I had a lot of morons around me in the North. On that Hansen try I called it before he went to the screen. Even 130m away you could see the ball had been passed back and kicked through by Tompkins. The only doubt for me live was wether it was dead in goal as my eyesight isnt that good

After a few seconds trying to explain I gave it up as a bad job and had to endure anouther 36 minutes of constant moaning for no reason.

Anyway my excuses for us not winning were:

1) Carmont was awesome
2) Stompkins was awesome

and

3) Buderus was the only 1 looking dangerous for us and he got injured at a vital point.

ie, you lot deserved the win and out played us.

We usually walk a very fne line with lockers and bailey!


I never really seen leeds try to play that style before. Is it something that has crept in, or has your coach brought it in, as i dont really remember you doing it under smith, granted that was a couple of years ago now though!

The only excuse I have is that it's nobles cup final!! So much so they called a league game the big one!!

What was all that both teams coming out together bull $hit?

but really in all honesty your defence was amazing!! Well worthy of the win!!

Thought Buderus was fantastic for you guys, he's all class and was a real shame to see him go off injured, hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.

No complaints from me we dominated for all of 15 minutes in the 1st half the rest was all yours, well played and good look next week and in the semi.

Well done wigan. Lets see how arrogant the Leeds fans are now

After reading the most threads on the Leeds forum, the majority of comments seem to be very positive towards Wigan and that we fully deserved the win. Most clubs in Super League (particulary the small ones) would have 3 or 4 threads about the referee, but the Leeds have taken it on the chin.

If we were ever going to be out of a competition, I'd probably want Leeds to win it. Good club, Good ground and good supporters.

McLennan lost it for them IMO.
We were on the rack in the first 20 and there for the taking. Buderus had us on toast. He was causing all sorts of trouble from dummy half and we couldn't hold him.
From the moment he was spelled we came back into it and Leeds go forward came to a stop. The longer the first half went on the more likely we looked like scoring. Getting that 6 points before half time was vital.
From the start of the second half there was only one team in it and that was Wigan.
We went from 0-10 to 18-10 before McLennon brought Buderus back on. I was sat there and couldn't believe he was off so long. IMO McLennen should brought his 9 back on after half time. Maybe he'd taken a knock, that's the only way I'd give the Leeds coach the benefit of the doubt.
What has worked in our favour is having Lee Mossop back from loan.
He's coming on and being used as a fifth prop. That extra power up the middle is using up the oppositions energy and you can see them tire in front of your eyes.
We have spoken here for years about an underpowered front row, it wasn't last night and Mossop has made the difference.

As for the Leeds club. They are the biggest in the game and do the game proud with their style of Rugby and total belief in bringing through their own players via the youth system.
Their down fall is their ground which is a disgrace. Part of it is still cordonded off as unsafe. They also have a useless CEO in Gary Hetherington. If they had a top class CEO they could win everything every year as we used to. As long as our Gary is incharge they'll be hit and miss.
Lets hope Mr Hetherington remains there for decades to come!

including us - even when we lose !!

i must admit ive always had a good welcome at headingley, even as a lone cheery in the south stand ! and credit to them also for making a good noise at the match. great support.

Maybe but there are plenty of minutes silence before games where the players don't walk out like it's the cup/grand final!! All felt a but false and hammed up to me!! But it did the trick for you guys!! Fair play to ya