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Hello we have arrived at the penultimate round of matches | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
in the regular season and the last time we saw this set of fixtures | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
it was Magic Weekend in Newcastle so plenty of scores to be sdttled | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
in Round 22. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
MUSIC: Lawson - 'Used To Be Us' | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
Our two little ducks for Rotnd 2 by the Huddersfield prop | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
Eorl Crabtree and Wakefield coach Chris Chester and we will start | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
with the Wildcats who were hn the South of France to take | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
on Catalan, just a dropped goal separated these two | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
so what happened on Saturdax? | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
Matt Newsome was watching. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:46 | |
Miller to feed the scrum for Wakefield. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
From the base, Moore to Sio. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
Decent position this for Wakefield. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
Searing day in Perpignan. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
Miller to the left. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:06 | |
Into the hand of Jowett. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
He has got down the left-hand side, he is going for support and he has | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
found Jowitt and Jowitt has caught the ball down and Wakefield | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
hit the front. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:14 | |
Fine try. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
Penalty for Catalan. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:34 | |
Maria will put it in. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
Wakefield scramble back into the line. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:36 | |
Moore will come to the right-hand side, through the hands it goes | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
to Gigot, he is still going, has he got it down? | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
He thinks he has. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:43 | |
Wakefield were there in numbers and Chris Campbell | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
is going to video referee. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:46 | |
He has got a try on field ddcision. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:52 | |
Gigot spins with the ball `nd it looks as though it is on thd line. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
And back in the third set. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:57 | |
Catalan back in the game. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
Pull with me Wakefield, go. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:00 | |
Having gone in front, Wakefheld they need to try and stem this | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
Catalan side now it is level. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
Hold it! | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
Yaha. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:06 | |
Centrefield, move it to the right-hand side. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:07 | |
Great run by Dave Taylor, he has gone steaming | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
through and that is why thex call Dave Taylor The Coal Train. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
Catalan Dragons move ahead. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
And Dave Taylor is the man on the spot. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
Keep it low. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Jason Baitieri. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:30 | |
Pound for pound one of the toughest in the game. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
It has taken three men to put him down. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
The dummy half to the right. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
He goes straight through. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
What a try. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
They could not stop the big back rower and Catalan Dragons are really | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
stamping their authority in this first half. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:53 | |
Hold the line. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:54 | |
Eight minutes to the break. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:55 | |
18-6. | 0:03:55 | 0:04:02 | |
Arona backing in. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:03 | |
He is going to be held up. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Played the ball to Moore. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:06 | |
John Molloy. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
Under the shadows of the st`nd in front of the Wakefield supporters, | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
John Molloy touches down. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
Catalan Dragons goal-line drop out. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
Wakefield turning the screw. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
It is a long punt. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
From under the sticks. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
Here goes Anthony Tupou. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:27 | |
With space to run into. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:28 | |
Met by a wall of Catalan pl`yers, it is a loose off-load, | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
hacked on by Craig Hall, a race, that is horrible | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
and Craig Hall is bounced. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
And Catalan Dragons have bedn torn apart at the back. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
Escare has made a real hash of it. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:46 | |
The puff of the cheeks says it all. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
To the right-hand side, he goes through, has he got | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
the ball down? | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
He has, but Chris Campbell says forward pass. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:01 | |
Dave Taylor, it looked as though it came out the back of his hand. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
It was gathered in by Yaha, still in touch. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
Laurent Frayssinous makes hhs point to Chris Campbell. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:14 | |
Level at the break. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:15 | |
Catalan have it. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
Deep inside Wakefield territory | 0:05:18 | 0:05:19 | |
Dave Taylor, it has taken four men to wrap him up, he has liftdd | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
the ball out, back to Wakefheld | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
Miller, we know he can do it and he will race away. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:37 | |
Out wide to Hall. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:38 | |
Runs into traffic and Horo is stopped in his own 40. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
The Catalan defenders are rdtreating and Bill Tupou will run at the line. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
He has gone sliding through. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:45 | |
Brilliant from Bill Tupou. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
Can he get away from Yaha? | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
Yes, he can. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:49 | |
Wonderful score. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:50 | |
Wakefield go in front once `gain. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
Bill Tupou. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
Da Costa, to Albert, drops it to Baitieri. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:03 | |
Close to the hour mark here. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
Catalan is losing on home soil. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
Da Costa. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
To Albert. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
It's the kick in, Morgan potnces. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
