"Wane has his sights firmly set on Old Trafford now but admits winning the League Leaders Shield is the one he wanted most".

Either this is mind games ahead of the playoffs or he really just does not get it.

Making his excuses up for when we lose our playoff games. We have papered over The cracks today with another dire performance lacking any direction or purpose. Just about sums up the quality of the SL competition that Wigan can play so bad and still win. Not sure what is going on at Wigan but something has broken since the break for the exiles. Hope they sort it quick or we will not make old Trafford 100%

Is it too much to ask to have a bit of support rather than picking at the fact we have just won the LLS away from home and go into the play-off's as table champions.

Can't be all that bad can we. Obviously teams played worse than us at some point this season.










Jeeeeez

You need to get out more....

That may or may not be true, but what's it got to do with the thread?

Momentum is all important now and as poor as we've been recently hopefully that last 15 minutes can provide us with some.

If not we're in trouble though as that first 65 mins was ordinary.

We'll see.

I must admit I was a bit surprised when I heard him say this, but I think its probably his way off trying to take some pressure off his side ahead of the play-offs....A sort of 'we have done the hard bit, now let's relax and enjoy ourselves' statement.

He definitely needs to do this, as going into the play-offs, compared to Wire, Wigan are flagging a bit and need to regain some momentum from somewhere....If the season is a long distance race, then Wigan are the guy who has been bravely out in front all the way, but now has an ominous challenger just cantering on his shoulder ready to pounce.

As a Wire fan, I just hope you get your deserved reward of a trip to the GF (hopefully against us), mainly because the game needs a top class, first v second, battle to restore the credibility of the competiton, and also because if we do win the thing, I want to do it against the best side in the competition.

He didn't really say this, did he?

Standards have been noticeably slipping in the last few years. Everyone is raving about how good Warrington are at the moment but the reality is that they are the best of a mediocre bunch.

Yes, something along the lines of wanting to challenge for all 3 trophies, but the LLS being the one that proves the best side and that the play-offs is basically just a glorified 3 match cup competition.

To be fair, he said what the majority of people on these forums say, its just that I'm not sure its what those in charge of our game really want to hear the coaches saying.

Sadly he did.

I can only hope that he actually didn't mean it. Tbh it sounded like a justification of his job to me.

Whatever you think about the play-offs the fact is that the SL trophy is given to the winner. It's the biggest trophy in RL.

The regular rounds in the league are now devalued, with teams trying to peak at the end of the season and not trying to finish top, a situation made worse because of the play-off format that allowed Leeds to win from 5th last season.