Well done leeds, played well all year and the comments from mcdermott on sky where very apt and respectful

Agreed.

Well done Leeds. We gave it 100% but in the end came up short.

Bollox

First half cost us. We were garbage.

Big decision to be made moving forward in my opinion on the future of Matty Smith.

Leeds won because they had two halfbacks in McGuire and Burrows ( please do not tell me that Burrows was hooker) who did an old fashioned halfbacks job on us and by that I mean being allowed to roam all across the width of the pitch.

Wigan on the other hand after a very bright start when they scored a superb try down the left, Leeds suddenly tightened up on Williams and Farrell and by doing this 80% of Wigan's attacking threat was snuffed out. Leeds knew that nowhere near the same threat would come from Wigan's right.

Finally I would just like to congratulate Jamie Peacock on what as been a great career.

Good Moral Victory That!!!!!!!!!!

I can't look past the blatant knock-on that was given as a try unfortunately.

The difference between the two teams.

His future is as the interchange hooker, Hampshire must come into the halves.

Do not hold your breath.

13 men this time and still couldn't get the job done against an old & knackered Leeds side - not good enough!

TBH as a neutral watching last year's game I thought Wigan were the better side and deserved the win aside from Flower's brain explosion. Not sure it was a 'moral' victory though!

Leeds' defense was solid all night & we didn't (couldn't) make any impression in that first half. Much better in the 2nd, but (yet again) some diabolical kicking & a few brain-farts let us down. Leeds deserve the win, they've been the team to beat all year & we just fell short. Notwithstanding they'll be insuferable for the next 12 months. At least it weren't the cabbage munchers again.
Bowen was a monster & it's playing like that which'll make him missed. The younglings did well too. And couple of our so-called senior players might well be lucky to not have had a 10 minute rest.

Ah well, start it all again in February. Just the internationals to look forward to now.

Unbelievably arrogant statement.

I dunno, I expected Wigan to put us to the sword after Phil Clarke et al on Sky repeatedly assured us that the Leeds pack were gone... I think in the end, the tough run-in Leeds had meant that they were more battle-hardened than Wigan, which explains our early lead. We had just enough left in the tank to hold on after the Walters try.

I blame Nobby for jinxin it on the radio early on. He said more or less the same as the Sly mob. Although he also reckoned Giants & the Stainers were going to win through too. It is mushroom season after all.

TBH it was apparent that the Leeds middles where looking out on their feet and half gaps where beginning to appear but then we went and took all the pressure off by kicking for 2 when we already had a 2 point lead. I think that gave your middles just that bit of a breather they needed to regroup. We should of kicked it into the corner and tried to win the game rather than taking the 2 and looking to close the game out.

It was a definite turning point in the second half. Leeds didn't make the same mistake when 4 points up, kept the ball down that end. It was a very very close game, margins so fine.

Leeds were more clever than we were.

For what it's worth I think you were hard done to for two of Leeds' tries. First one should have chalked off as a player to the immediate right was offside from the chip through and within the ten when McGuire picked up, not sure if that counts unless a Wigan player touches it? Second one was clearly a knock on. Had Leeds fans around me trying to convince themselves and others that it went definitely went back, had to shake my head. You did well to stay in it though at the same time. Only Bowen had a good game for you tonight, everyone else was patchy at best.

Sorry, but while he offered a lot in attack he had a shocking time in defence in the first half.

He was nowhere to be seen for the first try, had an opportunity to take down Hardaker before he managed to offload for the second and completely gave up covering for the third.

His, admittedly dazzling try doesn't cancel these issues out for me.

As soon as burgess grabs watkins shirt bowen totally stops, and then mcguire swoops in right infront of him to score. Had he carried on anything could have happened, he could have tackled mcguire, or made the grounding difficult, or even Mcguire losing the ball under the pressure of a tackle. The try could have been prevented, and if the second half played out the same way with wigan only been 4 down, totally different story.

Those are the small '1%ers' that aren't often noticed.

Fair points. Sometimes defensive frailties slip by and the attacking turns stick in the memory.

He's a friend of mine but I agree, he had a disaster tonight. Everything went wrong

He's been garbage for a long time,he complimented Blake green but all creativity came from Blake.I think moving him to the bench as an interchange hooker/back up half would be a good move,especially having Hampshire waiting in the wings.

Great moral victory. Show us your moral trophy