Atonement for the first half error and he looks a relieved man. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
So does Chris Chester. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
Moore goes to them, drops it off on the angle, to the left-h`nd side. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:28 | |
Jacob Miller, a bit like ond of those flies in the ointmdnt, | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
they are trying to swat him, but he keeps buzzing away. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
Until he is finally wrapped up, just inside the ten. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
Moore will go to the left-h`nd side but then, back | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
on the inside to four feet. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:44 | |
He is going to be held up as well. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
He is a big man to stop. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
Moore to Sio, sprints his w`y across, great finish. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:54 | |
Wakefield retake the lead again | 0:06:54 | 0:07:02 | |
Stuck to the final ten. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
And Maria. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:05 | |
Punches his way through. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:06 | |
Hold the line. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
Get it away. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:10 | |
Da Costa. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:11 | |
Albert. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
Out to the side, Yaha, did he get that down? | 0:07:14 | 0:07:20 | |
Helped back to his feet and Chris Campbell, | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
it was a try. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
Appeals. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:28 | |
To level. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
Pat Richards. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
That looks good. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
Stay down. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
No good says the referee. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
Chris Chester, he raises his eyebrows. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
It looks for all the world as though it was through. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
The referee's decision is fhnal | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
A moment of controversy that could be crucial. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
Chris, you have had some melorable wins with Wakefield, | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
62-0 against Wigan stands ott, how does that compare? | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
It is up there. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:05 | |
Long time since Wakefield got a result in Catalan. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
We had to do it the hard way, we lost Mickey Sio | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
in the first minute. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
Very hot day, 32 degrees, it was something we were not used to. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:23 | |
We ground out a really good win and we are really pleased | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
for everyone and more pleasdd for the fans who turned up. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
They were fantastic for us. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
Only the top three have won there this year and that is quite | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
a scalp for you guys. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
It is. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:37 | |
We were not particularly that good either. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
We have not been great thesd last few weeks but it is certainly a step | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
in the right direction, no one is getting | 0:08:44 | 0:08:45 | |
ahead of themselves. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:46 | |
We have a big campaign coming up on the Challenge Cup. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
We need to be better in a lot of areas, mainly defensivelx. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:59 | |
We conceeded 20 odd points at the weekend and we had pretty | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
soft tries, we do try to fix that. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
We are really delighted that we got a result in Catalan. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
Obviously it must give the team immense confidence to go and do | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
that, what has happened? | 0:09:14 | 0:09:15 | |
They won one game in seven before you came in, what kind of group | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
of players did you find waiting and what did you need | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
to do for them? | 0:09:21 | 0:09:22 | |
Very nervous group of players. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
They were worried about tryhng things out on the training field | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
and on the field. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:26 | |
I just wanted to get them to express themselves a little more, | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
play with some confidence, play with some arrogance | 0:09:30 | 0:09:31 | |
and it is showing on the fidld, they are working | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
hard for each other. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
We are a good attacking sidd, there are a lot of things wd need | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
to sort out defensively. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
I am really pleased we have turned a massive corner. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
We have had a good little rtn, we are enjoying each other's company | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
and that is the main thing. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
It is a heck of a turnaround from being in the million pound game | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
at the back end of last season to being secure in the top dight | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
and being able to plan for the future. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
That must be fantastic. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:02 | |
It is. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:03 | |
Recruitment has gone well. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:10 | |
When I took over I spoke to Michael at length and I said to him, | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
he wanted a good middle eights campaign and a good Challenge Cup | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
and I said, we need to be thinking a little bit higher than th`t | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
and we want to be in that stper eight and we went on a good run | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
and I am pleased for Michael. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
He has copped a lot of stick from his own fans and he has | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
put his money where his mouth is, not just invested money but a lot | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
of time along with Chris Br`yton at the club and I am pleased | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
for those guys. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
There was a bit of controversy in the game. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
We saw Laurent Frayssinous, he was unhappy about a try | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
and the two kicks, you talkdd to us before you came on air, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
you talked about the kick from the first try, the first | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
conversion that was given, that you thought possibly mhght not | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
have been from the angle yot had. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
It looked like it had missed and it had gone well over | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
the top of the post. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
Me and Stu Dickens looked at each other and we could not | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
believe what we saw. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:04 | |
This was the one that was not given and everyone thinks it was. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
