Bentham had a shocker with Lunts try and Wire's first try shouldn't have been given because of a knock on.

To be honest though Giants played very poor today, they didn't seem up for it like Warrington.

Yes, fair play to him, the dirty fat turncoat.

I thought it was pretty good. It was better than last years for example.

I agreed with all the video ref calls, too.

Eventually a bunch of average players who play well as a team will be found out and exposed

You might be in the minority there.

Despite Wire winning and Huddersfield doing their best to lose and the awful video ref decision against Lunt, I also enjoyed it for the most.

You just always felt IF Hudds ever stopped ing around and finally played their game they had it in them to win.

Fair play to Warrington, their early blitz saw them through and their tactics were perfectly suited to getting around Hudds and closing down their game.

Great final and well done to Warrington. The best team won, but can't help feeling Huddersfield never really got started.
Briers was man of the match for me.

Thought it was a good final, but, the refs seem to have a mandate of late to try and disallow tries rather than just go with their gut instincts. I thought at least one of the 2 disallowed Giants efforts were tries.

Very exciting final. Nice to see some brains and tactics being used rather then just bashing away until something happens. Early kicks, chips, passing along the line in thier own 20. Some lovely stuff from hudds as well just never get the balance right between go forward and the more creative stuff. Very enjoyable. Be interesting to see if the tv audience was bigger with all the interest generated by two unusual finalists.

Good game!, but If I think Robinson ought to give his wages to his captain Hodgson, seemed to me to be the only Huddersfield player putting in any effort.

Mike

I thought the Giants lost direction when Moore came on and went to acting half-back instead of Lunt. He very rarely, if ever, ran from acting half-back like Lunt and didn't get the Wire on the back foot. All Moore did wasd pass all the time and it was so easy to defend against whilst Lunt was pushed out wider and basically out of the play. Too many errors by those classed as experienced for the Giants but Wire deserved their win no doubt about that.

Lunt and Brett Hodgson were Giants best players.

I think Cudjoe had a very good game

Just got back from Wembley, I think the above sums it up pretty well for me. Regardless of video ref decisions, the best team won and Briers was superb for the Wire. Thought Crabtree was the stand out player for Huddersfield, but they just made too many errors to get into the game.

Wire must've had in excess of 30k there; they certainly made plenty of noise.

Looked great on television. What was the atmosphere like around Wembley Way?

No chance. He shifted the ball into his other hand. Awful decision.

And the attendence is reported as 76,560.

Like I said, it looked bad because Wembley is such a big ground. 76,000 is an excellent attendence IMO.

Did your guide dog bark that to you?

My take on it was the coaches lost and won it. Huddersfield looked all relaxed and cocky beforehand - the coach had them in the wrong frame of mind. They'd already lost it before kick off. Smith got it just right and the game was over as a contest within about 15 mins.

After that, it was an even contest but Warrington always had too much power and although Huddesrsfield competed they never looked likely to win it.

Huddersfield had a moment in the second half that was pivotal but literally threw it away - Mason's pass out wide was awful. Score in that play / next set and they could have won despite everything.

From a neutrals perspective it was never reall close enough to be exciting.

I thought Luke Robinson was truly awful in defence and just as bad with ball in hand.

Mason in general was awful. He made countless errors throughout the game that seriously affected the Giants momentum.

Nothing from the refs? Are you on a wind up?

Superb, as always. You start spotting lots of folk in rugby gear and fancy dress miles away from Wembley and I didn't see a hint of anything my granny would disapprove of. Saw fans in the jerseys of every SL club (except Salford, oddly) and nearly all championship clubs. Also quite a number of French fans and at least a dozen in Welsh union club jerseys. I think the party mood was reflected in the friendliness of the stewards & police.

We saw some Salford supporters, they were represented!

Were you watching the same game as Robbie Paul? 'cos in the match we were all watching he had the ball in his right arm, was brought down on his right side and almost all of his upper right arm hit the ground.

Then he reached over the line.

Text book double movement.