Bowens try was special, and the celebration even better...!

2014 for obvious an obvious reason. We still could have won that game.

And 2015 GFs still irk me. We could/should of won them games.

Although I guess 2013 (being 16-2 down) and 2016 (we had no right to even get to GF with all the injuries) make up for it.

Will never be a close as last year.

There comes a point where you have to just take it on the chin. They won, we lost - fair play to them. I feel lucky to be a fan of a club who are regularly involved in semi-finals and finals where you can experience the emotional highs and lows that sport can provide.

I thought Tony Smith made a really good comment after the 2016 GF when he was asked about how gutted his players would be. He said there's a really easy way of avoiding that horrible feeling when you lose a final - you just don't play in them.

You can't win trophies without the risk of losing in finals - I'd much rather be in this position than a fan of a team who never get there.

NEVER be afraid to play in big games, embrace it, challenge yourselves and if you do lose dust yourself down and improve and go again.

Remember a certain poster who didn't want to play the roosters because we couldn't win etc.
Embarrassing

As I said a couple of years ago. He just isn’t that good. His defensive positioning is one of the worst I’ve ever seen in a winger and he can’t tackle for toffee. That’s why he’s at Salford

Hes no Tom Lineham thats for sure....

When is Grace moving to Salford?

Want went wrong with Sean Ainscough at Wigan? . He looked as promising as Tomkins when they broke though....

Ultimately wasn't good enough I suppose. I liked him and he always seems lively and looked for work. I suppose the true sign is where he ended up. We sent him out on loan, he signed for Bradford for a season and then worked his way down the leagues.

He was another one of those players at Wigan that really divided opinion. I felt he was unfairly left out of the team at points by Noble but the way his career fell away would suggest Noble knew he wasn’t quite good enough. His size didn’t help him and he had similar questions asked of him that Liam Marshall has faced over the last few seasons. Luckily for Marshall he had a coach who showed a bit more faith in him and he’s answered the questions asked of him with his performances.

You cant mention him without reference to this

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Ultimately at Wigan i think it was a size thing he was a small winger, and Noble liked size in a team.

That was the most incredible thing I've seen on a rugby field. Was a fierce local Derby too...

That’s absolutely brilliant! Never seen that before.

Wigan's first try came from Bowen's fumble which clearly went forwards from Rob Burrow's kick which Farrell then picked up whilst being in an offside position,
Burgess scored on the next play??

McIlorum knocks it back onto Bowen's knee/leg. Faz is offside though yes.

That was a split second call that whereas the McGuire knock on was watched from about 30000 angles in super slow mo and they still got it wrong.

All irrelevant now.

These things do still hurt.
Bit like Tommy Leuluai try in CC final from blatant forward pass.......!

There wasn't even a pass on the play, it was a scoot

The grounding was a bit iffy

Pretty sure he/she is referring to the pass from Mossop for Jeff Lima's try. That was forward, no question.

Its easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the result would have been different if one decision had gone the other way and that would apply to both the Mcguire knock-on and the Mossop forward pass. Some people look at a controversial try/no try after a match and say if you add or take away 6 points from the final scoreline then the result is different. Which is complete nonsense (unless the decision is made in the last minute) as there's no way of knowing how mindsets and tactics would have changed if the decision had gone the other way.

Yes that's the one! Momentum is what I was thinking of. We'd worked so hard to get right back in it, and that killed it for us.....
Wigan seem to have had their fair share of generous calls over the years....

We own the rfl don't we.

Or is that another club

Ha. RFL are a law to themselves. We've had somr massive falls go our way over the years.

2012 playoff vs Wigan. How Hall was not penalised for holding Wigan winger down before Finch mises last minute drop goal, I'll never know!
2013 CC semi vs Wigan. Mcguire blatant knock on before a try to Hardaker I believe.
2009 GF Lee Smith was offside for match winning try.
2011 semi vs Wire, marginal at worst offside by Myler leads to match winning Sinfield pen.
2007 magic weekend vs Bulls at millennium. We were miles offside for last minute winning try after Sinfields pen hits bar. Hanson didn't even check, and would have been ruled out....

To name a few. Plenty of shocking calls against us I could name too though....

one of the worst ive seen that