Great day for Super League.

Another nail in the coffin for the Challenge Cup.

The Widnes v Wakey game back in 79 was pretty poor, however, that was very, very poor.

I should have got an inkling when the sound problems started prior to kick off, a big chance to showcase the game & it went horribly wrong.

Hey ho, at least we’ve got the W.C to look forward to .

Thank god that's over - Hull were absolutely awful, Wigan just poor - a dreadful game to watch.

Just coming out of Wembley now. Fair play to Wigan they got the win, but agree worst cc final in terms of skill, entertainment and effort from two teams in living memory. My critism of Wigan is they should have hammered us.

Hull fans must feel robbed. They literally saw nothing bar a run from their fullback, which ended appropriately with an incomplete carry.

Must be one of the lowest completion rates by a side this season in all competitions.

How Wigan did not slaughter them is almost as big a mystery.

Everything about the game was poor, from the empty seats, the sound, the pitch markings, the game, the trophy presentation to the shockingly pathetic ticker tape drop when O'Loughlin lifted the cup. The whole thing screamed small time sport.

But at least a percentage of posters on here will be ecstatic about that.

The whole thing to me was depressing, it screamed game in decline.

From the off field build up and presentations to the empty seats and the clincher the actual game itself on the field.

When have you ever seen so many empty seats at a CC final?

The on field product is getting poorer and the attendances reflect this, william eves thread shows the majority of attendances going down week by week.

Pretty sure anyone who'd seen worse would have chosen to end it all

Like I said it will give some people the best day of their lives today.

Daniel Holdsworth must be one of the worst players in Super League, seriously.

Certainly the worst Final I've seen either live or on TV. Before people start going on about attendances, it's worth noting that of the 53 finals played at the old Wembley before 1989 (When the aftermath of Heysel, Hillsborough and the Bradford fire cut the capacity) only 7 (1949, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1980, 1985 and 198icon_cool.gif sold out. Even after that the Finals of 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998 and 1999 failed to fill the ground.

Not really. Firstly, Hull are good on defence. They only conceded two tries, and one was at the death. Secondly, Wigan aren't anything special either. Hull marked Tomkins pretty well for 99% of the game. Without Tomkins, Wigan are distinctly average.

Please can we get rid of these Rhino balls - they are dire especially when wet.
I have never seen so much dropped ball as this season

If the French powerhouse club Catalans Dragons had had their best team, or even close to their best team, available for their quarter final against Hull FC, they probably would have been playing at Wembley today in place of the Clueless Losers. The Catalans, with Dureau, Bosc, Webb, Casty, Pelissier, Fakir and Duport in form, would have given it to the Wigan team in attack, and made it an interesting game with an international flavour.

Instead we were served up this disgraceful tedium, punctuated by schoolboy errors, where the stand off for Hull drops the ball twice in crucial moments, and the only attacking flair comes from the novice full back and the replacement hooker. Hull FC is not a team that is ready for the Big Time, it is not a team good enough for Finals competition. It is merely a fitting symbol of the parlous state of rugby league in England under the management of Nigel Wood.