Tonight wasnt a perfect performance, but what it did show was once again we deliver when backs are against the wall. They showed tonight that they're still the champions and can still put a performance in when it counts. Last week against the scousers was a game they just wasnt up for, the body language was all wrong and they couldnt be d cause they knew they had a second chance. If the scousers think they beat a commited team last week then they're deluded!!!. Last season Leeds thought the same thing because they beat us in the first game of the playoffs, yet in the semi final they couldnt live with us. This coming saturday we'll be too strong for them and its old trafford here we come

Er, we beat you last season. And we have beaten you this season. It's not like you suddenly turned into Warrington today. You were playing the same game; the game we didn't let you play last weekend (or indeed on Good Friday).

Bookies have it close - one says even money, other gives Saints 2 start. Both give Leeds 12 start.

Whilst not impossible, it would be a mighty shock.

However it pans out the GF is shaping up to be a cracker:

Wire v Wigan - Massive Derby, 1st vs 2nd, Champions of 2010 vs Best team of 2011.
Wire v Stains - Massive Derby, serial underachievers vs bridesmaids over last 4 years.
Leeds v Wigan - Repeat of CC Final, lots of bad blood between two teams.
Leeds v Stains - Repeat of last 3 of 4 Grand Finals, Stains hoodoo team.

Your record against us the past two seasons is 2.5/8



On a side note I cant believe next weekend will be the 9th time we have played St Helens in 2 years. Absolutely ridiculous.

What may be different next week is the effect on the Wigan team which showed today with Tommy Lu playing scrum half and when Mclorium was rested Tommy moved to hooker with Lockers going to Stand off. I think the decision to drop Deacon was a good one,he as been a good player but is now to slow.
If Wigan play the same system next week the Saints half backs will not have the same room,Tommy and Micky Mac along with Lockers will be in their faces a lot more.

That is a good fair assumption. Us nilling the Dragons has put the fear of god into McDermott and Simmonds and Smith, wherever he was.

From BOTH sides.

By all means have a pop at those Wiganers who are chuffed to butties that their team is finding its form again. But the real laugh of the day is how this thread started out crammed with Saints fans desperately trying to convince us (or more likely themselves) that just because we hammered the Dragons 44-0 (!), we are still crap.



If this is your lot's first blow in the psychological war, you're making as poor a fist of it as Leeds did last year.

I hope Wigan are as arrogant in their beliefs next Saturday as you are now.

Who cares?

Its nothing to do with arrogance. Last week against the scousers there was no confidence and the team lacked urgency. Tonight the commitment was back and deep down the micky mousers are cacking themselves. Its not arrogant to state a fact.