Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:47 pm  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

The game was secondary in my opinion to all the off field work undertaken by both clubs in the week leading up to it.
That's where the rewards will come in future years.
Well done to Wigan for having the courage to take a punt. Glad AP has a good relationship with IL at Wigan which probably facilitated us being asked along. That and us being a big club now

Lenagan is savvy! Hull were asked because your fans are fanatical nuts who’ll travel 12,000 miles in good numbers for a game! I know we got the boot (and rightfully so) for the pitiful numbers we took to Donny for the 2016 CC semi but our support for games like Catalans away and our WCC game against the Roosters in 2014 make both clubs attractive propositions for games like this.

I saw somebody in this thread say they hope Hull decide to take their game with us to USA or Canada next season. That would be brilliant! If both clubs could take 4,000/5,000 all the way to Australia then it could be double that in America or Canada.

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:58 pm  

I also think the close relationship that the clubs owners have is mirrored by Radford and Wane. The relationship between the clubs probably made this whole venture run a lot smoother!

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:04 pm  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

The game was secondary in my opinion to all the off field work undertaken by both clubs in the week leading up to it.
That's where the rewards will come in future years.
Well done to Wigan for having the courage to take a punt. Glad AP has a good relationship with IL at Wigan which probably facilitated us being asked along. That and us being a big club now

Seems like Lenegan and AP are leading players in the chairmen's drive to take the sport forward. Vital that we're part of it as those that don't embrace change will be left behind.

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:28 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Seems like Lenegan and AP are leading players in the chairmen's drive to take the sport forward. Vital that we're part of it as those that don't embrace change will be left behind.

Spot on. Going to be a pivotal couple of years in front of rugby league I reckon. Just glad that AP seems to have embraced the mantle of being a rugby league club owner, and seems keen in driving things forward. The two Challenge Cup wins won't have harmed his standing in the game.

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:38 pm  

[quote="Tarquin Fuego"]I was there with 3 neutrals
They thought we were pedestrian and Wigan too much pace
I feel so bad for FC fans full of hope to have to watch that having spent 5 grand
Errors again
Year after year[/quote

Year after year, yeah 2 trips to Wembley back to back winners is getting a bit boring.

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:58 pm  

I Hear you
My thoughts are for those many fans who didn’t have too much to cheer particularly in the 2nd half
We were gagging for a fight back so we could roar the team on to victory
Errors really didn’t help and injuries cost us

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:27 am  

Imo wigan looked lke a team who had played 6/7 games where as we looked like it was our 2.clearly the better team, but we tackled our hearts out and injuries didnt help. Though GRiffin was our best back and manu best forward, shaul gotta learn from that game to that you cant give a speedy winger that much room, Its only the second game and we will get better, What a turn out from the fc supporters well done,

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sun Feb 11, 2018 12:31 pm  

Injuries i can take and it meant we didnt stand much of a chance

What i cant take though is the amount of dropped ball - we was worse than amateur in that department and made things 10x worse than it already was

The happy clappers on here can pat each other on the back saying valiant effort, great defense etc (whilst mocking Tim Sheens for doing the same) but almost everyone ive spoke to about our performance has described it as terrible. The fact that most can only single out Manu and Griffin as having good games says it all

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sun Feb 11, 2018 12:59 pm  

Only the second game we have played so not gonna get to down. Doom and gloom club are the same as the happy clappers depends which wy you look at things, radders had it right when he said you win 2 matches your world beaters lose 2 and its a crisis,

Re: Wigan away - a long way away : Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:33 pm  

Isaiah wrote:

Well 'clueless' but you would expect Seb to have mates like that, wouldn't you?

Yes I bet one their gatherings is a real bundle of laughs!