I reckon most genuine fans want us to win the gf, fans have been wanting entertaining rugby, obviously there will be fans jealous of the media coverage cas are getting but that coverage is good for rugby league as a whole. Also everyone loves fairytale stories so a club almost going into admin in 2013 looking favourites to win a trophy or poss 2 trophies 4 years later would interest a lot more people than say Wigan who win trophies regular winning 1 or 2. Questions were asked during the last 4 years if we could play entertaining rugby and win, so far the answer is yes as we won 20/23 games during regular season, should we win lls then it will be a bigger yes, the gf would make it a huge yes. Not to mention the ammo it gives those who believe we don't need to raise salary cap to have entertaining rugby in super league. Cas and now wakey play entertaining rugby without a rich backer, neither club tends to spend full cap and neither club has used marquee players and are unlikely to use them in the future yet both are in the battle for top 4. Whoever we play in semi and if we reach it the gf will be tough but in a one-off game anything can happen

Insightful analysis. The most likely explanation I heard at the time was that Maurice Lindsay, a man who was always prepared to ride roughshod over others to get his way, realised that the sell-out to Murdoch would be problematic given that some clubs would clearly miss out financially, possibly forever. How to get it through, then? Answer, use an age-old technique: propose something totally intolerable and therefore make the slightly intolerable more appealing. The 'merger idea' was the totally intolerable: he knew it was just smoke and mirrors but the sheer horror of it made embracing the Murdoch deal with club structure intact suddenly the better option. Old Mo wins again.

Quote ="Winslade's Offload"Well if we go back a little further to 270 million years I think you will find the Wire club was in fact pretty close to the equator on a land mass called Pangaea. www.openculture.com/2014/07/map- ... angea.html Following a bit continental drift and a few years later we drifted away from Eurasia and ended up moored on the eastern side of what we now call the Atlantic Ocean. As an aside, just to the SW of Warrington was a large volcano belching out malodorous sulphurous fumes and steam. The volcano is now extinct of course but it's name lives on in the settlement of Widnes. But anyway, can we still say Warrington was in Lancashire, when in truth we were part of the Eurasia land mass ?'" The true purist knows that Warrington played their first game on the spot that was originally part of the historic gas and dust cloud, before those bureaucrats at city hall merged all the gas and dust and rocks, re-drew the boundaries, and called it Earth.

Quote ="Winslade's Offload"Well if we go back a little further to 270 million years I think you will find the Wire club was in fact pretty close to the equator on a land mass called Pangaea. www.openculture.com/2014/07/map- ... angea.html Following a bit continental drift and a few years later we drifted away from Eurasia and ended up moored on the eastern side of what we now call the Atlantic Ocean. As an aside, just to the SW of Warrington was a large volcano belching out malodorous sulphurous fumes and steam. The volcano is now extinct of course but it's name lives on in the settlement of Widnes. But anyway, can we still say Warrington was in Lancashire, when in truth we were part of the Eurasia land mass ?'" The true purist knows that Warrington played their first game on the spot that was originally part of the historic gas and dust cloud, before those bureaucrats at city hall merged all the gas and dust and rocks, re-drew the boundaries, and called it Earth.

Ha Ha. Before that gas cloud, during the Planck epoch, Lancashire and Cheshire were merged in the singularity about 13.8 billion years ago.

Actually it's believed when the club was first formed they played on Wharf Meadow, where Riverside Retail Park now is: still north of the river though.

All but three of the club's grounds have been 'north side', being those just south of St James' church and the old and new Wilderspool sites slightly further south, where we spent over a hundred years!

As an aside, I've a major query on the claim we moved to the 'main' Wilderspool site in 1898 as is widely believed, as I've uncovered evidence that throws this into doubt. It's an area worthy of more research, but sadly not likely something I'll be able to make time for soon.

Quote ="Redrosewire"Lets get the facts right Superblue Warrington and Widnes are not in Cheshire but in Real Lancashire - its your lack of Geographic Knowledge www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/you ... confusion/ The boundary is still The River Mersey and both Warrington and Widnes are North of the Mersey - I take it your South of the Mersey and probably descendant of 1970s Southern Imported influx to expand the New Town -'" Sort of get your drift, so if Warrington and Widnes aren't in Cheshire then my point stands, that Cheshire cannot offer Super League a Big team

Quote ="Redrosewire"Lets get the facts right Superblue Warrington and Widnes are not in Cheshire but in Real Lancashire - its your lack of Geographic Knowledge www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/you ... confusion/ The boundary is still The River Mersey and both Warrington and Widnes are North of the Mersey - I take it your South of the Mersey and probably descendant of 1970s Southern Imported influx to expand the New Town -'" Sort of get your drift, so if Warrington and Widnes aren't in Cheshire then my point stands, that Cheshire cannot offer Super League a Big team