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| Quote: BillyRhino "Nah you don't ![]()
But Rugby League didn't begin in 1996 and Superleague didn't begin in 2000.
I'll tell you what, let's pretend that Superleague only began in 2010.
Wigan 1 Leeds nil, does that work for you? It's a logical as your argument!!!
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| If you're talking History - We beat you hands down.
If you're talking current times - We're Champions....your trophy cabinet is empty.
If you're looking at the future....well I'd say ours seems brighter than yours.  |
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| In addition, we're going for our FOURTH World Club Challenge Title in a few weeks time.
How many have you won btw?  |
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This may be of interest to our Leeds and Saints friends.
rlhttps://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id
Cheers Bilko
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Even in Superleague Wigan have topped the table more times than Leeds and have never finished as low as 10th in a 12 team competition, unlike Leeds.'"
Leeds have never been relegated and up to you buying up all the best players and bankrupting yourself leeds had won mroe challenge cups than you 3 more and that was under normal curcumstances.
pre war leeds were in 5 championship finals and lost them some closely when they were favourites.
there is a theory why Leeds were losing championships even the great 30s team much better than wigans 30s team, is that Leeds the recognised aristocrats of the sport it was laid down by the legendary chairman Sir Edwin Airie that they must play like the aristocrats they are ,they had to through the ball about play open rugby ,no standing off side ,stop the game when a player is seriously injured.those 5 pre war championship final defeats could have been wins,but their policy of fair open play impeded them,but there was only Salford and Leeds in the 30s .it was them two who had the best teams. |
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| Quote: Jeff the God of Biscuits "The thing is though, it seems the party is over at Leeds. You have an ageing squad.'"
At season end Leeds will have 9 players over 30, Wigan will have 7? If Leeds squad is ageing so is yours. Very selective in your opinion. |
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Most people on here (Virtual Terrace) have Leeds down as fifth, one position down from last season. Would that be about right with whats going on over at Headingley?
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Most people on here (Virtual Terrace) have Leeds down as fifth, one position down from last season. Would that be about right with whats going on over at Headingley?
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| Quote: sgtwilko "Until a team wins 4 SL titles in a row Leeds are in no teams shadow, certainly not Wigans. 3 titles in a row an unprecedented record in our salary capped flagship comp.'"
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| Quote: MattyB "Most people on here (Virtual Terrace) have Leeds down as fifth, one position down from last season. Would that be about right with whats going on over at Headingley?
Most people had Leeds out of site without a ball kicked this time last year. Nobody was tipping Wigan defo not you lot.
It means nothing until the final whistle at OT
Remember saints in 08? All that "is this the greatest team to play SL?" That party was over before it started.
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "And how many championships did Leeds win in those years, surely the test of great team.
Who were the first club to go fully professional and when?
And Leeds didn't buy, Schofield, Crooks, Hanley, Gregory, Wane, Tait,
Goodway etc?'"
Leeds were not the first fulltime club ,but that mad spending spree near ruined the club fortunately the best admisistrater ,and visionary came in and made the club best best run ,profitable club in the sport. |
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| Quote: MattyB "In addition, we're going for our FOURTH World Club Challenge Title in a few weeks time.
How many have you won btw? ![]()
yes and I hope you get a fair crack of the whip if there is any slowing down at the ptb ,oh i forgot your Wigan
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| Quote: Jeff the God of Biscuits "If you want to be selective with dates, lets go back 10 months and see what Leeds and Wigan have won? Yes Leeds have been the best team in SL for the 3 years prior to 2010. And well done for that, especially for beating Saints in three consecutive finals.
The thing is though, it seems the party is over at Leeds. You have an ageing squad, and a brand new backroom staff. This doesn't look good for the forthcoming season, who knows? You may have a stormer and win it again, but it will take some doing with the massive changes at Headlingley this past winter. Wigan are the top team, at least for the next 10 or so months until we either retain our crown or someone else takes over. We are the biggest club in RL, if we go off last years attendance figures, which prove this. If we go off past success Wigan are the most successful Rugby League club, granted, we've had a bad decade, but, it does appear we are now back on top. With the infrastructure we've got at Wigan at the moment, it will take something pretty awesome to knock us down. We have all the boxes ticked as far as I can see, Best academy system [Won 3 consecutive Academy GFs]. Best marketing [TV AD, 'The Big One' etc] Best coach [SL Coach of the year] the list could go on and on. The fact is, it does appear Wigan have taken over Leeds as the 'Top Dogs' in SL, how long will this last? Will it be a one year thing? Will it be a new Wigan 'Dynasty' well, we're all excited to find out.
All this bickering is just stupid, it's like kids in the schoolyard saying 'My Dad's harder than your Dad' lets just see what happens this season because i'm supremely confident that Wigan will be 'Top Dogs' once again. Just one man's opinion, but there we go.'"
 Essentially a good and honest post there Biscuits. The only line that raised a smile was that you had taken over from Leeds as Top Dogs. Does one swallow make a summer? Who knows, it'll certainly make for an interesting season, but I've a feeling Warrington may eventually clinch that top spot this year.
PS Best Marketing? I take it you've not seen the new strip then?  that's got to be worth 6 points of a start to any other team! |
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