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We are gonna get MULLERED.

[iDisclaimer: Stolen from brummie-eagle's facebook

The bigger they are and all that.....

we've got no chance. This isn't '98 you know! That was THE once in a lifetime!

THIEF!

Im starting to think we will play well, you never know...

There is always hope!!!

... then realism!

We had a crap start last season and the Hull KR game galvanised us, let's hope the Wigan game can have a similar effect.

True, I just hope we rise to the occasion, and not rollover and play dead!

Well when we beat them at Wembley, we were absolutely e after that. So maybe just maybe, IF Wigan win (doubt it :/) after we might start playing Rugby again. Ya never know

Many years of hurt have passed since that tragic day at Wembley in '98.
Players and coaches have come and gone, but that little piece of history remains painful to the memory.
And now this team of table-topping Warriors is hell-bent on exacting revenge for the slight on the glorious name of of Wigan RLFC.

Its almost time.......

BTW - I'm not going to predict the hammering that everyone on here and on C&W is doing.
I think it'll be a whole lot tougher for us than many think.

I guess for Wigan supporters beating the Eagles will be like closure on for what must have been a nightmare day for them.

The new coach there has done a great job getting a team that for the last few seasons has under performed into a side that will undoubdtedly win at least one trophy this year. I do have time for Mr Lenagan after he came and spoke to his team's supporters after a humiliation by St Helens in Cardiff. I was watching on and the fans had a go but he listened and answered their concerns. Not many chairmen would do that.

For us, I guess this game couldn't have come at a worse time, we have a team of good championship standard players (maybe some will go higher) but at the moment something is missing.

No matter what the score I'll be happy with a better performance from us than previous weeks. the gulf between the top 8 or 10 in SL and the rest is getting bigger by the year and the history books won't show this as the shock result of the round unless........

there is a crash on the M62 and Woodhead is blocked by snow preventing them getting to the ground and the RFL make them forfeit the game

i have to admit im really looking forward to it now! it will be a great experience for our players, a chance to test ourselves against a team of the highest standard, and maybe re-live and remember some memories of that great day in '98

Oddly, *that* game still remains one of the highlights of my days watching RL.

I never saw Wigan win (live) at Wembley. The only Wembley final I ever went to was the '98 one (mainly due to only starting to go to live games in '97).

Anyway - My daughter and I were sat there at the end, still not quite able to believe that we'd actually lost, when some of the Sheffield team came around the stadium one last time with the trophy, and promptly handed it over to us (and several other mixed Wigan/Sheffield/ANOther fans).

The "closure" for me (if you want to call it that) came the following week (IIRC) when we absolutely mullered you at your place (something like 36-6), and I came out thinking "Why the hell couldn't we have done that at Wembley".

But again, the trophy was not only paraded, but passed in to the crowd and then passed around just about the entire fan-base of both clubs, before being safely returned to the players.

In how many other sports could you just "give" one of the highest trophies to the crowd and expect to get it back safely?

I have to admit that I'm really looking forward to this weekend - Not least because it's not at Don Valley, so I can leave the binoculars at home.

And I'm torn on the team selection too.
As much as I want us to give someone a mullering, I also want a decent game.
At least it shows that our coach is taking both you guys and the cup itself seriously.

See you down there guys, and good luck.

I'm looking forward to this weekend like the plague.