What more motivation does one team need for Saturday. Players overlooked for the dream team and Coach overlooked for Coach of the season. Written off by the written media and everyone including the odd person by everyone outside the town.
Get a photo board in the changing room with all the images of losing the Challenge Cup final and that will be the icing on the cake.

History never remembers losers, unless you're Eddie Hemmings of course.

Write yourself into the history books lads and get the monkey off your backs. And if things get tough and your backs are against the wall!! Remember when you were freezing cold, on that dark night during pre-season training when you thought what the F*7K are we doing here? Well it built character, determination and a willingness to work for each other when the odds were against you. And if all else fails, just keep on knocking them down until they cant get up any longer.

C'mon Wire

I remember reading a story about the Aussie ARL grand final in 1997, where Newcastle Knights won their first grand final against Manly, I think it was from Mal Reilly. The senior players like Paul Harragon, Tony Butterfield etc had been giving speeches beforehands, about how special it was to be part of this group of players, we're all brothers, how special it was for the town, a poor mining town that breathes RL, never won a Grand Final before. It was pumping them up to the max but there was a danger they were going overboard with the emotion and losing their control. Then Andrew Johns spoke, he was only about 23 at the time but was already the main leader on the field, he was basically like "ok boys, this is what we need to do on the field to win, this is what I'm going to be doing, I'm going to be attacking them here and here, if you follow me we'll win it". He brought it straight back to the functional and because he spoke with so much authority and confidence and they knew he would back up what he said on the field it brought a calm focus to the team.

In big games the risk of freezing in the spotlight is a bigger danger than turning up half-interested and the teams that bottle it in the big time are probably the teams that are overcome by the emotion, which is where pumping it all up too much is a bad idea.

Daryl Powell gave an interview before their semi-final about how they were using the dream team and MoS snubs as motivation. All that motivation gave them exactly 0 points.

He confused it with justification

It’s a tough one, this, because both sets of players have different reasons to be motivated. Call it a cliche but for me it’s down to who wants it more. The glamour club used to winning the damn thing, wanting to give the monkey and the rat a nice send off, or the plucky underdogs who shouldn’t really be there in the media’s eyes. We all know the intensity Wigan will bring to the occasion, we just need to watch our start. We nullified them in the CC but look how we started at Wembley. I really can’t call it.

It will come down to discipline, keeping a clear head if plan A doesn't go to plan and those 50/50 decisions by the ref. Aways an element of luck in these games but we need to make our own luck, in the biggest game of the season.