Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 12:49 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

Or if Gidley hadn't missed that sitter goal kick at the start of the 2nd half...

Once Gidley went off injured, the balance of the game changed.

Sandow was playing on with a severe knee injury and wouldn`t play another game until the Grand Final, when even then he still wasn`t ready and shouldn`t have played in the GF.

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 1:08 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

To be fair, I think we were the better team v Hull FC and that last grasp tackle...fine margins.

Danny Houghton has been dining out on that tackle for years, but Currie should still have scored regardless of the tackle. Fine margins, as you say, but it was Hull's day then, and hopefully it will be ours this time.

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:39 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

Sandow was playing on with a severe knee injury and wouldn`t play another game until the Grand Final, when even then he still wasn`t ready and shouldn`t have played in the GF.

He was on the bench wasn't he? Brought on as a final roll of the dice.

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:46 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

He was on the bench wasn't he? Brought on as a final roll of the dice.

Yes he came on to replace Dec Patton.

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:54 pm  

Unfortunately I think that if Wigan get even 2 points ahead, they will win. They are the business and know how to win these games when the scoreline is tight, they can shut up shop and defend their way home. Our final wins have virtually all been blow outs, except maybe 2009.

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:58 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

Yes he came on to replace Dec Patton.

A grim final. We scored early in the first half then we looked like we would not score even if Wigan went home. Not too dissimilar to the 2016 final.

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 3:04 pm  

Anyone on here go to the 1990 final? The Wigan side then was formidable.

FB 1 Steve Hampson
RW 2 Joe Lydon
RC 3 Kevin Iro
LC 4 Dean Bell
LW 5 Mark Preston
SO 6 Shaun Edwards
SH 7 Andy Gregory
PR 8 Adrian Shelford
HK 9 Martin Dermott
PR 10 Andy Platt
SR 11 Denis Betts
SR 12 Andy Goodway
LF 13 Ellery Hanley (c)
Substitutions:
IC 14 Bobbie Goulding
IC 15 Ian Gildart

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 3:17 pm  

WireWireWire wrote:

Unfortunately I think that if Wigan get even 2 points ahead, they will win. They are the business and know how to win these games when the scoreline is tight, they can shut up shop and defend their way home. Our final wins have virtually all been blow outs, except maybe 2009.

i dont think that/them will have any relevance on saturdays game

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 4:03 pm  

I was there in 1990.......didn't enjoy it very much.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Next Stop Wembley (aka wigan wk 2) : Thu Jun 06, 2024 4:08 pm  

The Railwayman wrote:

I was there in 1990.......didn't enjoy it very much.

Me too, I drove there and back in a day....seemed like a week!!