Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:56 pm  

Wigan dominated, as they never had a CONSISTENT rival from the start of their domination, which started (imo) the moment they poached Andy Gregory from us. The wheels were set in motion, a couple of years, previously. To think, they were MASSIVELY linked with Mike Greg, too.
Saints. Permanent bridesmaids. Showed promise, but never enough to keep regular pressure.
Bradford. Great season, then go off a bit. Come back again a year or so later, repeat.
Widnes. Great, from 88 till the money ran out, early-ish 90'sDavies, Morriarty, Devereaux, Hadley??, Tait, Offiah saw to that. Yes, the got £400,000+ for Offiah, but their wages killed them.
Leeds, a laughing stock. Threw money around like confetti, akin to Newcastle's football side. Like Newcastle, they won nowt.
Us. Gregory leaving stopped us in our tracks. We had the best pack in the league by miles. Yes, Keith Holden was class, but it's like comparing a 5 series BMW to a top of the range Bentley. It took our Welsh contingent from 1990, three years to FULLY adapt, and for us to start threatening seriously.

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Wed Jan 23, 2019 8:47 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

The pack was good enough to get us into two finals...where the halfback's wasn't good enough to get us over the line...
This has since been addressed.

duckie you don't half change your tune....a few weeks ago your assessment was that our pack was the reason we lost those finals....even Patton couldn't play behind a beaten pack.

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Wed Jan 23, 2019 8:49 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

Wigan dominated, as they never had a CONSISTENT rival from the start of their domination, which started (imo) the moment they poached Andy Gregory from us. The wheels were set in motion, a couple of years, previously. To think, they were MASSIVELY linked with Mike Greg, too.
Saints. Permanent bridesmaids. Showed promise, but never enough to keep regular pressure.
Bradford. Great season, then go off a bit. Come back again a year or so later, repeat.
Widnes. Great, from 88 till the money ran out, early-ish 90'sDavies, Morriarty, Devereaux, Hadley??, Tait, Offiah saw to that. Yes, the got £400,000+ for Offiah, but their wages killed them.
Leeds, a laughing stock. Threw money around like confetti, akin to Newcastle's football side. Like Newcastle, they won nowt.
Us. Gregory leaving stopped us in our tracks. We had the best pack in the league by miles. Yes, Keith Holden was class, but it's like comparing a 5 series BMW to a top of the range Bentley. It took our Welsh contingent from 1990, three years to FULLY adapt, and for us to start threatening seriously.

Would have been interesting to see how that Wigan side would have done had it been around at the same time as the McDermott Leeds side, or Anderson's Saints, or Noble's Bradford. I think Wigan would still have won the title over half the time, although they wouldn't have won the Challenge Cup every year.

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:03 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

duckie you don't half change your tune....a few weeks ago your assessment was that our pack was the reason we lost those finals....even Patton couldn't play behind a beaten pack.

[duckie whistles]

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:33 pm  

You’re not as good as Wigan right now never mind better than the Wigan of the 80/90s

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:13 am  

KingRoss11 wrote:

You’re not as good as Wigan right now never mind better than the Wigan of the 80/90s

We wasn't in the GF for sure...however Wire have stepped another level and Wigan have Sammutt.
Wigan won't live with Wire. Your final this year is the Neu Camp...and Catalan will win that too.

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:01 am  

Wigan will always be competitive and successful because they have it in their DNA now. Their supporters and board will ensure this remains the case.

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:02 am  

sally cinnamon wrote:

duckie you don't half change your tune....a few weeks ago your assessment was that our pack was the reason we lost those finals....even Patton couldn't play behind a beaten pack.

It does undermine his admirable promotion of Patton.

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:56 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

We wasn't in the GF for sure...however Wire have stepped another level and Wigan have Sammutt.
Wigan won't live with Wire. Your final this year is the Neu Camp...and Catalan will win that too.

Please tell me you’re on the the wind up? You might have the best stand off in the league but you’ve also got a donkey next to him, meanwhile we’ve got the best full back in the league and if Sammut doesn’t work then we can always revert to a 6/7/9 that went 10 games unbeaten and won the GF last seaso. We’ve heard this all before with your overseas signings, same with Sandow, then Roberts now Austin, meanwhile we’ve continually won trophies whilst bringing through youth after youth. Warrington will always be in Wigan’s shadow.

Re: Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's : Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:58 am  

Wires71 wrote:

It does undermine his admirable promotion of Patton.

How does failing in 2 finals fall back on to Patton again?

I thought we had a new year white card understanding you'd back off the Patton bashing until at least into the start of the season.