I'd forgotten how good Barry Ward was at NEARLY making tackles.

Great memories watching that earlier. The last ten minutes were as close as I’ve got to feeling like any of these sports repeats are real these past few weeks. It all felt pretty tense!

The young lads were great but what an effort by the likes of Newton, Lam and Craig Smith.

Watching that I also realised how much I underrated Terry O'Connor.

Danny tickle was great, he was fantastic for Wigan for 3 1/2 seasons and people forget just how young he was, as well as playing above his weight.

Ill never forget that game as long as I live is till remember saints fans where singing hey Darren Albert after he scored 2 50 metre tries and the Wigan players tackling there privates off for the second 40. its funny how sky chose to show the full game today

How good were Craig Smith, Terry O'Connor and Danny Sculthorpe? They put our props to shame, especially Craig Smith and his work-rate, unbelievable.

Also, it showed how good rugby league can be with minimal input from referees, no shouting hold/set/go, no penalties for the slightest thing, no wrestling and no same move time after time. It was great to watch.

Craig Smith after a very average first season, was absolutely immense. I can't remeber many better during my time watching Wigan.

Danny Sculthorpe was one I was gutted about that never really made it. He was tough, but he had a great rugby brain.

His offloads were sublime.

You watched him that day and he was every bit and probably more skilful than his brother. His handling skills were immense and like Paul, he had that ability to bust the line by ducking under a challenge. I think his diabetes may have played a part in him not getting to the very top. It certainly wasn’t a lack of talent.

Scully was a great player for us

Scully was fantastic for us, his offload game was surreal and his go forward quality. It’s a shame he never hit the heights he should have done but as others said it certainly wasn’t down to lack of talent or attitude.

Also got to agree with Rogues about Terry O’Connor, he was very much underrated for us and a great prop forward.

His brother was better for us

You do know you sound like Rogues on Redvee dont you?

Rogues has daft opinions, according to rogues there will be a young lad in st.pats under 10's who is alex murphy,wally lewis,haney and tom vollenhoven all rolled into one and according to rogues mickey mac is a far superior to james roby. i deal in facts , and the fact is scully senior was a far superior player to his younger,podgier,dirtier little sibling

Yeah but Farrell was far superior to Sculthorpe senior so who cares.

No you don't, you deal in opinion like everyone else. An opinion I happen to agree with in this instance but an opinion nonetheless How is it that people such as yourself are unable to understand the difference? If you say the score of a certain game was, say 24-12, that would be a fact. If you said that player X or Y was the best player on the field that would be opinion. It's not really that difficult to understand.

Yes he was, that's not the point I was making.

Did farrell win back to back man of steel awards like scully ....the only player ever to do it......no , in his book darren lockyear stated the only player the aussies were scared of was paul sculthorpe, in major finals between them the score is scully 2 faz 1 and finally like those other rugby league "legends" farrell, edwards and robinson did scully sell his soul to the twickenham devil for 30 pieces of silver and a ford mondeo .......again no

Did Paul Sculthorpe ever win the Golden Boot (back when it was a real trophy) as the worlds best player?

It's a shame we won't get to see your reasoned and sensible posts about Wigan anymore. Maybe the mods will give you a lifeline and you'll still be able to post your vitriol on all things Wigan on the VT with the rest of them.

Was nice to see Lockers usual penalty from a high tackle

I think bringing Pongia in mid season really helped Smith and brought out the best in him.

When those 2 played together the intensity really ramped up.

To be fair to Craig Smith didn’t he have a fairly serious ankle injury just before he came to Wigan? Pretty sure he had to have it pinned and this effected his fitness.

Couldn’t get over how good O’Connor was in that game. Played the full first half, game off for 5 mins in the second.

Immense, Tony Clubb should watch that

He'd have to stop it every 10 mins for a break

Must admit, Tony Clubb has passed my mind a few times, watching these games.