You were on about benchmarks not whether I want you to win tonight or not a bit like Barham Red I'd prefer you to get beat in the final more

The thing is, I can't tell whether this is a knowing attempt to get bites, or whether through ritualized repetition you have come to believe your propaganda. Which is worse, I wonder?



Over the last couple of seasons they've have gone from clown car (tbf, the team was never [ireally dreadful[/i, it was more the dysjunction with Pearson's PR) to steamroller. Fair play - genuinely.

I'm increasingly resigned to them winning at least one of the two finals. They just look the part; more so than anybody else. There's still time for the wheels to come off, but it is rapidly running out. Anything can happen in knock-out football, of course...

I wish I was even half that confident. Tonight will be the first real test of this team's mettle & we get to see what they're like in the big, high pressure games. That's the big unknown at the moment.

You've already won your 3 cup finals against us this season so your on a roll

No you don't care, do you? That's why you've been on the Wigan forum begging them to beat us.

And it's "you're" not "your" and "it's" not "its".

Begging them to beat you I said I hope you win hardly the same thing is it now jog on there's grammar to be corrected elsewhere you sad little man

How about punctuation?

Sorry I didn't realise I was sitting an English exam

I care so much that I'd forgotten it was the semi final tonight.

I want the filthy, evil, ginger fiends from the wrong side of The Chocolate River's Tributary to win tonight, with the caveat that they lose fifty one nil in the final.

Hull look like a teaspoon trying to pierce the lid of a microwave meal. George Williams has the potential to be the best halfback we have produced for quite a while.

Sorry guys!! Haha!

The thing about hating Hull and being a sensible gambler is that I am seriously cashed up again tonight.

Win at Wembley and, sure I can't sing a song again, but I can have a weeks holiday from the proceeds. I really can't lose.

Hull, deserved winners tonight, better team.

Good luck to them.

Ish...

Obviously I don't mean that, unless my Uncle Barrie's reading this.

Hope you're all crying. Especially Funtime.

Unlike Hull KR, eh Stan?

Not really it would have been nice but it will be much better seeing you get beat in the final after all you will be playing a team that can actually attack but enjoy your day seeing as you didn't go to the semi

You have lost me there (not for the 1st time).

Good result now I want Wakey to get there & black & white win in the final. I win at the bookies (even more if they win super league) & we will have to find another song to sing to anoy our friends across the river.

Credit to Hull. they've gone from clown car a couple of years ago to steamroller this. It has been a remarkable turnaround. I thought fifth or sixth would be a really good season for them - they signed well, but had lost some decent players too. One or two of their most devoted fans seemed to think they were on the brink of crisis during the off-season. Seems we dramatically underestimated them.

That other teams so often look inept when they play Hull, is credit to Hull's efficient superiority, of which I admit to being envious.

It does show what can be achieved relatively quickly, though.

Well here's to you having the holiday of a lifetime Stan!!

Thought Hull were far better team overall, Wigan were what they have been all year, good defence but awful attack. Seem to have forgotten how to send in line runners. Tomkins looks a shadow of the player that left.

Actually hoping for a Wakey win today and then a repeat of the Featherstone final of the 80s where the underdog triumphs.

Downside is Asda will be full of people in unwashed shirts for the next 3 weeks it'll be like the banjo twanging Olympics until the final.

I do feel that overall on social media, the FC fans in large are struggling to cope with the fact that the majority of Rovers fans accept that FC deserved to win last night and fully expect them to break their Wembley hoodoo.

I think it has surprised most of us, I'd have been over joyed with 4th and happy with 5th, never mind top and CC final.

This has been 5 or so years in the making since Pearson took over and 3 years since Radford/Tony came we got rid of McRae, massive credit to those and we had to go quite far backwards to get where we are. I really think if we get things right off the field we have the chance to be consistently in contention the next few years.

You can see why NH and Rovers are trying to follow or model.

It goes to prove that as fans we know nothing. If the majority had had their way 18 months ago Radford would have been given his marching orders and the cycle of strip and start again would have recommenced. fast forward 18 months and he'll be coach of the year barring a complete melt down and I think most would struggle to put up an argument against it if it happens.

The planets have aligned right for Hull, similar to leicester I suppose, a couple of the usual power houses have collapsed, the others are just not hitting their straps and Hull have managed to win games which a year ago they would've lost.

A lot of credit must go to Tony for assembling a squad that covers itself in most areas, I just hope that if we get through this year that we can follow suit and get RL back to the heady days of the 80's where both teams are challenging each other for trophies.