Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:56 pm  

nantwichexile wrote:

He might "have flown" in too .... IMO he hasn't lost that pace. He lost his bottle (atypical of a usually fearless player)

As for Child...you must be joking. We have Hardaker in our team: he is never going to forgive us that.

Currie had the angle on burrow and IMHO Burrow did the right thing - kept possession near their line against a broken defence. We were not good enough on next play to stretch wire to the other side and score.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:00 pm  

nantwichexile wrote:

He might "have flown" in too .... IMO he hasn't lost that pace. He lost his bottle (atypical of a usually fearless player).

Give over. Watch the replay.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:44 pm  

I don't buy the argument that Leeds were unlucky not to win. It was a tight game that could have gone either way. Had the Rhinos won by 2 points Warrington fans could make the same argument.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:22 pm  

WireRL wrote:

I don't buy the argument that Leeds were unlucky not to win.

No! Really!

A Wire fan with an unbalanced view? Get the f*ck outa town.

Field position & possession says if you do that on a regular basis your gonna get more than a few batterings.

Great effort and scramble by wire plus a pretty dodgy try and a piece of individual brilliance got you the win. Fair play to Wire. That's how it goes sometimes. You made your own luck.

What I take as a Rhino is if we dominate teams like we did on Thursday we will win a lot more than we lose.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:32 pm  

sgtwilko wrote:

No! Really! A Wire fan with an unbalanced view? Get the f*ck outa town.

Sorry, I'll try and not be so unbalanced with my comments next time Thanks for the welcome by the way.

sgtwilko wrote:

Field position & possession says if you do that on a regular basis your gonna get more than a few batterings.

It's called good defence - or does that not count? Also we're only talking about one game here so this point is irrelevant. Wire may not defend that well every week but I'm sure they won't gift that much possession every week either. They defended well when they needed too.

sgtwilko wrote:

Great effort and scramble by wire plus a pretty dodgy try and a piece of individual brilliance got you the win. Fair play to Wire. That's how it goes sometimes. You made your own luck.

Well you can call anything luck if you just define luck as the thing you want to call luck.

sgtwilko wrote:

What I take as a Rhino is if we dominate teams like we did on Thursday we will win a lot more than we lose.

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What I take as a Wire is if we defend like we did on Thursday we will win a lot more than we lose. Same argument.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:15 am  

Lucky/unlucky

Leeds had 60 more plays than Wire, we made a 1/4 more meters than Wire, Wire conceded double the penalties.

With that position and possesion I thought we were unlucky to not get the win. We made some nice brakes but just didn't get the job done, looking a bit rusty.

Wires obstruction try was pretty fortunate. It didn't even go up stairs. Wires defensive line wasn't great but the scramble was outstanding which got you out of jail a few times.

Credit to Wire for holding it together. Great determination, great toughness to hold on. Great individual brilliance for the try.

A brave win.

9 times out of 10 stats like that would see a reversed result.

That's why I thought Leeds were unlucky.

Feel free to rebuff every sentence. It is your year!

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:44 am  

WireRL wrote:

I don't buy the argument that Leeds were unlucky not to win. It was a tight game that could have gone either way. Had the Rhinos won by 2 points Warrington fans could make the same argument.

I believe we should have won. And that's to take nothing away from Warrington who showed great heart and desire in defence to repel us time after time. I wouldn't term it unlucky though either, we had enough chances to win the game and didn't, for that we only have ourselves to blame.We will play a lot, lot worse than that this year and collect the 2 points. Like you say, it was a good close game, close enough to maybe say that had that kick gone over at the end the draw was a fair result and both sides would have been happy. Lets hope that is a sign of things to come for games between the top teams as i thought it was a great game considering it was the first of the year.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:57 am  

WireRL wrote:

I don't buy the argument that Leeds were unlucky not to win. It was a tight game that could have gone either way. Had the Rhinos won by 2 points Warrington fans could make the same argument.

We were unlucky as far as the amount of possession and field position we had, we SHOULD have won the game. What is missed in that is that we were very lucky that you were indisciplined and kept continually turning over the ball, which was the very reason for all our field position. We weren't unlucky to lose, as you make your own luck, and our attacking threat was poor which is the bottom line.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:05 am  

Gotcha wrote:

We were unlucky as far as the amount of possession and field position we had, we SHOULD have won the game. What is missed in that is that we were very lucky that you were indisciplined and kept continually turning over the ball, which was the very reason for all our field position. We weren't unlucky to lose, as you make your own luck, and our attacking threat was poor which is the bottom line.

Reminiscent of a couple of seasons ago....when it was actually better for us not to get too close to the opposition line for the best chance of scoring tries. Hopefully things will change....and again Lilley looks like our best option there, especially in Danny's enforced absence.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:31 am  

I've just watched the second half again. I'm still not sure how Wire managed to win.

I thought despite no McGuire and the rust I thought we played some nice stuff.