Shaul
Lancaster
Yeaman
Logan
Taylor
Houghton
Bowden
Green
Turgut
Hadley
Abdul

All hull grown and featured in 1st team this season,add in

Naughton
Pryce
Sneyd
Watts
Thompson
Ellis

Who have been in 1st team this year and then add in our quality overseas players who far outweigh your 2 puddings and the 6 youngsters we have signed up on contract extensions.So yet again your gob lets you down

You still here then? Or is it a double bluff? You've posted this twice!!!!

Still here,like someone said,just because I'm unable to attend doesn't stop me posting about other matters and posted twice because am on phone

Wane reminds me of Bernard Manning for some reason. Sensationalist for no real purpose. We had all this before our last game with them, which we won. He said Rovers fans would earn Rovers advantage in their recent game, as if this was a new concept. He fabricates something to poke opposition fans with every week. Classless and unnecessary, like his team's ruck tactics.

Glad to hear it, thought you were being a bit melodramtic and would settle down again. Hope everything turns out well for you

You played at least 7 non-English players against Catalan. Which bit is sensational?

If that's your semi-final team I'd put a big lump on Wigan

Sam Tomkins
Manfredi
Gildart
Charnley
Tierney
Wiliams
Shorrocks
Crosby
McIlorum
Mossop
Farrell
Joel Tomkins
O'Loughlin

And then
Sutton
Bretherton
Powell
Burke

plus
Sarginson
Smith
Clubb
Bateman

We could also add
Gregson
Waterworth
Higginson
Wells

All played first team this season.

Who cares, wanes a complete coccck, ref let cas slow you down hahaha what a complete joke. Wigan the worst team in sl for it, awful team to watch, cant wait to hammer you in the semi

"They are unbeatable"

Joel Tomkins, the penalty machine, is worth at least 2 scores for us. FC can wind him and every other Pie forward up, it's easy, you just have to tackle them and they get upset, throwing hissy fits. Wane's got a private deal with every ref on the books, if they don't lean towards his team, he'll put his new movie on repeat, "Tarzan of the Apes", just to help you out spotting him in the crowd, he's the big one with the silver back.

Err who said about team for semi,I was just saying that we have enough home grown in our squad and its not all Aussies or pacific islandersost of the players I qouted stopped Warringtons unbeaten run and we had at least 4 missing when we batterd Sts in the cup.We have now got a nice balance with Quality overseas with good homegrowntalent,quite enjoying the fact that wiganers are questioning our recruitement policy

and all those players are under the £1.85m salary cap

no doubt Wigan will be playing the new prop they have signed from the NRL is this allowed or do you have to sign by a Certain date, hang on this is Wigan so it will be ok and if they have a player suspended before the semi just appeal the rugby league will let him off just to give them a bit better chance

No wonder everyone hates wigan fans

So NOT 10 NRL stars then?

That was the sensational bit. Pretty obvious I would have thought but it seems not

I rather have our settled team than bring someone in half way round the world to take someone's place that could unsettle the squad

Are they all Wigan born as wasn't Charnley born in Preston and mcllorum Leeds?

Id still fancy our chances with a all English team as you still wouldn't be able to handle our pack.You may have the edge in wingers but our half backs are easily on par with yours and on current form,Sneyd id far better than Smith.

McIlorum is definitely from Leeds. Neither of the Tomkins' are originally from Wigan. Suspect half the others aren't either. Wigan have a great youth set up and fair play to them for that, but to your point I'd give us more than a fighting chance with a team of Shaul, Landaster, Logan, Yeaman, Naughton, Pryce, Sneyd, Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Ellis, Hadley, Thompson, Bowden, Green, Washbrook and Turgut (10 of whom are Hull born by my reckoning) against any team Wigan can put out.

We'll not find out, though, because of the rules allowing us to play our excellent overseas contingent, something Wigan have used as a key component of their success over the last 30-odd years.

No they're not all born in Wigan, but baring Mossop and McIlorum in those first 17 names played amateur in Wigan. Wells started at Folly Lane and Higginson in Rochdale but joined Wigan at scholarship U15/U16 level.

Don't really understand what all the fuss is about. Wane spouts this sort of rhetorical rubbish all the time. He's obviously not happy at facing us in the semi's. Probably expected to play Wakey (no disrespect to them) at Widnes at a time of their choosing, given how important the are. All that matters is winning. I'm confident that we'll be within the rules with the side we put out. Couldn't say about Wigan either way. The winner plays in the final. I BELIEVE that it will be us.

Great post. Let's let the bookies decide who the favourites are and crack on with the league campaign for the next few weeks. Exciting times.

I can't believe he manages to wind so many people up, he cracks out similar b/s each week.

I think it winds people up more because the pie fans keep his bull going by arguing about it which you have to admit is quite remarkable seen as they have to share the one brain cell that there is between them.

To be honest if Wane thinks a backhanded dig at Hull FC and the players is mind games then he is a bigger idiot than he looks. He really is a poor advert for a SL Coach with the comments he comes out with. If any other coach had come out with the stuff he's come out with this season the RFL's kitty would be full to the brim in fines especially after his outburst pre their game against HKR, but as its Wigan he gets away with it.
Just hope we absolutely muller Wane and his team of 'youth players' in the semi

id love a last minute drop goal from snyed to beat them! but dont think my heart could take it lol