There's no downside. Two of the biggest SL clubs raise their profile, get warm weather training and make £. The sport gets incremental media coverage. NSW tourism benefits. Fans get experience of a lifetime. Bitter Luddites get to bleat from the sidelines. Everyone wins.

Yeh totally agree , was embarrassing, thought he should of done better with both tries

The game was secondary in my opinion to all the off field work undertaken by both clubs in the week leading up to it.
That's where the rewards will come in future years.
Well done to Wigan for having the courage to take a punt. Glad AP has a good relationship with IL at Wigan which probably facilitated us being asked along. That and us being a big club now

I also think the close relationship that the clubs owners have is mirrored by Radford and Wane. The relationship between the clubs probably made this whole venture run a lot smoother!

Spot on. Going to be a pivotal couple of years in front of rugby league I reckon. Just glad that AP seems to have embraced the mantle of being a rugby league club owner, and seems keen in driving things forward. The two Challenge Cup wins won't have harmed his standing in the game.

Year after year, yeah 2 trips to Wembley back to back winners is getting a bit boring.

I Hear you
My thoughts are for those many fans who didn’t have too much to cheer particularly in the 2nd half
We were gagging for a fight back so we could roar the team on to victory
Errors really didn’t help and injuries cost us

Imo wigan looked lke a team who had played 6/7 games where as we looked like it was our 2.clearly the better team, but we tackled our hearts out and injuries didnt help. Though GRiffin was our best back and manu best forward, shaul gotta learn from that game to that you cant give a speedy winger that much room, Its only the second game and we will get better, What a turn out from the fc supporters well done,

Injuries i can take and it meant we didnt stand much of a chance

What i cant take though is the amount of dropped ball - we was worse than amateur in that department and made things 10x worse than it already was

The happy clappers on here can pat each other on the back saying valiant effort, great defense etc (whilst mocking Tim Sheens for doing the same) but almost everyone ive spoke to about our performance has described it as terrible. The fact that most can only single out Manu and Griffin as having good games says it all

Only the second game we have played so not gonna get to down. Doom and gloom club are the same as the happy clappers depends which wy you look at things, radders had it right when he said you win 2 matches your world beaters lose 2 and its a crisis,