:21:12. > :21:16.It is a massive boost and it is a big relief. We played Wakefield
:21:16. > :21:20.last week and they put 30 points past us, even though they did not
:21:20. > :21:24.win, they got a lot of confidence and it was only a matter of time
:21:24. > :21:30.before they posted a big win and Catalan is a big scalp to take.
:21:30. > :21:35.have got a Catalan comeback, not surprising, we are used to that
:21:35. > :21:40.this season. It was pretty much an off day for them. It is never easy
:21:40. > :21:44.having to travel every second week like they do. If you get a team in
:21:44. > :21:48.the mood like Wakefield at the time, at the start of this game, it's
:21:48. > :21:55.going to be a difficult afternoon. Weak field will be desperate to
:21:55. > :22:03.sink their teeth in and then pushed down, keep them in there --
:22:03. > :22:08.Wakefield. He has announced this will be his last year? He has been
:22:08. > :22:13.one of the most consistent players in Super League for Catalan. That
:22:13. > :22:16.will be a big loss for them. Friday night was Derby night on the west
:22:16. > :22:20.side of the Pennines, in what is traditionally one of the biggest
:22:20. > :22:25.fixtures of the seasonthe season against Warrington at the DW
:22:25. > :22:28.Stadium. I'm not sure it was named Stadium. I'm not sure it was named
:22:28. > :22:33.in honour of Dave Wood, our commentator, but he was there any
:22:33. > :22:38.way. A fantastic atmosphere inside the DW Stadium tonight. 20,000
:22:38. > :22:43.packed in here, too early to define either side's season, but a
:22:43. > :22:50.psychological blow could be struck one way or another tonight. The
:22:51. > :22:58.referee, Richard Silverwood, doing his bit for Sport Relief as well.
:22:58. > :23:02.Here's Leuluai, picking it up from the base of the scrum. He was
:23:02. > :23:10.caught, the referee has decided, that has given Wigan the penalty
:23:10. > :23:16.for the high tackle. A swish by Morley and a spot by a Westwood. A
:23:16. > :23:21.moment of potential history here, if Pat Richards puts this over, it
:23:21. > :23:29.takes him past 2000 points in a Wigan jersey and a bit goes, 2-0 on
:23:29. > :23:39.the night, 2000 plus one in Pat Richards' week in Korea. Here's
:23:39. > :23:40.
:23:41. > :23:49.Rich at dummy-half. Westwood. Here's Briers, now they have some
:23:49. > :23:54.options. Atkins for the line! Ryan Atkins claiming the try, the
:23:54. > :23:59.referee wants somebody to have a second look here. Steve Ganson has
:23:59. > :24:04.been asked about the grounding. Real strength from that position,
:24:04. > :24:09.but that looks OK. What is the verdict, Steve Ganson? Warrington
:24:09. > :24:13.have the lead. A quick response. The carried England football
:24:13. > :24:22.manager, Stuart Pearce, just getting a bit of advice. Tony Smith
:24:22. > :24:32.offering him a few words. Here's Richards, only inches away, my
:24:32. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:44.word! Warrington's defence hangs on. Hop! Hoc scores. A second opinion
:24:44. > :25:04.
:25:04. > :25:14.will be sought, but it looks like has found a bit of a gap and
:25:14. > :25:19.Farrell is off. Just put down, but he has... Laurent Blanc has scored!
:25:19. > :25:26.The referee's happy. One or two questions here as to whether Liam
:25:26. > :25:29.Farrell actually play the ball. Very quick to his feet, the referee
:25:29. > :25:39.says play on. Michael Laura Bechtolsheimer masking no further
:25:39. > :25:47.questions. Here comes Morley. So five tackles from here. Warrington
:25:47. > :25:56.looking to make a big impression if they can. Briers hurling it wide.
:25:56. > :26:00.Here's Monahan. Terrific, absolutely terrific! Confirmation
:26:00. > :26:09.is being looked at again here but look at this for a finish.
:26:09. > :26:12.Wonderful dive, no doubts about the grounding. Some moments deserve to
:26:12. > :26:19.be legitimate for their sheer brilliance and that was one of them.