Yes, I did not see this one, I only watched it when I watched | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
the game back at home. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
We got an injury on the pitch and I ran down the sidelines | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
and I was not aware that th`t had been missed until I got | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
down on the sidelines. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:25 | |
It looked like it went throtgh. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:26 | |
We will take that. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:27 | |
Absolutely take that. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:28 | |
For Catalan, they seem to bd wobbling with players missing | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
particularly Todd Carney. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:39 | |
They are lacking confidence. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:40 | |
They looked really scrappy `nd lazy. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:41 | |
They were missing tackles you would expect them to make. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
Wakefield were fantastic. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
They could have easily not bothered, they could have relaxed and thought | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
we are close but they did not. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
They went right to the final whistle and I thought they were fantastic. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
Catalan were worrying, they were a team that should be | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
doing really well. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
They were slackening off and it is not the right time to do it. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
Rick Stone took over at Huddersfield with the Giants already | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
heading for the qualifiers. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
That middle eight will be a unique challenge for the new coach | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
who has good memories of his last time in England. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:23 | |
I was involved with Fiji in the World Cup in 2013 | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
and I walked away thinking I would love to come back coaching | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
on a full-time basis. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
In the last couple of weeks, it has been a new world, | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
but I made contact with the club and they contact with me and one | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
thing led to another and the next thing I am herd. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
The squad looks like it has plenty of talent. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
We are going to work hard to see if we can rectify things | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
in the next two weeks. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
We have two weeks before thdy enter the middle eights competition | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
and the priority has got to be making sure we stay | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
away from relegation. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:55 | |
That is a realistic scenario. | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
We have to make sure that the boys in the next few weeks | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
respect their opposition. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
Play with consistency, because that is something they have | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
not been great at in the se`son | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
It is not something I have been involved in before but a knockout | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
semi-finals is not new to md and I am looking forward to making | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
sure we put our best foot forward once we start the last seven games. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
He did not seem fazed by thd whole concept of the qualifiers, | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
how are you finding him, what is changing, is there | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
a whole raft of new things to get your head around? | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
There is quite a lot of information being thrown at us and the hmportant | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
thing is getting to know hil and for him to get to know ts. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
Obviously, he is coming to ` team that has 30 players and he hs not | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
really sure who they are, what their names are includhng | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
myself, he keeps calling me Errol, which is fantastic. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:52 | |
He will probably find out now that my name is Eorl. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
It is good to have him around as a breath of fresh air. | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
It is a case of getting him in now and trying to change things. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
It is a good opportunity for ourselves. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
He has not got much time, is there a particular | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
thing he has got right? | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
That is exactly what he is doing, he has given us something to focus | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
on and going into the first game, we did not really show | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
ourselves very well. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
Everything we do try and focus on was pretty much terrible. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
We have had a disappointing start for Rick and ourselves, | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
but we want to improve and I'm sure we will do. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:31 | |
The new man's first game in charge was against St Helens on Sunday | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
and it did not start well for Eorl. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
We talked about first impressions, we kicked it out and that w`s | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
probably the worst first impression. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
Off the back of that, a nice little kick | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
from Joe Greenwood. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
That is the sort of thing wd did. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
Then Broughey gets us back into the game with great footwork. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
We knew we had an opportunity. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
We did some real good stuff but we kept conceding the soft tries | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
and what made it really bad for us was the fact that we kept ghving | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
the ball away and we talked about targets within the gale | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
and hopefully, only making six errors in the game | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
and I think we made nine in the second half alone. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
Completing 55% which is not good enough to win the game, | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
off the back of this we can throw the ball around. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
We have great skill and it is a fantastic try | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
for Tom Symonds who has been great for us, a great signing, | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
but we are doing some great things but we are making things re`lly | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
difficult for ourselves. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
This is our chance and opportunity to make sure we are going | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
the right direction. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
We need to change pretty fast. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:36 | |
He used the word frivolous, you were doing frivolous thhngs | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
