well couldnt get much worse for me when ganson awarded the penalty in the dying minutes of the game i got up and just seen the red mist and give the advertising boards a almighty kick and badly broke my toe & foot in 3 different places so no work for 6 weeks and to top it off onlt intitled to ssp , silly thing to do but looking back im so proud of wires season but getting beat friday was more painfull than the foot injury

It wasn't as painful as my hangover on Sunday. I was oddly resigned by the point of the penalty, we'd played so poorly it just washed over me. Having seen Wire blow big chances in the past this one was only worse because we actually stood a chance. No matter what anyone says we've been the best team this season but we didn't have the mentality to take it to the GF. Ho hum, onwards and upwards.

I ended up in Chicago Rock at 2 in the morning with no recollection of how I got home... Enough said.

You live at Chicago Rock?

A few years ago at Knowsley Road, when Longy put one of his infamous one pointers over to clinch the game in the dying seconds, I saw a Warrington fan punch the corrogated iron cladding at the side of the Eddington Road stand.

He put a hell of a dent in the metal fist shaped. He must have broken some or even all of the bones in his fingers. I think his anger masked the pain for a while.

Everytime I went past that spot on the way out at the end of a game I'd look over at that fist shaped dent and remember how great Longy was.

He lives in one of the karaoke booths and ventures out once in a while to collect peanuts for the harsh winter that's coming.

It can be a very homely place on a Friday night with all those cougars!


I'm not a bloody squirrel! But if I'm going to set up base camp in a town centre "establishment" I'd rather have Pistachio nuts!

About the most depressing loss in my 30 years of watching the Wire.
No other loss comes close to it.
This was OUR year, we were / our the best team in SL (beyond doubt) this was our year.

Never been so gutted in my life, went the Kings Head after the game got a pint and just sat on the floor for a while. Then went the Rodney and kept drinking until about 2am then got home somehow.

Gutted - Up there with Maine Rd, & Joe Lydons drop goal

Totally gutted.

Just about getting over it today,Wednesday.

Never even considered defeat the way we have been playing.

As the Baird once said 'never count your chickens.'

I was so gutted i could barely speak !!! never in my 15 years of going to watch the wire has any defeat hurt as much. Some very harsh lessons will have to be learnt if we are to carry on where we left off next year, first and foremost of these is that all the cricket scores, defensive and offensive records and flamboyant rugby in the world during the season proper dont count for much if you choke at the penultimate hurdle.

Me neither, for a few minutes at 18 - 24 down I sat on the concourse of the South Stand and wasn't able to watch the match.



I really don't think we choked Bro, more we had a middle of the road game in our most important game ever at the HJ.

If we played like we had for 22 of our 27 game season then we would now be at O/T

As much as I respect your opinion i still disagree, the fluency and composure we've seen all season just wasnt there right from the start ! when Moz got the ball and hoofed it anywhere he could I think it summed our night up perfectly

I was pretty devestated. I just went home, smashed a ball against next doors bumper. Not heard the end of it since.