Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:16 pm  

watching those men in warrington shirts scrambling up some stairs that sharply reminds me of something....

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:26 pm  

Time will tell what kind of psychological effect this will have on Saints.
We can all joke and call them bottlers etc but it's got to the point now where it will be playing on the minds of the players.

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:32 pm  

Mash Butty wrote:

watching those men in warrington shirts scrambling up some stairs that sharply reminds me of something....

.......that it’s your bedtime.

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:32 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Time will tell what kind of psychological effect this will have on Saints.
We can all joke and call them bottlers etc but it's got to the point now where it will be playing on the minds of the players.

Hopefully

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:36 pm  

Well played Warrington, they executed their game plan to near perfection, it was hardly champagne rugby but it worked a treat.

It was good to see that St's aren't the world beaters that some though they were. Some individual performances were well below standard, obviously Coote had a mare, but my favourite faux pas was Makinson's "trademark finish" going awry.

Oh, & pundit Peacock, don't start sports betting.

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:37 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Time will tell what kind of psychological effect this will have on Saints.
We can all joke and call them bottlers etc but it's got to the point now where it will be playing on the minds of the players.

Time won't tell, time has told.

Millward was the perfect big game coach. Anderson could do it but ony against poorer opposition.

Since then we have relied on luck.

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:38 pm  

The Devil's Advocate wrote:

Well played Warrington, they executed their game plan to near perfection, it was hardly champagne rugby but it worked a treat.

It was good to see that St's aren't the world beaters that some though they were. Some individual performances were well below standard, obviously Coote had a mare, but my favourite faux pas was Makinson's "trademark finish" going awry.

Oh, & pundit Peacock, don't start sports betting.

The effort from Makinson was fine, but the tackle was perfect. Hitting the arm.

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:00 pm  

Wires just played 80 mins of (mostly) error free one up rugby, which meant Saints had a bundle of hard work in each tackle - bare recall an offload either.

Video ref call for Lineham effort was bizarre (no clear view of contract with Goodwin, but just assumed from both angles, but grounding not checked anyway) but so was the non referral in the opening half (albeit at full speed it looked like he'd either missed it, or maybe made contact on/over dead all line - slowed replays suggest a try though...).

Oh well scoreboard says WIRES WON !

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:16 pm  

Warrington quite rightly deserved winners... Well done

Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 8:10 pm  

I'm over the moon we won but to be honest i did not expect it. We ran hard, defended hard and played really well as a team.
Saints had an off day and had a few bad calls. I thought saints first denied try wasn't a try at first and thought he bounced it, but really surprised Hicks didn't go to the video ref to check.
Saints were off and we were on form and it couldn't be sweeter.
Saints will be back stronger and this will drive them, and i hope this win will spur us on to a first final win fingers crossed.