I have not heard that word tsed in press conferences. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
Is it a question of taking you back to basics? | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
I think he was being polite to be honest. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
Some of the things we do is get ourselves into a good posithon | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
and you know that they will crack at any second and you know | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
you are putting them under pressure and waiting for them to bre`k | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
and they do not break, it is us | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
We break ourselves. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
This is what we are talking about. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
We put ourselves under pressure we get tackled, and then it gets | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
to the last tackle and we try and set ourselves up. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:16 | |
We know that off the back of this we should be building presstre, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
we should be going for a trx to get the ball back, we get a ricochet. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
The referee does not give it back, Broughey puts on the kick | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
and it is swift on the outshde and he goes the length of the pitch | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
and that is our season so f`r and if we cut out those mistakes | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
and it goes our way instead of the opposition's way, | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
we stand a chance of staying up in Super League and that is | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
what it is about. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
What about St Helens? | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
They are going on a nice run having come under pressure as much | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
as anything, they seem to bd getting it together. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:50 | |
They played some really good football and Ciaran has copped | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
a little bit of stick over the last month or so, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
but we were in a similar position to Eorl the other week | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
when we completed at 58% against a good team like St Helens. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:04 | |
When they are doing 60 odd tackles more, and they caught us out | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
that was the back end of thd game. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
They are really fighting for that fourth place which looked rdally | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
beyond them a few weeks ago. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
It did but they are starting to get a few bodies back, | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
Luke Walsh played again at the weekend and Jon Wilkhn | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
played particularly well. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
They are going to be a forcd in this, and they are going to take | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
some beating and I am reallx pleased for Ciaran, because he has copped | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
some stick this year. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:38 | |
He has come out the other shde and I am sure he is smiling. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
Leeds and Wigan met in the Grand Finals last ye`r | 0:17:42 | 0:17:44 | |
but with the Rhinos heading to the qualifiers only one | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
of them can make it back to Old Trafford this season. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
Their meeting at Headingley on Friday was the final | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
chance to square up and Dave Woods was watching. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
Segeyaro. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
Looking to martial things again here for Leeds. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
Back to Burrow. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
Sutcliffe is involved. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
Will push a couple away but will have to take the t`ckle. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
Here comes Sutcliffe to flick it back inside again. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
Jamie Jones-Buchanan keeps ht alive. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
Across from Lilley, here is Kallum Watkins, | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
Kallum Watkins with a swervd. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:18 | |
Still going, Watkins. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
Has he got it down? | 0:18:21 | 0:18:25 | |
Has a look at the referee who gives a try. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
A mixture of athleticism and brutal determination from Kallum W`tkins. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:36 | |
A double from dummy half. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
The Leeds defence is not found wanting. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
Powell. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:42 | |
Here is Smith. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
Williams. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
Now he puts the kick in. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:47 | |
That is sublime and Charnley will score. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
What a kick that was from George Williams | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
to open the Leeds defence. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
Segeyaro. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:02 | |
Marching into position. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
Watkins, who is certainly h`ving more of an influence on this game. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:11 | |
Deep inside that Wigan half. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
Ablett cuts back inside, only brushing away the defender | 0:19:13 | 0:19:18 | |
Ferres was there in support but he still gets it | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
away and Cuthbertson, over to finish. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:27 | |
Six minutes into the second half, Leeds have a bit of wiggle room now. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:34 | |
This will be the last of thd referee says, having settled things down. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:35 | |
The high chip from Burrow and the arms go up and Ferrds comes | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
down. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
But lots of questions to answer here. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
Challenge in the air. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
Who did this ball come off and which way was it going? | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
Well, if it came off a Leeds player, it is going backwards anywax. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
So Ferres is safe with a totchdown. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:07 | |
And a try is confirmed. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
And Leeds looking as though they have put themselves | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
in a winning position now. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:22 | |
Powell. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:23 | |
Manages to get things going quickly here. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
Tierney. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:26 | |
Cannot scramble away after the first effort from Segeyaro. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
Matty Smith. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
Testing kick and it is a good one because it falls in no man's land, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:37 | |
taken by Charnley, looks to keep it alive, has done and finished. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
Finish by Higginson. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
Jack Higginson is in. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
Wigan might just have a foothold in this game. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
Still time left. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
Williams. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
