Looking forward to next week, I think the players will really be up for this, and the coaches will have them wound up, hope the conditions are good. We put down a marker last night, admit Hull were under strength, think we will put down another marker next week, let's see if Lee Smith is celebrating next week.

Looks like Wire have peaked and burned out...

every club, after a big loss use it to spur them on the next time they play that team, on the Wire board they are saying the loss to Catalans will help them in the cup. It can be the psychological difference between winning and losing when big teams are involved who are close in terms of natural ability. Using this logic we need to let Leeds beat us next week and then we can go on to beat whoever we face between Warrington, Saints and them in the playoffs ultimately lifting the championship trophy at Old Trafford. If only it was that simple

The only concern I have is that in two games now (Saints and Wire) we've had 20 minutes of pressure and come away with just 2 and 6 points respectively, whilst our opponents have had 10 minutes on our line and scored two or three tries.



In the playoffs we will need to turn that 20 minutes into a match winning position.

Really?



What basis do you have for this belief?

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top of the league ALL season ?

Just touched on this on another board but against Saints in particular we were our own worst enemies during the opening period and ironically it was Leuluai who was man of the match who imo was to blame. There were about 3 times in the opening half where, on the last tackle, we had a clear 2 or 3 man overlap on the left hand side and we didn't score from any of them. Now as we have done so many times this season a long pass to the wing or a shorter pass to carmont would would have been a certain try but with Lockers being out, I felt at the time and watching it back on Sky confirmed it to me, that we had it in our minds to play to the right as much as possible. Instead of doing the obvious Tommy decided to kick to the far right hand corner, where we were low on numbers due to the overlap on the left, meaning the pressure was wasted and Saints were able to make easy yards counter attacking. There was a point in the game where this tactic changed and we started to score down the left as a result. I seriously think we made the absence of Lockers more of an issue than it needed to be.



Against Wire their pack did really getting big hits in on our props just as Huddersfield did against us in the opening stages of the Murrayfield game. Under normal circumstances, as happened in the Hudds game the early pressure would have an effect later on in the game but With Coley out and Fielden getting hit so hard he didn't know if he was on this earth or fullers but having to stay on, this didn't happen. Also, we were still attempting to play our normal passing game but making mistakes but the only alternative was to try beat them up the middle which was never going to happen.

And the date Hull morphed into the 3-peat Champions?

The Challenge Cup Quarter Final.



Full stop.

The hiding we gave you at the start of the season.



Full stop.

The fact that we've already done it once this season. Nothing else needs to be said.