Agree with the comments above, that was not what we want to see come play off time, tell me what does Paul Deacon bring to the team we look better when Sam's at S.O that's my opinion.

-Poor on field performance from Wigan

-Apalling referee, Child is consistently dreadful

+Feka's try

-the west stand bar situation.. terrible organisation!

+Sam's message to every Wire, Saints and Leeds fan when celebrating with the shield towards the north stand

+All the Scottish Wigan fans that came down.. Brilliant!!

+Feka's reception as well as Boston, Henderson Gill et al

Well presented by Wigan post match, especially given that the real captain recieved the shield, but boy do we have to improve for this playoff gig?!?!?!

I had a bit of a panic before the game as I have lost my season ticket and had to go to the ticket office to get a ticket to get in.

Did anyone have a problem with the lager in the EastStand bar? I queued for over 20 minutes before the game and found a bloke returning his pint and when he got a replacement that was the same. Switched to Worthy's. Surely the club can serve beer quicker than that?

Don't care what any other club/supporter, guy in the street says about the shield, i fully enjoyed tonight and I'm so proud to be a Wigan fan.

Well done everyone involved

Somebody a few rows in front of me came back late for the second half cursing the "shambolic" bar situation, massive queues and she had to get bitter instead of lager. This seems to be a regular, big crowd problem.

Personally I've given up buying booze at the stadium. It usually involves large queues, high prices and $h1t beer.

It was excellent in the corporate lounge. Beer waiting on the table at half time. A good night was had my all, as I know by my head this morning.

great night

All through the game i kept thinking back to the game in 06 when we lost against Cas and i was convinced we were gone.

proud to be a wiganer this morning.

Didn't like the way they took the team photos with their backs to the crowd. Should have let us all see the team.

The cynic in me suggests this is so we all go out and buy a newspaper to see what was going on

the only alternative was to have the players backs to the North Stand which wouldn't have made a good backdrop to the photo.

Was just about to say the same thing

A professional-quality photo at that distance would have a narrow enough depth of field that the background would be very out of focus, and therefore irrelevant.

Shouldn't we make a conscious effort to stop calling it a hub cap as this merely perpetuates the image of it being a meaningless trophy? I think Wigan have done a lot to raise it's status but unless we call it by its true name it will never be given the status it truly deserves. The £50k prizemoney is a step in the right direction.

Oh

I agree.

If other clubs in the past had done a proper presentation then the profile of the League Leaders Trophy would have risen and Sky would have had to take it seriously and given it more air time.

Just had a text, they are charging people a fiver to have a picture with the shield at the roadshow today

It was done really well and wasn't anywhere near as cheesy as I thought it would be. I was very proud of the lads last night, we've come so far since 2006 and this was only the second trophy I've ever seen us lift as I only started attending games properly 11 years or so ago.

Same for me.

We all recognise it's not the main prize, but it was nice to see some silverware again.

Agree with Kat, not too cheesy.

Sam running to the north stand was hilarious

Just paid a tenner (2 x photo's) for the privilege!!

History resumes today!

regarding the north stand celebrations
was it just taking the mickey out of an empty stand?
a message to other clubs?
a message to dave whelan?

i personally thought it was just a joke that the stand was emoty but heard a lot of people saying it was to the DW spelt out in the seats?

CONSPIRACIES.

It was just a take because of when Sam Tomkins scored that try against Huddersfield and celebrated to the empty stand.

Seriously where do people make up this crap

How old are the juniors who went round before kick off, some where massive and one at the back had tattoos up his arms

It was the under 20s that won the 9s wasnt it? so under 20

that pic looks cracking with the stand behind it