Conceding nearly 50 pts, belter that pal.

It was a great game up untill Solomona went off, and then the key injuries started to show... also Silverwood letting Mossop hold down for as long as he pleased didn't help.

cant blame silverwood..he was hardly noticeble,,he reffed it brilliantly

He was good bar Mossop, the amount of time he ignored him holding down was a joke.

Best game in a Challenge Cup tie for me is still Leeds -v- Stains in the 2003 semi-final at Huddersfield.

At half time, I thought today's may match it, but it fell away a little in the second half.

Yeah up to about the 60 minute mark this was a great game after that it just dropped off from the Wire, decision making and panic rugby cost us.

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

Tbf, you were the one saying it would be fifty.

It nearly was.

Best game ever....come off it.

Decent contest for much of the middle part of the game but we were second best throughout. We were not very good today, even down to things like Hodgson missing his kicks, our defence was sloppy and let Wigan's pacey outside backs punish us from deep. They turned up fired up to beat us and we were tame. I never really felt we would go on to win the game.

He moved as soon as the ref shoted move

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.