Town to win the FA Cup and Challenge Cup in the same year.

Not bad for a small town eh.

I wonder why a city club has never done it?

Don't know, but rather than winning secondary cup competitions, Wigan would have to go back in time 45 years to have a chance of being the FIRST club to be both the Football and Rugby League champions.

It helps having the most easiest cup run to the final ever. And even in the final playing a team outside the top 4.

It's because of Dave Whelan and his broken leg

Certainly: these days Wigan seem to specialise in winning once great competitions now entirely subordinate to their respective league competitions.

The Wigan team should be arrested for being accessories to murder of the Challenge Cup. The worst team to win the Cup ever?

Chompety Chomp.

Easy pickings.

We were waiting for that one Rogues.well first of all congrats to the town of Wigan and both their teamz on that acheivement.We as Leeds were unlucky to lose to saints in 1972 as Leeds utd beat Arsenal.1969 Leeds utd League champions, 1969 Leeds RL RL Champions.That is the big one.Didn't you know about that?.Gotcha!

Well done to Wigan deserved winners.

The comparisons don't end there....... just like Wigan Athletic you're going to have a disappointing end to your league season

Can you pull off a relegation as well, please?

You can add Yorkshire Cricket to that as well, although it was 68 but all 3 held the titles at the same time.

A small source of pride no doubt but still asmall crumb of comfort when having to rationalize being from Wigan.

The town of Huddersfield's football and RL clubs used to do great things too during the same era

You're kidding right?

If roles were reversed and we had won a trophy and gone on their board to post about it, you'd have a field day.

This bellend has come on OUR board, to boast. This shows the rivalry isn't one way, as you like to portray.

Actually Rogues is ok.Just take him with a pinch of salt.He always says when he thinks leeds played well.You should see what he posts on the Wire and Saints board.

You see he has to come on here because he knows its tollerated here we can't do it on the Wigan board.

Lets face it you would have got great odds for that double especially Athletic winning the FA cup. Congratulations Wigan you won the dullest final in years against a side which would struggle to catch a cold. Still I guess a wins a win would I take that same result damn right I would

Do I think Leeds would be getting pilloried left right and centre if we had played in a final like that from the Wigan board?yer damn right I do

The quality of Leeds trolling on the Wigan board is Championship One level for kiddies.

That's the main problem and that's why troll threads generated by Leeds fans on the Wigan board are usually locked. They aren't worthy of oxygen.

No where near as tedious as any of yours.I honestly don't know what your game is and why you carry on

Top 4? Wasn't 7th the highest ranked team they played. Now THAT has got to be a first worth boasting about.

Wigan can only beat what's in front of them.

I don't think you can say they beat Hull though. They beat themselves.

Wigan had an easy run to the final, no doubt about that, not a single top 6 club.

But their performance in the final was impressive and to me showed they are going to be difficult to topple in the playoffs.

'what, are you crazy?'

Let me explain. The way they played the conditions, right from the first few minutes they had good grubber kicks, forced repeat sets and really smothered hull as much as possible early on. In those heavy wet conditions it takes alot of juice out of you defending and coming off your own line, and the errors from hull resulted. Of course hull didn't help themselves, but wigan curtailed their natural more attacking game to play a specific way. It looked like a sh*t game but most other teams in the league would have lost because of how disciplined. and smothering wigan were. Matty smith deservedly won MoM because his kicking game....it was like sinfield grand final 101. Hull were constantly coming off their own line even when they did complete.

They set out specifically for a slow, slow grind and you got a sense at the end with the tomkins try and reaction the amount of effort it took to execute it almost perfectly.

If they add some polish to their attacking plays, which were understandably off in those conditions, they will win the grand final.

My previous post was to some extent tongue in cheek.

With how bad Hull were I can't see from that game why you'd make the conclusion that they 'WILL win the Grand Final'.

Only if everyone plays as bad as Hull did could that be certain.

Hull probably only had about a third of the ball....tackled way too much....played at the wrong end of the field and their confidence was shot. Apart from their FB and Whiting everyone else had stinkers. They were easy pickings.

Share the ball and field position and don't let Wigan build early momentum and Wigan are more than beatable.

I agree with most, apart from the last sentence. Smith controlled the game, wigan played the conditions and deserved to win a dull game.

I don't think that means they'll win the GF, but at least they are prepared to play a big final in the rain, unlike a certain other Lancashire team