The reason we are detested is because we are so succesful.

Absolute rubbish to suggest dirty play is coached. Wigan are no dirtier than any other team. Foul play costs penalties which costs field position which loses games. Would we have won the double if we were continually giving penalties away?

McIlorum deserved to go, simple as that. Cas deserved to win too.

Enjoy the victory and hope it is the sign of better times ahead. But don't ruin it by talking nonsense.

I don't think it's coached from Wigan - i just think wigan have always had a player in their team at any one point who has that in ther game. McIllorum takes more than his share of cheap shots - and as I said on the wigan board earlier, that will ultimately cost Wigan their crowns if he's a penalty machine/banned/binned all season.

Unfortunately it IS coached at Wigan.

Got a song in my head and just cannot shake it out and i'm one serious metal-head...
Something by Neil Diamond.....

Sweeet Carollliiiiiinnnnee - da -da da.
good times never seemed so gooood.

You seem quite sure of yourself...care to elaborate?

I can only go off what a Wigan employee has told me. That Wane encourages late hits on kickers and also coaches "snapping the pole" which refers to attacking players legs whilst stationary.

Careful, that might be considered libellous. If not to say, utter rubbish. You are normally quite sensible. Must be the euphoria of being top that's affecting your judgement.

Haha, it is neither libellous or rubbish. It is me telling the truth and repeating what I have been told.

Wigan's coaches at lower levels have been heard shouting "snap the pole" in the past too (although that was when Maguire was in charge of the first team, not Wane).

Wigan dirty? Never, they even think they win grandfinals due to skill and not breaking ankles, ribs and fracturing skulls.

Dirty?

I honestly couldn't care about Wigan.

The only thing I care about it Cas and enjoying another victory.

Yes it was a dirty tackle but it occurs across the game from different teams, not just Wigan.

Careful, or you might get accused of talking sense!

The reason you are detested at Cas is nothing to do with your success, it's the way you deliberately cheated by breaking the salary cap to stay in Superleague and therefore relegated us. Wigan will always be about as welcome as a trump in an astronaut suit!

Partly true. It's the manner in which your fans act in victory for why you're so hated. Bad winners. And the way you belittle everything but Wigan.

Breaking the salary cap does not guarantee success. However, Wigan did not break the salary cap.

Of course not, and Kris Radlinski really did play for free

Have a look at Wigan Chairman Maurice Lindsay's Salary Cap Breach Statement from August 2006.
HTH

Arrogance comes with success. Leeds fans have been just as bad as ours when they won all those grand finals.

Nowhere close. Wigan fans exhibit all the insecurity of a small town, inbred backwater. As much as I dislike saying it, Leeds do arrogance with far more style.

Great day out on Sunday despite the defeat. You played well, were up for it more and got what you deserved.

Your above comments are a bit baffling though. I don't come from Wigan, I live about twenty miles away. I know enough about Wigan to realise it's not especially a small town and certainly not a backwater.

You seem to imply people who live in 'small town, inbred (?) backwaters' are insecure. Do you want to expand on that because I'm not sure what you mean?

Don't rise to it mate. Its comments like that that have been keeping me away from this forum. It seems I haven't been missing much.

You dont understand what he means? come on pal you come from Darwin.

Post of the decade. You could cut the irony in that post with a knife. Congratulations.

Isn't Tigertot a Bradford fan? Spends most of time over there? Or have I got it wrong?

You have it wrong.