It's as if we did something that was "Against the spirt of the rules". When actually we didn't, and anyone else could have done the same. But, they sat on their hands and have never stopped moaning about it..

Wasn't Leeds the first pro club?

I believe Wigan were the first club to go professional and Leeds the year after.We had already won the Challenge cup,World club challenge,premiership,League before we went pro.
Makes me laugh when you read that we won because we were pro but we wasnt,Ged byrne (window cleaner and a fine piano player)Phil Clark,Mark Preston (students)Andy Farrel(apprentice joiner) there were a few players who carried on studying etc when proffesional.
We was the greatest club side of all time in that dominant period and it was a pleasure to watch and I will add Hanley was the greatest player I have seen.

I thought Widnes went first in all honesty, but that probably sounds about right.

Ian Lucas who was an antiques dealer

Steve Hampson was a drayman, Andy Goodway ran a post office.

Within a few short posts we've already listed the jobs that a significant number of Wigan players held down when we were winning trophies regularly.

This whole thing is bilge, frankly. Just more attempts by sour grapes Saints fans to rewrite history.

They had all left by the end of 92 though, so certainly the Grand Slam will have been won with a full time side. Granted by then we had won 2 WCCs, 7 cups and 6 leagues.

This same argument appears on this board every five or six year, whenever Saints start winning things again and the latest bunch of Red V newcomers come out of hiding and try to tell the world that basically everything Wigan have ever won was a hoax. And it's always the same outcome: they get reminded that from around 86 to 92, when Wigan's super-powered team was already destroying everything in its path, we were no more fully professional than anyone else in the league, and that from 92 onwards we weren't the only club in the process of fully professionalising.

I reckon we had this 'unfair advantage' they are still crying about for maybe one season, two at the most.

Lockers has been the best Wigan player in the last 40 years

It has, he's retired, and as much as I love him he isn't.

He isn't even our best 13 in the SL era.

And again....i love him