan's most impressive were King, Ainscough, the other winger, number 12 and number 10 Dom Crosby I think that's his name. Thornley was quiet most of time only showing glimpses of what he's capable of.

Wigan started against Jamaica quite slow and conservative but grew as the matches progressed getting better and better after each game. Wire in comparison started off very well but seemed to fade after each match. Their best player by a country mile was Rhys something he had long blonde hair, I'm sure the wire fans will know which Rhys I mean.

We got past FC relatively easy and then faced Wire in the semi. While they were good errors littered their game as it did Saints so it was understandable why either side didn't progress far.

Come final time we faced Bradford. And although their side on paper was far superior to ours, our pace and evasiveness was to much for them to handle. Langley was the only thorn in our side because of his size and our inability to stop him.

Overall really chuffed we won and being honest most other sides had named far better sides than our own, but pace and our ability to break tackles won us the comp and we fully deserved it.

Ainscough was voted player of the tournament which was fully deserved. As we all know with ball in hand and broken field ahead he excels.

The only downside were the incredibly uncomfortable seats plus the stadium announcer who got everything wrong.

The funniest thing was when Leeds played there final round robin match against Wakey only to lose it at which point have the stadium emptied as most Leeds fans left at that point even though it was only around 7pm.

Jamal jizzum won the 100 yard challenge, although had been a 100 meter challenge Brotherton from Saints would have won it for mine as he was rapidly gaining on Jizzum for the last 30 yards.

Great night overall.