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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Sun Aug 30, 2015 6:29 pm  
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I think we are the only team capable of preventing a Leeds double now.

I think you need a referee that will allow 3 second play the balls and also plenty of laying on and niggly stuff around the ruck area for you to beat Leeds

But we've certainly got the players that can play that way too if needed

I do think that it will be a Leeds Wigan Grand Final
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Sun Aug 30, 2015 6:40 pm  
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I think you need a referee that will allow 3 second play the balls and also plenty of laying on and niggly stuff around the ruck area for you to beat Leeds

But we've certainly got the players that can play that way too if needed

I do think that it will be a Leeds Wigan Grand Final

Funny you should say that as you needed the ref to help you over the line the last time we met.
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:41 pm  
Is there really any need for this bickering? Can't we just give Leeds the credit they deserve?

They were the best team in the cup and proved that by winning it. They can only beat what is in front of them. Yes Hull KR were very disappointing but they beat us and Warrington to get there and were fully deserving of their place in the final. It isn't like they fluked their way to the final with easy draws, they beat the best teams to get there until they met Leeds.

Well done Rhino's, it was an outstanding defensive and attacking display and the scoreline was justified by that. Hopefully it will be a Leeds - Wigan Grand Final to make a very entertaining match.
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:57 pm  
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Is there really any need for this bickering? Can't we just give Leeds the credit they deserve?

They were the best team in the cup and proved that by winning it. They can only beat what is in front of them. Yes Hull KR were very disappointing but they beat us and Warrington to get there and were fully deserving of their place in the final. It isn't like they fluked their way to the final with easy draws, they beat the best teams to get there until they met Leeds.

Well done Rhino's, it was an outstanding defensive and attacking display and the scoreline was justified by that. Hopefully it will be a Leeds - Wigan Grand Final to make a very entertaining match.


Exactly. Leeds did what they had to do and did it very well. HKR were poor but that's not Leeds fault, they played what was in front of them. We didn't complain when we put 60 on them at the DW earlier in the season.
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:03 pm  
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quite right we didn't even reach 2nd gear in attack,but defensively we were brutal


No criticism of you lot intended. You did what was required without breaking sweat. Hull KR were shocking, but if they'd played better you'd simply have gone up a gear and would still have won easily.

I'm worried that this is one of the reasons the Cup has lost its magic compared to the Grand Final. It's happened too often in recent years that poor sides have reached Wembley.
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:31 am  
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No criticism of you lot intended. You did what was required without breaking sweat. Hull KR were shocking, but if they'd played better you'd simply have gone up a gear and would still have won easily.

I'm worried that this is one of the reasons the Cup has lost its magic compared to the Grand Final. It's happened too often in recent years that poor sides have reached Wembley.

Well that " poor side " beat us fair and square to get to Wembley and deserved to be there grass seed or no grass seed at the DW
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:42 am  
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I'm worried that this is one of the reasons the Cup has lost its magic compared to the Grand Final. It's happened too often in recent years that poor sides have reached Wembley.


Surely the Magic of any knock out competition is the fact that teams that aren't expected to do well, can surprise us and make it all the way to the final?

The BBC Breakfast team on Saturday Morning were creaming it over the romance of the underdogs maybe beating the favourites. What keeps that romance alive is that it does occasionally happen, I hesitate to mention 1998 but it is the proof of the pudding
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:25 pm  
If Leeds don't win the GF it will because Aiton got injured.
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:57 pm  
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Surely the Magic of any knock out competition is the fact that teams that aren't expected to do well, can surprise us and make it all the way to the final?

The BBC Breakfast team on Saturday Morning were creaming it over the romance of the underdogs maybe beating the favourites. What keeps that romance alive is that it does occasionally happen, I hesitate to mention 1998 but it is the proof of the pudding


I suspect both the Beeb and the RFL would happily dispense with 'the romance of the Cup' for a full stadium and a very close, very exciting game.

1998, for all that it was a great result for the neutrals, was played out in front of an embarrassing 60,000 people.
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Re: Rhinos Masterclass to Retain Challenge Cup : Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:10 am  
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I suspect both the Beeb and the RFL would happily dispense with 'the romance of the Cup' for a full stadium and a very close, very exciting game.

1998, for all that it was a great result for the neutrals, was played out in front of an embarrassing 60,000 people.

So true. I didn't go because I was dreading a no-contest match. Feel sorry for Hull KR as they fully deserved to be there but this was terrible as a showcase for our sport. Would have preferred winning the cup by beating the Pies by a point!
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