Yeha, I wish i would have put money on it. Totally forgot to (just like buying a euromilions ticket)

and..


too right mate. Sorry. The air gets tense before a wigan game and it feels a million times better after a wigan win!

'We' won . Not quite what I was hoping for , but a very good result nevertheless . I shall be collecting my winnings for a 20+ margin to Wire in the morning . I also had 30+ and 40+ , but am more than happy with 20+


The reason for Wigan losing . They had a cup final last week







Well done Wire . The race for the most important piece of silverware goes right down to the wire (pun not intended) .

No the reason for losing was that Wire came out fired up and played with an high intensity. They defended in numbers, controlled the contact and forced mistakes. They then dominated possesion and territory and made it count!
Once they had built a good lead it was going to be very hard to come back from. They then made sure they completed sets and didnt really give Wigan force pressure!

Just out of interest did you back wire by 20, 30 and 40 because you think they are that much better than us? Or because Wigan had a cup final last week?

Just because of something that was said to me last Saturday on the coach home from Wembley . An off-the-cuff comment that I thought could actually be worth a punt . I rarely visit the bookies . The comment made me think that Wire were in with a very good chance of turning Wigan over big style today . The more I thought about it the more I convinced myself it would happen . So I went and had a go .
+30 against Hull next week seems good too .

Absolutely loved our little addition to the Pies' Benedictine chanting this afternoon!!!

Its on the who will bring up the 1000 thread me and JD will give out any tips for a small fee of course...

=#FF0000Na Nah na nah na nah na nah na nah

=#0000FF[iyou're sh*t[/i

=#FF0000Na Nah na nah na nah na nah na nah

=#0000FF[iyou're sh*t[/i

did that come across well on the tele? did anyone hear?

Also, got to love the Humblepies. Team were e throughout but at least they sang for ten mins better than us (in their minds)

Team were dire
fans were dire

Certainly came across well on the radio, had a chuckle.

Watched it back on the telly and it came through very clearly.

Which was?

The Wigan Ultras get a bad rap on here, but I'm gonna go against the grain and say they've improved their support massively. I'm not really bothered what they call themselves as Ultras is a common name for all sorts of organised football groups across Europe, and the likes of Accrington Stanley and York City have done it here. They're not patricularly original either, as most of their songs seemed to be reworded Liverpool or Man United songs (which has also influenced their flag designs) and Dale Cavese is as generic as it gets in Europe - although I do like it.

The fact is though, they are loud and they don't go anywhere.

Let's be honest, once the result was beyond doubt yesterday what we all wanted to see and hear was "the Wigan walk" and silence from their end, so we could all wave them goodbye and sing about being top of the league.

What we actually saw and heard was a mass of bouncing and scarf and flag waving to Dale Cavese that completely drowned out anything we could muster, leaving us to resort to a childish "you're sh*t" at the brief quiet moments of the tune. It stopped us singing our own celebratory songs/chants, because as soon as "We are top of the league" got going by us it died out seconds later when everyone accepted we couldn't be heard over the Wigan lot and went back to "you're sh*t". No point even bothering with "We're gonna win the league", or "We shall not be moved" after that.

Celebrations muted from us, job done from them. If they're honest with themselves (although I'm sure they won't be and will slag me off for this post) I think most fans of other clubs who slag them off and just jealous that their own club's support is nowhere near that good.

Not fishing with any of that either.

Had they of not won at Wembley I doubt it would of happened.

They was still on a high from that so losing to us wasn't the end of the world

I watched Quins v Wigan
and then
the Quins game v us

Wigan had more fans (which you would expect) and were noisier than us, they have improved the support 10 fold.

Probably the insecurities of the past fans mocking them forced them to change but hats off to them

Wigan fans are better now than they used to be. That game yesterday was primed for the Wigan Walk and in the past they would definately have done one once Monaghan went full length. Obviously some of their support said to the Walkers "oi hang on a minute, we're laughed at by every RL fan in the country, why are you leaving early?" and the penny must have dropped. The Besiktas Carsi chant they have is okay... it's just another of them songs that needs a drum and has no words though, it's a bit think sounding, as are many of our drum chants ("der der der, der der der"icon_wink.gif. They're all a bit simple. It would be better if we had more proper songs to sing words to. Not many SL clubs have them anymore.

The Wembley factor is valid, but it was still without a doubt the best away support of the season by a long way at the HJ despite them being on the receiving end of a hammering that takes finishing top out of their hands. No one can argue with that.

I told my bird that I'd be an hour late home if we won as I'd miss the first train celebrating, but as all I could hear was Wigan fans even after the hooter their didn't seem much point sticking around so I legged it to Central for the 14.44. I'm not saying it spoiled the day as nothing could spoil that, but it did take the edge off slightly as I was dying to get a fist pumping "We shall not be moved" on the go, and it just wasn't gonna happen.

Wigan fans will no doubt be delighted to know that, so as I said before, job done from them.

Reminded me of the days when we were y and you would hear VDV barmy none stop.

Our support was awesome about 10 years ago, what happened?

Dare I say it....................we moved to the HJ

Correct. Imagine the Fletch being out sung by Wigan on a day like yesterday.

Never in a million years.

They didn't start singing till towards the end though, there lies the problem. If they were vocal throughout similar to what LFC and MUFC are away from home then I'd give them that recognition. the fan group concept is a great idea, just think the name and songs are a bit naff.

Dale Cavese was when they really came into their own and yes, that was towards the end.

However, they were singing before kick off and only occassionally stopped during the game despite how badly it was going for them.

I stand in the corner of the West Stand between the away fans and the South Stand, and they were far louder than the South Stand throughout.

That'll come down to acoustics as well.

For some reason the South was joining in with the Dale song

Who cares if they were louder? We owned their team from 1 to 17 with a performance that was beyond our wildest expectation ten years ago.

People are never happy at Warrington.