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@Onthisdaywire Feel like even though we lost games that year, we always gave an excellent effort and never got blown away. Hopefully more of the same this year, signs are there so far but we can’t let one marginal loss ruin our momentum.

#OTD in 2024: A spirited effort from Wire but they are beaten 32-24 by Catalans. Zane Musgrove (his first Wire try), Toby King, James Harrison and George Williams score as Wire threaten a comeback from 0-18 and 12-28, but the mountain is too high

Been saying it for years, such an underrated player for us. Hasn’t looked out of place at 1 at all (I know it’s his natural position).

@Astall1011 In hindsight yeah, piss poor bench selection from him too

@_WireFans_ Good to watch but wrong call yesterday, not his fault. Horrible conditions out there an we knew that well in advance it was going to be the case. We have a 7 who absolutely loves those conditions sat at home. Was thrown in yesterday in a difficult game in horrible conditions

Final thing from me, Ewan Irwin had a poor second half but any half would struggle against that wind. Showed us what he could do in the first half, he’ll learn more from this than putting 60 on Cas. We need to stick with him…

@johnnywsports @dan_murphy68 Don’t know if it came across on TV but the wind was ridiculous, no half would have been able to kick against it.

@_WireFans_ @dan_murphy68 Looks like an outstanding product of your academy-prototypical size/athleticism for a half -just need to build a few more easy plays for the second half to get him going against tough opposition/conditions/situations.

@Djevans71 Absolutely stick with him, I’d play Sneyd in the Quarter only.

@_WireFans_ Hopefully burgess does not drop him next week that would be a mistake and destroy his confidence

@harrycritchley1 @Jamie198738 Yeah think we need a better balance, it does work in spells though, we were all over them for the majority of that first half. But when you jam in and leave a winger like Sivo 1v1 you’re asking for trouble.

@_WireFans_ @Jamie198738 Because the team are defending too narrow

Game was there to be won tonight, edge defence was poor, too many penalties conceded and Joe Philbin is crap.

@JNWoods07 If Thomas and Wood don’t come in next week I’ll really start to doubt Burgess, for me it’s such an obvious fix.

@_WireFans_ Fully agree,just getting through these 2 Leigh games is massive then suddenly everyone forgets about yesterday.Tough April coming up so we’ll really see what this team’s about.

Huge game now next week, we can’t slip into a downward spiral like last year. Hopefully see a different mentality, bring in Thomas and Wood for some fresh legs.

@dan_murphy68 I genuinely thought he defended pretty well given they targeted him, certainly wasn’t the problem in defence. Croft shouting in his face when he made a mistake was poor form, wish some of our lads would have got round him more.

@_WireFans_ Agreed. He'll get so much from that game. Stick with Irwin.

@Jamie198738 @SPQLondinium Odd one isn’t it, we could all see they had a bigger pack. It must be that one of the backs is carrying a heavy knock.

@SPQLondinium @_WireFans_ I’m not a Powell fan but I’d have picked him over Webster if I’d have known he wasn’t going to play, makes zero sense.

Glad somebody noticed this, did it a couple of times too

@PhilB1985 @KHullKR Glad somebody else noticed this!

@KHullKR If he’d have done the double elbow smash on Irwin that Lachie Miller did the world might have imploded

Imagine Mikey Lewis doing this 🤯 It would be like World War 3 on here 🤣🤣

@DylanKE__99 @WarringtonRLFC @ResultingIT Can’t remember who threw it but was a poor ball, should have been a cut out to Ashton to walk in.

@WarringtonRLFC @ResultingIT Game turned when thewlis dropped it as we was about to walk in around the 50th minute, we conceded off the back of it and never recovered

FT with @ResultingIT We fall to our first defeat of the season.

@PhilB1985 Agreed mate, some wild statements on Wire Barmy army facebook. It’s as if they’ve just stuck 50 on us, Harrison scores and it’s a different game. Small margins

@_WireFans_ It’s professional sport Sometimes you win sometimes you lose That’s just how it is Thought it was a good game

Can’t quite believe the overreaction from our fans, worlds apart from the regular 30 point drubbings we were getting last year. So much to work on and arguably should have put them away in the first half, bring Wood and Thomas in and we’ll improve.

@WarringtonRLFC @ResultingIT

@MattJTaylor88 I think it also comes down to Burgess’ selection, why would you carry a young back on the bench when everyone can see Leeds have a bigger pack. Poor for me

@_WireFans_ I’ll stand by my thoughts… today should have been a walkover. We’ve got the tools to go well. Today was typical weak wire mentality. We can’t keep accepting good efforts because of who we are.

@MikeyWire Not accepting it, but seen plenty on facebook writing off the season already. You are right poor second half, but ultimately they handled the conditions and played the half much better.

@_WireFans_ I don’t think it’s an overreaction to say we let them off today , that’s a poor Leeds team and we turned in a stinking 2nd half . Just because we were crap last year are we accepting close loses now ??

@morgan_gabbott Like the HUGE score KR just put on you?

@_WireFans_ HUGE opportunity missed

We were poor and should have still had enough to win it, onwards on upwards. Burgess at fault for bench selection though.