There's no denying that Tansey was impressive through the whole game - I don't think I've ever seen him play that well, for that long, ever before, in any coloured jumper; so he found some motivation and focus from somewhere.

Moore was awful for all but 10 seconds - but that 10 seconds closed the game and secured the win; fair play to him - it took a certain cocky self-assuredness, which he clearly has in spades.

Two actually, 2004 & 2008.

Oh those wooden spoons, are some people still traumatised over an inanimate object .

To be honest I looked at 1-6 and with the exception of Tupou I thought 'wobbly defence.' And what happens? Johnston grew about 5 years in 1 game, caught and tackled everything and was very unlucky to have his pass ruled forwards for being about 6" forwards (Jesus how many metres have half the tries in every SL game this season been?). Lyne had his best game all season and was solid. Tansey was exceptional. Miller had a great game and with one kick as an exception, had a fantastic kicking game, as well as being really inspirational in terms of his spirit and geeing up of the team. So many played wiith the kind of spirit we have lacked most of the year and you just thought..why couldn't you have given this commitment more often? Anyway, fair play, superb effort under immense pressure.

All very true, but, the reasons for the above, we played a Championship side, albeit a good one. A SL side would have put us to the sword.
But let's not get too negative, let's bask in the glory for a few months?

I think we player a low risk old style kind of rugby. We pounded them in the middle and the pack got us on the front foot . T b h that display although effective on the day would nut cut it on a weekly basis in S L .

Of course it would, when playing the teams you need to beat - it's exactly what Kear used to do. What exactly are you seeing at the lower end of SL? What I'm seeing is some very ordinary teams that we were easily competing against up until this season.

People seem to be forgetting that most lauded this squad at the start of the season as one of the best we'd managed to put together in years. Unlike some I'm not backing down from that. I don't buy this that SL has moved on and we've been left behind that's just typical Trinity fan know all pessimistic crap. I firmly believe for whatever reason our squad refused to reach it's potential until it was nearly to late.

Finally that game was won with our best play maker and a supposed star signing gone and one half back who has been injured for weeks and an old stager who just couldn't get fit enough for the final bow - with that in mind I can't see how saturdays performance can be seen as anything other than a step up and with the re-addition of a Smith/Locke/Lauiititi quality player would not compete well at the lower end of SL.

I'm not sure what your point is. We played basic Rd against a championship side and yes it was a great display on the day. To assume we could play to that level and come away with wins against lower level S L teams in my view is optometric at best.
They all have much better packs and settled half backs.
Your right we did compete with lower level S L teams up to this season but we at least fired on more than one cylinder.
I'm as chuffed as anyone with the display on Saturday and on the form before would have never expected a proper grunt display like that but it was basic .

You and I must have watched different games. I thought Scott Moore did pretty well for the majority of the time he was on. He certainly made some good scoots from dummy half and made good yards on several occasions.

The one thing we did differently from nearly every other game this year was that we respected possession and didn't constantly invite the opposition onto our line.

We gifted them a lot of field position with silly penalties though.

Scott Moore gave a couple of needless consecutive penalties away that put the Bulls in a position to steal the game. With the ball in hand though he looked an excellent swap for the hapless McShane.

Except that he gave away the stupid penalties that led to them getting back into the game.

Correct.

I must've moaned several times with him giving cheap penalties away for high shots...then he sets up Mullally....then scores the clincher.

There's no doubt there's ability in there somewhere...however the faults that he has...does this outweigh the good?

A classic Trin player if ever there was one!