Coming out the stadium today and walking over the bridge, there was 2 Leeds fans walking infront of us talking about the match. I actually heard one of them say 'I'm sick of those cheating Wigan ****s with 10 minutes left the seconds on the big screen were going down faster than normal seconds - i even timed it on my watch'

I kid you not they were being deadly serious

That is the best excuse i've heard EVER, even more so when you take into account all the niggle they got away with tonight.

Not seen a team mess around as much at the play the ball as Leeds tonight.

Markers not square, hands on the ball, holding down etc every single time.

They lost the penalty count 13-7 i believe yet they were lucky it wasn't about 30-7 given the things they were doing.

We were quite clean tonight at the play the ball which i think was because Lockers and Bailey weren't playing.............we missed it though.

They got cained the other week at Wakefield as well and rightly so, they are shocking.

I agree that our discipline is appauling and needs sorting. Although you did get away with a few decisions.

Still not making an excuse, best team won

I had a lot of morons around me in the North. On that Hansen try I called it before he went to the screen. Even 130m away you could see the ball had been passed back and kicked through by Tompkins. The only doubt for me live was wether it was dead in goal as my eyesight isnt that good



After a few seconds trying to explain I gave it up as a bad job and had to endure anouther 36 minutes of constant moaning for no reason.

Anyway my excuses for us not winning were:

1) Carmont was awesome
2) Stompkins was awesome

and

3) Buderus was the only 1 looking dangerous for us and he got injured at a vital point.

ie, you lot deserved the win and out played us.

We usually walk a very fne line with lockers and bailey!


I never really seen leeds try to play that style before. Is it something that has crept in, or has your coach brought it in, as i dont really remember you doing it under smith, granted that was a couple of years ago now though!

The only excuse I have is that it's nobles cup final!! So much so they called a league game the big one!!

What was all that both teams coming out together bull $hit?



but really in all honesty your defence was amazing!! Well worthy of the win!!

Thought Buderus was fantastic for you guys, he's all class and was a real shame to see him go off injured, hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.

Maybe it was to do with the minutes silence, Ces Mountford was a very important player for Wigan and they may have wanted less hype in order to honour his memory.

well you always get this kind of thing lets face it .
well played wigan and all the best for the rest of the season i hope you win the cup.

No complaints from me we dominated for all of 15 minutes in the 1st half the rest was all yours, well played and good look next week and in the semi.

Well done wigan. Lets see how arrogant the Leeds fans are now

Excellent



Simple for me, Leeds dominated the open 15 to 20 minutes then we took over. and dominated the remainder of the game. I was confident that Leeds wouldnt break us in the second half.

Why quizzical? You screwed yourselves over in that second half, to create as one-sided a second half I can recall seeing.

After reading the most threads on the Leeds forum, the majority of comments seem to be very positive towards Wigan and that we fully deserved the win. Most clubs in Super League (particulary the small ones) would have 3 or 4 threads about the referee, but the Leeds have taken it on the chin.

If we were ever going to be out of a competition, I'd probably want Leeds to win it. Good club, Good ground and good supporters.

McLennan lost it for them IMO.
We were on the rack in the first 20 and there for the taking. Buderus had us on toast. He was causing all sorts of trouble from dummy half and we couldn't hold him.
From the moment he was spelled we came back into it and Leeds go forward came to a stop. The longer the first half went on the more likely we looked like scoring. Getting that 6 points before half time was vital.
From the start of the second half there was only one team in it and that was Wigan.
We went from 0-10 to 18-10 before McLennon brought Buderus back on. I was sat there and couldn't believe he was off so long. IMO McLennen should brought his 9 back on after half time. Maybe he'd taken a knock, that's the only way I'd give the Leeds coach the benefit of the doubt.
What has worked in our favour is having Lee Mossop back from loan.
He's coming on and being used as a fifth prop. That extra power up the middle is using up the oppositions energy and you can see them tire in front of your eyes.
We have spoken here for years about an underpowered front row, it wasn't last night and Mossop has made the difference.

As for the Leeds club. They are the biggest in the game and do the game proud with their style of Rugby and total belief in bringing through their own players via the youth system.
Their down fall is their ground which is a disgrace. Part of it is still cordonded off as unsafe. They also have a useless CEO in Gary Hetherington. If they had a top class CEO they could win everything every year as we used to. As long as our Gary is incharge they'll be hit and miss.
Lets hope Mr Hetherington remains there for decades to come!

including us - even when we lose !!







i must admit ive always had a good welcome at headingley, even as a lone cheery in the south stand ! and credit to them also for making a good noise at the match. great support.

Maybe but there are plenty of minutes silence before games where the players don't walk out like it's the cup/grand final!! All felt a but false and hammed up to me!! But it did the trick for you guys!! Fair play to ya

This thread has made me laugh more than anything i've ever read before!
I know 100% how bad they are when they lose!

Think you need to adopt one of our songs for the play-offs if you meet!

1) Same old rhino's..... always moaning! (repeat at will!)

2) (to the tune of "we're leeds rhino's, we're leeds rhino's"icon_wink.gif WE HATE RHINOS...WE HATE RHINOS!

Even though every official is too scared to pull Leeds everyones still out to get them, must be hard!

you just hate the city of leeds for some unkown reason?

You are joking right....? Say what you like about the ground..it is ours though and we will never be kicked out of it for play off games. The unsafe parts will be sorted by our second rate CEO Ive no doubt, probably get another second rate stand like the second rate carnegie, but it will be ours.



By the way your last and your present CEOs are ace arent they, brought you loads of silver ware and that havent they

Strange post really?? As this tread has kinda turned into Wigan fans saying the leeds fans arnt looking for excuses!! We got beat by the better team on the night!! There are no two ways about it Wigan were good for the win!! It's all a bit nice really!! Leeds fans are in appreciation about how Wigan played!! for me the defence was a highlight as this is the part of the game I like the most!! and the wigan fans appreciate we arnt blaming the ref as fans of other clubs do everytime they lose!! I have a great memory of a wakey fan telling me that rugby league is corrupt and fixed for the likes of Leeds! This always makes me chuckle and reminds me how small minded so clubs fans are!!

Listen you nearly beat us, nearly, but you didnt, FFS get over it. Why ride on the coat tails of a team that actually has beaten us??
Also regarding the songs?? wow. Lennon and McCartney had nowt on you did they??
Wigan were last night bar the opening 20/25 mins the best team on show, they ran hard they tackled harder and ran thier guts to water and well deserved the spoils. That was by far and away one of the best games i have attended this season and we lost badly to boot, do i think "we woz wobbed?" no i dont, do i believe "All the wefs hate us?" do i bollax, small minded excuses for small minded people (or teams

) Wigan, i doff my cap to thee, WELL DONE and good luck with the rest of your season.

just not against us though eh?