I hope you're doing it at the Grand Final as well. No one remembers the hub cap winners the following season. It's not a big thing any more and there really shouldn't even be a trophy for it.

I'd disagree with you mate. Being the best team in the league after 27 games should be recognised.
The play-offs are no more than the old post-season premiership competition, just with a bit of extra glitz.........(well, they are until we get to OT...hehehe).

Correct, I posted something similar when we did it in 2010, we hadn't had much success since 1998 apart from the CC in 2002 and you never know when the next trophy will come along, most clubs have massive dips then a long run of success these days i.e Leeds/Saints as of late, remember fans of the likes of Salford, Wakefield, Quins, Hull KR would chop there arm off to finish top and lift the shield.

However id love it if you cock it up

Well if we win it we'll certainly remember and I would say that most people remember that Wigan won it last season!

I also remember that Wigan won the Grand Final. Its the losers of that one that no one usually remebers. However when its the same team that loses in it year after year it seems to stick in your mind!

Dont mention losing finals to Saints fans.....they wrote the book on it.

Still a bit gutted that I can't finish work early enough to go but I'm still buzzing and can't wait for tonight. Like other posters have said we should never forget how far we have come and where we've come from as it makes us appreciate the level we're at now and what we might be about to achieve all the more

The mistake we made the last two times was getting fellated at Wembley and shooting our loads so we had nothing left for Round 2. This time we’re cutting out the foreplay, turning her round and going straight for the Theatre of Dreams. Then we can move on to getting a spanking from the Aussie bird.

Hopefully now Wigan showed how much the Challenge Cup takes out of a team, and it clearly proves that it causes fatigue at the wrong part of the season the RFL may relook at the date it's played? It happened to us the last 2 years!

With all due respect, didn't you finish 10th in 2009? Can't blame that on the CC...

As much as I'll be delighted should Wire finish top, the fact remains the RL champions have generally, over the history of the game, been decided by an end-of-season play-off system. I have probably posted this before, but since WWII, Wire have finished top of the table 5 times, but only been crowned champions on one of those occasions (1955). Our other two 'championships' came from finishing second.
I'm not saying I agree with this, but, since the 1940s, the table-toppers have only been the official champions from 1974 (ironically the year after Wire last finished top...) to the start of SL III.

But, anyway, balls to history, and let's have the Wire top of the league tonight - will be ace if it happens.

we will win easy 2night,we are the best team in SL by far,the cup lose 2 wigan was a big upset in my eyes.bring on old trafford,come on the mighty wire!!!. p.s-sam tomkins is a scum bag.the last bit is so you can ban me from your site?

Tonight has been a memorable night. Incidentally my french/polish neighbours now have a much better knowledge of English swear words as I got a little tense at Ganson at various points tonight.

Was never in doubt!

Never thought I'd see the day, brilliant.

Who told you to think like that? Sky? The Rfl? It's up to the fans to decide what's important and what's not.

With all due respect, you're missing the point. He's not blaming a crap league place in the CC, rather, that it takes juice out of the tank. That makes sense regardless of where you finish.

Isn't it going to be in July next year due Wembley being used for the Olympics?

no, its around the same time, lewis confirmed it on cup weekend.