I've mentioned many times before that the WCC is a nothing trophy....dig some out if your that way inclined...



the World Club Challenge in 1989 was into to it's SECOND ever game (Historic eh...?), it was won By Wigan two years previous.

at no stage in the competitions entire History has it ever been anything more than a pre season pain in the backside for Australian Clubs.



in 1989 Clubs were used to playing touring Aussie national teams and no club side had beaten them since Widnes in 1978...just for reference Wire were the First club side to beat the touring Aussies in that series ...thats "First"..... not "Last"...which is something Widnes are used to... So back to the point....beating any Aussie side would have been a bit novel back then despite The Aussies indifference to the competition.



to be Lauding a pre season trophy as an iconic bit of silverware is a bit desperate for me.....



what's Brian McDermots finest Achievments as we read his CV this morning... his four Grand Final wins, two Challenge Cups wins, a League Leaders' Shield or a World Club Challenge. ??? the BBC have it right listing them in that order....



the main reason I'd like a world club Challenge win is because it would mean we would have won the Grand final in the first place.....nothing more... its the same as the Charity Shield... and that lasted 10 years too long.

you missed out the 1978 players no 6 trophy (JPS/Regal) as well.



We beat the mighty Widnes in that Final who were on their way to wining their first Championship in 103 (one hundred and three) years..

Quote the flying biscuit="the flying biscuit"you missed out the 1978 players no 6 trophy (JPS/Regal) as well. We beat the mighty Widnes in that Final who were on their way to wining their first Championship in 103 (one hundred and three) years..'" Sorry I was going off the clubs honours board which, inexplicably, was last updated in 2015 despite a CC Beaten Finalists and LLS to add. https://warringtonwolves.com/wolves-her ... b-honours/

Quote the flying biscuit="the flying biscuit"you missed out the 1978 players no 6 trophy (JPS/Regal) as well. We beat the mighty Widnes in that Final who were on their way to wining their first Championship in 103 (one hundred and three) years..'" Sorry I was going off the clubs honours board which, inexplicably, was last updated in 2015 despite a CC Beaten Finalists and LLS to add. https://warringtonwolves.com/wolves-her ... b-honours/

That sums up what you know if you think winning a trophy by beating the best the NRL has to offer is a 'nothing trophy'. It's only because you lot have never won it and never will never win it.



Unless this year is going to be 'your year' to be GF winners yet again and will beat the NRL top dogs next year. (no chance of either, by the way)



Talking of 'nothing trophies' you lot boast about your hub caps wins...except when you wanted Tony Smith out and cited not winning a major trophy since 2012 as one of the reasons you wanted rid. Then this so-called 'major trophy' you had bragged about was suddenly downsized to a minor one when it suddenly suited your agenda in getting rid of your coach.

Oh you still here,thought you had gone off to check up on the Championship clubs you will be visiting next season. Hang on a minute you probably still remember them as it’s not as long back as you WCC win since you was last there.

Just for JohnnoTheGreat.



The added sweetness of victory over the Wire too.

I can always remember when Widnes won the WCC. The week later you played us at Wilderspool in the "Lancashire Cup Semi Final".

It was one of the best games that I have ever seen at Wilderspool. We went on to win with Rocky Turner MOM. Jonathan Davies was getting a lot of stick from the crowd for an affair that he was having at the time.

Good to see Fred West had a chance to lift the cup before he went on a murderous rampage.

I remember Widnes fans spitting on JD when he came out of the tunnel at Naughton Park. Nice fans.

The NRL was formed in 1997 by the way. You beat an ARL side.



Maybe you aren't so well informed on the world club Challenge due to only being in it that one year, where as Wire have been involved in it in 1997, 2015, and 2017. In fact we beat Brisbane in the 2017 world club series Kevin Brown had a ripper of a game that day....



Back when you won the trophy it was so good and so important they couldn't be bothered playing for it the following year, this continued throughout the 1990's where they only bothered playing it 4 times in the whole decade. And then in 2000 it became the pre season warm up game we all love so much.



come on its a bobbins game the Aussies hate it....

Don't talk rubbish man! I can tell you from having lived over in Australia that they don't hate it at all. I think you're confusing some clubs not wanting to travel pre season with a disinterest in the competition. That's purely a question of prioritisation and is understandable given the monetary value of their domestic competition which is far in excess of our own.



If you believe what you have written here, explain the 54,000 that packed the Suncorp for Wigan's visit there or the 32,000 in Sydney when we took on the Roosters. Bigger crowds than anything outside our GF or CC final and bigger crowds than anything we've managed in the same competition apart from the Leeds game at Ellend Road.



As a fan, the best 2 victories I've ever had the pleasure of watching were the inaugural game against Manly and the aforementioned away win against Brisbane. At club level very few games have even come close. I dare say that had your club been involved in similar games that you would be saying the same.

...he has a point.