The point of there not being some 'gaping chasm' remains.



Although, feel free to bury your head and maybe enjoy an evening with your Uncle Barbara on Saturday...

D'oh so did I!



Move along, nothing to see here. And don't tell my boss, it's pay review this Friday

we wiganers have every right to feel more confident after yesterdays' result. just as wire, leeds and saints fans will be feeling too.



i see no problem with fans beleiveing their own team can win ANY game. isn't that what being a supporter is all about - i may be wrong





including the CC final and up until before yesterdays' game, wigan had not played to their full potential if you ask me and many, like myself, felt we looked jaded and in need of a rest due to the old "CC hangover" hoodoo. going into yesterdays' game a lot of wiganers including myself once again actually thought it could have been our last game of the year. instead we put in a steady performance, ok helped by a couple of dodgy calls either way in fairness, but in the end came away with an emphatic win.



wire have chosen leeds in the hope, i'd imagine, that we beat the bejesus out of each other on saturday. it will be our 6th match this year as you'll all know which for me is a little silly but still, the game is the game and i want to support my team so therefore i'll take it for what it is.



in my opinion, wigan are still the favourites, even if we'd been largely out of form and not won in a few games, being the current SL champions and CC holders carries with it the moniker of being the favourite if you ask me. we have EDGED the games between us this year apart from the most recent game, and until that were unbeaten against saints in 2011.



so again, why shouldn't we feel confident?

let us be confident. by all means be confident yourselves. but the pressure is on saints whether we are the slight favourites or not.

This could be the best or worst day of my life Saturday, im at Goodison in the morning watching Liverpoool, 12.45 kick off, then getting a lift to Widnes for Saints Wigan, 2 derbys in one day for me.

Agreed with all your post except this bit.



No pressure on Saints at all IMO, nobody really expected us to REACH the GF, whereas lots of your fans expect you to WIN the GF.



I think Saints are likely to be going into the game with less fear of failure at the weekend. Whether that is a good thing or not, I'm not sure!

TBH the pressure isnt really on one or the other imo. Everybody with half a brain knows its going to be a huge crunch match and small margins will decide it. Both teams know they will have to pull out a good one to win this game.

It should be a cracker and I can't wait for Saturday.



It will be a very close game IMO and it could co either way,hopefully ours.

Are you aware Rugby League existed pre-SL?



I have seen Leeds finish second, then get knocked out of the end of season playoff at Headingley by 7th placed Featherstone Rovers !! (Coached by Peter Fox, who claimed afterwards he planned to finish 7th because he knew Fev would win the game

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The old Premiership format is completely different to the playoff's to decide the champions. I also remember Featherstone beating us in the first round a week before we beat Stains at Wembley in the CC Final.

Were you this vocal when Leeds finished 2nd and lost their first playoff fixtures in 2007 and 2008? Thought not

You weren't better in the forwards; you were dominant in the halves and at dummy half, and your defence was solid but in no way brutal. I suggest you watch the game again before you post any further. Again you're trying to force a 'one size fits all' argument on to every game. Just because you won doesn't neccessarily mean you were better in every facet of the game. It CERTAINLY doesn't mean you were dominant in every facet.



Again you're putting words in my mouth. Where did I say (or say I think) only Wigan's defence and pressure is capable of forcing errors. I notice you have singularly failed to respond to any of my previous requests to show where I supposedly wrote any of the nonsense you're spouting so I imagine this will be no different. However, if all you're going to do is make stuff up and then post a reply to something I never said in the first place then might I respectfully suggest you stop posting things like "I understand that I'm out of my depth here and of course I concede every point you've made" as it undermines your argument? (see what I did there?

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You might want to compare metres made by our pack to yours - I haven't seen the stats, but I'd imagine we'd come out on top.



If I'm wrong, fair enough. It's how I saw the game, our pack got on top.