The problem I see here is when we chose to 'bottle it'.



Wigan bottled it last year, but did it at the time when they still had the chance to redeem themselves, we chose to bottle it at the point of no return.



I think last night will hurt for a long time, I think it'll hurt us the fans but not half as much as it will people in that dressing room. They're the ones who've made the sacrifices, put their bodies on the line all that stuff and it's not got them the rewards that they sought. There's plenty of players in that dressing room who might not get another attempt at a GF appearance and it'll stick in the throat for some time.



We've learnt a tough lesson last night, a cruel lesson. Very difficult to swallow, but mustn't take credit away from Leeds, they managed to get us away from our gameplan, and made us produce a very un-Warrington (recent times) performance, both stucturally (is that a word) and emotionally.



I just hope when the dust settles, we can come again next year.

Great performance by the Wire tonight in a truely fantastic game.....

It was a great game that could have gone either way. Very entertaining, and if you'd made a few more correct decisions with ball in hand, like briers taking the DG rather than going for a try near the end, you may have won.



Unfortunately some of you clearly aren't taking it too well, talk of banning anyone who disagrees with you and the pure abuse being thrown at Wigan fans in general is pretty small time (no doubt you'll take this as trolling even though I'm just stating the obvious and praising a good game)

Honest question.



Do you think you will get as good a chance as last night to make the grand final?



In top form, complete team, home game against 5th place?



I don't.

Smith not turning up for the club call showed how much disrepect he showed for last nights game and the competition his team plays in. It was arrogant of him not to show up....if you cant see that your deluded!!. It doesnt matter if he doesnt agree with the club call, he's a professional coach in a preofessional sport.

You've been unbelievable at times this year, but from someone who's lost their fair share of Final Eliminators, it is a step up to deal with the pressure.



Next time round you'll have the experience to know how to deal with the occasion.

Someone on another post said they can't get over it, we were the best team by miles this year and yet we still haven't got to OT. Can't help but feel the same. Worried for where we go from this for next season with major players leaving it could be a regression year rather than progression. Hope not!

well who knows....we heard this for many years every time we lost to Saints....never have a better chance to beat the Saints because Scully and Long are injured and so on, if you don't beat the Saints now you will never beat them....

Well having contested all playoff series since they started in 98 it's [umy opinion[/u you won't get a better chance.



That's not to say you won't do, probably when the odds are stacked against you you will.

We could play okay all next season make the top 4.



Win our first game and be in this position again.



Its a weird system.

It just about getting into a good enough position through the weeklys and then being able to win the pressure games.



It's a true test of champions IMO and bar football most major sports do use an end of season playoff to decide the champions.

Best team by miles? How do you make that out? You rightly finished LL but finished a whole 1 point above a Wigan side that's had to play 37 (?) consecutive weeks, including at least 2 finals! In addition you met Wigan in the league on both occassions when it best suited Warrington; 2 weeks after the WCC and the week following the CC final. On the one occassion the teams met with no distractions but the game in hand you were comprehensively outplayed. Putting big scores on lesser teams doesn not make you 'the best team by miles'. In the 2 games that really mattered this season you've come up short.



If you'd want to lay claim to being the 'most consistant team this year' then that might be a fair assessment, both in the positive and negative sense, but you did it under the most favourable conditions a season could possibly offer. To be the 'best by miles' you need to be able to handle the pressure of the big games, win under adversity and in the process carry all before you. Not win the LL by 1 point and crash out of both major competions without making in a single final! Get a grip man!