I see the club are marketing the forthcoming derby with saints using the strap line...'Nothing Else Matters'

Cant help but feel they've got this wrong...maybe they should have gone for... 'Turning the corner' !!

In seasons past a good win against Saints was perhaps the highlight of our season, how things have changed. We now expect to challenge for the GF and CC silverware and rightly so.

If we were to lose to Saints next week it really wont be the end of the world.

Finding our form and qualifying for the GF at Old Trafford and the CC Final - different story...indeed 'Nothing Else Matters'!!

Derby day against Saints - nothing else matters.


IMO

Losing last week really won't matter as long as we beat Saints.

Beating them at OT was awesome!

Agreed! It makes us sound a bit small-time "nothing else mattters". Suppose its just the marketing team trying to make the game seem a lot bigger than it actually is. Also, if "nothing else matters" then were knackered because i doubt any of us really believe we will beat them with our home form the way its been for the past year.

While we are on the subject, has anyone EVER stopped a new Aussie/Kiwi import player or coach and said 'We don't care who you beat as long as you beat St Helens twice a season'

Nope thought not.

Always thought that!

It is such an important game and it takes away disapointment from previous weeks and often picks us up even though we might be playing rubbish but it's not like we would cope if that was the only game we ever won!

You're right it won't, because the world ended last Friday night.



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Thought Metallica were being lined up for the half time entertainment on Good Friday for a minute

The League and Challenge Cup are obviously the main targets but 2 wins a season against Saints is great for the feel good factor. Speaking of 2 wins a season - when was the last time we did the double over them???

2003. 4 wins out of 4 incl. Play Off. We also didn't lose to Saints in 2004 either (in the league) but drew on Good Friday that time.

No, but if you ask an Aussie/Kiwi import player or coach "Who is the most important team to win in a season", they know it's Saints!

The CC & GF are for show, Saints is bragging rights! Don't undermine the Derby!

In Monie's Magic, I'm sure Monie tells the tale of his first press conference in '89 and some old timer saying something like "as long as you beat St Helens and get us to Wembley".

Wire/Wigan is now a bigger fixture than St Helens/Wigan. It's a clash between the 2 biggest sides in the game at the moment.

Only to Wire supporters.

No offence but Wire v Wigan will NEVER be bigger than Saints/Wigan.

Why not? Wire are a bigger club than Saints,currently have a better team and we've been more successful than them over the last couple of years.

exactly that. Wigan Saints has been going for years and years and nothing can ever replace that!

History, tradition, respect, passion. All of which Wigan vs Wire is lacking in compared to a Wigan vs Saints game. Form/Teams/Previous Success means little in Wigan v Saints games. Dont worry, we dont expect you to understand.

So are you saying St Helens are a bigger club than Wire? Nonsense.

Wigan and Warrington are the biggest and most famous names in our sport. Ask any non-RL fan to name 2 RL clubs and that's the 2 that they'd name.

Erm... No thats not what I said at all



But yeah, St Helens are a bigger Rugby League club than Warrington to be honest

I'd take a bet up on that one with you. Because I know from experience that last comment is utter rubbish.

Warrington in the last couple of years have improved, but they aren't a bigger club than St Helens. I work all over Manchester, Derbyshire and Cheshire and whenever people ask me who I support in football and I tell them I'm a rugby league fan they won't ever start talking to me about Warrington. It's generally Wigan, Saints and Leeds that they mention first.

Sorry to burst your bubble WireWonder, but to non RL fans you aren't that famous. Just speaking from experience of areas away from Warrington itself.

He was joking wasn't he..

Oh dear.

The lyrics:

'Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I want to go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And it went right to my head'

Are apt. for WireWonder.

Even your fellow Wire fans are laughing at you.