– we had to play rugby each week in our games lessons
– i was the only latics fan in the WHOLE school. the rest supported the rugby & if they did support a football team it was either man utd or liverpool.
– my school (st mary’s- standishgate) was RIGHT next door to central park. a huge grey wall separated the school & their ground.
– i used to hate it when in the early 90’s the likes of connolly, offiah & co used to walk round wigan town centre like they owned the joint.
– the council was always up their arses & would not help latics when we needed help. now the council are up our arses.
i could probably think of more reasons, but can’t at this moment in time.
I will always hate the T.wats no matter what.
That said, since our meteoric rise to become the number one sporting club in the town, they have paled into insignificance.
They may well still be the main club within their sport, but what does that mean really, when so few people have an interest in the game.
Wigan Athletic are part of a sport that is watched globally by billions, nationally by millions, and locally by hundreds of thousands of people.
More people watch football in a twenty five mile radius of Wigan than watch RL globally.
To be honest we may as well hate a local darts and dominos club as that is what they are equivalent to in real terms.
I personally have no interest in the game, and have never even watched a game on TV.
Whenever I have seen glimpses of it, it appears to be a chaotic brawl, with fat blokes occaisionally running over a line with a squashed football in their hands. Hardly skillful running over a line and then chucking yourself on the floor is it?
Each to their own though I suppose.
If the chubbs would get out of our ground, and their fans off our site, and leave us alone to watch our prima donna girlies play our game, the I think we would leave them alone to watch their thick fat thugs play their ‘sport’.
Never forget.
Bang on. i still say only for Whelan bailing them out. they would have been truly buried they broke the salary cap a couple of times under Whelan. then last year wishing him dead calling him not fit to burn.All the KLUMPS saying we will not be going to J.J.B that what it was called at the time.Next thing we hello MR WHELAN can we hang our flags from the gantry?can we use your ground for the riversiders supporters club.these horrible scroungeing NO SHAME. SPINELESS THUGS have more faces than a TOWN CLOCK never forget.You lot know you are the tinkers of the super league. Tha lower than a snakes belly :lol: :lol: :lol:
Times have changed, for every mention of the Warriors on Latics websites, you’ll find dozens about Latics on Warriors sites.
Really? Unless C&W has the most zealous moderating, then there’s hardly a mention of football on there, unlike threads like this that spring up pretty regularly.
So why do Wigan folk hate Wigan Warriors?
Lindsay. What he said in the 80’s about “little club and backyard” was at best immature. It was insulting to the loyal supporters of the football club and someone in his position should not have said it.
Latics not being allowed to use CP. I’m not sure of the exact history of this one, because I’ve heard two different versions. If it were a case of bloody mindedness (the blue version), then shame on the management company at the time. I have also heard that allowing the Latics to play Liverpool would have meant postponing a rugby fixture which was due to take place, and if thats the case then the refusal would be less of a crime than what DW did to the Warriors over the playoff game, when there was no clash – just the threat of him having to pay groundstaff overtime.
However, I feel that the real reason some folk hate Wigan Warriors is because they have history – over 100 years of it. They’ve arguably been the most successful sporting club side in living memory. They won their league 7 times in a row and the cup 8 times in a row. They have been World Club Champions 3 times.
You can call them “lodgers”, “tennants”, “cuckoos”, “chubbies”, “fatties”, “egg-chasers” all you like, but you cannot wipe out their history. They may be playing in “your” stadium, putting up flags in “your” stand, but like it or not, they are there and will continue to be there.
You dont like them because they have tasted the success you crave. They have ridden through Wigan on an open-top bus, parading trophy after trophy to thousands of cherry & white decorated Wiganers, all of them proud in the way those 13 lads put the town of Wigan on the map.
You dont like them because they have a side with home-grown talent in it, many of whom were supporters a few years ago. They know what its like to be a fan, and give 100% for the shirt. Whilst they have a few foreign players, they dont have a side packed with immigrant mercineries who do not give a flying fcuk about the town.
Above all, you dont like them because they are your rivals. Because the supporters of other football clubs see you as an insignificance.
Times have changed, for every mention of the Warriors on Latics websites, you’ll find dozens about Latics on Warriors sites.
