If you think that there is less lines of running etc now than there was back then, how is that the fault of the salary cap?

Wigan should have gone for the 100 and not eased up like they did, but they still rammed home the point that running with the ball, support play and lines of running (the things that can be compared between the two codes) were superior in the League code. After that they ran riot in the sevens competition, which is also on youtube, and they were the reasons why the RFU decided to go after league players and coaches.

I knew it would be Wigan's Fault!

Look at that back line.

There is nothing even remotely close to that in SL.

The speed of hands in the backs is completely lost in SL today.

Maybe so. I just fail to see how the salary cap has been the sole cause of what I perceive to be a decline in playing standards, quality and entertainment value.

Guscott - "There's no point - Wigan will thrash us at league, and we will thrash them at union"

B0110cks. He was shiit scared of getting battered.

I think Munster would woop Leeds at both forms of the game if it was played now.

I like Union but Kick and Drive Munster with 'superstars' like O'Connell and O'Gara are the most overrated team ever. Leeds would have them on a plate every time.

I’d take Doug Howlet tho as he’s got pace to burn.

Either way it’s two different games and the Union lads would win there’s and the League lads would win the RL game.

The Bath and Sale games proved that.

Great game and that Wigan side just shows how standards in Rugby League have dropped over the last 13 years.

It's no surprise though that 8 players from that squad were snapped up by union at one point or another.

Great find, even as a warrington fan im enjoying this, just proves that league is so much better

Thanks for that. I shall watch it in work tonight or tomorrow (or both)

By eck, you forget how good that Wigan side actually was. That back line was immense!

To be fair, I'm not sure how many (if any) of our current crop would get into that side!

I reckon Wasps could give any SL side a game as could Leicester.

A Game of what??

Because it sure wouldnt be a game of RL, maybe RU but no way in the memory of man a game of RL

They'd give them a game. RU sides are more disciplined than they were years ago and the Heineken Cup throws up some VERY entertaining games. Wasps defence would be well drilled under Edwards.

I'm not for a second saying they'd win, but it would be a tougher game than some are saying (I mean we weren't exactly tonked at Union in 96 once we got through the first 20)

Working in the Manchester area, I went to Maine Rd with around 10 others from work, only me and one other Wiganer, a Leyther and none of the rest of whom were particularly interested in Rugby of either code, apart from Rob our canteen mon (and pitied Wire supporter).

It was a night out from work which involved a curry in Rusholme at Shere Khans (alright at the time but subsequently been done by the environmental health !



The match wasn't worth watching, it was so one sided and half of the lads drifted off to the pub long before the end.

Guscott IS a gutless, over rated tosspot of the first rank.....but his view on the whole idea was in fairness reasonably accurate I thought.

Quality. Almost as funny as Eddie wearing eye-liner.

Heard about the game but never got to watch it. Enjoying the old style sky presentation and also enjoying the fact that Stuart Barnes was still as much of a t**t then as he is now.

Barnes comments after Wigans 3rd try, Bath are moving up too quickly in defense, if they move up slower they will have more chance. What a fountain of rugby knowledge that bloke has. 1st class prick. Was good to see steveo giving him what for before the match (even though steveos a knob too). Used to love the music Sky played on the try replays too, Cease The Day or something I think.

Just watching this now, and after Offiah's second try (6 mins in) Bath are nakerd. De Glanville can hardly breathe.

I was at Twickenham for the Middlesex 7s and the Union half of this match for my sins. The Union match was dire but we score two blinding full lengthers from Craig Murdock.

I still think us fannying about with these gimmicky matches cost us the Super League title that year but sadly our financial plight made them a necessity.

I went to the Union game.

Remember Radlinski making an error similar to the Bath ones. (out of instinct basically) He tackled Callard right on the Bath line and instead of standing up and picking it up when Callard let the ball go, he put his hands on it whilst off his feet which resulted in a penalty. Would have been 44-28 had he done it right.

With regards to the SL title, had Terry Matterson's conversion not hit the bar and gone over we would have still won the title anyway.

Well so people say but we still lost to Bradford away later in the season just after getting back into the race by beating Saints at home.

Didn't they only have 12 men that day as well?

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Quote ="Conroy"Didn't they only have 12 men that day as well?'" Yeah Jeremy Donougher was sent off for a high shot on Simon Haughton in the 24th minute but we still blew a 10-0 lead. wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... age_id=580