I think if we do get what everybody wants.. a Wigan Wire final, we will see a completely different game to a few weeks ago. If both teams are firing on all cylinders it will make for an awesome game and I would be 50/50 as to which way it would go. Fingers crossed we get to see it happen . But for now, lets focus on getting over our first hurdle!
Quote: Conroy "IF we were to play Wire in the final then our pack would have to be back to its best for 80 minutes or we'd get flogged.'"
Yeah I agree.. When we have played wire this year, we have been possibly at our worst and they have been at their best, particularly in the forwards. Wire would have to replicate this and be at their best to have a chance of beating us and we will have to be at our best to beat wire... if both are at their best then it will be a great advert for the game.. but like you say, there is a few IFs between then and now!
What Im pointing out is that statements like "Wire WILL do the double" & "Smith IS a better coach than Wane" & "Wire have a better pack than ours" are statements made at a particular point in time and not based on the ups & downs of a whole season.
For instance
If youd asked who had the better pack in May/June I'm sure youd have got an overall different answer than your getting now (i.e 80% would say Wire but maybe 80% would have said Wigan back then).
The truth lies somewhere in between these 2 points and varies with Form etc
IMO there's not a great deal between the 2 and Wire may have the "Edge" at the moment but form is a funny thing and can come back as easily as it goes.
I thought there were a few promising aspects to our game over the last 2 games with the return of Tommy (We scored 7 of our 8 tries IIRC wilst he was on the field at HKR playing SH) and our right side attack seemed a bit more potent and was looking better on Friday until the "incident". I also thought our pack seemed to get a bit of fire (Cue the MM comments) back in them and Mossop looked better friday than he had for a couple of months as did Lima, Hansen picked his game up and looked back to the form of April/May and with guys like Hock & O'loughlin who have consistantly performed I'm not overly worried about our "pack".
With the return of Tommy L I believe it provides a more cohesive structure to our game at SH that allows the pack to perform better as a whole and takes pressure of Finch (Who gets a bit Headless chicken when he has too many things to do when Tommys' not there) to just control our left side attack.
End of the day, rightly or wrongly, what matters is being in that Final on 6th October and being the better team on that day.
Middle of June nearly every Wigan fan would have said that would be us and people warned that it would be a long hard season fluctuating with form etc.
I believe that 2/3 weeks down the line it's not unrealistic for us to be back somewhere near that level of performance and that would be more than enough to give us a chance of winning it.
Same applies to the Wolfs
I think soem people look at it and say if we were playing Wolfs today they'd win.
Thing is were not playing them today, we may be playing them in 3/4 weeks time and the whole landscape can change between now and then both ways based on form/fitness/injuries.'"
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it will make for an awesome game and I would be 50/50 as to which way it would go. Fingers crossed we get to see it happen 
. But for now, lets focus on getting over our first hurdle! 
