Not even hiding it anymore.

In professional sport there should be. There are plenty of qualified volunteers who could manage the process. Having said that, Wigan have no excuse.

No because its embarrassing and we deserve booting out because of it

Always makes me wonder why so many fans absolutely hate the club?

I’m only going off what I’ve been told. However I’m also wondering in that case that if the official mandate is 8 subs but no one in an official capacity is managing that, then perhaps coaches have an unwritten rule between them that they’ll use more subs during the regular season games.

Hull K R beat Warrington 18 - 13 in the 1977/78 premiership trophy but were disqualified for playing an unregistered player, Warrington were awarded the game, beat Featherstone in a 2 legged semi final then lost to St. Helens at Station Road, Swinton

Don't if anyone's seen it but Keith Mason's had a right meltdown on Twitter over it

I always feel for his lad with the amount of pressure he heaps on him.

I can’t blame him, he has been let down.

Not so bad.

Some teams don't adhere to the rules because they know it's unlikely they will be caught. You don't seem to get how seriously they take academy rugby, it's nothing like a friendly. The players are playing for contracts and the coaches are coaching for their next move up the ladder as well.

Has anyone checked how many subs Warrington used?

every team does it

Well said. One is a mistake but four is taking the pizzle.

We do deserve what happened. It is strange 4 extra was used and it would be interesting looking over every game played to see if it was broken previously. Who knows we could have been doing it for months now and gotten away with it.

His poor lad must be cringing his back off at him.

I always hope that the kid is as self sure/obsessed as his father because if not he must feel such a weight of expectation and like he wants to mute him at times.

Have Wigan officially responded to this mess , and given an explanation as to why it’s happened ?

I think he would be once he’s seen his dancing on TikTok. He was always going on about how he was superman to his Mrs and going sickly cringy videos than then nothing, I presume he’s split up with her.

IIRC his missus was seriously ill not so long back. Its all a little bit weird. That poor lad.

Is that the one he helped learn how to walk again?

Think that's the one.

Listening to him, he also managed to turn water in to wine and fed 5,000 people with a loaf of bread and 2 pies.

He seems to have a split personality. He was arguing with Saints fans onTwitter (I can't call it X) after accusing Saints of having the option to choose to play Warrington or Wigan and not wanting to play Wigan for fear of losing. He said that Wigan would've easily beaten Saints despite the fact that both teams had beaten each other once this season and Saints won by a much greater aggregate score.

After we won yesterday he then tweeted his congratulations followed by a COYS hashtag.

I think he is a few sandwiches short of a picnic personally.

Must remember to buy his new comic book
Better than Stan Lee

I went to the final you could see why wire splash the cash so much the full back aside there wasn't one player you could say looked they could break in to the first tteam unlike Saints or Wigan