Warrington Wolves • Warrington 2020's vs Wigan 1980's
I'd be wary about making too many predictions too far ahead.
10 years ago, January 2009, Warrington had James Lowes as coach. I wonder how many people would have called us as winning three Challenge Cups in the next four years, and making nine major finals over the next decade? People would laugh at the idea of Warrington winning a trophy.
What about 20 years ago, January 1999. Wigan had just won the Grand Final. They had been champions 8 of the last 10 years. Who would have called then, that they would not win another title in the next decade, and would only win one Challenge Cup? Bradford were also being hailed as the model of the club that had actually embraced summer rugby and Super League, and had the best marketing and management which is why Bullmania would go on to make Bradford dominate rugby. To an extent they did for the next few years, but they fell off a cliff after that. And also back then I don't think anyone would have predicted that Leeds would be the most consistent team over the next two decades....we all knew Leeds were a big club, would always splash money about and talk about their next great crop of youngsters, but two words you knew did not apply to Leeds back then were "consistent" and "winners". Well look what happened.
10 years ago, January 2009, Warrington had James Lowes as coach. I wonder how many people would have called us as winning three Challenge Cups in the next four years, and making nine major finals over the next decade? People would laugh at the idea of Warrington winning a trophy.
What about 20 years ago, January 1999. Wigan had just won the Grand Final. They had been champions 8 of the last 10 years. Who would have called then, that they would not win another title in the next decade, and would only win one Challenge Cup? Bradford were also being hailed as the model of the club that had actually embraced summer rugby and Super League, and had the best marketing and management which is why Bullmania would go on to make Bradford dominate rugby. To an extent they did for the next few years, but they fell off a cliff after that. And also back then I don't think anyone would have predicted that Leeds would be the most consistent team over the next two decades....we all knew Leeds were a big club, would always splash money about and talk about their next great crop of youngsters, but two words you knew did not apply to Leeds back then were "consistent" and "winners". Well look what happened.
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