Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:25 pm  

barton baird wrote:

Thank you Phil Clarke.

Why? Whos gonna touch them? Certainly not Saints, we will be lucky to get 4th considering we have a clueless coach comming next season. Warrington? Benefited this season from having no injuries whilst everyone else fell apart because of them. Leeds? No chance, they will struggle. Wigan will be even stronger next season and I can see them doing the double.

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:36 pm  

Wigan were outstanding yesterday. Tomkins was very dangerous, Leuluai was excellent, and young Farrell looks better every time I see him play. What impressed me most, though, was just the way they did the basics. All of their kicks were bang on the money, their transitions wide were very smooth and effortless, I can only remember them making two handling errors and their discipline was excellent. Given that we were pretty shocking in each of those respects, there was only going to be one winner.

They'll be even stronger next year with their Melbourne trio, but so will we, and so will Warrington. I don't see a period of Wigan dominance as a foregone conclusion - there'll be everything to play for once more.

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:49 pm  

MacBlondie wrote:

Why? Whos gonna touch them? Certainly not Saints, we will be lucky to get 4th considering we have a clueless coach comming next season.

And you know this how? Crystal ball maybe? What a daft thing to say.

There's absolutely no reason to believe that Saints can't touch Wigan. Had we played on Saturday with the kind of attitude, effort and cohesion that we played against Warrington in the playoffs, we would have been matching them all the way.

Warrington? Benefited this season from having no injuries whilst everyone else fell apart because of them.

Warrington are a very good team with a very good coach. They need to just make the step up to believing they can beat us. Once they've done that, the world is their oyster.

Leeds? No chance, they will struggle.

That depends. Leeds might have made a mistake in re-signing their old codgers. However, they may have one year left in them and they won't have done the Grand Final or the WCC by the start of next season so they'll have enjoyed a full off-season. They may come back somewhat refreshed and up for the challenge.

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:52 pm  

wiganstu wrote:

totally deluded

there for the taking ?? what game did you see ?

save for a few short periods through the game , wigan controlled it

50/50 chance of winning ? yes of course , there was only 2 teams playing KNOCK OFF THE INSULTS CLETUS. Carlos.


we basically did to you what we did to leeds the previous week , but in the end the score did flatter you

and thats not an insult i suppose

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:08 pm  

MacBlondie wrote:

Why? Whos gonna touch them? Certainly not Saints, we will be lucky to get 4th considering we have a clueless coach comming next season. Warrington? Benefited this season from having no injuries whilst everyone else fell apart because of them. Leeds? No chance, they will struggle. Wigan will be even stronger next season and I can see them doing the double.

Can't beleive how quickly people are to dismiss leeds and saints.

Here we have 2 teams who have been plagued by injuries all season. Yet one, made the grand final, and the other, the CC final.

Warrington were injury free in comparison and while leeds and saints truggled they couldn't even get top 2.

If leeds had mcguire and peacock wigan may not have even been in the grand final, just like if saints had eastmond and pryce, wigan may not have even won the thing.

Next season teams will be smarter to wigan defensive tactics and attacking structures. But you need an off season to get to grips with these things, just like wigan needed the offseason to put them in place.

With a new coach at saints, and refreshed leeds team it really wouldn't be at all suprising to leeds and saints at the grand final again.

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:59 pm  

We don't actualy want a period of dominance. We just want to compete at the highest level and challenge for trophies. To be honest the Wigan dominance of the 80s/90s become rather boring. Hopefully next year we will see a keen competition between Wigan, Saints, Leeds, Wire, plus others teans like the Hulls, Hudds etc. The competition needs to be close to maintain the excitement which will bring in the spectators. It is also more satisfying when a team wins.

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:24 pm  

nohalfbacks wrote:

We don't actualy want a period of dominance.

I bet you do!

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:59 pm  

Has any of you lot got next weeks Lotto numbers,most of you seem to know whats going to happen in the future FFS stop quoting what the comedy duo are saying Clarke,Stephenson, Hemmings.

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:30 pm  

MacBlondie wrote:

Why? Whos gonna touch them? Certainly not Saints, we will be lucky to get 4th considering we have a clueless coach comming next season. Warrington? Benefited this season from having no injuries whilst everyone else fell apart because of them. Leeds? No chance, they will struggle. Wigan will be even stronger next season and I can see them doing the double.

I think the mods should check your IP address to see which Wigan poster you are in disguise.. Fishta maybe ???

Re: wigan : Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:56 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

We forced more than a couple and the errors weren't uncharacteristic. They've been very characteristic of our whole season.

What do you mean because Saints have the second lowest error rate in the competition after Wigoon.