Re: Gloating thread : Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:40 am  

Jack Kerley wrote:

No matter how many times you say it, it still won't be true.

"Smashed to bits" is hyperbole. "Outplayed" is about right.

Re: Gloating thread : Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:11 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

"Smashed to bits" is hyperbole. "Outplayed" is about right.

If you say so, but neither the score, nor the toothless performance from the 13 man team back up that contention.

We will never know for sure, but I propose that any decent team would have taken Wigan to the cleaners. Saints had 78 minutes to soften them up, and then show some of their trademark "Entertainers" flair to put us to the sword. However, they looked as clueless in the 80th minute as they did in the 3rd.

When the sending off occurred, Eddie Hemmings must have made a mad dash for his Kleenex in anticipation of an evening full of climax. His balls must have been full to bursting after that Saints performance. No doubt he will find relief next year when you put the cleaners through Wakefield, aided by the two 19 year old "Monsters".

Re: Gloating thread : Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:11 am  

Jack Kerley wrote:

If you say so, but neither the score, nor the toothless performance from the 13 man team back up that contention.

We will never know for sure, but I propose that any decent team would have taken Wigan to the cleaners. Saints had 78 minutes to soften them up, and then show some of their trademark "Entertainers" flair to put us to the sword. However, they looked as clueless in the 80th minute as they did in the 3rd.

When the sending off occurred, Eddie Hemmings must have made a mad dash for his Kleenex in anticipation of an evening full of climax. His balls must have been full to bursting after that Saints performance. No doubt he will find relief next year when you put the cleaners through Wakefield, aided by the two 19 year old "Monsters".

*sigh*... Here we go again... We had no halves left on the pitch... We had a prop at centre, a SR at #6 etc. etc. of course we were fragmented and disorganised and one-dimensional and scrappy... But we still almost entirely snuffed out your vaunted and full-strength backline with our cobbled-together ad-hoc line. And our forwards (with one less man in the rotation let's not forget, largely cancelling out our on-field man advantage) had by far the better of the game. It weren't pretty, but it's what we had to do to survive in extreme adversity, and ultimately you just couldn't find a counter it.

You're right - we'll never really know if wed've won 13v13. You think we wouldn't, I think we would. But the best team won on the night - that can't be contested. And if you really want to wail over the hypotheticals, wed've stomped you into powder 13v13 with our absentees present anyway. So there.

Re: Gloating thread : Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:19 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

*sigh*... Here we go again... We had no halves left on the pitch... We had a prop at centre, a SR at #6 etc. etc. of course we were fragmented and disorganised and one-dimensional and scrappy... But we still almost entirely snuffed out your vaunted and full-strength backline with our cobbled-together ad-hoc line. And our forwards (with one less man in the rotation let's not forget, largely cancelling out our on-field man advantage) had by far the better of the game. It weren't pretty, but it's what we had to do to survive in extreme adversity, and ultimately you just couldn't find a counter it.

You're right - we'll never really know if wed've won 13v13. You think we wouldn't, I think we would. But the best team won on the night - that can't be contested. And if you really want to wail over the hypotheticals, wed've stomped you into powder 13v13 with our absentees present anyway. So there.

I didn't realise I was wailing over anything, but if you see it that way there is not a lot I can do about it.

Who's to say that, had you had all your halves available, your daft coach wouldn't have played two of them at prop, and one of them on the wing? The injuries just served to disguise his predilection towards baffling positional anomalies.

Re: Gloating thread - THIS THREAD ONLY : Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:28 am  

Has anyone seen the Wigan pack since saturday? Just wondering if Richards and Thompson had let them out of their pockets yet?

Regards

King James

Re: Gloating thread - THIS THREAD ONLY : Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:33 am  

Lebron James wrote:

Has anyone seen the Wigan pack since saturday? Just wondering if Richards and Thompson had let them out of their pockets yet?

Regards

King James

Deary me, the one-trick pony is back.

Do you have anything sensible to add, or are you just going to dribble out of the corner of your mouth until the start of next season?

Re: Gloating thread - THIS THREAD ONLY : Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:41 am  

The records will say 'Super league champions 2014 - St Helens' . They won't say but Wigan would have won if they had 13 men on the field.

Re: Gloating thread - THIS THREAD ONLY : Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:54 am  

Brid B&W wrote:

The records will say 'Super league champions 2014 - St Helens' . They won't say but Wigan would have won if they had 13 men on the field.

'Super league champions 2014 - St Helens'....it just gets sweeter and sweeter every time I see it or hear it.


Ain't life grand.

Re: Gloating thread - THIS THREAD ONLY : Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:58 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

You maintain "any Wigan side would have beaten any Saints side 13v12 no matter the personnel" as an argument and I'm the simple one?

I mean: come on... I'm sure even you must be at least a little puzzled by how it is that, given how much better your reserves apparently are than our first choice players ( ), your first choice players still somehow managed to get their asses presented to them on a plate by our reserves on Saturday.

Do yourself a favour sunshine and feign an injury so you can leave the thread with honour (relatively) intact and don't have to keep on taking punishment. You are just so far beneath my level it's embarrassing, frankly.

Please point out where I said "ANY Wigan side would beat ANY Saints side" please... Once you've failed to do that maybe you could actually attempt to answer the points raised instead of posting your wearisome, self congratulatory claptrap.

Btw, you do realise that there is only you congratulating yourself on your own posts, don't you? Playing to the gallery when there isn't even a gallery to play to is about as sad as I've ever seen on here. Never mind. I'm sure all your imaginary friends think you're ever so clever!

Re: Gloating thread : Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:05 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

*sigh*... Here we go again... We had no halves left on the pitch... We had a prop at centre, a SR at #6 etc. etc. of course we were fragmented and disorganised and one-dimensional and scrappy... But we still almost entirely snuffed out your vaunted and full-strength backline with our cobbled-together ad-hoc line. And our forwards (with one less man in the rotation let's not forget, largely cancelling out our on-field man advantage) had by far the better of the game. It weren't pretty, but it's what we had to do to survive in extreme adversity, and ultimately you just couldn't find a counter it.

You're right - we'll never really know if wed've won 13v13. You think we wouldn't, I think we would. But the best team won on the night - that can't be contested. And if you really want to wail over the hypotheticals, wed've stomped you into powder 13v13 with our absentees present anyway. So there.

Comedy gold! I think it's time you took your own advice and got off this board with what dignity you have left. Unfortunately that would be none but seeing you came on with none at least you haven't lost anything!