Is Bad Ben going to get a fitting reception from the majority of Saints fans?

Surely an ironic cheer and applause for him gifting us the final would be more likely to get in his head.

The thing is, he's not a comedy villan like tomkins, Newton or Bailey. He's a decent player who had a moment of absolute madness. It's not generally part of his game, and as Backrow says, he did basically gift us a GF win

We could just make fun of him, pity the club couldn,t play The Eye of the Tiger" when he comes off the bench, so we will just have to chant champions when he takes the ball up.
Wonder if he will pick on the smaller guys in the team or will he front up to Walmsley and Mose.

My reaction to flower is "meh"

Average enough player that let his teammates down. Couldn't care less tbh.

I personally think he should be given a standing ovation. If it wasn't for him we'd still be smarting from a record grand final defeat.

Summed up nicely for me.

He's a good bloke by all accounts and it was totally out of character. A lot of the fuss seems to have blown over because I've seen very little in the press about this being his first game against Saints. I didn't give it a thought until the other day.

it would make a change from the usual chants of 'FFFFFFFOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRWWWWWAAAAARRRRDDDDDD'



In all seriousness though, I expect you lot to give him some right stick and fair enough. However, pretty sure that there is nothing you can do/say that will make him feel any worse than he does already about letting his team mates down

We just need to let it go........

Agree fully! does no good for the club, Town and game! - as they say "He who laughs last, laughs Longest" - watch out that is not egg on the face with any disapproval pushing Wigan on even more to win! Just play the game and everyone available give it their Best, nothing more you can ask for.

Agree but I have long since realised that, where parochialism exists, common sense is an unwelcome visitor....

The cognoscenti of LP will be baying for blood on Friday as usual. Quite sad really.

IMO, the smart move from a Wigan perspective would be to have him in the starting 13 but give him strict instructions not to touch the ball for the first couple of sets, let the game get going and take the heat out of it.
If he takes the first ball up he's going to get smashed and that'll just lift the Saints crowd especially if they force an error which is very likely.

PS, can't wait for this, should be a cracker !

Indeed. Would have been interesting to see the first tackle if we still has Soliola.

Just ignore him.