From my point of view only coming of age in 78/79 at Wigan, I had the feeling that our crowd had missed out on something special by being too young to have gone to the Wheel/Torch and even the early Wigan years.
The older lads we knew who'd been probably made this worse with the stories we were told about how good it was etc Also at this time there was a feeling that some of the "coolness" had gone with the over commercialisation/ media stories, the clothes had gone downhill with beer towels/ 40" bags and crap like Muriel Day being massive sounds.
Having said that we had some great times and looking back you can filter out the rubbish and remember things like Searlings big push back to quality tunes of that time. Wouldnt have missed it for the world