That's your opinion, offensively expressed, but you are entitled to it, even if wrong. Lockers was a long way from full fitness and still played a massive part in the game. I can understand that people may have their own favourites who they may mistakenly think are better than Lockers, but to say it's gaga to think Lockers is now the best in SL is ridiculous. Even the most rabid Wigan hater must admit that Lockers is one of only a very small number of world class players in SL.

I tend to agree, I thought, other than a 10 min gap where Warrington scored Wigan were dominant. In the second half Wigan were definitely ahead before injuries, yes the injuries helped tip the balance in Wigan's favour but then a halfback with one eye helped Warrington. Even at 16-2 I thought wigan were going to come back and win.

Didn't Lima and Finch both state that Lockers is the best player they have every played the game with? I'm pretty sure they have played with some good 'uns.

Of course you did.

I like Sean O'Loughlin and think he's a very good player. It's your continuous sickening adulation on this board that I object to. It's the sort of adulation that little girls have for their favourite boy band. Don't you think you may have gone a bit over the top? Go somewhere else and tell the world of your great love for "Lockers". It's not really relevant here.

Whilst injuries may have been a contributory factor, the performance of your half-back pairing was a far greater factor.

Green, mom playing with one eye, & Smith were superb. Briers & Myler were anonymous.

By the way, the stats are not made up by me, they collected by independent observers. As opposed to random outbursts about boybands...!! Speaking of which, presumably according to your logic Finch and Lima in the past and all the Wigan players who had been publicly expressing how important Lockers was to the team in the run up to the GF (Tomkins gave an interview in which he said Lockers was the best player at Wigan) are like 1D fan obsessives?

You even seem to object to the use of the nickname "Lockers". It's used by lots of people connected with the club, including our coach.

Oh dear...

Agreed, Smith played very well and if I'm allowed to say this without being accused of "sickening adulation" ( ) Green's performance was fantastic. He thoroughly deserved the Harry Sunderland trophy.

To be fair to Briers and Myler though, they were playing behind a beaten pack and they just didn't get enough ball close to Wigan's line.

I wasn't that confident (!) but felt we had a chance - I was confident that the longer the game went on the stronger we would be, but a 14 point lead was a big margin!

From a Wire point of view, I'd say O'Loughlin is a very good player and probably the one type of player we actually lack at the club, who would make us a significantly better side - He reminds me of Mike Gregory, a player who did a lot of things very well, but, to the casual observer, wasn't particularly eye-catching because he never did the flair things like a Ellery Hanley could.... Importantly, both Gregory and O'Loughlin were/are great leaders, who are both greatly admired and appreciated by the most important people, and that's their team mates.

Personally, I'd take O'Loughlin in a heartbeat - He'd offer so much more than the present Wire set up of basically having an extra prop at loose forward, and would also take a lot of pressure of our half backs.

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