Quote ="sally cinnamon"Thats because beating Wigan is like beating Man United it's the only team where there is an honour (implied by history) that goes over and above the 2 points you get from a league game. Nobody gets that excited about beating Saints or Leeds, even when we won our first game against Saints for 50 years or whatever it was it was a bit of an anticlimax.
Also Wigan still being a good side makes it more credible, it's not like beating the West Indies at cricket, say, where everybody knows that it's nothing like beating them in the 1980s and early 1990s because they have gone totally crap now so it devalues the honour. Wigan are still a side that challenges for and wins trophies so although it's not the same as beating the Wigan team with Edwards, Hanley and Bell in (in fairness Warrington had a decent record in head-to-heads against them compared to most teams), it still feels like it has that credibility.
Over the years since the 1990s I wonder how much that has actually counted against Wigan, in that teams will be more motivated to get one over Wigan than they would Saints, Leeds or Bradford (or us nowadays), it has probably made your task harder.'"
I'd argue against that a bit. A few years ago when Wigan were having a right struggle, there wasn't much 'honour' in beating them. You wanted to beat them cos it's a local derby not because of their history. Just because Liverpool were good in the 70's/80's it doesn't mean there's honour when you beat them.
So when Saints were winning Grand Finals (Bloody hell that seems a long time ago) would you as a Warrington fan have found more glory in beating Wigan than us?
Just to add, it was an anticlimax for you because you weren't beating a Saints side in there prime.
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I'm not sure how they get picked, out of hat is my guess 
