We also won the u20's and we have numerous awards for our community work

Who won team of the year last year? I'd be surprised if many people knew...means nothing.

You can't argue with MOS or coach. As for club of the year, well......

Our U20s were both the league leaders and Valvoline cup winners.
We came second in the league, won the challenge cup and are in the Grand final.
Our squad is always in the local media for being involved in community events and are currently the face of a nationwide advertisement to increase investment in Warrington.

Do the other clubs hate us or something

Gutted for Ben, he defines the words Man of Steel. But Sam Tomkins is a great player & probably the best in British Rugby League.

But the other clubs didn't vote for you. It matters not a jot anyway. No one will remember who won team of the year and you've had a better season than us anyway.

Well done Sam Tompkins a good player no dought about it.
Unlucky Benny you show them they were wrong on Saturday.
Club of the year joke who votes on that one?

I remember when we use to win the club of the year award. They tend to give it to clubs who don't get a sniff of winning the proper trophies.


As an aside has any club ever won Supeleague, the Challenge Cup and the Academy in the same year?

All the clubs vote.

Nobody likes us, we don't care

Can't argue with any awards apart from "club of the year". That's a farce.

Westwood is not as influential an individual as Michael Dobson... so a strange point

The man of steel award as I heard recently labeled is an award for the most "influential player over the course of a season", for a big hitting non stop no frills hard as nails second rower to be in there with a pivotal attacking full back (with no defensive game whatsoever ), and a hooker who has his hands on the ball more than any other player in a season is nothing more than Westwood deserves.

Tomkins is not a man of steel in the way the name conjures an image up, give him player of the year and give a player with some knackers the title of Man of Steel....

oh by the way when do Carney, Phil Clarke, and Terry O'Connor apologise to all the players in Superleague that were supposedly not voting for Tomkins because of his unlikeability?

they wanted the RFL to change the format so its transparent, and any unfair voting (ie not voting for Tomkins) can be stopped, shocking and now unfounded accusations......apologies from SKY TV..........nahh

You can't argue with any awards.
You can't argue with winning cups and I know what I prefer for my team to do.

Fully deserved IMO, just as it would have been if Roby or Westwood had won the award.

Well done to Sam. It's true, wigan is less than half the team without him. His game has MANY deficiencies but he has scored a lot of tries this season and has carried wigan to the top of the table.

Benny will have a ring and wire will have a big trophy if everything goes well. I think that's preferable to 'club of the year' and 'man of steel'. No used getting worked up.

Well deserved for Tomkins. As has been noted, he's more important to Wigan than probably any other player is to their respective teams. Plus, it's only going to get more so next year when he goes from a supporting cast of Finch and Leulai to Laughable Matty Smith and Blake Green.

Aside from Tomkins' obvious personality defects, he's a class player, even the most one eyed supporter of another team would admit that. When he goes to Union (might go to NRL I suppose but suspect he'll fancy joining his brother) they'll be much gnashing of teeth and talk of creating ill thought out ways to give him loads of money to stay (see Cunningham, Keiron) - probably by Martyn Sadler.