5253 at Brewery Field is encouraging.

Good stuff. Hopefully getting their first home win will have a positive effect on their attendances in future.



Well done Celtic

ganson ref, get ready for the moaning

well played Celtic.

Talking of Steve I've just had the following text from him, "LOL

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Even the pie playing for England is an embarassment, with his tatoos, bog eyes and misplaced offloads.

And they reckon Aussie teams are chasing Brian Noble for next season! Don't make me laugh, Great result for the Celts though. Well done boys!

Phew, at least we won't end the seasons being the only team to lose to the crusaders. Thanks for joining us in that group Wigan.

And his direct role in 3 tries. What a bloody disgrace!

A night of two contrasting works of art in Rugby League.



Celtic Crusaders, new boys, not given a chance to beat anyone really, turn over, a resurgent wigan team.



Whereas the French national team, whom I have supported perviously at France v England matches are woeful.



The effort put into level out SL and the NRL now has to be put in to International Rugby League, the French need help, lots of it.

French are more understrength than England.

What are we supposed to do? Stop international rugby league until countries like France are competetive?

And how exactly are they going to become competetive unless they get international rugby?

I take my hat off to rugby union. They persevered with Italy and Argentina despite them getting regular pastings. Look at them now, especially Argentina.

the difference is that over the past 30 years France have had 1 or 2 internationals a year, whereas Italy in RU play in 6 nations, plus many other internationals per year, not forgetting their 7s teams play all the time.



We almost have a French team with little experience of playing together.

All the more reason for increased numbers of internationals.

Id stick the french in a quad nations with the Irish, Scots and Welsh and ive have them in the main one if that was possible, the lesser nations need International games, full stop

Agree - keep England with the Aussies and Kiwis and let the others gain some more experience

It wasnt all that long ago that the Aussies put an almost identical score on GB, I for one am pretty glad the Aussies didnt say that GB should play against smaller nations till we were better.

Thing is that we should, we aren't up to playing against Australia in Australia.



It should be:



2 Nations Trophy:



Australia v New Zealand (Players freely able to choose which to play for)



Far Weaker than the 2 Nations but far Stronger than the Minor Nations Trophy (We could call it the FWTT2NBFSTTMNT to shorten it):



England

Samoa

Tonga

PNG

Fiji



Minor Nations Trophy:



France

Wales

Ireland

Scotland

Lebanon

USA



Shamatuer Nations (Park pitch and brightly coloured team kit the only necessary requirements):



Germany

Czech Republic

Malta

Italy



Appologies if I've missed anyone out...

Even more embarrassing that the worst Wigan team in years smacked you all over Edinburgh. Again

Well if thats your ambitions each year then you have fallen further than I thought...your a joke club with a joke coach, crap players and no ground to call home and to top it off your sponsered by a bingo hall..what a state of affairs

How can you say that? According to cherry&white they have one of, if not the best squad in superleague!!!!

With international football, they manage an international every 6 - 8 weeks on average (often playing 2 in the space of a couple of days)



Perhaps throughout the league calendar of Feb - Oct, we should be looking at more internationals for the French.



Play Wales home & away



Play Ireland home & away



Play England home & away



(Likewise Wales could play Ireland x 2)



I also feel that the French were disadvantaged by the fact their domestic league players perhaps haven't played for weeks, given the end of the French season is based on a winter league.

Yet another open minded, well thought out post!

Wales are getting a few games this year and next.



"Serbia here we come, Serbia, Serbia here we come"*















*This mock chant no way indicates I will be attending said Wales away game.

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So you've only been watching Wigan since 2007 then?

Those good old Ex-Cas boys do like to give the Pies a thumping.....



Well Done Luppy and Lenno