For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in 2012 : Mon Aug 20, 2012 12:50 pm  

OK I have been a Saints fan for 27 years and I have had a long think about this and the sport needs Wigan win the grand final this year. For two reasons, it’s for the good of the game and they simply deserve to!

After Leeds winning the league last year the entire league has seemed mentally scared. Now that is not Leeds fault and I am not bashing them. They played by the rules and won. But I just feel that the game could not handle another faux champion.

The quality of the league this year has been terrible. Many have blamed the number of teams but really it is down to a lack of elitism. Teams know that finishing in the top half of the league will give you an equal shot at being champions. No longer do you need a top 2 finish to have a shot. Trying your best every game is not only seen as non-essential but in fact a waste of effort and energy.

The only other team that have looked like Champions is Warrington. So why am I not rooting for them?

Well they have treated the regular season with more distain that any other team. With a squad and a coach as good as they have they should have been doing what we did in 2006. But they too see trying your best in every game as a burden. This ranges from taking a holiday a week before the start of the season to half-hearted efforts against Salford and London. It is clear that Warrington have just not tried as hard as they would have if it was first past the post. Instead choosing to save themselves for the cup and the playoffs

So what are our choices, 12 second rate teams that would bring shame to the sport if named the Super League Champions. A team full of superstars that have opening shown that they don't need, and are unwilling, to put their best in every week. Or the team that has finished top of the league and has made every effort to win every game they have competed in this year.

For the good of the game there is only one answer. The scum from over the lump.

Thanks for reading, now drag me through the streets and hang me outside the town hall.

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 1:10 pm  

What about a Bulls GF victory

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 1:50 pm  

I absolutely understand why you would say this and agree with everything except using the word Wigan - just use the words minor premiers

I think the idea that is being pushed around the corridors of Red Hall would help this situation, reducing the teams in the league - would have to reduce the number of places in the playoff. I am a fan of top 5, I think that gave such an advantage to the top team that it was then worth fighting for. It also means you have to be consistent to get into the playoffs.
The current first round of the playoffs for the top 4 is mostly meaningless and likely to be repeated in round 3

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 2:56 pm  

A.B.W

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:36 pm  

no, never. I hope they lose every game from now until the end of time.

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:37 pm  

I've started some silly threads in my time, but this is up there.

Wigan have also done exactly what Warrington did, they rested half their team and lost to Widnes and did the same and lost to Bradford.

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:37 pm  

broadybull87 wrote:

What about a Bulls GF victory

Now that Big Mac is backing them! do not count it out! Did he not say on one article that The Bulls have to stay in Super League regardless of what some other Super League clubs think!

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:42 pm  

jaybs wrote:

Now that Big Mac is backing them! do not count it out! Did he not say on one article that The Bulls have to stay in Super League regardless of what some other Super League clubs think!

Well I'd rather have them than London

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:46 pm  

I don't see how the pies apparently deserve to win it when both Leeds and Wire have belittled them, two teams that we have beaten on their own ground.

Re: For the good of the game, I hope Wigan are Champions in : Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:06 pm  

Noel Cleal wrote:

Thanks for reading, now drag me through the streets and hang me outside the town hall.

I won't be doing that. But I will be booking you in for psychiatric treatment and I will also be getting myself some tablets as I'm feeling distinctly after reading your post, which I did think was more than a little