:26:19. > :26:24.Nothing wrong with that. Jol Monahan the eye-catching scorer.
:26:24. > :26:30.Ryan gigs and Michael Carrick, the two Manchester United players a
:26:30. > :26:38.month to the watching crowd tonight. 21,267 is the official attendance.
:26:38. > :26:44.The referee has given a penalty to Warrington. Timely for their point
:26:44. > :26:49.of view, the hooter has sounded. Not square at the marker. Hotson
:26:49. > :26:59.with a chance to level things up as they go into the break -- Hodgson.
:26:59. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:16.with real brilliance. Over the halfway line. Here goes Tomkins.
:27:16. > :27:20.Watson is beaten, Tomkins still going. -- Hodgson is beating.
:27:20. > :27:26.Tomkins can't get it away. There were players in attendance and if
:27:26. > :27:36.he passed it, surely Wigan would have scored, but he held on and
:27:36. > :27:36.
:27:36. > :27:46.Warrington hang on. Still a decent position, though. This is A flower.
:27:46. > :27:46.
:27:46. > :27:53.Some solid defending on that Warrington line -- this is Flour.
:27:53. > :28:00.Carmont, Richard! Try! That position set up by Sam Tomkins. Pat
:28:00. > :28:05.Richards with a simple finish. Some super centre play by Carmont, by
:28:05. > :28:11.the way. But this is where it all began. Tomkins from behind the line
:28:11. > :28:16.making mincemeat of that Warrington defence. He had so many auctions to
:28:16. > :28:20.pass here. He thought he could do the job himself -- so many auctions.
:28:20. > :28:26.Stopped in the end but it was all academic because right at the last,
:28:26. > :28:32.Carmont with a wonderful pass here and Richards with the score.
:28:32. > :28:37.Tomkins steps out of the way. The ball is back on the inside. Grasped
:28:37. > :28:44.by Finch out of thin air. Flower. Morley holds him down. A penalty
:28:44. > :28:49.has been given! Too much interference from Adrian Morley. He
:28:49. > :28:59.hung on when he should have been dropping off. So Wigan have made
:28:59. > :29:12.
:29:12. > :29:17.the decision to go for two here. half. -- Lima. It has been
:29:17. > :29:24.intercepted, Lee Briers, ever the magician. It is a saunter to the
:29:24. > :29:30.try-line for Lee Briers. Leuluai trying to get back, but he really
:29:30. > :29:38.committed himself here, Briers. He read the situation perfectly. The
:29:38. > :29:48.veteran Welshman snaps it up and runs away. Warrington right back in
:29:48. > :29:57.
:29:57. > :30:03.possession and a penalty has been given, a rather obvious penalty as
:30:03. > :30:11.well. Clearly more than one man in the tackle and he simply got over
:30:11. > :30:21.Looking for his second success of the night to give Wigan the lead
:30:21. > :30:32.
:30:32. > :30:42.once more. Finding his form with the penalty has been given. It was
:30:42. > :31:03.
:31:03. > :31:13.the tackle had been completed. He came in and arrested the man in
:31:13. > :31:33.
:31:33. > :31:38.The match was described as absolutely enthralling, but a
:31:38. > :31:42.complete match. Was that fair? would agree with that. It was
:31:42. > :31:45.compelling to watch. Everybody loved watching it, but you have to
:31:45. > :31:49.say the ball-handling from both sides was not great. There were a
:31:49. > :31:54.lot of penalties and drop balls. Even though both sides were not
:31:54. > :32:04.great, it was a reasonable game to watch. In the end it was penalties
:32:04. > :32:04.
:32:04. > :32:10.That was his first game back and what a kicker he is. He is free
:32:10. > :32:15.call under pressure. That was the difference, the goal-kicking.
