Quote NickyKiss="NickyKiss"We weren't as good though quite obviously. They play at full throttle for the 80 mins and have a desire to destroy teams whereas we don't but as I say that will make little difference when the big games come round.
If we win our game in hand we go outright top and that added to the big shiny thing with the ribbons on sat in our trophy cabinet suggests to me we're still the team to beat.'"
tbf if we do win our game in hand then yes we will go top but this year could come down to goal difference for top spot this season its that tight.
Maybe the players/ coaches were thinking about not risking injuries when they switched off after about 27 minutes at 42-0 up, or maybe they were thinking about the good of the game and the damage an absolute tonking would have done to quins (and yes maybe this would have been damaging), but we really should have been seing this as an opportunity to reign in wires GD and it is an opportunity missed.
At 42-0 up, had we kept that intensity we could have been looking at a super league record 100+ score tonight, which would not only have put us in the record books, but clawed 50pts back on wire. Instead, cue goes on the rack, yet at the same time wire dont stop even though they were only 16/22 up at the same time- What happens? Wire end up extending their goal difference over us by another 14 points, when, even with wire putting 60 on cas, we could have still peged their GD back by 40 or 50 points- Plus the fact, what a message we could have sent out to SL tonight, rather than just settling for a score that was expected!