Probably the right decision with sending off sufficient, I don't think there was any malice in it, although it will be tasty when mcilorum & Watts next meet.... old Trafford anyone

Take it easy fc23 you should know by now that all Wigan fans began supporting at 1930 and stopped at 2020 when they are losing to do the Wigan walk lol

Walked down to Old Trafford last year with a group of Hull fans who were supporting Wigan for the day (good choice, obviously!). Good bunch even if they did say 'bagpack' instead of 'backpack'. Haha. I've always liked the club and fans tbh and I totally agree with the comments re: Radford too. I suppose you get whingers and bellends at every club. Ours is no exception.

On a related note when did the Sintelliners become so soft? I know their team is a bit mardy these days but it seems to have spilled over onto their fans too. I went over to redvee the other day and I've never seen so much whining about big bad Wigan and how they don't play fair. Jesus! I thought I was reading a football forum!

As good as Cas have Been, I think the best final this year would be Hull V Wigan.
Wigan would be hell bent on getting pay back for the Challenge Cup and Hull would want revenge for last weekend. There would be a bit of bad blood between both sides and as long as it was all kept under control it would be one great game to watch with some punishing hits.

Another newcomer since his team started winning.

Agreed. I've always liked Hull and their fans. Lately though they are displaying a level of pomposity unbecoming of two cup wins. The number of comments I've seen belittling Cas's season or our WCC win is cringe worthy.

Well, they've long defined themselves by how much they hate Wigan. Even when they had the Long / Sculthorpe team and we were total pants, they celebrated our defeats equally to their own wins. The difference now is, because their success has dried up, they tend to do it all on their own site ... rather than come over here to bore us with it.

As an additional thought on the Hull idiots who've started appearing on here, it may just be that it's down to success always attracting ragtag and bobtail. I agree with an earlier poster that a couple of Cup wins is not a big thing these days, with Grand Finals and WCCs also to play for. But FC have had no period of genuine success since long before social media. Perhaps it's inevitable that we're suddenly seeing some gobby fools in their colours. It's probably not exclusively a Hull thing, either. Could easily be the case that we'd see the same from other clubs who'd previously been started of success in the internet era.

Sorry Cruncher but you've got it wrong again as I'm not a Hull supporter, I'm a fan of a lower league team but I do like the way Hull play the game

I don't want to sound too bitter about this. But to me, their entire game plan revolves around having massive forwards. A half back that can stick up a massive high bomb to their huge wingers. That's pretty much it.

TBF it's probably more of a gamelan than we've had lately.

I don't doubt it, and in a way it's kind of like Wane's ideal (if only we had a half who could kick in open play). But it's fairly simplistic. I feel that if our wingers were bigger (better at catching bombs) then we wouldn't really be troubled by Hull. I would say Cas or Leeds style of offloads we usually find harder to defend against.

You say that like it's a bad thing!



They have a plan. You might not like their plan, or think it is the most sophisticated plan in the world, but at least, they have a plan...






... you forgot, a hooker who can do 80 minutes...

People slate our attack though. Yet we managed to comfortably score more tries than them this year. They may have a plan that they stick to, but it doesn't make it more potent.

There are aspects of our attack that are very good and do score us a lot of points. We have next to no kicking game though (barring some of George's try line dinks which are some of the best you'll see,) putting up some of the worst bombs from the worst positions with the worst chases I've ever seen, along with zero hope of a 40/20. If we had half their gameplan we'd have double the tries.

And everyone else bar Cas. Incredible stat, that. Especially when like you say everyone has bashed our attack this year.

Edit - Salford have more also which is surprising given they've been on holiday for the past 2 months.

finally people are starting to give their different opinions on the game and the teams,lets be honest it would be a bit boring if we all agreed with each other and by the way I still think we would do wigan in the grand final but that's just my opinion

He does 80 minutes, granted. However, watch him closely and you will see too many of his tackles involve him getting carted backwards by about 5m. No high impact collision or hurtful defence IMO. Decent player but bulled up too much by those morons in Sky.

Man of steel!!

You absolutely could. It would be an intriguing final because I think we could turn you lot over as well and get some proper revenge for Wembley.

I really don't fancy coming up against Cas at all but Leeds or Hull would be a great, close game I reckon.

I bet warrington fans wish ben currie could of carted him another couple of inches

Correct. Exactly as the lobbyists at Sky desired. Thanks for making my point for me.

alright orrell lad we,ve stopped cacking ourselves now wigan won,t make the grand final, I was just wondering will you and cruncher and the rest of your keyboard mates making the trip to oz
would be nice to see big following for both clubs

And, of course, voted for by the players themselves.

You have a point even if it is 12 days late. However, since it is the players who vote, who would you think the Sky lobbyists are lobbying? Players' opinions can be swayed too you know.

I'm going with my Dad on the Catalans Sports Tours trip.