It's a good point..........but it's a point that no doubt the Wigan fans will deny until they are blue in the face.

However, the Warrington forum backs up your point perfectly.

That's also probably due to the manner in which the game was won

I highly doubt that. For a start it had been our first GF win in 12 years and until that point we were still in Saints shadow. Wire are our rivals, yes, and probably our biggest current threat, but there just isn't that same history of hatred that there is between Wigan and Saints nor the same imbalance of success that there was between us during much of the summer era. If anything, Wigan and Wire have risen together, whereas when we beat Saints we displaced them.

Wigan v Saints is always massive even when one team is going through a blip. Rivalries like Wigan v Warrington, Saints v Leeds, Saints v Bradford etc are only massive games when both teams are at the top.

I work in Warrington so over the years, my personal biggest rivals have shifted from Saints to Warrington. And over the 8 years I've been here I've seen a shift in the Saints fans too who invariably want us to beat Wire. It probably says more about Warrington's improving competitiveness than anything else.