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.

Have they mentioned that Wigan are tenants rather than owners of their ground yet? Very important point to get over as it clearly shows they they are much better than Wigan despite Wigan are a rugby club and not a facilities management company.

So if this is the worst side to do the double ever.

Therefore does it entail its the greatest achievement by a Rugby League side in the UK.

Thats a nice piece of cherry picking by the OP who has managed to bait the Wigan Fans.
It was just one post from 7 pages from the thread ONE THING WE MUST LEARN FROM WIGAN.
Almost all saints fans have not responded to it, yet the OP has managed to bait people on here 100%.

If people bother to read the thread most of it is complimentary to Wigan, something the OP has missed, maybe he only has one eye.

RLFans isn't the be all and end all of RL like most seem to think on here, I first heard after the grand final in my local which is in St Helens by the way, a Saints fan stood at the bar and I quote "That tonight is the worse team on paper to win any final, infact they shouldn't even be there"! I've seen it posted on Facebook by St Helens fans, on Twitter by St Helens fans, on here by St Helens fans and no doubt the local St Helens rag will pick up on it and spout verbal sh*te about it too. Other fans from other clubs have also stated this so it's not just you precious little scousers who are guilty.

So it might be cherry picking as you put it but it was one hell of a big bunch.