Really? Unless C&W has the most zealous moderating, then there’s hardly a mention of football on there, unlike threads like this that spring up pretty regularly.[/quote]
Now your just making yourself look even more silly than usual.
However, I feel that the real reason some folk hate Wigan Warriors is because they have history – over 100 years of it. They’ve arguably been the most successful sporting club side in living memory. They won their league 7 times in a row and the cup 8 times in a row. They have been World Club Champions 3 times.
I bet Real Madrid ,Liverpool and Man Utd are creaming it!
And we play two of them twice every season and you play st helens and bradford…….. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Really? Unless C&W has the most zealous moderating, then there’s hardly a mention of football on there, unlike threads like this that spring up pretty regularly.
I’m banned on there for sticking up for wigan ath and if you carry on you,ll be receiving a c and w red card! You continue to be antagonistic and basically a boring sod!!!!! We are quite tolerant on this site of other teams fans it,s just a pity c & w arnt the same!
I don’t hate the sport or the team Mutty. I hate the fans because they live in the past like BWFC they’re obsessed with history. Nat fucking Lofthouse , Billy fucking Boston wow wee etc etc To quote Henry Ford I don’t give a fuck about ‘History’. Apart from the History we are making here and now as a once non league team that is now living the dream.
Times have changed, for every mention of the Warriors on Latics websites, you’ll find dozens about Latics on Warriors sites.
Really? Unless C&W has the most zealous moderating, then there’s hardly a mention of football on there, unlike threads like this that spring up pretty regularly.
So why do Wigan folk hate Wigan Warriors?
Lindsay. What he said in the 80’s about “little club and backyard” was at best immature. It was insulting to the loyal supporters of the football club and someone in his position should not have said it.
Latics not being allowed to use CP. I’m not sure of the exact history of this one, because I’ve heard two different versions. If it were a case of bloody mindedness (the blue version), then shame on the management company at the time. I have also heard that allowing the Latics to play Liverpool would have meant postponing a rugby fixture which was due to take place, and if thats the case then the refusal would be less of a crime than what DW did to the Warriors over the playoff game, when there was no clash – just the threat of him having to pay groundstaff overtime.
However, I feel that the real reason some folk hate Wigan Warriors is because they have history – over 100 years of it. They’ve arguably been the most successful sporting club side in living memory. They won their league 7 times in a row and the cup 8 times in a row. They have been World Club Champions 3 times.
You can call them “lodgers”, “tennants”, “cuckoos”, “chubbies”, “fatties”, “egg-chasers” all you like, but you cannot wipe out their history. They may be playing in “your” stadium, putting up flags in “your” stand, but like it or not, they are there and will continue to be there.
You dont like them because they have tasted the success you crave. They have ridden through Wigan on an open-top bus, parading trophy after trophy to thousands of cherry & white decorated Wiganers, all of them proud in the way those 13 lads put the town of Wigan on the map.
You dont like them because they have a side with home-grown talent in it, many of whom were supporters a few years ago. They know what its like to be a fan, and give 100% for the shirt. Whilst they have a few foreign players, they dont have a side packed with immigrant mercineries who do not give a flying fcuk about the town.
Above all, you dont like them because they are your rivals. Because the supporters of other football clubs see you as an insignificance.[/quote]
“Above all, you dont like them because they are your rivals. Because the supporters of other football clubs see you as an insignificance”.
Yep exactly like Bolton who are a relic from the 1930’s and the Warriors are involved in a tough but parochial sport. About as relevant as gaelic football or aussie rules.
Really? Unless C&W has the most zealous moderating, then there’s hardly a mention of football on there, unlike threads like this that spring up pretty regularly.
I’m banned on there for sticking up for wigan ath and if you carry on you,ll be receiving a c and w red card! You continue to be antagonistic and basically a boring sod!!!!! We are quite tolerant on this site of other teams fans it,s just a pity c & w arnt the same!
If you dont like to hear the opposing viewpoint then why allow threads like this to remain? I didnt realise that the anti-rugby threads were for an exclusive club and that offering a different viewpoint is a crime.
Talk about chips on shoulders fellas….some of you have the whole fcuking potato crop!