Hmmm, Big Roy talks about differences in playing styles being hard to get used to, we stop throwing it around willy nilly and he has a good game. Hmmm.....

A couple of years ago, someone put a thread on here "Your 10 favourite Wire memories"

(Now, I didn't go, I had a letter from Matron, and watched it in a drinking establishment). I think I have to include last night's efforts.

The amount of dummies we threw, was great, we even had dummy runners, which haven't been that evident, recently.
At one stage, it looked like we had 3 Chris Hills on the pitch. HE WAS EVERYWHERE.

Superb, Wire

Let's back it up, with an unbeaten end to the season.

C'mon

The playoffs are the time to play how we played last night, if we do the same against Wigan next week and it works again, we should stick to it.

I doubt very much Pies will be gifting us as much ball as Saints did, unforced or not.
We need a more clinical performance like we did v leeds at home and v Saints at magic.
That was playoff intensity from us.

Clinical? We had 90% set completion?

And Saints coughed up so much ball because our line speed was so good and contact was solid all game.

Well done Wire, you were in a different class to us. I think we were exceptionally poor but I think Warrington would beat any team with the sort of form and quality showed last night..
Even if we had been at our best you would still have won comfortably.
Now if we had had Wilkin, Lomax and Walsh back then..........

No-one should be tempted to overplay the "St Helens were woeful" line. Yes, they were but Warrington's sheer tenacity and billigerent refusal to wilt meant we seized the initiative. Once we did so, and Saints had to come looking for a performance, a result and a response they failed because they we were superior in every aspect. Look hard enough and you'll always find something to justify coming second half but being dignified and admitting you were outplayed is the most admirable response.

Incidentally, Saints would have conceded at least one less try (Mick Monas) if they'd policed the PTB better rather than rushing forward like housewives at opening day of the January sales to try and achieve, ahem, good defensive "line speed".

Based on Wigan tonight, and next weeks match, we have three factors to negate; the baying Wigan public, any weak referreeing influenced by the former and any over-confidence as a result of last night.

The thing with us though Morrissey is, as Wellens alluded we are so off the cuff that even we don't know what we are going to do. That is tough to prepare against, the only thing we need to do is not let Wigan dominate the ruck, do that and we're half way there.

We'll also be up against their fans next week. As long as we milk a few penalties from their cheap tactics to slow down the ptb we should be alright.

I was thinking that our guys need to try their best to look like they are trying to get up and that Wigan are holding us down.
Can't wait until we introduce 2 refs.

Yeah it works well in the NRL.

As long as we get an alright ref, who isn't afraid to penalise Wigan for their cheap tactics, we should just overreact to their holding down to get some penalties to stop it. MMonas is good at that, so let's hope he's on his game.

In all my time of going the the jjb or dw I've never known the Pies fans to out do us in the vocal department.

I remember one time during the Cullen era they tried to drown us out with the tannoy system....we just chanted louder and longer and stayed about 20-30 mins after the game finished!!!

We better take more than we did to Saints then. Terrible following.

It was lower on both sides as it will be v pies, as it was v Hudds.
That is the result of Thursday night rugby, but everything being relative we ought still to out sing them.

Yeah I was there, one of my favourite away days!

I know how quiet the Wigan fans are pal, the only time they make noise is when they complain to the ref, which is what I meant by "we'll be up against their fans"

For a Thursday night it was alright, we more than made up for the average numbers with the noise we made. There'll be more at Pies I imagine with more noise too.

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You'll never beat the atmosphere of Wigan away in 2001

I remember Wire faithful singing Barmy Army for 80 mins straight. Dunno if that was the Cullen era too.
Had so many great nights there that they've all mingled into one great thought now.

No not Cullen, it was VDV.

I was at the 2001 game, it was in my opinion the best atmosphere I've been in.

Van de Velde barmy army over and over again. Plus all the fights and sendings off, great game shame about the score.

It was quite a cool night too, first game of the season I think.

I'll agree, probably the best atmosphere I've been in. You're right Wire Yed, was the season opener, was freezing cold. Still have the game on VHS - need to get it converted really.

How quickly time flies by.
The Pie fans were dumb struck and unable to raise a meaningful song themselves in reply.
Yes the Pies kept scoring and we kept singing, even louder.

I often lose my voice after a Pie game but lost it for a day and a half after that game. Well worth it.

What I loved about that game was the way the fans sang.

Anyone seen Zulu? Well the bit where they have 3 rows of guns, row 1 fires and as they are reloading row 2 fires and then as they reload row 3 fires.
I don't know how it was choreographed but the bottom half would sing 'VDV barmy army' and then the top half would, it kept the noise constant. Always thought what would have happened if we'd actually been winning?

We would perhaps just cheered the trys, sushed the conversations and sang individual songs...

The mentality from us that day was....
We're going to get beat, we don't care.
We are here, you don't like us, we don't care.
We make noise, you don't like it, we don't care.
We hate Wigan, that's the way it is feck you.

A Wire and proud.

Don't forget: it was a Thursday night (not everyone works 9-5 during the week or has a job that they can book time off randomly); not all fans who would go to a weekend game live or work locally; we may go back to that ground to play Saints in two or four weeks time; we will have extra tickets to pay for outside season ticket games in the Play-offs (could be as many as three extra games or four if we lose in week 1/finish 5th, if we end up going all the way - not saying we will by the way)...