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Just as an fyi about this - this was our transition season:

Of the 4 semi finalists, Warrigton fielded the oldest team average (27.1), 2 years older than the youngest, Wigan (25.1). Saints (25.3) and Catalans (26.9) were inbetween.

There's still some more pain to come...

Ive never felt so proud and optimistic after such a gutting loss.
Really agree with Wire Yeds list as well. Can't wait for next season.

Well the level the likes of Hull FC are at now is the level we were at for a long time, and with the annual exception of two matches against St Helens, I enjoyed watching Wires a lot more then. The end of the season never felt as absolutely devastating as every single one of them has since 2011 that's for sure.

The single hardest thing to take in sport is high expectation combined with continuing failure and that's exactly where we have spent the last four years.

Either win it (unlikely) or just go genuinely rubbish again (more likely) because I'm absolutely sick to death of feeling like this.

Nobody bottled it, you're just being ridiculous.

We lost a game that was decided on fractions and could have gone either way, playing away from home against the defending double winners and likely champions.

Who bottled it when we were getting panned in the first half and had none of the ball and had to defend all half, and we ended up going in only narrowly behind?

Who bottled it when we lost the lead in the second half after being well on top and then pulled it back level?

Who bottled it when we had to go to Cas away, the form team of the year?

Who bottled it when we were 18-0 down at half time against Widnes?

Who bottled it when we had a crap start to the season, and the whole team and coaching staff was under pressure, and everyone was saying we were leaderless and rudderless?

Who bottled it when we lost Briers, Hodgson, Morley and Carvell, four of our greatest all time Wire players, all in one go, and had to replace what they gave us?

Chris Hill stood with having to shoulder the burden of two legendary props retiring and take on our main go forward role, did he bottle it?

Chris Bridge had to step up and be our key player after Briers had gone, did he bottle it?

Matty Russell got a knock that would have had anyone on this forum signed off work for about 6 weeks, how did he play in the biggest game of his life, did he bottle it?

Roy Asotasi has been called our worst ever signing, did he bottle it?

Lets hear who actually bottles it at Warrington Wolves and take some proper action.

Maybe a proper owner, like Koukash, would not have put up with a team bottling it. He would have gone and told the fans how he felt on Twitter and guaranteed we won't bottle it next season. Simon Moran won't do that, he will bottle it.

Koukash would have had TS's P45 ready for him tomorrow morning, as we've bottled it too many times.
I'm hoping Simon Moran will bottle that decision too.

And that folks....was our (and Wigan's) Transitional season.

I love it when you post seriously, awesome post btw.

I think a lot of Wires only watch Wire when they watch Warrington play. Honestly, watch the whole game. Both teams, that game was out of this world. Both Wigan and Wire were on fire tonight and there is nothing you could take away from either team if the other had won. Upsetting.... Yes. However I feel privileged to have watched that game live. A great spectical of a game at full intensity for a full 80 minutes.

Great game of Rugby League.

I'd rather it was an awful game and we won.

It's always pride and there's always next season!!! Er let's start a winning mentality shall we and maybe like Wigan we will turn an average side into trophy collectors! Wane is an illiterate buffoon yet still he manages to get the better of Smith for the fourth time on the trot! Turn into winners wire and put an end to this well respected loser nonsense! Should've won for the past three years! We must win one!!

Totally agree with Sally's post (for once) and yours.

I've only been following Rugby League and Warrington for four years, almost all of you go back further than me. But what we saw tonight was just an amazingly tense and competitive game of rugby. I grew up with RU and I don't trash it but very few RU games can match that for the level of excitement, it was a truly great game. And playing away with an injury-affected squad we lost extremely narrowly to a team which has a full strength squad playing at home and which I'm pretty sure will go on to win the Grand Final rather more easily than the way they beat us tonight. If there's a tinge of disappointment it's that we didn't capitalise on the "meaningless" rounds to finish in a position where we didn't have to play Wigan until the final.

The game as a whole has loads of problems, the falling attendances alarm me and baffle me, but I remember last year thinking we'd never have a good a chance again to win a Grand Final, and yes, we haven't done it but if you'd told me a year, or six months ago, that we'd be fighting for a place in the GF with four minutes to go in the semi I'd have been delighted