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| Quote: XBrettKennyX "Just for the record I am not "knocking" Huddersfield or trying to urinate on anyones bonfire.
If you are happy with finishing 1st then good luck to you.
What some of you don't seem to realise though is that the table would undoubtably looked different if finishing top was the aim of the season.
It's perfectly possible that you would still have come top. Unlikely imo, but possible.
Impossible ultimately to say either way.
What is absolutely true (as Wigan know from bitter experience last year) is that it is way more important to hit the playoffs with a healthy, confident squad than it is to finish top after the regular rounds.'"
Prove it !!
if that's not a statement of bitterness etc then i really dont know what else is ?
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| Quote: ploinerrhino "Congratulations you are the most consistent side in the league , now all you have to do is to prove you are a champion side by fighting your way through the play offs when all the big boys have no excuses left and win the grand final . In my opinion you can do it but probably only if some one else removes Warrington for you'"
To be honest if we don't we don't. The real important thing is we keep improving year on year and if we do we can have no complaints.
We have alot to prove but that goes for anyone in any sport and until you win every game, league, cup etc you enter that is true be you Leeds Rhinos, Tiger Woods, Andy Murray or Phil Taylor.
Too many people are too bothered with what others think and go either full out attack or get defensive (verbally) and do not seem to enjoy what is going on infront of their eyes but get bogged down in things that at the end of the day could get argued about for days and still both sides could pick holes in each others arguments.
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| Quote: Horatio Yed "I'm really happy for Hudds, i don't understand the reason people are giving you such a hard time, it's more a pyschological achievement than the winning of a shield.'"
could prove massive for the current set of players and the club as a whole...
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| Quote: XBrettKennyX "
If you are happy with finishing 1st then good luck to you.'"
This has to be the funniest thing that I have ever read!!
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| Quote: GiantMisterE "This has to be the funniest thing that I have ever read!!'"
Exactly
I'm sure those who finish 12th, for example, wouldn't wanna swap with us !
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| Quote: XBrettKennyX "Just for the record I am not "knocking" Huddersfield or trying to urinate on anyones bonfire.
If you are happy with finishing 1st then good luck to you.
What some of you don't seem to realise though is that the table would undoubtably looked different if finishing top was the aim of the season.
It's perfectly possible that you would still have come top. Unlikely imo, but possible.
Impossible ultimately to say either way.
What is absolutely true (as Wigan know from bitter experience last year) is that it is way more important to hit the playoffs with a healthy, confident squad than it is to finish top after the regular rounds.'"
So, teams purposely go out and lose matches just so they don't finish top?
Garbage!
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| Quote: XBrettKennyX "
What some of you don't seem to realise though is that the table would undoubtably looked different if finishing top was the aim of the season.
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This guy is deluded.
No proof whatsoever for his ridiculous theory.
Tony Smith's team for tonight doesn't suggest he is not trying
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| No one goes out to not win as it's not in their best interests to do so it's just a sad and deluded Wigan fan upset their club isn't getting this shield trying to get a bite as their own club goes through the fabled Giants slump! They even say so in their own summary that you need to go into the play offs with momentum which sadly Wigan aint atm! Trying to take the gloss of our amazing success! They are just pathetic!
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| Why are people even entertaining these idiots! who cares what they think, If we do win the LLS then i for 1 will be celebrating from the roof tops! They playoffs dont mean a thing to me. Heres a scenario....hudds win LLS then get 8 players injured and fail miserably in the playoffs due to this and say warrington win the final, what does this prove? absolutly nothing! The whole meaning of superleague champions is the wrong way round, the playoff winners should be the minor champions and top of the table should be the super league champions. And before everyone shouts at me i have said this since the whole silly concept was invented!!!
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| I agree !
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| Quote: brearley84 "you get more cash the higher up the table you are, think its 50k for topping the league
then more cash from whatever money is generated from the play offs'"
There aren't any financial rewards for where you finish after the regular rounds - final competition places and prize money (in reality the cut from the play-off money) are determined by the play-offs/Grand Final.
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| Wigan appear very focused on finishing 4th instead of 3rd after fielding a reserve/academy grade team tonight at home to Hull. Should be fun next week when Wigan and Leeds attempt to outbid each other for that 4th spot.
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| Quote: William Eve "Wigan appear very focused on finishing 4th instead of 3rd after fielding a reserve/academy grade team tonight at home to Hull. Should be fun next week when Wigan and Leeds attempt to outbid each other for that 4th spot.'"
I'd imagine the 1982 West Germany v Austria World Cup match will have more credibility than next Thursday's match.
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| Quote: hudders789 " the playoff winners should be the minor champions and top of the table should be the super league champions. And before everyone shouts at me i have said this since the whole silly concept was invented!!!'"
You've been saying it since 1906??
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| Yeah, almost Machiavellian genius by Wigan in losing to Hull by just one point. I mean if it was me once I'd gone 6 behind I wouldn't have tried to regain the lead on numerous occasions. I certainly wouldn't have kicked a drop goal at 32-26 but true brilliance from Shaun Wane and the lads in making it appear they might actually want to win it.
Leeds as well quite clearly want to finish 4th as they scored 2 late tries to snatch a victory against Catalan when it would've been far easier to just lose, especially as their massive deficit in points difference would have guaranteed them the 4th place.
Of course it could just be that as professional sportsmen they want to win every game they can and understand that the top 4 are all there on merit and would be tough opposition anyway, whoever they play. While moronic fans on the internet continue to belittle the pride and achievements of their players because in some way it compensates for the clear inadequacies in their own pathetic little lives.
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