Quote 21-12="21-12"Nobodys saying that, strange things can happen in the play offs, Warrington were the best team last season but they didnt win it did they.'"
Exactly.
What Im pointing out is that statements like "Wire WILL do the double" & "Smith IS a better coach than Wane" & "Wire have a better pack than ours" are statements made at a particular point in time and not based on the ups & downs of a whole season.
For instance
If youd asked who had the better pack in May/June I'm sure youd have got an overall different answer than your getting now (i.e 80% would say Wire but maybe 80% would have said Wigan back then).
The truth lies somewhere in between these 2 points and varies with Form etc
IMO there's not a great deal between the 2 and Wire may have the "Edge" at the moment but form is a funny thing and can come back as easily as it goes.
I thought there were a few promising aspects to our game over the last 2 games with the return of Tommy (We scored 7 of our 8 tries IIRC wilst he was on the field at HKR playing SH) and our right side attack seemed a bit more potent and was looking better on Friday until the "incident". I also thought our pack seemed to get a bit of fire (Cue the MM comments) back in them and Mossop looked better friday than he had for a couple of months as did Lima, Hansen picked his game up and looked back to the form of April/May and with guys like Hock & O'loughlin who have consistantly performed I'm not overly worried about our "pack".
With the return of Tommy L I believe it provides a more cohesive structure to our game at SH that allows the pack to perform better as a whole and takes pressure of Finch (Who gets a bit Headless chicken when he has too many things to do when Tommys' not there) to just control our left side attack.
End of the day, rightly or wrongly, what matters is being in that Final on 6th October and being the better team on that day.
Middle of June nearly every Wigan fan would have said that would be us and people warned that it would be a long hard season fluctuating with form etc.
I believe that 2/3 weeks down the line it's not unrealistic for us to be back somewhere near that level of performance and that would be more than enough to give us a chance of winning it.
Same applies to the Wolfs
I think soem people look at it and say if we were playing Wolfs today they'd win.
Thing is were not playing them today, we may be playing them in 3/4 weeks time and the whole landscape can change between now and then both ways based on form/fitness/injuries.
most sensible post ive read on this forum for ages 
