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"We’ve been to some places together us lads, haven’t we?" Matt Peet, head coach of the Wigan Warriors, asks his players.
"It is half an hour before a landmark occasion inside Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium, the first Super League game played on U.S. soil up against the Warrington Wolves. Rugby league has a new frontier and its reigning World Club Champions are urged not to pass up the opportunity that awaits them outside of the dressing room where they sit.
We might play in Las Vegas once in our lives," says Peet. "Once. And you’ll look back on this whole trip and it’ll make your f***ing heart burst because you were doing it with this group."
Wigan have seen things others won’t. Last season brought a clean sweep of trophies in English rugby league, with a victory over Penrith Panthers — Australia’s finest team — last February making it an all-conquering campaign. No side had ever achieved such a feat.
Las Vegas became the next adventure on Saturday in the first of four rugby league games played across nine hours and a relentless Wigan team — playing in a special stars-and-stripes kit — do not disappoint. A 48-24 victory sees Warrington dragged into what Peet calls the "deep waters" and held under. It was a domination watered down by their opponents’ futile late rally.
"Anyone who tries to tell you it was just two points — they weren’t here, they weren’t you," says Peet afterwards, with cans of Modelo beer in the hands of most of the players he addresses. "Get your chests out and celebrate it."
…and so on.
