First time post but have read the forum for a long time, Friday night after the culmination of a bad week (lost job). I was exceptionally disappointed in the result, and facing a 1-2 hour drive home, My family and myself (all season ticket holders) left on the final whistle and did not stop to thank the players for their effort across the season, nor to say goodbye to the people around us who we have sat with for the last few years, I know they read this message board so I would like to apologise for not saying goodbye properly. I do not yet know if we will renew our season ticket next year, depends on work and getting over the disillusionment we feel with Rugby in general ( not Wigan) , RFL, officials etc very similar to a lot of the comments on the Bilko thread. Hopefully when we have time to reflect we will be back and see you next year.

The club need to improve the way they handle saying goodbye to departing/retiring players. The NRL (esp Melbourne Storm) are very good at this.They make the final league game of the season a real event, let the leaving players run on first through a flag/banner saying thank you. I don't feel we got to say goodbye/thanks to Tommy and George properly. 2 class acts.

For the first time ever whelan"s stormtroopers stood back behind the barriers to let the fans go down onto the sacred concrete apron, result?...........NOBODY BOTHERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A handful collared George and he signed somebody's shirt and I shook his hand and wished him luck.

The best fans in the league? mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Easier said than done in a final or your guaranteed last game. However if they had run out against Leeds proclaiming it was their last game i am pretty confident that 99.99% of the home crowd would be asking for Mr Lenegans head on a platter.

I think he meant last regular season game.