Weekend Review - Rugby League
What a great win for the Warrington Wolves away to one of the super league favorites, Bradford Bulls. On what was a truly awful night they managed to come back from conceding an early try to run out four point winners. The message they got from their coach the other week of doing the basics right and continuing to play out their sets has really hit home. They were able to take the best of what Bradford had to offer and were able to counter it and bring out the best in their players.
Their coach will be really proud of the way they played but will surely have words with them about their decision making when they could easily have killed of the game. The Bulls will point to the referee who had a truly awful game, but on the balance of play he was rubbish for both sides. Lee Briers is going from strength to strength and is pushing really hard to be included in the Tri-nations squad at the end of the season. As for now, the real Warrington Wolves have stepped up to the plate and they need to keep stepping, but make no mistake this victory will help them in their quest for a top four finish.
The NZ Warriors were unable to keep up their recent form and fell to a defeat to Manly. Pure and simply in the NRL you cannot afford to go 20 points behind before half time and expect to win. Manly didn't need to score in the second half and managed to only concede two tries. The Warriors will feel this loss as two crucial try scores were wiped out unnecessarily by the video judge and touch judge. However there should be no need to point to these as the reason for losing. Given their form over the last couple of weeks they need to get back into that zone and start to defend better from the first whistle. If they can do that they will get more wins, if they don't we can expect more days like today.
Their coach will be really proud of the way they played but will surely have words with them about their decision making when they could easily have killed of the game. The Bulls will point to the referee who had a truly awful game, but on the balance of play he was rubbish for both sides. Lee Briers is going from strength to strength and is pushing really hard to be included in the Tri-nations squad at the end of the season. As for now, the real Warrington Wolves have stepped up to the plate and they need to keep stepping, but make no mistake this victory will help them in their quest for a top four finish.
The NZ Warriors were unable to keep up their recent form and fell to a defeat to Manly. Pure and simply in the NRL you cannot afford to go 20 points behind before half time and expect to win. Manly didn't need to score in the second half and managed to only concede two tries. The Warriors will feel this loss as two crucial try scores were wiped out unnecessarily by the video judge and touch judge. However there should be no need to point to these as the reason for losing. Given their form over the last couple of weeks they need to get back into that zone and start to defend better from the first whistle. If they can do that they will get more wins, if they don't we can expect more days like today.
posted by Sports Potato at 3:22 PM
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