On a par or better than the great team they had in the Hanley,Edwards + Offiah era?How they dismantled Leeds
last night was imo breathtaking.Ok people will say Leeds were below par but Wigan were missing key players which didn't seem to affect them.For me without sounding a pie lover they look unbeatable at the moment.Thoughts.

You are phil clarke and I claim my £5

Not sure they are as good Myself, actually no they arent.

That early team ran the league for a good period of time. let se how they go.

Different era too, all teams are PRO now the Hanley Edwards team were the only ones or one of a very few at the time.

Serious discussion + doesn't take long for the knob childish replies to start.

I think you are under-estimating how bad Leeds were...Yes Wigan are good...of course they are...but not that good.

Best Wigan performance I've seen in a long time. Still, you can't detract that Leeds were, quite frankly, awful.

They are a formidable team and if play them when it counts, we'll have to be on top form to beat them. It's exactly the same for them. That said, if I had to pick a Champion right now, it would be Wigan. Hard to compare with the 80s team because the playing field back then was not level.

Do you think that Charnleys' kicking was on par with Botica. Your having a laugh.
Leeds were just bad.

leeds were awful even widnes would of beat them..they got off to a bad start with limas dropped ball being given as a try and it went down hill after that..fair play to wigan for giving them a lesson...comparing the old wigan team to this lot id say the old wigan team..i.e hanley or oloughlin andy greg to lulu botica to charnley edwards to rat boy...i know who id have

Is that not the usual answer though when a team dishes out an hammering that the opposing team played badly!Would we have said that if we'd have stuck 50 on Leeds?I doubt it.

Isn't it strange how Huddersfield were so bad 2 weeks ago. Saints last week and Leeds this week. Any common denominator here?

i watched all of those games on sky and even you must admit that none of the above were exactly firing on all cylinders!

not really, i think he must have thought your post would have been better posted on a wigan forum rather than a wire one? i know i did,and yes,i know its a rl forum,but still!plus id rather discuss how the wire team are fairing up rather than be bothered to discuss just how good the present wigan team is or isnt compaired to the past wigan team

,still each to their own i say.

IMO its the best Wigan team since the mid 1990s, its better than their Grand Final winning team of 1998, but it would not beat the side of 1995 and earlier.

Very much agree with that, Sally.

In my opinion this Wigan side is already better than the 2010 grand final winning side. The vast improvement of players like Mcillorum and even Tomkins is astounding.

We may well need to re build for next year with Lima, Tommy, Carmont and maybe Finch going but we have shown against Leeds (who weren't great) that we do have depth

It was a statement I made tongue in cheek cos we all know what happens when a thread about wigan gets posted on the warrington forum. Tape measures at the ready

You can't compare the Wigan team of today to the Hanley , Edwards era as that team then was the only fully professional team in the league and had an unfair advantage over the others !
This new Wigan team is good but not better than us , and can be beaten by any team on a one off , but that's what the cap has brought to the competition !
It's looking like a two horse race again for the shield between us n pies but someone could go on a run but we still have plenty to come back in M Monnas and Sol and Myler at the right end of the season fresh and ready for battle !
So the answer is No ! Reasons above !

Wigan are in a rich vein of form at the moment, but so were we last season and people were saying that we were unbeatable. If people think back to last year there were constant mentions from Wigan fans that every time we handed out a hammering, the opposition were either understrength or out of form. Anyone with any sense should reserve judgement until after the GF.

Ridiculous thread, as ridiculous as when a few people on here floated the possibility that we were possibly the best team of the Super League era during a rush of blood last season.

Wigan are a very good team, in superb form and with a nucleus of top players who are working well together. But you can't look down that team list and say that there aren't a few players in there who could fall out of form as quickly as they got into it.

Only time will tell, but we won't do our own chances any good if we start to internalise the Phil Clarke rubbish.

You can only play as good as the other team lets you. Wigan stopped Leeds playing anything half decent and Leeds didnt do anything to stop Wigan playing the way they want to.

I woud say Wigan are a very good side, who are confident and on a rich vein of form. We was playing like this last season and got a shield for our efforst. So you cant compare them to a trophy winning side as they havent played this well at the business end of the season, like them past teams did.

IMO it will take a big effort from one of the other teams to prevent our teams contesting both finals this year. I'd be amazed if we aren't at least facing off at Wembley.

Wigan are breathtaking at the moment. I get the feeling though that if they ever lost Tomkins for a significant length of time they'd really struggle. Everything in their attack is about him. Unbelievable player. Hopefully one day he will return to his favourite club.

I think thats a very accurate assessment.

The Best Wigan Side ever.......Simply because every year Eddie Hemmings rants about this being the best superleague ever, and anyone from 6 clubs are in with a realistic chance of winning it, any club can beat any club on their day etc etc...

He's stuck two fingers up to his bosses and is no longer bigging up the sky Superleague.

Instead its quite simply a "One horse Race".........