As Pemps said, I think most Wigan fans were over it by Saturday night. That's the cup for you - there can be only two in the final, and nearly everyone else has to get knocked out by someone. It's not as if there's anyone in the entire league who isn't used to being knocked out of the CC.

It matters less about who did it, then the manner of it. Warrington deserved their win, but Wigan can do a lot better than that - something we could say about the last two semi-finals they've appeared in. This 'bottling the big games' factor is the biggest sore point re. Saturday, but it doesn't only refer to Saturday.

I predict the Wire fans to attempt a big Wembley wind-up on Friday, but I also predict that it will go quiet very quickly if Wigan play as well as they can.

calm down(is there any scouse in you?)

i stole your "discuss" theme which you seem to use a lot, nothing else, other posters on here appeared at times to be a little more annoyed with losing to warrington than other teams that's all, i made no reference to your post, although i did read it.

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but to answer your question, to sell to non RL fans the profile of the game needs to be higher in the media for that to happen, i personally think the cup final attracts core fans not many others.
the RL do very little in comparison to true fans and the word of mouth they use to promote the game to outsiders.
i personally work in a non rugby league hotbed but invite people to come to matches to check it out, some stay and become fans (one is now a wigan fan! season ticket holder with his son).

Not at all. It would have annoyed me more if it was St.Helens in the final. As soon as they lost on Sunday, the bad feeling about us not reaching the final almost went away.

ah would you have not prefered us to beat saints 40 nil at wembley?

me neither

No, I'd rather they didn't get there at all.

just having this thread on your site definitely suggests it does still annoy you!

It happened to be Wire, just another RL team in SL. It could have been anyone else, but being so close to a final and losing is always going to hurt a bit. I'm happy we got that far, but I'm still not convinced we can hope for the same or better for a while yet. The fact that is was Wire matters not, but I'm sure they will be bragging for the next thousand years, as it seems to mean more to them.

Wigan's success 'in the super league era' hasn't amounted to much, so no reason why, given a fair wind, Warrington might not come to match it. If you mean Wigan's success [iprior [/ito Super League then no-one will ever match that because no-one is allowed under current rules to spend unlimited funds on wages and transfer fees to the extent that other clubs can't compete, which is how Wigan bought their success back then.

My thoughts are that most Wigan fans were more unhappy that we played inconsistantly, and that we feel our coach was out-smarted too. The fact that it was Warrington is totally irrelevant to me. Good luck to yer mate. I have no feeling either way really, but just want to see a good final.

Its so odd that many fans come on here say we live in the past, but we seem to have such a massive importance to you in the present...

Discuss, as you like to say...