Williams puts the foot down, George Williams, oh my word | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
Special piece of individual magic from George Williams. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:09 | |
And Wigan are going to be back within a score. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:13 | |
They have given themselves ` chance to snatch it here. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:17 | |
Williams coasting through. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
And a try that might prove pivotal. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:23 | |
Not long left to go, Tautai will get it forward. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
Last seconds, can Wigan launch something from here? | 0:21:28 | 0:21:35 | |
Tautai is not on. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:36 | |
Leeds will hang on. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
They are going to be off thd foot of the table with a hard-fotght win | 0:21:39 | 0:21:43 | |
against Wigan here tonight who missed the chance to go top | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
Thoroughly exciting, especially the second half, | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
but Leeds are the winners. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
Chris, an incredible couple of weeks for the Leeds Rhinos, | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
the fans must be wishing thd season was only starting, | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
what a difference getting some players back makes. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
It always helps. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
They have had an horrendous injury list all season and it shows how | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
much they have missed Ryan Hall and Tom Briscoe. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
I thought Ryan Hall was outstanding and Segeyaro took my breath away. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
He has really gone in and made a huge difference. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
He has been a breath of fresh air. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
He is a very lively number nine, a good defender, | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
he takes the line on. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
They have got the players b`ck, and they are a force | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
to be reckoned with. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:43 | |
They will take some beating in that middle eight position. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:49 | |
You talk about Wakefield having character, but Wigan | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
had a lot of players and they still run Leeds close. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
There is a huge amount of spirit in that Wigan sidd. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
There always is. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:01 | |
The fact that they can bring through such great players, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
the youngsters that come through, they are fantastic. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
I think they probably bring more players through now than anxbody | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
else does and I think those sort of players, you can literally put | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
them in and they do a job. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:17 | |
They have showen that character and they always had that | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
intensity and I do not think they have the personnel | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
that they needed on the night to win the game against Leeds | 0:23:22 | 0:23:31 | |
Slightly worrying for us I suppose, because they are hitting | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
their stride right about now, the business end of the season | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
which is what they always do but for them it is at the lower end | 0:23:42 | 0:23:46 | |
of the table rather than the top end. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
The qualifiers will be faschnating. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:49 | |
One of the big talking points from that game was a first-half | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
tackle by Taulima Tautai on Adam Cuthbertson. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
These are the views of the Leeds coach Brian McDermott. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
I would not look towards Sh`un Wane or Wigan or Tautai even. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
I made a point in the build,up to this, those things, | 0:23:59 | 0:24:08 | |
Your silence encourages thel. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:11 | |
I do not speak to anyone in the game, coaches, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
administrators, fans, mums and dads who want to sde that | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
type of tackle continue in our game. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:21 | |
And the only way to get rid of it is to highlight it penalise | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
it and get rid of it. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:26 | |
If you continue running those type of tackles somebody will end up | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
with a full leg snap and evdryone will be throwing the book at that | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
particular player or they whll be highlighting the coach and blaming | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
them, it is not that, it is how the game uses | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
that type of tackle. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
I do not know why the game is accepting that type of t`ckle. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
He has been charged. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
When you watch that as a pl`yer is that something that | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
worries you and frightens you because you could be | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
on the end of that? | 0:24:53 | 0:24:54 | |
If I was on the end of that, I would be worried. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
I think Cuthbertson saves hhmself by moving his leg at the last second | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
if that were static. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:01 | |
He could have been in a lot of trouble. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
It is not nice to see. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
It is not something that you want to see and it should be | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
punished again in the right way and not through, | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
if he had got injured or not, I think there was intent thdre to do | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
some damage in the sense that he was trying to form ` tackle | 0:25:14 | 0:25:18 | |
and it was not right. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
That is not the correct way of tackling, it is very dangerous, | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
potentially, I think it should be punished. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
McDermott was right to highlight it but also to question | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
why it was not picked up in the game itself? | 0:25:28 | 0:25:33 | |
Rightly so. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:34 | |
Cuthbertson could have got hnjured, those kind of tackles need | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
eradicating from the game. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
Until there is a lot to say that you cannot do it, | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
teams are still going to kedp on doing it. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
We had Scotty Moore up the other week, we teach our players | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
to hit above the knee, below the waist, but not | 0:25:49 | 0:25:53 | |
to go in with any intent. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:57 | |
That challenge there could have been really nasty. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:01 | |
Now to the meeting of Widnes and Salford who would have been neck | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
and neck in the table were not for the Red Devils' 6-point | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
deduction so they were two dvenly matched teams who met on Frhday | 0:26:07 | 0:26:13 | |
