He needs to find a mismatch in the defence that's when he is at his best. Our attack is often too obvious which enables opposition to get the numbers on him. He was a real handful today, he ran good lines and he ran in very hard too. I hope he has set his standard for the rest of the season, playing like that he improves us a great deal.

I blame Patton.

Good old fashioned cup tie. Well done to the team who were clearly delighted for Philbin when he scored. Don’t think it was coincidence that Ratchford was back and we get the result.
Have we really not got a player who could be trusted to come on as 4th sub?

Well done boys. Superb effort today. Great and much needed support second half too. Brilliant.

Bit strange the comments on our 4th sub. ... again.
Price has done this a few times.
Why be negative?

You don't think he has a point? You're asking more of the other 16 if you don't have any intention of using one of your subs! If you have an injury and are down to 16 in a match are you disadvantaged? If so then surely having 17 on the team and using all of them is better than only planning on using 16. It suggests that tasi isn't good enough really and is there to cover injury only, the only other explanation is tasi is carrying a knock and being looked after but if that was the case why not just pick moran instead?

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When your side has just got to Wembley it seems relatively unimportant (unless you like a bit of a moan).
It happens.

I agree with you really but its been easy to become a bit negative recently!

The Saints after game interview with Alex Walmsley. It looked like he had a chocolate starfish as an ear.

I know. I reckon we all deal with it in different ways.
I try to pretend it's not important. But some just want to throw crap at the club they do really love.
Warrington is a great club who try very hard to be a lovely community club.

why are we only playing with 3 subs? That is a terrible state of affairs. Well done today Wire, perfect game plan, executed to perfection.

I was not sure if I had missed him coming on then off but his leg was heavily strapped. I think he was an emergency sub we don't know if he was the only prop available but was not really match fit.

One positive is it will certainly helped with our fitness playing with 16 them extra minutes will hopefully help coming to the business end of the year.

Much better performance today ,errors & discipline in check . Well done boys !

When a team loses a replacement due to injury much is made of the impact this has. I think wondering why all 4 were not used is a reasonable question to which there may well be a reasonable answer. If you have a theory please help.
Oh and what is the view like from your high horse?

I was also of the opinion that we'd get turned over today, but I was pleasantly surprised by our effort, ball retention and discipline. There were phases when Hull got the better of the arm wrestle, but we came through it. Good to have Ratch back, pity about Charnley, and I'm baffled with the selection and non appearance of Tasi. Not perfect, but who cares as were over the line and in the final.

I'll have a go. No one injured, all going well ... why make a change.
BMM ... looking better than for some time and that was a bonus. Perhaps that was it.
So Hill/Coops/Philbin/BMM/Currie/Hughes/Clark ... all good. So leave well enough alone.
I'm sure Price didn't plan to do that before the game but he's done it before.

My point is it's not worth banging on about ... or being baffled.

Cooper went off for a head test round about the hour mark . Is that when Tasi came on ,not that i remember seeing him myself ?

Tasi didnt come on

Even in victory you just can’t help it.

I'm baffled and make no apologies for it. Not it makes any difference to the outcome of the game.

Did we even concede a penalty in defence today? We got pinged for obstruction but otherwise I can't recall us being penalised all game....

One for offside for not being on our try line, cannot think of another one.

It was ball retention in the conditions that also impressed me.

Massive transformation from the last 2 matches.
Didn't think that would happen.
I had written our chances off and expected to get a good thumping.

Well done to all at the club, but would like to understand the 4th sub issue.

My thoughts were Price wanted to save some legs for the Catalan game next week. Hopefully next week he will also play the guys not getting in the team at the minute. Livett, Moran, Johnson, Thewliss even. Good to rest some after today. Got a hard 3 games prior to Wembley to get through.

Just think of the dynasty we could have had in this competition over the last decade if we'd had a bit more about us.

10, 12, - Winners
16, 18, 19 - Final
13, 14, 15 - SF
11, 17 - QF