True enough, our recent record in Cup finals is truly rubbish, but that has to end sometime, and I just have a gut feeling that this year, of all years, in the season when Brian Mac has taken so much stick from us lot on this forum at times, that a cup win awaits!

Call it fate!

Adrian Morley believes: www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/0 ... t-wembley/ So why can't we?

Adrian Morley believes: www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/0 ... t-wembley/ So why can't we?

Exactly!

Of course they have a fighting chance FFS.

Wigan are obviously favourites given the form they are in, but if they are that superior to us how come they've not beaten us out of sight in the two meetings so far this season?

For those of you old enough to remember , this season is very similar to the 1976-77 season. Then we had a coach , Syd Hynes , who was not doing very well in the league and the critics were on his back. Only a continued run in the Challenge Cup appeared to save his job. A view shared with critics this season surrounding Brian McDermott. The season ended with a glorious , against the odds , victory against a heavily favoured Widnes team. The devastating events at Salford a few weeks earlier , where our scrum-half , Chris Sanderson , was fatally injured an a tackle in the game galvanised our team to win the cup. While we're not mourning the untimely death of one of our own this time , we are a team galvanised by the mood of the so called fans and experts who are , again , writing us off.
Keep the faith and support our team at Wembley to a glorious victory.
See you at The Torch before the game and after for the post match celebrations

That's a very upbeat decent post, with past reference and not just blind faith. Good job.

Some may call it blind faith I suppose, but I prefer to think of it as believing that this group of players seem to be able to produce an inspired performance when most are writing them off. It's one of the things that has made supporting them so enjoyable for me over the years. The highs, the lows, it's all part of the game isnt it really?

Yeh you're right, might as well just not have the final and just give Wigan the trophy eh?

I take it you're conviently ignoring our 2 matches against Wigan this seaon then as otherwise you'd have to believe we have 'a fighting chance'.

We'll see, and I hope I'm wrong and will probably have my previous posts regurgitated and ridiculed if we do win.

Although I promise not to use the phrase - "I told you so".

Are you for real?

Did you think Wigans opponents back in 98 had a fighting chance? You know, when lowly Sheffield went down on that famous day and brought the cup home?

Isn't the problem that a lot of fans fear a flogging like last year? If we had been playing well most of this season (and given sides other than Wigan a run for their money) people might feel more confident. As it is we scraped through the semi-final unconvincingly against a poor team that was under-strength itself. So I do understand some people not wanting to go through it all again.

Having said that, if I were still in England I'd be there, albeit more in hope than anticipation.