Leeds 39 d Dogs 32

[ibeme]

One thing that really impressed me was the crowd. The Leeds fans were loud and united.
Imagine going to see your club play and joining in a chant echoed by thousands of fans.

Surely you get that, it happens all the time over here (although normally there is less than 37K people).

How does it all work? Does everyone just know what songs are going to be sung already from past experience?

 

[TIGERPies]

i went to see halifax vs bradford two seasons ago, there was a crowd of about seven thousand, it was much louder than any nrl crowd,

i can remember they like to chant

who are we
who are we
who are we


sounded very impressive

 

[ozzie]

well I thought there were some tremendous tries scored...I felt for Patten and the bounce of the ball but thats a ball...what happenned to Anasta I thought he went and I don't recall him being mentioned once in the game?
Was he in the board room of the Rhinos talking a new contract??

He went off after 15 minutes with an injured sternum

I didn't hear his name called at all but thanks for that...is he in for another year full of injuryr?? You should pay Souths to take him

 

[Charge]

One thing that really impressed me was the crowd. The Leeds fans were loud and united.
Imagine going to see your club play and joining in a chant echoed by thousands of fans.

Surely you get that, it happens all the time over here (although normally there is less than 37K people).

How does it all work? Does everyone just know what songs are going to be sung already from past experience?

Yep, although new songs are made by taking the other teams songs and changing the words or getting a well known tune and changing the words. To be honest Leeds probably have one of the loudest sets of supporters, but that may be because they are the best supported team at the moment.

 

[Iafeta]

I didn't see the game - how did Ali "I don't want to a win a premiership - now I have one and a WCC too" Lauitiiti aka Former Warriors God go?

 

[PB]

Well for all the hull-a-bulo that Folks went on about with having to play all these youngsters, they were the ones who stood up and played well. The Dogs were let down by more experienced players like Anasta (while he was on), Patten, as usual showed he is one of the worst postional fullbacks in the game, Lolesi didnt touch the ball for 65 minutes, they had no play from Corey Hughes, and Perry (who should have been penalised on at least half a dozen occaisoins for holding down), did nothing out of dummy half. Matua had zero focus and Asotasi was missing for long periods also. Only El Masri and Williams could really hold their heads up of the expereinced players (and even SBW lost it a bit at the end).

Well done Leeds.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Despite the scoreline, I thought it was a good game to watch plenty of skills, agresssion, big hits, sell out crowd, thats what World Club Challenge is all about. The problem I thought was the refereeing, Hampstead blew the whistle too many times when it wasnt needed, didnt have a good game. Could someone tell me why they picked him over Russell Smith and Tim Mander? I wouldve preferred Glen Black over Hampstead.

But apart from the refereeing, I thought the game was good. Full credit to Leeds they are a world champion side and they showed it too, even though it was against a depleted Bulldogs outfit, but I didnt think the Bulldogs played that bad. Good effort from them, even though they made a number of mistakes in the first half, it was just those little mistakes that came back to haunt them. Williams tried his best, and was still making hits even though they were 38-16 at the time, but never gave up.

I agree it wouldve been a better game if Mason, Ryan, O'Meley and Sherwin were playing, but still did alright, theyve got plenty of depth and are gonna be hard to beat this year.

 

[ibeme]

theyve got plenty of depth and are gonna be hard to beat this year.

And what a situation to give those young players first grade experience?

I think each and everyone of them will benefit from that game, which will only bolster our depth even more. It's not a bad situation to have young guys running around in the lower grades who've experienced something like that.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Yeah and one to look out for is Chris Armit, another Parramatta let go that we'll regret. #-o

 

[Julz]

Despite the scoreline, I thought it was a good game to watch plenty of skills, agresssion, big hits, sell out crowd, thats what World Club Challenge is all about. The problem I thought was the refereeing, Hampstead blew the whistle too many times when it wasnt needed, didnt have a good game. Could someone tell me why they picked him over Russell Smith and Tim Mander? I wouldve preferred Glen Black over Hampstead.

But apart from the refereeing, I thought the game was good. Full credit to Leeds they are a world champion side and they showed it too, even though it was against a depleted Bulldogs outfit, but I didnt think the Bulldogs played that bad. Good effort from them, even though they made a number of mistakes in the first half, it was just those little mistakes that came back to haunt them. Williams tried his best, and was still making hits even though they were 38-16 at the time, but never gave up.

I agree it wouldve been a better game if Mason, Ryan, O'Meley and Sherwin were playing, but still did alright, theyve got plenty of depth and are gonna be hard to beat this year.

i agree

 

[strong_latte]

Congrats to Leeds, better team for most of the game won, glad the Doggies made a game of it towards the end.

Mate, I hate your f**ken club with a passion, but even I'll admit the Doggies should have slaughtered Leeds! Gould is spot on, if it were played here with both teams whole, and if the doggies had wanted it like they wanted the 2004 GF, then you lot would have put 60 points on them!

 

[Big Mick]

I'm finding it hard to agree with you Latte, because I don't like your club, hehe.

But seeing as I like your talk today, I agree wholeheartedly.

 

[loiner81]

Congrats to Leeds, better team for most of the game won, glad the Doggies made a game of it towards the end.

Mate, I hate your f***en club with a passion, but even I'll admit the Doggies should have slaughtered Leeds! Gould is spot on, if it were played here with both teams whole, and if the doggies had wanted it like they wanted the 2004 GF, then you lot would have put 60 points on them!

typical aussie arrogance ;-)

did you see leeds last season when they hit the peaks?
hammered every team they played including a 70-0 whitewash of saint helens and 4 victories over bradford.

hopefully your gf winners next season will stay injury free and will have no excuses for losing (again)

 

[bulldog]

Andrew Ryan summed it up pretty well in todays paper, he said something along the lines of "obviously we were missing a few players, but they would have been hard to beat anyway". Full credit to Leeds, they won all the battles for the first 60 mins. and I think I saw they had 100% completions for the first 20 or so, thats how you win football games - play mistake free.

 

[ozzie]

Yeah and one to look out for is Chris Armit, another Parramatta let go that we'll regret. #-o

I very much doubt it - he did nothing

 

[loiner81]

i wish you lot posted on the british site. there's 2 of your fellow countrymen really putting the game down and coming across as very bitter losers. i've enjoyed the last hour or so reading the comments pre and post match on your forum very much.

thanks for restoring my faith.

good luck to your team in 2005. rhinos' look pretty good for another championship once they sort the defence out so maybe i'll be heading your way next year if they do move the game down under.