After fearing the worst before the game an excellent effort and scored double the previous best v London in the league this season. Enjoyable atmosphere as well. We definitely got to them and some of their players need to remember they are playing in the 2nd Division not State of Origin!
Today showed there is still the passion there- needs to be matched by greater ambition off the field!
We played really well and losing edge after about 15 minutes.
The difference was the pass that Gilmore dropped about 15 meters out with a clear run to the line, then they went down the field and scored. A 12 point difference.
i was surprised they didn’t go away from us after they extended their lead with about 25 minutes left, like they have with every other team. but much to our credit we didn’t give up and kept pressing them and scored some good tries.
Thats the most points anyone has scored against them , including Bradford in the cup, and the closest score, in our division.
if we play like that in the final we must stand a chance of winning.
Excellect analysis of the game...exactly what I thought.
Turning point was the Gilmore drop.
They actually tired more than us in last 20 hence started making errors and giving pens away.
At 18 42 I feared a 18 60 odd final score.
Would have like 10 mins at them at the 26 42 and not 2mins.
Overall they did just about deserve to win....made a lot more m in forward runs and did have real speed in the backs. Also better at off loading...basically SL style.
Widnes should take a great deal of confidence from that game and be looking for to the final and another go at them
Attendance was 2011
Campbell-Gillard the big aussie gobshite, only ran the ball in 4 times. I'm looking forward to seeing the tries again because a couple of theirs were from forward passes, and I thought one in the NE corner was grounded against the corner flag (but I was 100yds away). Also one of our Forwards said after the game, that one of their tries wasn't grounded. All ifs, buts and maybes. Apart from the regular offsides at the play-the-ball, which is every game, I thought the Ref had a decent game.
Paulie xx
Great comeback in the second half, but our undoing was absolute shocking tackling in the first half for their 3 tries
edge loss could be immense for us
langtree - at season start people were questioning his retention - proved it in spades !
the 2 wildes were good too
and after the ref chalked off Lawton’s try for a forward pas ( quite correctly) he then started to see London forward passes
attendance - did not hear but guess about 2500 and that includes the 26 from London
We started well and did very well to come back at the end. London a very quick side but terrible goal line defence, we scored virtually everytime we got to their line. Which for us is good as we have struggled in this area in the past and had 2 2nd rows playing centre.
You could tell London were rattled as celebrated by signalling to our fans at the end. I thought that lacked a bit of class considering they are full time but at the same time shows weakness. Gillard had a 5 min moan to the ref at the end as well.
Any news on Edge, has he broken his arm? That would be a big blow, but we have 2 fairly easy games next, Taylor can come in and Owens only has 1 more game of his ban.
Not having Richardson or Wilde for the final will be a blow, especially Richardson. I hope Sambou is available for the last couple of league games but not sure how far off hevis, been out ages.