Personally I prefer a more competitive league but it really was an absolute pleasure to have seen Gregory, Edwards, Hanley, Offiah, Robinson, Inga, Miles, Bell, Shelford, Skerrett, Platt, Dermott, Betts, Clarke, Paul, Hampson, Lydon...... all playing for my team.

He won the MoS when it meant something, though. And Paul Wellens has won two Lance Todds, so in recent years the competition for that trophy hasn't always been as high as it was in the days Edwards was playing....

Nice try though.

I wasnt there for that but I lived though Manchester United's near dominance of the English league and, though I'm a Crewe fan, the pleasure is in watching such a superb group of players playing as a team in that way the skill etc. The dominance is an added bonus. I imagine that it is the same for those that were alive for that Wigan dominance.

All in the same team, no wonder Wigan were so dominant and no Wane in that team Pemps

or Botica

Too many to list. I can't remember them all



Case, West, Gill, Lucas....

I don't think even the mighty wire with their elastic cap could have fitted all those in the same team. If they did, I don't think Staples have a big enough supply of brown envelopes.

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I don't think Wigan were totally dominant, at least not until the mid 90s when some teams seem to have given up. Widnes were not a side that any Wigan fan took lightly (!) in the late 80s and Saints were always dangerous - the side they had with Ward in 91 or 92 I think was a very powerful side and pushed Wigan close. Closer still was the season we only won the league on points difference, Wire in particular were very unlucky that year. You had Davies in your side, my favourite non-Wigan player, one of the most naturally gifted rugby players I have ever seen and better than any player currently in your side, or our current side for that matter (with the exception of Tomkins). In the days Widnes were a great side they had class all over the pitch. There were great players at lots of clubs e.g. Schofield at Leeds, whose media persona now tends to overshadow what a great player he was. Leeds were an enigma as they spent huge amounts of money in trying to catch Wigan (and reportedly offering £1m to Will Carling...

) It wasn't just about money, as Leeds showed. Wigan were further ahead in terms of coaching, organisation, fitness and leadership (we had a team full of leaders who seemed to get on despite there being some big egos) but the talent was by no means as concentrated as people make out and our winning margins in big games were often narrower than people now remember. Wigan's champion ethos meant we often seemed to find that extra edge to win big matches but we weren't "totally dominant" until well into the 90s and that period didn't last long.

Do I enjoy it now more than then? When you've seen the likes of Gene Miles and Martin Offiah destroy teams (who says backs can't win matches?

) or the genius of Hanley then that is incredible but watching Kris Radlinski lead an underdog Wigan side to an unexpected and glorious CC win at Murrayfield in 2002 was even better. So yes, if I see Lockers lifting the SL trophy at Old Trafford this year then I will be very, very happy.

Lucas,.............really ?

I was running out of names at that point. He was an International standard prop though

I agree with you about a straight sending off,if its an unprovoked punch. But in hock and Woods case they were retaliating to challenges,clearly LMS instigated the fighting and Ablett slapped Wood in the face.so at worse both sin binned offences and that's it.Hock should never of been sent off in my opinion.