Grand Final Weekend 2009
Hi all, well its 8:30 pm on Sunday evening, my lads have gone home to Carole’s and I’m relaxing and getting round to blogging about my weekend, the last time I wrote was Friday (Big Weekend Coming Up), which was a post looking forward to the weekend ahead. This weekend was of course the weekend of the Super League Grand Final in Manchester at Old Trafford, and Gareth and I had tickets and a hotel room booked, so how was the weekend. It was pretty damn good is the answer to that question, we travelled down to Manchester, well Salford Crescent anyway on Saturday around mid day. We arrived at our hotel around mid afternoon and after booking in we headed to Salford Quays were we got some dinner and then visited the Imperial War Museum North, we tend to visit here each time we visit Salford Quays because as well as having its permanent displays it also has temporary exhibitions, this time it was all about prisoners of war.
Leeds Rhinos 18 – 10 Saint Helens
Afterwards we went to Old Trafford for the game, it was a good night as regards the weather, in fact it was just about perfect for the game, the crowd was massive and very loud, the atmosphere was superb, and it was a good game as well. It was tight and hard fought between Saint Helens and Leeds Rhinos, in the early part of the first half I thought Saints had, slightly, the upper hand but the Rhinos fought back during the later part of the first half, it was even at half time but I thought that after that Leeds always looked more likely to win.
In the end it was sown up by a great Leeds try by Lee Smith which may have had a possible hint of offside about it (although I wasn’t convinced either way on the matter), despite this it was a try worthy of a Grand Final. At full time the Rhinos had won 18 – 10 and it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening. It is Leeds third Grand Final win on the run and Saints third Grand Final loss on the run, a pattern is forming, and not one Saints fans will appreciate.
Today we got the train back from Manchester Piccadilly station to Roose, we had a two and a half hour wait at Lancaster for our connection and had to stand from there back to Barrow as the train was full. We arrived home around 3:30 pm.
Later this afternoon we booked tickets online for the Four Nations rugby league international between England and Australia, its being played at the DW Stadium in Wigan on the 31st October, I’m really looking forward to this, it will be my first (well first major one anyway) rugby international.
So now I’m just relaxing, as I said on Friday, I have a holiday in for tomorrow, I’m not sure what I’m doing yet but I will be taking it easy and resting ready for work on Tuesday.
