: Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:22 am  

TheOtherOne wrote:

+99 equals 11 (yes I know you won it in 99 but the original poster said 99 - 09 was eleven seasons which is in fact correct)

Nice try, but he actually said "no Wembey for the eleventh season" and didn't mention any particular years. As there was some Wembley in '99 you can't count that. Ergo efcrhino seems to be correct to me. Maths was never my strongest subject, but I can count, most of the time, especially when I don't even need to use my toes.

Jungleman was especially irrelevant given that nobody went to Wembley for 7 of those years, whil Leeds did in fact reach the final at the alternative venue in 3 of them.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:18 am  

I was only querying the fact that 99 to 09 is eleven seasons. Which it is.

10 or 11 who cares anyway? I'm sure if you win the GF again Wembley will just seem like an irrelevance.

Re: Oh well... : Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:20 am  

King Monkey wrote:

No. They've won the qualifying comp but choked when it mattered.

75% correct.

Re: Oh well... : Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:23 am  

handrags wrote:

hasn't Saints won the league for the last 4 years?

Yes they have. League winners for the last four years.
Whinging Whino's Super League winners for the last two.
Get it!

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:40 am  

tad rhino wrote:

we were a shambles. the scoreline flattered us. the pack looked lightweight, the decision to play donald on the right clearly isn't working,gibson,sadly, is not good enough. the injuries have really hit him hard. defence was shocking,loads of missed tackles and we never had a good line. the passing was ponderous and the lack of runners was evident.
we played in the centre third nearly all the game despite the fact it was obvious it wasn't working.
the coaching staff need to take stock because at the moment we don't look a patch on last season.
saints were top drawer,fully deserved the win. lets hope they have a good run and injuries bite. we may need it

A bit of an overreaction IMO tad, I am just as disappointed as any Leeds fan that we played so poor yesterday but it doesn’t mean wholesale changes are needed, Saints themselves were in very poor form only 3 weeks ago after the loss to HKR and the 4 point win at Celtic. The Saints and Leeds teams are very evenly matched and all games between them will come down to form & injuries.

As others have said we missed Bailey today (BBC said he had a groin strain), Burgess as good as he is very slow in defence and gets caught out in these big games.