correct..... and you can still lose in the knockout Section and have another go.... they seem to brush this to one side when dissmissing our its a knockout win....

Back to back challenge cup wins is a great achievement but we cant win both. Due to expectation if we lose in CC to a mid table team in the Quarter Final it will be seen as a massive blow. Expectations are too high and cant be sustained. Maybe this time next year if we don't win the Cup, the public wont be so focused on CC.

Happily go out first game to Wigan if it meant getting to the grand final, nevermind win.

i think with all the age 30+ players in your team it's next year or never with this group

care to explain that reasoning. Is it just players are getting old?

discounting we could never know how many years are left in a player.

and discounting that we have a lovely group developing and players can be released in waves. Unlike Saint Helens who have all their players on contract till the end of next year.

and discoutning Money bags Moran could just buy more players... probably. Everyone seems to think that is the case ATM.

I think tbh it's quite obvious you have a ageing squad with you key players reaching the end of there life span

No.

If it was one then yes but we went and defended it against the then 3 times in a row Super League Champions who were really set on winning the Cup, winning any Cup in rugby league these days back to back is very hard because of how competitive the top level of the game is, also doing it again proved the doubters wrong who compared us to the Eagles an said 2009 was a one off.

Briers is the tough one to replace ATM. The rest are replacable in the years that follow. It is by no means next year or bust.

It's not simply a case of Wigan fans rubbishing Wembley fella, it's each to their own. I'd take the GF over the CC every time. Some interesting opinions here....

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As a Wigan fan for me it would depend on the season we had to determine which prize would be bigger. Wigan have been the most consistent side in Super League this season, finishing top and won the grand final in the end. I think making that grand final after the season we had was the very least we deserved.

Going back to 2009 I don't think anybody would have realistically expected Wigan to win the league from the season they had (we over-achieved with our semi-final berth) so a good cup run was a more realistic ambition as its based on knock-out rugby league rather than consistency over a season and can be won by anybody - it came as more of a disappointment for me during the Noble era we never won a cup but Super League for me personally is a bigger achievement as it shows a more consistent performance and reward for hard work during a long season.

Apart from your fellow Wigan fan one page earlier to whom FB was responding to when you qouted him