Let others look back, we are looking forward....

And their double winning side wasn't a patch on our all conquering sides of the 80's/90's but as they used to tell us 'why live in the past'.

We are the best side 'now' and that's all that matters!

Can we be the worst team in the history of sport to win the CC/GF/LLS in any combination

For what it's worth I think the Smith/Green combination is a great balance.
Hopefully the current crop of young fans will be talking about watching the great Smith/Green partnership, how a young Micky Mac would have graced any side. How the young wigan side that were written off at the start of the season beat Hull at wembley in atrocious weather. Ground down and negated the leagues most consist side in Huddersfield, we're streetwise and clever enough to win against the then most successfully team in SL history and went on to beat arguably the most consistent team of that era in Warrington in the GF going 14 points down then scoring 28 unanswered points.
I'm happy with that

Get it etched on a cup and shove it in the trophy cabinet...... If you can find room!!

Bit harsh on Jimmy Lowes, he was class!

Living in the past is fun though... especially when you're a supporter of the current champs AND the most successful British club in history!

Here's one of my favourite Wigan sides (including the pack that beat Australia in the Melbourne test and the best centre/wing partnership I've ever seen):

Hampson
Botica
Bell
Miles
Offiah
Botica
Edwards
Skerrett
Dermott
Platt
Betts
McGinty
Clarke

Just some potential subs

Myers
Panapa
Cowie
Lucas
Lydon
Forshaw

Good times!

When Wigan won all those trophies in the 80s and 90s you still get fans from other clubs (not me though) that want to cheapen that achievement by saying Wigan just spent the most money, bought up all the big name players, the rest of the league was part time and so on. The implication is that Wigan had some sort of unfair advantage and it wasn't a fair playing field.

Nobody can say that this time though.

3 big problems for stains though:

1. We don't play on paper,
2. Stains, as a good team, have the record of losing 5 Grand Finals on the trot - they can't even get there nowadays to lose!
3. They have 'Disco Dave' in charge now, so only have a bad dress sense to look forward to.

Stains - the club where every cup has a saucer!

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The Bradford team looks really good but this is our team they beat 25 12 in the grand final

radlinski
carney
hodgson
aspinwall
dallas
o'loughlin
robinson
pongia
newton
smith
cassidy
tickle
farrell

o'conner
hock
smith
johnson

I think our current team would maul a side with Aspinwall and Hodgson in the centres and Robinson and O'Loughlin in the halves never mind Tickle and Smith. Even then Bradford resorted to Westwood style tactics with Pryce taking out Carney.

When people say that I just laugh. "It's not fair!" Life isn't fair. "Wigan bought all the best players" No we didn't. "The rest of the league was part time" No it wasn't.

It wasn't true then either. Widnes and Leeds (especially Leeds) spent a fortune on players. Widnes had Deveraux, Myler Sorenson, Davies and before he joined us Lydon and plenty more top players. They had some great players and games v then were never a foregone conclusion. Wire had Des Drummond and others including Mike Gregory and I remember one year Wigan only lost two league games, both to Wire. We won the league on points difference from Bradford once so people (including our own fans at times) have a very odd memory of how it really was back then.

I remember Wigan employing Bill Hartley as a sprint coach because it was thought if he could teach the players how to run properly he could get an extra yard of pace out of them.

It's never been just money that has led to success at Wigan because a professional attitude and approach has always been equally important.