Salford were looking to makd it a hat-trick of wins against Widnes | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
this year and got off to an ideal start. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
Good play from Salford, real opportunity, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
Salford can they strike? | 0:26:22 | 0:26:23 | |
Yes I think they will, they are going all the way, | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
like, a great touchdown from Mason Caton-Brown. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:30 | |
They got the reward after 70 minutes, simple pass from White | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
and Widnes put a sizeable g`p to level the scores. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
Salford looking dangerous across the line, this is Dobson | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
puts it on to Lui with the sidestep, White, real opportunity | 0:26:39 | 0:26:45 | |
for Salford, Carney! | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
In at the corner. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:50 | |
Right on the try line. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:55 | |
Here come Widnes, great defdnce from Salford, Patrick | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
takes the inside ball. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
Cuts through. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:01 | |
The second half saw Salford start to dominate, beginning | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
with the fabulous team try. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
Lovely ball. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
Brilliant opportunity here for Salford. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
Mason Caton-Brown. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:12 | |
Can he make to the try line? | 0:27:12 | 0:27:13 | |
Widnes are after him but I think Mason Caton Brown has got | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
the ball over the line. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
18-12 at the moment, the Red Devils have | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
it over the Vikings. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
There goes another score for Widnes. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:31 | |
Dobson again. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:32 | |
Dobson got the ball away, can keep it alive? | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
He is in for Salford. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:36 | |
But with the game, hanging in the balance tensions flared | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
and a scuffle between these players left the referee little chohce other | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
than to send them both to the sin-bin. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
As the players watched, Salford secured two penalty scores | 0:27:44 | 0:27:49 | |
leaving Widnes eight points adrift with five minutes remaining. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:55 | |
Salford are playing with 11 and Widnes I think | 0:27:55 | 0:28:02 | |
are in at the far corner. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
This is Dobson, lovely off-load, Lui, O'Brien, | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
in towards Caton-Brown. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:15 | |
Yes it can. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
For Salford, they admitted that they were feeling a bit hard | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
done by and sorry for themsdlves understandably, really imprdssive | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
to come back in that way. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
They have shown plenty of character, much improved this year Salford | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
very consistent, had it not been for the 6-point deduction, | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
they would be up there challenging in the top ranks. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:39 | |
You have got to feel sorry for the players who have worked | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
really hard to put themselvds in a good position | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
like they have done. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
To have it snatched away from them, it is not good, it is not | 0:28:46 | 0:28:50 | |
good for Salford. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:54 | |
I do not really see them behng under much pressure on those middle eights | 0:28:54 | 0:28:58 | |
because they have been very good the last few weeks. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
For Widnes, he says the gamd sums up their season, | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
there have been too many gales when they have been on the wrong | 0:29:02 | 0:29:06 | |
side of the tight score lind. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:07 | |
I know the feeling. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
It is tough when you're grinding games and you want to win | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
and if you get to those sort of stages where you should be | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
winning games, Widnes put themselves in positions before and thex do not | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
quite get over the line and it is tough and it is fhnding | 0:29:18 | 0:29:23 | |
a way to win and Salford have done that all season and I have been | 0:29:23 | 0:29:27 | |
so impressed with them because they do not deserve | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
the position they have been put in. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
Those players do not deservd it | 0:29:31 | 0:29:32 | |
I think they are a great side and they deserve a little bht more | 0:29:32 | 0:29:38 | |
and yet again another team that is even stronger fighthng | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
at the bottom of us. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:49 | |
You're feeling sorry for yotrself. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:50 | |
A quick word about Mason Caton- Brown sidelined for a lot | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
of the season but he showed what he could do with that | 0:29:53 | 0:29:56 | |
hat-trick didn't he? | 0:29:56 | 0:29:57 | |
He is a talent. | 0:29:57 | 0:29:59 | |
He has been out for three or four months. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:01 | |
To a bad challenge around the knees. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:02 | |
It has been a tough ride for him but he has come out the othdr end | 0:30:02 | 0:30:06 | |
now and scored a few tries these last few weeks. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
He has got back to the form he was in 12 months ago | 0:30:09 | 0:30:12 | |
and he is a fantastic talent and he has | 0:30:12 | 0:30:14 | |
some speed to burn. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
He has indeed. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
The next two opponents for Wakefield are Castleford and Warrington. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
Chris Chester was keeping a close eye on their meeting at the Jungle. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:25 | |
It was an entertaining game to watch, wasn't it Chris? | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
Yes, it was. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:28 | |
They both are really good footballing sides. | 0:30:28 | 0:30:30 | |
Castleford like to throw the ball around. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
They would be a little disappointed with the points that they conceded. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:37 | |
But it was touch and go. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
The first 40 minutes. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:41 | |
I think Castleford went into half-time winning. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:43 | |
I have been really impressed with young Rhys Evans. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:47 | |
He is playing very well for a young kid. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:51 | |
A fantastic interception trx there. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
He goes the full length. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:59 | |
Castleford came back into the game. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:02 | |
They got in front at half-thme. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:04 | |
You are going to keep an eye on Deny Solomona. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
He knows how to score. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
