Was that Dewsbury when Stevo played for them in the 1970s?

I think Wire finished top that year, I bet our fans were proper mickeyed off at that.

Have you ever seen the Wire win the league?

ahhh I was looking farward to these threads

All joking and bantering aside..

We all know Wire are far from a liked team in super league. However as much as we annoy you and as much as some of our fans are tasteless, (every team has them, c'mon admit it ) I think it would be wrong to say we didn't deserve it, the past 3 seasons I've seen a massive turn around in our team. And though we didn't win I'm still mega proud of the boys.


See you all next year for a snotting at the DW!!

Why so serious?

I've been waiting to say that for a while hahahaha.

But honestly Sally, Rainclouds are still chasing you.. and down they have poured!

But then you will moaning if the team finishing second beat the first.

great game from the two best teams in the league

well done Leeds

World club champions and now Grand Final winners and still not deemed worthy enough to crowned ‘team of the year’!

only in RL

Given wire had just 2 home grown playersin their 17 tonight Cooper and wood it lookasl ike they cant even buy a title

Chris Riley? Ben Harrison is too isn't he? Just he left and came back.

Not one to stick up for wire but we need to play fair lol

They have a few more than that but the GUN players (hodgson morley et al) have all been bought in.

Will they be back at old trafford? will they finally end their 57 (now going to be at least 5icon_cool.gif year wait for the title? Who knows, but they'll have the same team next year, and none of their rivals look significantly stronger, although saints will be an uknown quanitity with the new coach and hull are bound to come good soon the amount of players they are brining in.

So I feel they may be back, but next season will be a whole new ball game and none of the other teams are going to roll over just because they feel it should be their time.

Overturning 58 years without a title is going to be tremendously difficult for them.

Fair play to Leeds, I don't think they intend on finishing 5th but they are a team made of champion players who produce champion performances. However the play off system needs to be looked at. There is no advantage for the team who finishes top and that is wrong. The RFL have devalued finishing top of the league unfortunately

You never know. Leeds winning it from 5th again may just force the super league chiefs into changing something. Credibility for the sport is waning and something needs doing and quick.

The way Stevo and Eddie big the system up though i doubt anything will happen.

Stevo had an article in the Saturday Times saying back to top 5 play off maybe league winners straight to final and 2 comps of 10 teams. He also wanted the return of GB. He also talked about lack of fan interest in the CC and play off early rounds.

I think Saints are the main unknown factor. It will be too early for Hull to be challengers. But Saints are in a similar position to where Wigan were under Noble and when Wigan brought Maguire they were ready straight away. I'm not totally sure Brown is the real deal but he did do pretty well with Huddersfield so he might be.

Wigan I feel are slipping slightly backwards. I'm surprised at the standard of players you are signing. Matty Smith and Blake Green are not Wigan standard players. You're dependent on Tomkins to give you an edge over the rest and reliance on one player is not healthy, Wigan were in this position ten years ago with Farrell. Wigan will still be up there but I don't see you moving forwards.

With us I think we have got one more year of this current team, then there will be a dip when we lose a lot of key players at the same time and might drop out of trophy contention for a while (although I don't think we will implode). Probably the same can be said of Leeds.

Wigan do have a good proportion of good young players in their squad so are well placed for the future but an Arsenal situation might develop, Wigan need to sign about 3 really good experienced players with leadership. Wire and Leeds have more experienced senior players than Wigan. Much as you probably hate both of them, if Wigan had had either Briers or Sinfield in the team in the past few years you would have won more trophies.