Stunning give a good team some credit. I doubt we will win the thing as we have not been the best team and Wire will take some beating.



As for the challenge on Blanch from Locky the lad was not tackled so what was Locky meant to do?



Let him get up and run 20 meters down field?



Wigan play to the rules they just do it better than most other teams. Its funny how nobody cared about Wigan when they were cack under Noble but now they are winning again they are the epitome of all things evil.



I would shudder to think if some of you watched the nrl or state of origin and the moaning that would go on then.

A line ball is not forward!



Even now you can't bring yourself to admit it should have been given as a try!

A line ball to me is a line ball its a 50/50.



First watch it looked forward from the angle it was shown at, the only angle that made it look a 50/50 was the one behind the sticks at half time.



Lets be honest both team got away with murder at time and i thought it was good to watch there were high shots and more than a few face attacks from Les Cats particularly on Locky and Tomkins but somehow they get missed.



If you think the line ball being ruled out was a match changer fair play, personally I think the poor defence and conditioning of the Catalans team clinched it for Wigan but fair play if you think that disallowed try has changed the history of the SL this year.

As I've already said - the majority of the RL community has no respect or admiration for Wigan's achievements under Maguire, because whilst they may have been done within the letter of the law, they've been massively outside the spirit of it.



As a neutral, the brand of RL Maguire has your team playing is ugly, frustrating and unpleasant to watch; as an opposition supporter, it's downright offensive to watch your own players being bent, smashed and twisted, whilst your lot use every dirty, underhand and niggly tactic possible to extract even the tiniest advantage, with a blatant disregard for the welfare of their fellow professionals.



Supporting Wigan is like being friends with the school bully - it's fun until it's being done to you.

The only people that believe Wigan play by the rules are Wigan fans and bent refs, and there's a few of those about.

I love the concept that Wigan in the "glory years" were lauded by all and praised for the brand of rugby they played. How time clouds the facts.

That's not what I said.



However, your dodging of the main point is quite tellling.

Wigan have played Champagne rugby and been recognised for it in the past.



This brand of Maguire/Brown rule-bending is not in any way attractive.



I am happy to be thrashed by Saints or indeed any team that plays flowing rugby.



I have stood and applauded many teams that have done something special against my team - they shoe RL for the art form it can be.



Wigan don't do that - they play a filthy, unattractive kind of rugby.

The game was over as a contest thanks to the ref they should have been going in at 18-12. Whys

should we think before the game that if Catalan dont get robbed then they have a chance. It was over as a contest after the 1st half. Pat Richards may aswell took the whistle off ganson as he was going to give Catalan there 1st. I feel sorry for the poor french who actually made the trip to Wigan. It was shocking and embarrassing. Shows what a set of pathetic individuals we have reffing the game over here. Even when we played Leeds at Headingly it was 40-6 and they were still getting 50-50 calls. Australia games you dont see crap like we saw tonight!

Congratulations to be thick enough to buy into the Eddie and Stevo show.

That's unfair mate!



NGB4C's stupidity has got nothing to do with him listening to Eddie and Stevo!

What is your point exactly. I am happy to admit that once again Wigan are playing the game professionally dragging the game forward to the next level in this country.



I am happy to say they push the boundaries but play to the rules.



Once again Wigan do this and are slated just like they were when they had the glory years, even though they dragged the game back then kicking and screaming into the professional era and got the same level of vitriol spat at them. Not sure how old you are but I am 33 on Tuesday, my first real memory of rugby league was 85 cup final the start of the revolution and I remember the same level of abuse and criticism thrown at Wigan for what they did back then as i hear today.



To be fair though the criticism today has yet to reach the levels it did back then, due to Wigan cheating for employing full time professionals (even though Leeds did it first).