Luke pays highest price for getting Wildy off the hook!

Sep 13 2008 by Chris Roberts, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

THERE was little disguising the broad smile on the face of Stephen Wild as he crossed for his first try of the season in the Giants’ final-day Super League win at Warrington Wolves.

But it was such a shame the Sky TV cameras were unable to pick up the undoubted look of panic that would have been on Luke Robinson’s face at the same time!

Wild is always happy to cross the whitewash, particularly if it puts Huddersfield on the road to victory, as it did last weekend.

Yet the smile was obviously wider than usual because it meant he escaped having to do the dreaded end-of-season naked run, which has now become the traditional punishment for those players who fail to score a try during the course of a campaign.

Even though Wild’s season has been wrecked by injury, having picked up a serious wrist injury on, ironically, the first visit to Warrington on Good Friday which sidelined him for three months, that wasn’t going to prevent him doing the run.