Not quite 'the best game ever', a long way off in retrospect, but indeed it was a very good contest,

I agree. Very poor game from us but credit to Wigan. You cant ship in 44 points and hope to win or think your defence is good. What a let down. But hey ho Wire back to how I remember them.

open your eyes it was a fantastic game..just cos we lost..i`d much prefer we won naturally but appreciate what both teams contributed..be a shame if we did`nt meet again in the final at o.t

Agree, at half time I thought, 'that's one of the best halves of rugby I've seen.' But we weren't good enough(or Wigan were too good) to make the second half match the first.

Very enjoyable game, poor defence for a fair few of the tries to be fair.
Best game ever, not quite

Might be one of the best 40 mins ever, but not one of the best games by the title suggest.
For a cup game think you have got to replay the Leeds v St Helens in 2003. This was full on intensity for the full 80 mins with the game in doubt right to the last minute.
Yesterdays game was over after 65 mins, if it was 44 - 42 it might reflect differently, but Wigan dominated for large spells of the game, Wire were always playing catch up and didn,t really dominate the game in the manner Wigan did.