Really? You would have thought the league table would be the judge of that.

Remarkable my Jim Royle.

Competition was much stronger and deeper than now.

How's about
Leeds with Hanley Lowes and Schofield
Widnes with Davies Offiah Tamati and Sorenson
Wire with Drummond Woods Gregory and Boyd
Saints with Loughlin Ropati and Ward
Cas with Crooks Blackmore and Nikau

Throw in the second tier Halifax Oldham Fev etc much stronger than now.

Tbh the league's a lot more even now than it was back then the cap has ensured this and its now so no one team can have a starting 13 where every1 of them are world class and would walk onto any team.

iirc we were not that bad then for a semi pro team and for arguments sake had wigan not been in the league we would have won a few league's

not really, they've beaten us twice and haven't looked troubled either time, battered Leeds and Saints recently too, they're peaking nicely at the right time, quite comfortably the best team in the league imo

If its a lot more even as you say, how is that the league ends up pretty much the same each year, and, apparently, one team have won the cup for 3 out of 4 years!!!

Looks like the cap has really levelled thing up...

Salary Cap myth alert! Great stuff. I thought the SC propagandists had disappeared, but you come out of the woodwork with this nonsense, the competition myth and the semi-pro myth, two urban legends for the price of one. Hilarious.

Feel free to shout about it, I would expect you too and you fully deserve to.

Just don't do it on the Wigan forum and make stupid comparisons without expecting to be quite rightly laughed at.

I have to laugh at the ''but Wigan were professional back then....'' comments. After browsing the teams from back then, there were more academy & Wigan born products in those Wigan sides than Wire fielded on Saturday and that was when there was only two subs.

Again, we wouldn't have to offload facts like the above if Wire fans wouldn't give it the big one trying to compare themselves to Wigan.

I didn't make the comparisons but I don't think that it can be considered 'stupid' to compare a team that has won three out of four cup finals with one that won eight in a row. Sports fans/journalists are always doing this sort of thing, as in '[iAre you the next Daley Thompson[/i'? Lee Briers can hardly be criticised when a commentator asks him for a view. In golf people compare Graham McDowell to Tiger Woods and fans don't respond with 'don't be stupid' or 'come back when McDowell has won twelve majors'.

It is stupid as Wigan were also winning championships at the same time.

That's the last I'm saying. I can't even believe I got into the early stages of a debate....

This thread appears to be about the Challenge Cup.

In the same way that it's not about Tiger Woods...?

They would have been better asking if we were comparable to the Saints team that won Challenge Cups in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. If we win next year we will have 4 in 5 years and matched them. 8 in a row is 7 years off and some of our players will be in their 40s by then...

Analogy is not comparison.

Didn't stop Gus Risman.