That song was, like many of my killings, ironic.

Were Wakefield the most negative side to ever come to Headingley? The showed no ambition to win the game and were on a pure damage limitation excercise before kick off. I know they have injuries but the mentally to win games should be strong, who ever plays.

I did not attend the game, but one thing baffled me.

Why the f*ck would any team kick 2 points for a penalty when 12-2 down???

John Kear has done OK at Wakefield, but he's only a small club coach trying to scrape the odd win. He'd never do well at a bigger club with such negative coaching methods.

because they didn't think they could get a try?

Negative & Boring.
What difference does 2 points make at 12-2?? Leeds players and coaches must have been really worried that Wakey were eating into Leeds' lead

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Wakey deserve Kear. They'll never make Top 8 this year. They do look a good bet for 2012 Northern Rail cup though.

because we were down to 12 men at the time taking the kick allows at least a minute to kick re set for the kick off and the ball for another 6 tackles, condtions were heavy underfoot good tactics for me, bearing in mind we were held up over the line gifted you 6 points although I believe JJB was offside at the kick off (will see on Sky tonight)

Thanks for the confidence we will be in the Northern rail as SL world champs you seemed to have some difficulty yourselves taking on a scratch side hay ho though Leeds are more holier than others these days.

If that is the case it would be incredibly embarrassing for the game and in particular whoever the referee was.

I hope he was offside.

I have every confidence Wakey will not be in SL in 2012. Unless they get a new ground sorted.

I don't read too much into early season form. It's in October when it matters, and by then all the Wakey players will be on holiday and the fans interest in the season long finished.

Because Wakefield were down to 12 men at the time!
In those circumstances most coaches would take the opportunity to get easy points on the board and knock a couple of minutes of the clock.

Unfortunately Mr Ganson was correct in allowing play to continue as JJB (and all the Leeds players) were clearly onside behind Smith's re-start.

I would bet every last penny in my wallet that if Leeds were 12-2 down, a man down and were awarded a kickable penalty, they would run it, and go for the try!

That's why we're Champions

Sorry guys unreserved apolgies JJB was way onside, without my glasses I got the numbers mixed up, I thought it was JJB but it was Burgess in any event both were onside so no complaints.

Not much difference in the two players

I love it when we beat Wakey – our boards get inundated with Wildcats making poor excuses as to why the lost.

It would be so bad if they regularly beat us but they don’t so it’s shizer excuse after shizer excuse.

sad b****rd

Sweet. Still a pity Ganson can't be hauled over the coals for it though.

the really sad thing about it is that cummins will tell him he had a good game

Thats because it was THE STEVE GANSON SHOW on friday night. His futures bright, his futures ORANGE.

My overview:


Smith - Solid and classy, this lad is really developing. Brave effort. Faultless goal-kicking.
Donald - Came to life in the second half, acted as SO in attack in last 15m to get some work.
Ablett - Did the job.
Watkins - Unlucky knock.
Hall - Another lad who seems to get better with more game time.
Allen - Worked his balls off.
McGuire - Not the best. Struggled to lay a platform and his general kicking game was poor.
Leulaui - Hard as. His kinda game.
Diskin - Lively and pro-active. Won the hooking battle.
Peacock - Better than last week, awsome leg drives.
Kirke - My pick of the pack, he's starting to do serious damage to teams.
Ali - Always a threat, shame to see him not able to return.
JJB - Wears his heart on his sleeve, dug in.

Buderus - First run out in 6 months, nicely weighted pass for the game-breaker.
Burgess - Ran strong, stepped into the Scruton role well.
Gibson - Good to see him out there. Lovely conversion.
Bailey - Wound Wakie up, won a penalty also as well as leading with the elbow. First run out in months also.

Agree with most of that but the hooking battle was won hands down by Drew, Diskin is a quality player and now he'sgot Buderus to learn off I can't wait to see the finished article in a couple off years time.

I agree. drew was a real danger all night,

I meant, internally, over Buderus. My bad. My ambiguity.

Some Leeds fans are truly vile and pathetic, but let's rise above the cretins like Logun and LS16_Rhino - they are trolls and poor ones at that, they are clearly thick as two short planks. I know tons of decent Leeds fans who are fine and were very complimentary. I suspect at least one of the trolls mentioned is ranting on this thread because his stupidity has seen him banned of the Trinity site so he can't troll there.

It was a decent game which we never really looked like winning, but all told we gave a good Leeds team a hard game. They were missing a few and we were missing a few more end of. Why these individual are so insecure only someone qualified could explain.

Fair play, thought you might have meant that but wasn't too sure . No matter what though Diskin has now got a real master of his trade to work with now so I fully expect him to push on and become Englands no.1 hooker.