Good defence because both sides were clueless in attack, is this what equates to good defence? An amateur team could defend 5 drives up the middle, I've seen more expansion in an anorexic than i did yesterday.

It is to be hoped that an injection of southern hemisphere playing standards in the RLWC can rescue the sport in this country (if only temporarily) from it's discredited domestic playing standards and self-inflicted wounds.

Fingers crossed!

Fully agree, despite the weather the attack from both sides was dumbed down to basics. Flat attacks hardly any second phase, it was just a territorial battle who could make the most yardage with minimum errors. No creativity from any of the haves on both sides, just a good kicking game from Matty Smith to get the MOM.
Most sad moment was Lee Crookes and his Wife on the screen as they watch their son drop the ball for the umpteen time, best moment Shaul and his break down field.
I consider myself a die hard RL supporter but I almost switched the TV off it was that bad, still congratulations to Wigan thats one trophy more than anyone else at the moment.

The future of international RL is almost completely reliant on the NRL so the more junior English/British players that go down there the better imo.

Hopefully in the next 5 years or so we will be seeing a tri nations competition between Eng/NZ and the aussies made up of predominantly NRL players

After going to the game and watching it on iplayer, the suggestion it was a "bad" game is ridiculous. Some games of Rugby League are dominated by very effective defences. If you aren't happy about that, perhaps you should try basketball? There must be lots of former players on this board...anyone ever heard a coach say "don't worry about winning, just make sure any neutral speccies go home feeling they've been entertained" ? me neither.

5 drives up the middle? The commentary team drew so much attention to the way Hull closed Tomkins down [iout wide [/iand tackled him as soon as he got the ball despite us running our now trademark two wave attack time and time again that only the most one eyed miserable get would see 5 drives up the middle. Remind me again how the two tries were scored. Drives up the middle was it? Honestly, you are just coming across as someone who is determined to see the game one way: negatively.

Another Wigan fan thought it was a good game, there's a surprise!

You' like most of the opposing fans COULD NOT WAIT to find an excuse to criticise Wigan, Question HOW PATHETIC ARE YOU? Or is that a touchy subject?
19 Accept it

How pathetic am I? Depends I suppose, sometimes like all humans on reflection I have my moments but calling a crap game crap isn't one of them, as for accepting 19, have I denied it?

As for the Wigan excuse [am I conversing with a child] I've seen many a Wigan game in which objectively ive thought was top drawer, this one though was out the u bend of a Scottish toilet, plus I'll add it takes 2 teams for a game to stink that badly.

I support Chelsea and Leeds Rhinos. If someone wants to criticise the finals we've won as being poor finals, I simply don't GAF. I'd much rather see us win a terrible final than seeing someone else win a classic.

Do I wish Leeds were boring their way to the Challenge Cup final yesterday? Yes I do. I think every other British RL club wishes they were in the position of Wigan yesterday. That doesn't stop the fact that to pretty much every RL supporter apart from Pies and Hull KR fans, yesterdays game was utter dross.

Neutrals aren't going to waste their time watching the match to check if it was as bad as they thought. They knew yesterday that they had already wasted their time on watching it the first time.

You can never watch a Wigan game as a neutral. As a neutral, yesterday's game was awful. No Challenge Cup final in my memory comes close.

I watched the full 80 minutes of the match yesterday. I wished I hadn't wasted my time. I only bothered to watch about 10 minutes of your semi final. It was clear from what I saw that it wasn't going to be worth watching.

The only redeeming feature of watching the CCF is discussing it on here. Apart from that, I think everyone else just wants to forget it happened. You pies should be celebrating another trophy and not discussing with neutrals and trying to say it wasn't that bad. To you it wasn't, because you were winning the sodding trophy, but to everyone else it was poor.

IMO Hull were the main culprits of yesterday's game stinking so bad. They lost a final AND they were the main cause of it being one of the worst finals ever. It's Pies who are on here saying it wasn't that bad though.

Hull fans were robbed of any entertainment yesterday. It wad dull for neutrals. But dull and a longttrip back for hull fans

No we are not denying it was a bad game, however we have been backed into a corner by retards like YOU are who are using "the poor game" as an excuse to attack Wigan, its utterly pathetic. If opposing fans had said "well done, shame it didnt live up to expectations" or "unlucky with the conditions it spoilt the game" fair enough, but no, its anti Wigan yet again. Not everyone on here has it in for Wigan so I apologise to you. But when a small town in the northwest of england holds both the FA cup and Chellenge cup it would have been nice for a few compliments. Wigan can't compete with the wealth from Cities clubs such as Leeds/Bradford/Hull or the more affluent towns like Warrington, but somehow we have achieved something that may never happen again.
Now if you think we are paranoid prove we are. COMPLIMENT WIGAN for holding both cups. I BET YOU CANT DO THAT CAN YOU?

Why, does your ego need it that badly?

Woe is me, now that is pathetic, a little puppy that wants attention.

If you'd beat Hull in scintillating game do you honestly not think people would have said 'wow that brilliant'?

A fact is most people don't like Wigan but they're all big enough to call a game as they see it, I've seen many a thread by a neutral praising a pie performance, this, regardless of the occasion though was dross.

Here's a bone little puppy, go fetch it boy.