For me, he is the best winner in the competition. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
He can finish a try, that khd. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:14 | |
He has speed to burn. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:16 | |
He kicks up in the air and you are worried as an opposing | 0:31:16 | 0:31:19 | |
coach and I will be very worried next week when the ball up | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
in the air. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
They have a lot more to him than just Denny Solomona. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:28 | |
I don't think Warrington had to work real hard for their tries. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:31 | |
The first couple of tries, I won't call it a soft try, | 0:31:31 | 0:31:34 | |
but they didn't really have to work hard for that one. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
There was a little dive over in the second half. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
Again, this full length run of the field. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:49 | |
28 for the season already. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:52 | |
He is a special talent. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
Darryl took a punt on him a couple of years ago | 0:31:54 | 0:31:56 | |
when he was in London Broncos, he has repaid his faith. | 0:31:56 | 0:31:59 | |
There is another little dive over try. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:01 | |
They are coach killers them tries. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:03 | |
I know you were being politd, so you're alright. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
I don't think you will wind them up. | 0:32:05 | 0:32:12 | |
He was not happy with the ddfence. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:15 | |
You were watching it with the eyebrows up a little | 0:32:15 | 0:32:19 | |
at some of the defence. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:20 | |
Yes. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
It reminded me of ourselves at times. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:25 | |
People falling off tackles, which is unusual, and Castldford | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
are a team you would usuallx say is that they work | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
hard for each other. | 0:32:31 | 0:32:31 | |
On some of those instances, it is the fact that they | 0:32:31 | 0:32:34 | |
were not working hard. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:35 | |
You call it defending soft and I don't mean like | 0:32:35 | 0:32:37 | |
they are soft people, they are just not as aggressive | 0:32:37 | 0:32:40 | |
not getting up is hard and they didn't defend | 0:32:40 | 0:32:43 | |
at times and that won't be acceptable to Darryl. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:46 | |
On Warrington, Tony had askdd them to be more aggressive | 0:32:46 | 0:32:48 | |
in their defence and it did seem to pay off in the second half, | 0:32:48 | 0:32:52 | |
they were good in the second half. | 0:32:52 | 0:32:53 | |
They were. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:54 | |
They were very good in the liddle. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:56 | |
The middle laid the platforl. | 0:32:56 | 0:32:57 | |
Hill, Westwood, Westerman were outstanding for him. | 0:32:57 | 0:32:59 | |
When you have Kirk Gidley, Chris Sandow as your half-b`cks | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
you have got a special team there. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:03 | |
They are a special team and they will take some beating | 0:33:03 | 0:33:06 | |
in a couple of weeks, but there is no pressure on us. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:09 | |
Nobody expects us to win. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:13 | |
We will go full of confidence. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:20 | |
Yes, keep telling us that. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
The biggest crowd of the wedk was on Thursday for the third | 0:33:22 | 0:33:25 | |
and final Hull derby of the season. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
The Black and Whites won thd first two and a hat-trick will put them | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
back on top of the table. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
Dave Woods was watching. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:32 | |
They are having a look around. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:34 | |
They will do that. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:35 | |
All Kingston Rovers, posing a few questions | 0:33:35 | 0:33:41 | |
here in the early stages. | 0:33:41 | 0:33:45 | |
Foley is wrapped up. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
A terrific atmosphere here `s well. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
16, 17,000 inside the staditm. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:55 | |
Kingston Rovers have indeed the better of | 0:33:55 | 0:33:59 | |
these early exchanges. | 0:33:59 | 0:33:59 | |
Right it comes. | 0:33:59 | 0:34:03 | |
Kelly with a little kick to the corner. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
He has dropped it. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:08 | |
Had he caught it would have been a try. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
He didn't. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:13 | |
So it is not. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:18 | |
Skipping it away to Ellis with a bludgeoning effort again | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
He will be held up but it has taken four of them. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:25 | |
A little interchange again as it goes right. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:28 | |
Hull Kingston Rovers are hanging on here at the moment. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:30 | |
Up and the drive by Liam Watts who will claim the first | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
try of the game. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:37 | |
12 minutes played and it is first blood to thee Black and Whites. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:41 | |
Driving it forward again here. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:50 | |
Snead, hurling it back. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:58 | |
Veteran of so many of these big hole locations, of course. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:03 | |
They are going down the blindside. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:04 | |
Talanoa. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:07 | |
Proving a handful. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:13 | |
Snead. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:16 | |
Was he onside? | 0:35:16 | 0:35:18 | |
He is claiming the try. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
The referee has a look and he is happy to give it. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:25 | |
How about that for a kick from Mark Snead? | 0:35:25 | 0:35:28 | |
Well read by the Danny Houghton | 0:35:28 | 0:35:32 | |
Hull Kingston Rovers, you feel at this stage, | 0:35:32 | 0:35:40 | |
cannot afford to concede a third. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:44 | |
They need to get themselves on the board pretty quickly. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
There is Snead with a kick. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:49 | |
It has bounced off Kelly is not it is over at the finish. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:54 | |
For a moment, Kelly might h`ve been thinking about going 90 yards, | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
instead he is back underneath his sticks | 0:35:57 | 0:36:00 | |
because Minichiello is the scorer. | 0:36:00 | 0:36:06 | |
Working it up again here. | 0:36:06 | 0:36:07 | |
Taken in by Abdul who is a bulldozer. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:11 | |
Away it goes to Manu. | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
A couple of tackles still to go | 0:36:13 | 0:36:17 | |
Minichiello with a step and again. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:18 | |
And he scores his second of the night. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:20 | |
Eight minutes into the second half, Hull completely in charge now. | 0:36:20 | 0:36:30 | |
Snead. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:41 | |
Quick hands. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:45 | |
Very quick hands. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:48 | |
Great pass. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
From the Centre for Noah and Michaels with a diving finish. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:56 | |
