THE size of the travelling support suggests that Wigan are still the team most Wire fans want to see their team beat, and as ever they generated a great atmosphere.

Another epic contest between these two fierce rivals ensued.

Wigan opened the scoring when they engineered and took advantage of an overlap on their left close to the Wire line.

The rest of the first half was dominated by Warrington, with the same intensity and speed they had the previous week. Bridge coming across from the left to right created an overlap of their own and Joel Monaghan scored one of the easier tries he's scored all season.

Short passes and good running off the ball punched some holes down the middle of the Wigan defence and Myler's trademark excellent support play allowed him to score between the posts.

Monaghan's second try was one of the many miraculous finishes he has produced. Myler floated a teasing kick over the Wigan defence, but it looked for all the world that it would go out of play before any Wire player could get to it, somehow Monaghan caught the ball whilst sliding and grounded it about an inch before the dead ball line.

After half time Wigan launched a worryingly familiar comeback and started to dominate possession and in particular territory.

Whilst near the Wire line they always looked likely to score sooner or later. Two tries saw them cut the lead to six points, that was when the match boiled over and started to take on the look of Bridge Street at 3am on a particularly rowdy night.

Wood was lucky to avoid a red card after landing punches, while Mcilorum looked as if he desperately wanted to be first one in the Wigan bath.

Just when Wire looked to have stemmed the tide, a rare bad decision with the ball by Michael Monaghan lead to an interception try by Charnley and Wigan were back to within two points.

Not long afterwards Green barged his way over well enough to get the benefit of the doubt to be awarded the match-winning try.

Coming from fifth spot the play-offs are beautifully simple, no second chances, no weeks off, a home tie against our most local rivals, then it will take two wins on the road to get back to Old Trafford.

No destination truly worth getting to has an easy journey.