a show piece game in a great stadium and we had an absolute dreadful final.come october when conditions will be a lot worse you will see a much better spectacle as we have done for the majority of grand finals..end of the day wigan have won the cup and good luck to them and as for hull hard luck bet we are not bombarded with there fans on our site like after the semi...

Unless you were down there you couldn't realise just how bad the conditions were. It was heaving down. Wigan played the better wet weather rugby, just as Widnes did the other week v Wire.

BOTH sides defended really well, it's a side of the game that the vast majority of spectators seem to ignore, Harrison Hansen was superb in that facet of his game, how would have got the Lance Todd for me.

Anyway that's Challenge Cup #19 for Wigan, the third time we've nilled a club at Wembley and now become the FIRST town to hold the F.A. Cup and Challenge Cup in the same year.

Not bad for a little town eh!!!

Happened after the semi final too.

People going on about how bad it was for the game that Wigan smashed London.

Whereas in the Champions League semi final, Bayern beat Barcelona 4-0 and 3-0 in the two legs, and all the focus was on how great the Bayern team was, not would all the sponsors pull out...

After playing my worst round of golf in recent memory, and having the relentless four hour thudthudthud of ####ing Creamfields in my ears, I was looking forward to catching the second half of the CCF. I wish I'd've stayed out on the course and put up with the tourtuous "dance"music.

A shocking match, which, unfortunately, is our showpiece game of the season to the majority of the sport watching nation.

We had our chance to be there, but blew it.

Wigan won. When their name was engraved on the cup, there is no asterisk saying
2013 Wigan* (but they played crap) next to it.

As frustrating as the Widnes game was for Wire fans it still wasn't a bore fest in the same condition.

In a word, yes.

wire v widnes was a better spectacle to watch than that dross yesterday! but having said that, i wish to say thanks to both wigan and hull for curing my sleep disorder!and pssstt-get over yourself!

i think the best ever quote about yesterdays *game* was made by gentle in the sun today---*i didnt think we could play as poorly as we did in the first half--but the boys proved me wrong*!!!!!brilliant quote!!

So the weather made it a crap affair then? Well I guess the last few Super League Grand Finals must have been utterly turd then because it never seems to do anything other than rain on that October evening at Old Trafford.

I think the weather is just a perfect excuse to use to explain what an utterly dire final it was. I had a feeling that Hull couldn't back up their semi final exploits in the final and they didn't disappoint.

I read a very similar post on Redvee. Are you just recycling this stuff?




Whilst not at the game I'm down in London, and yes the weather yesterday wasn't great, but the downpour last year as Leeds scored was worse, and the teams handled it better. Hull were shocking in attack, quite simple. I feared a poor game, and was struggling to see where the excitement would come from, unless it proved close: a bit like the semi. Poor game, made interesting in the last 5.

I've a real downer on things at the minute and this final didn't help. Where's the excitement in the game, where's the stars, where's the big rivalries?

I'm hoping the WC can show something different, cos I'm all disillusioned

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