:32:15. > :32:19.want to defend him on the one that is coming up. There are a few fists
:32:19. > :32:25.flying in and they were busy on the reports this week. What do you
:32:26. > :32:31.reckon? It looks terrible on TV, but when you have two players in a
:32:31. > :32:35.tackle like that, you find that it is the guy on the other end the
:32:35. > :32:39.swings around. The only thing you can really do... It would have
:32:39. > :32:45.looked worse if he had followed through with it. You can see that
:32:45. > :32:47.he let go. There is also their ability -- responsibility of the
:32:47. > :32:57.defender to make sure that no-one is put into that sort of dangerous
:32:57. > :32:59.
:32:59. > :33:03.Fair to say you guys are doing it up at the moment. We are. We are
:33:03. > :33:07.not playing great to be fair. We set ourselves some very high
:33:07. > :33:12.standards last year. We are dropping too much ball. It is
:33:12. > :33:22.something we had spoken about and addressed. We are hoping we tied in
:33:22. > :33:23.
:33:23. > :33:28.a few things up. There's a lot more As big games are coming thick and
:33:28. > :33:33.fast. Wigan last weekend and then we have St Helens this weekend. It
:33:33. > :33:41.will be interesting to see how we go. What you make about Wigan? They
:33:41. > :33:47.have already lost three this year. What the coach pulled over to begin
:33:47. > :33:50.was a new system to the lead. It was very direct and in-your-face.
:33:50. > :33:56.The defence has had a couple of years to look at what they do and
:33:56. > :34:02.how they deliver it. Look at a key individuals and target them. Sam
:34:02. > :34:08.Tomkins is a big indicator as to where the ball is going. They are
:34:08. > :34:14.able to deal with it a little bit better this time. All teams are
:34:14. > :34:21.having the control in the ruck. should give backbenchers -- Pat
:34:21. > :34:24.Richards a mention. He passed 2000 points. Sensational for a winner. I
:34:24. > :34:27.like to call the muscly linesman because you have these guys in the
:34:27. > :34:36.middle of the bark that a doing all this work India the pretty boys out
:34:36. > :34:41.on the edge. I thought you were the pretty boys in the middle? Pack
:34:41. > :34:51.which is does not just scored tries for fun. He comes in and does the
:34:51. > :34:54.
:34:54. > :34:59.work, but his great with the boot if it had been eight football match,
:34:59. > :35:09.it would have been called a six- pointer. A huge win. A classic case
:35:09. > :35:14.They have been working really hard. They go the win a couple of weeks
:35:14. > :35:19.ago against Wigan. This proves they are not just a one-game team. They
:35:19. > :35:25.in get a couple of wins on the board. A very this can be the
:35:25. > :35:27.springboard for them to get the confidence to win a few more.
:35:27. > :35:33.who is on loan from Warrington is getting a huge amount of good
:35:34. > :35:40.reports. He played a couple of games for us last year and that a
:35:40. > :35:44.bad be injury, but now he is fit and ready to go. The club thought
:35:44. > :35:48.it would be good for him to go elsewhere and get game time. He has
:35:48. > :35:52.been absolutely sensational. The club rate him very highly. This
:35:52. > :36:01.would do in the world of good, getting a bit of experience in the
:36:01. > :36:06.Super League. What you make of London though it? They played
:36:06. > :36:09.bravely against Wigan. By the looks of it, one of the things they need
:36:09. > :36:19.to do is they do not seem to have a problem scoring tries, it is the
:36:19. > :36:23.
:36:23. > :36:27.defending they have a problem with. You can see it happen where markers
:36:27. > :36:31.champion at the dummy-half. Spring has sprung, the clocks have gone
:36:31. > :36:37.forward and nowhere has the Sunday shining brighter than at the
:36:37. > :36:47.stadium. It was more akin to the west coast of America than the West
:36:47. > :37:26.
:37:26. > :37:33.Riding of Yorkshire when the eggs I'll let you decide which one is
:37:33. > :37:37.Pamela Anderson. It is addition number seven of eight chases. We
:37:37. > :37:42.are in wake filed as the Wildcats phase one of the biggest challenges
:37:42. > :37:52.of the season so far. The aim of the game is to complete a
:37:52. > :37:57.
