Yes that was certainly missing.

Glad I'm not the only one, and every year after that as we got knocked out of the Cup my friend's dad would say "oh well there's always next year..."

I genuinely and naively thought it would be a rerun of the previous year particularly when Bevan went over...it turned into the longest of days

I thought there was a rule that we had to win. Didn’t help that as a denizen of N-le-W I had no idea where Widnes was.

Never mind, half of Widnes don't know, either

I remember going on the train to the 1975 final. Direct from Bank Quay to Wembley, silver service meal en route, £10 all in. Good old British Rail.

Your mob have been described over on the Wigan board today as 'below Leigh' in their list of biggest games.

So much for this so-called 'big rivalry' you claim to have with them, which is evidently the biggest 'one way rivalry' in Super League.

Your rivals are Widnes. And we've won a World Club Challenge. Perhaps you aspire to win one yourselves?

Widnes fans don't aspire to be like Wire though. We certainly don't want to go 63 years (and counting) without being Champions.

Remember...the Pies have you below Leigh!

Widnes is that a small town in Runcorn?

Talking of Leigh there's a good chance Widnes will be playing them next season and I don't mean in super league

Well I have Widnes above Leigh...but not by much...about 5 or 6 league places.
Mellor might be a good capture when his contract gets ripped up this year.

Good news for Wigan then, they're more likely to have a big Derby against leigh to look forward to next year than a guaranteed 4 points against widnes and a trip to the pitch that nobody likes and IMO isn't suitable for superleague.

I'm saving up now for Canada and Toulouse next year already.