well couldnt get much worse for me when ganson awarded the penalty in the dying minutes of the game i got up and just seen the red mist and give the advertising boards a almighty kick and badly broke my toe & foot in 3 different places so no work for 6 weeks and to top it off onlt intitled to ssp , silly thing to do but looking back im so proud of wires season but getting beat friday was more painfull than the foot injury

It wasn't as painful as my hangover on Sunday. I was oddly resigned by the point of the penalty, we'd played so poorly it just washed over me. Having seen Wire blow big chances in the past this one was only worse because we actually stood a chance. No matter what anyone says we've been the best team this season but we didn't have the mentality to take it to the GF. Ho hum, onwards and upwards.

I ended up in Chicago Rock at 2 in the morning with no recollection of how I got home... Enough said.

You live at Chicago Rock?

A few years ago at Knowsley Road, when Longy put one of his infamous one pointers over to clinch the game in the dying seconds, I saw a Warrington fan punch the corrogated iron cladding at the side of the Eddington Road stand.

He put a hell of a dent in the metal fist shaped. He must have broken some or even all of the bones in his fingers. I think his anger masked the pain for a while.

Everytime I went past that spot on the way out at the end of a game I'd look over at that fist shaped dent and remember how great Longy was.

He lives in one of the karaoke booths and ventures out once in a while to collect peanuts for the harsh winter that's coming.

It can be a very homely place on a Friday night with all those cougars!


I'm not a bloody squirrel! But if I'm going to set up base camp in a town centre "establishment" I'd rather have Pistachio nuts!

About the most depressing loss in my 30 years of watching the Wire.
No other loss comes close to it.
This was OUR year, we were / our the best team in SL (beyond doubt) this was our year.

Never been so gutted in my life, went the Kings Head after the game got a pint and just sat on the floor for a while. Then went the Rodney and kept drinking until about 2am then got home somehow.

Gutted - Up there with Maine Rd, & Joe Lydons drop goal

Totally gutted.

Just about getting over it today,Wednesday.

Never even considered defeat the way we have been playing.

As the Baird once said 'never count your chickens.'

I was so gutted i could barely speak !!! never in my 15 years of going to watch the wire has any defeat hurt as much. Some very harsh lessons will have to be learnt if we are to carry on where we left off next year, first and foremost of these is that all the cricket scores, defensive and offensive records and flamboyant rugby in the world during the season proper dont count for much if you choke at the penultimate hurdle.

Me neither, for a few minutes at 18 - 24 down I sat on the concourse of the South Stand and wasn't able to watch the match.



I really don't think we choked Bro, more we had a middle of the road game in our most important game ever at the HJ.

If we played like we had for 22 of our 27 game season then we would now be at O/T

As much as I respect your opinion i still disagree, the fluency and composure we've seen all season just wasnt there right from the start ! when Moz got the ball and hoofed it anywhere he could I think it summed our night up perfectly

I was pretty devestated. I just went home, smashed a ball against next doors bumper. Not heard the end of it since.

Fate and destiny can be funny things at times.

Not many leeds fans thought their team would end up at old trafford again this season. It seemed nailed on to be warringtons season. But it seems leeds and their players had other ideas.

Warringtons time will come, just maybe not as soon as it should have,

Really Painfull over the years i have seen some good times,Mike Greg lift the Lancs Cup,Dessie Lift the Regal Trophy,Seen the lads trot out at Wembley 1990 thinking if we win this one it will be the biggest upset in sporting History.

Also said to my Boss when we beat Catalans away,Wigan at home and Hull Away well if we dont win it this year we never will i hope i am wrong.

I remember walking past a leeds fan who said that in the 2004 season (eerily similiar to yours in terms of the way the teams dominated their opposition week in week out) after they lost to the bulls in the qualifying semi. Turns out a young leeds team came back to win it that year so we never had to ponder it.

Warringtons time will come.

I can think of a few worse days as a Wire fan.....

2005 playoff defeat to Hull - all the excitement of Andrew Johns being here and us having had a pretty good season for the first time in ages, we blew it. It wasn't like losing to Leeds last Friday where we were edged out in a close game - we were second best start to finish and were beaten by a very tired Hull who then lost by 70 points next week against Bradford.

1996 Regal Trophy semi final to Saints - 80-0, enough said, after that game I felt numb, it was like the end of the rugby league world, I had a sinking feeling that Warrington were about to go into a dark era, and we did.

2002 home loss to Widnes at Easter, the first derby with Widnes back in Super League, we lost and the atmosphere amongst the fans was poisonous, I've never been in a Warrington crowd so angry, even the home loss to Huddersfield that prompted the sit in a couple of years earlier (when Smyth got 4 tries in the first half on debut and we still lost). The target for the venom was Matt Rodwell, who had made the mistake of trying to communicate with the fans on Wolfweb so had 'opened himself up' (this was unusual in the pre-Twitter days) and then not been very good on the pitch. Probably most of the anger was aimed at Steve Anderson really but Rodwell was the one associated with it and hence Rodwell and his family got confronted and abused by Wire fans. Various Wire players have become villains to the crowd, Andy Currier, Martin Gleeson etc, but with Rodwell it was different, it was like he was Ian Huntley or something the hate was so deep.

Losing by 60 odd points at Harlequins in 2009. New coach (Tony Smith) had been in a few weeks, but we were still as hopeless as before, the fans were shouting abuse at Matt King for being an overpaid Aussie just over here to top up his pension fund, so King gave them some abuse back. It made us the laughing stock of the league and left me with a "where do we go from here?" feeling. (Answer = to Wembley to win the Cup a few months later).

Completely gutted. Had to put up with a mate from Leeds texting me every five minutes over the weekend.

To add salt in the wounds I had to sit through the derby defeat on Saturday afternoon on the Gwladys.Lost all my loose change too.

this, . ive been watching wire for over 35 years and this as been the most bitter defeat ive ever had to swallow 1975 cc final to young to remember much about it , 1986 semi at maine rd was never going to beat wigan that day although we pushed them real close , 1990 cc final simular to 86 team of part timers against a team of super stars , imo too i cant see us having a better chance than we had this season too

ps not saying we wont win it but really did believe this was our year

I don't believe in fate or destiny; I'm more of a preparation meets opportunity (or lack of preparation misses opportunity) sort of guy and a believer in coincidence.

I think Leeds have looked like GF material since minute 26 in the CC final at Wembley. When they were playing Huddersfield the other week I said "I don't want to play Leeds next week!". When Wigan played Catalan I said "let's pick the winner of this because of the five day turnaround!".


On Friday it was a mixed feeling of anger and "if only...", as the week has progressed I'm more gutted by the day.

I got over Fridays game before I even left the ground. Seriously. I got speaking to a fella on the way out and between us we'd watched Warrington for 80+ years and we both said that we'd watched the best Wire team playing the finest rugby that either of us had ever seen. We agreed that we felt privileged to have been part of it.

I thought the same at the time and i think the same now, that Wigan were there for the taking