Quote ="stillinthepast"I read the McManus statement tonight on my phone (I love Rugby League site) whilst out having a couple of pints and I think it was a statement that showed compassion and in a way seemed to suggest that we now put it behind us and move on.
What I am going to say now is not condoning what Flower did and he deserved everything he got, but the build up to the match contained more use of the word hatred than I have ever seen in my 60 years of watching Rugby League ( mainly Wigan).
The die was set when Wigan and Wane gave permission for [uTHAT[/u video to be released and it built and built from there and even last week McManus had an article printed in a Newspaper in which he said that he hated Wigan.
It was almost as if there was a concerted effort to build it up to a frenzy, the word hate was in all the papers as well as being mentioned on a regular basis on Radio and TV.
Now I think it is time for Wigan to say that in hindsight the Video was out of place and the word hate has no place in the game, fans will always say that they hate other clubs, but in my eyes that it is not something Clubs should be saying.'"
Nope, I don't think Wigan need to say anything abut that video, because it had absolutely no bearing on anything that happened.
I've heard stuff like that said in changing rooms hundreds of times, and no doubt it will be repeated this weekend somewhere. If you can't take stuff like that, then RL is not the game for you.
