Tony Smith seems to have borrowed his magic hat for the weekend!

Looks like Tony Smith has completed the set of (British) club winners medals! Well done Tony for coaching a team that were in disarray earlier this season to the Challenge Cup.

Full marks to TS. He'd studied the Huddersfield defensive gameplan and picked it apart. How Briers didn't get the Lance Todd trophy I do not know. He completely ran the show.

Both teams were poor, its just that Warrington were better than Huddersfield. Fair play to Warrington and Tony Smith, they deserved it, but it was a poor poor match.

It was horrendous.

would of been the best match ever if you lot had won y`day.....

We only like to win the BIG ONE these days.

The Challenge Cup is sooooooooooooo last century!!!!

great excuse...sure your not a wigoooner

Certainly not!!!

How many SL titles have the Pie Masters won post 2000????

HAHA. Even Wigan have won a CC trophy since Leeds last did.

And how many GF's have you they bombed since they last won one???

Challenge Cup


Whats it worth?

Half a Grand Final win, or 20 league leaders shields.

I disagree. I would love for Leeds to win the CC and obviously the Leeds players were targeting it this year.
HOWEVER I stand by my point that both teams were poor yesterday. Huddersfield didn't have a clue at all. The match was one of the worst ones I have seen this season, and did nothing to advertise RL on a national scale.

It wasn't a superb game, but it was far from a poor match imo. Would off been alot better if Huddersfield had not dropped as much ball as they did.

Had high hopes for the second half, but Warrington scored first and that was that really.

I now wonder how both teams will fare in the play offs.

He didn't need time studying. Just had to watch Boots n All from Wednesday and Paul Cullen made it clear as day how to beat the Huddersfield defence system. Smith played exactly that way.

Managed to squeeze it in between his 20 minute lecture on marker defence did he?

Shows just what a good coach he is after us winning after 32 years and now Wire after a long spell

Well done TS

Said it before and I’ll say it again.

IMO Tony Smith is the best coach in Super League. Winning the CC doesn’t really surprise me. I said at the start of the season that Wire, with a decent coach, could be a formidable team.

They will be there or there abouts next season – mark (or bookmark if you’re really sad) my words.

I always knew he would turn Wire round. I expect them to go from strength to strength.

Well done smith, You are a legend.

He's done a great job to take wire to the cup final and win but their league place suggests it's gonna take a lot longer and more money to turn them into title contenders.

Wait till Sinny signs that will help them.

I wonder if we'll have a subset of Wire fans claiming that this win is really down to Cullen........

I`m not sure off the top of my head but we`ll soon find out if Leeds win it as Keith will have it on ebay within 2 days.

Smith shows his credentials yet again.

Not that it was any surprise to me. Nor should it have been to anyone who knows anything about RL.

Why?

Smith hasn't been in charge all season.

Warrington's record since he took over (extended over a full season) would have guaranteed them a play off position.

They have just beaten Hull KR (A), Wigan (N) and Huddersfield (N) to win their first Challenge Cup in 35 seasons.

Their achilles heal remains St Helens. Get over that mental block and they have proved (with their current squad) as capable as anyone else.