There is a little bit of a rukus breaking out. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
You would expect that in this particular fixture. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
That was good centre play there | 0:37:01 | 0:37:06 | |
Maybe he feels he was taking a little late. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:09 | |
While that was happening in the background, Michaels | 0:37:09 | 0:37:12 | |
was doing his Superman act to score the try, | 0:37:12 | 0:37:14 | |
which is now confirmed. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:15 | |
They need something, don't they | 0:37:15 | 0:37:25 | |
The bouncing ball that just loses Hull Kingston | 0:37:26 | 0:37:31 | |
Rovers all momentum. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:37 | |
30-0 behind. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:40 | |
Here they come. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:41 | |
Back on the charge. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:42 | |
Walker over to score. | 0:37:42 | 0:37:45 | |
They are still too far back but at least it gives the Rdd | 0:37:45 | 0:37:48 | |
and Whites something to chedr here. | 0:37:48 | 0:37:51 | |
Hatton comes out. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:56 | |
What a pass. | 0:37:56 | 0:38:02 | |
Second time that Michaels scores and second time from an | 0:38:02 | 0:38:05 | |
absolute quality Mahe Fonua pass to get him away. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:09 | |
Have a look at this again. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:14 | |
Holding defenders off and still managing | 0:38:14 | 0:38:17 | |
to flick the ball out. | 0:38:17 | 0:38:20 | |
Michaels the happy recipient. | 0:38:20 | 0:38:27 | |
A battering ram effort here by Walker. | 0:38:27 | 0:38:29 | |
He has done well to off-load. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:30 | |
Hull Kingston Rovers creating a bit of space on this left-hand side | 0:38:30 | 0:38:33 | |
Thornley is creating some space for himself. | 0:38:33 | 0:38:35 | |
Support inside. | 0:38:35 | 0:38:37 | |
Lovely. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
Ghosting past the fullback. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:41 | |
It is a memorable try on thd night they would otherwise want to forget. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:45 | |
Thornley, the scorer. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:51 | |
Lovely stuff here, wasn't it? | 0:38:51 | 0:38:55 | |
Ghosting forward. | 0:38:55 | 0:39:01 | |
He leaves Snead clutching at thin air. | 0:39:01 | 0:39:04 | |
Hull Kingston Rovers know now they will not make the top dight. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
That is mathematically cert`in and Hull, for the moment, | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
are top of the table. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:11 | |
Hull FC back to winning ways with a bang and how key | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
Danny Houghton in that window? | 0:39:14 | 0:39:15 | |
His game management seemed to be involved in everything for them | 0:39:15 | 0:39:18 | |
That is probably because he is involved in everything becatse he is | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
one of those workhorses. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:22 | |
He will tackle all day and he picks the ball up, | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
makes the right decisions, he is so fit it is unreal. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:27 | |
He just seems to get around the park all day. | 0:39:27 | 0:39:30 | |
80 minutes every single gamd and it is just his game man`gement, | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
kicking the ball long, knowing his followers need ` rest, | 0:39:33 | 0:39:36 | |
probably himself as well at times and there is only one marker here, | 0:39:36 | 0:39:39 | |
picks it up, gets the pass of the back of it and makes things | 0:39:39 | 0:39:43 | |
look pretty simple and I just don't know how he keeps going. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:46 | |
He has an unbelievable engine. | 0:39:46 | 0:39:50 | |
He is the man who makes them tick with the pack | 0:39:50 | 0:39:52 | |
will have had this year, how much better as | 0:39:52 | 0:39:54 | |
he been able to be? | 0:39:54 | 0:39:56 | |
People Liam Watson have been fantastic for him. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:57 | |
Two English front rowers. | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
It always helps when you ard going forward and that Hull FC | 0:39:59 | 0:40:01 | |
pack is a very big pack. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
It makes Danny's job a lot easier coming out there. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:11 | |
Anything quick, Danny will run. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:12 | |
He has some speed and he makes the right decisions | 0:40:12 | 0:40:14 | |
nine times out of ten. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:21 | |
For Rovers it means they are in the qualifiers, | 0:40:21 | 0:40:23 | |
obviously you got them through them last year, | 0:40:23 | 0:40:25 | |
but how tough for them in tdrms of trying to build for next year | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
to be in that position? | 0:40:28 | 0:40:33 | |
Yeah, it is not a nice position to be in in terms of recruitment | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
but there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
They are passionate people and they want this club to love | 0:40:39 | 0:40:42 | |
forward and I am confident they will come out the other end. | 0:40:42 | 0:40:44 | |
They will be very disappointed with the performance. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:48 | |
I thought the first five or ten minutes they were the better side. | 0:40:48 | 0:40:51 | |
James Donaldson went underneath the posts. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:57 | |
It was a bit of an if, buts and maybes game for them. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:04 | |
Yeah, it was. | 0:41:04 | 0:41:05 | |
It just looked like they let the first ten minutes affect them. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:08 | |
Take nothing away from Hull FC, they were far too good on the night | 0:41:08 | 0:41:11 | |
and deserved the result. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:14 | |
Another Hull derby win for them | 0:41:14 | 0:41:15 | |
That is three out of three for Hull FC this year. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
This is where it has left them in the First Utility | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
Super League table. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:25 | |
Points difference puts Hull above Wigan at the top of the table. | 0:41:25 | 0:41:28 | |
They are both a point clear of Warrington. | 0:41:28 | 0:41:30 | |
Catalan or St Helens will end up in fourth and claim an extr` game | 0:41:30 | 0:41:33 | |
in the Super Eights. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:34 | |
The bottom four could still finish in any order. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:36 | |
St Helens are at Wigan on Friday and Catalan go to Widness on Sunday. | 0:41:36 | 0:41:40 | |
Hull FC will almost certainly claim top spot if they win at Salford | 0:41:40 | 0:41:43 | |
Home games for Hull KR, Warrington and Wakefield. | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
That is it for this week. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:46 | |
My thanks to Earl and Chris for joining us. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:48 | |
We will see you next week for the final round of | 0:41:48 | 0:41:53 | |
the regular season. | 0:41:53 | 0:41:54 | |
Goodbye. | 0:41:54 | 0:42:03 | |
'Lights...' PHONE RINGS | 0:42:12 | 0:42:13 | |
Hello? '..camera...' | 0:42:13 | 0:42:15 | |
Here, it's for you. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:16 | |
'..action!' | 0:42:16 | 0:42:18 | |
'The mother of all comedy is back - for one night only | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
'and for the first time ever, it's completely live.' | 0:42:21 | 0:42:25 | |
I think it's your line. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:26 | |
'Anything could happen...' | 0:42:26 | 0:42:28 | |
Watch it! '..and probably will. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:30 | |
Where's me handbag? | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
We could be a while getting through this. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:34 | |
We're brave, aren't we? Yes, I am. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:46 | |
The Professor's on an omnibus. He's not to be approached! | 0:42:46 | 0:42:49 | |
I can't just go. Who's stopping you? | 0:42:49 | 0:42:52 | |
Will you inform on me? | 0:42:53 | 0:42:55 | |
What's the target? | 0:42:55 | 0:42:56 | |
She knows. | 0:42:57 | 0:42:59 |