:37:57. > :38:07.specially-designed obstacle course Although books reading things off.
:38:07. > :38:10.
:38:10. > :38:15.-- Oliver Wilkes. He is looking good. Kyle a more is second to go.
:38:15. > :38:25.His West Yorkshire's answer to David Hasselhoff. House that was
:38:25. > :38:35.
:38:35. > :38:43.Hang on, I think we have found out Well, what a time of. Unbelievable.
:38:43. > :38:49.No penalties. Fantastic from the Wakefield wild cards. 41.93 seconds.
:38:49. > :38:53.As Good As It gets. They are on top of the leaderboard. Have you seen
:38:53. > :39:03.anything like that before? Surely no-one can be thrown them after
:39:03. > :39:07.
:39:07. > :39:12.Anything you buy to add to that? do not think I can. I think re-
:39:12. > :39:19.enacting Baywatch is clearly the way to win the next week. It is all
:39:19. > :39:24.about consistency. That is what we were looking for from them. They
:39:24. > :39:32.were back with a win this week. final game to complete the
:39:32. > :39:38.weekend's highlights, breadth and - - Bradford welcome Salford. I think
:39:38. > :39:45.we got will drop last week so there was a bit of soul-searching during
:39:45. > :39:52.the week. Probably disappointing for Bradford at who were winning
:39:53. > :39:56.early on. I was with them on Friday evening. He was talking about what
:39:56. > :40:00.he was trying to get out of the players. I think he will be really
:40:00. > :40:06.disappointed with that. Bradford are doing it really hard. They have
:40:06. > :40:10.13 players out with injuries. After their performance last week against
:40:10. > :40:13.St Helens and how they had been performing over the recent past, I
:40:13. > :40:18.think we would have been looking for a lot more consistency than
:40:18. > :40:26.what was on offer. Talking about players being back. This one is
:40:26. > :40:33.back. He looks good. It was unfortunate he got the injury, but
:40:33. > :40:40.looking at this game there is a couple of tries. They are
:40:40. > :40:44.entertaining. He looks like a terrific signing. They are in the
:40:44. > :40:49.right half of the table, they just need to stay there. You live in the
:40:49. > :40:53.area, how important is it too had suffered doing well? I always keep
:40:53. > :40:58.a lookout for them to do well. I went to check out the new stadium
:40:58. > :41:03.last weekend. It is absolute the fantastic. If they can get a
:41:03. > :41:09.successful team, the crowds will flock there and it will be a
:41:09. > :41:13.vibrant rugby league city. Robbie, what you make of the performance
:41:13. > :41:19.though? Just in terms of their defence. They seemed to lose it
:41:19. > :41:23.again. They seem to be falling away. It was interesting to see that they
:41:23. > :41:28.are creating a very basic sort of system. The coach has had to do
:41:28. > :41:33.that because the players are dropping left, right and centre.
:41:33. > :41:43.They are having to glue a very simple game plan together with each
:41:43. > :41:52.A big win for Salford, let's see where the city Reds and everyone
:41:52. > :41:57.Changes at the top and the bottom this weekend. Warrington had moved
:41:57. > :42:07.back to the summer after their win against Wigan. Hulme of up to third
:42:07. > :42:10.after their win had castors and You can all have a Sunday afternoon
:42:10. > :42:15.of at the weekend because the Super League action is all on Friday and
:42:15. > :42:23.Saturday. Leeds meet Huddersfield. Wigan make the short trip to
:42:23. > :42:30.Salford. And the newly revived St Helens are away to Warrington.
:42:30. > :42:33.Saints for you next weekend. Paddy prepare for a game like that?
:42:33. > :42:38.are the games that you don't need much preparation for. They take
:42:38. > :42:42.care of themselves. We will do everything that we normally do. The
:42:42. > :42:48.fact that it is one of the biggest games on the calendar will be
:42:48. > :42:52.pretty exciting. You could not scripted any better. They had been
:42:52. > :42:58.up and down. They are up at the moment and we are top of the table
:42:58. > :43:05.so it should be a classic. We are all looking forward to it. That's