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Hmm Ian Botham played for Scunthorpe but to my knowledge there has never been a major international sports star from that particular town. Kevin Keegan was born in Donny if that helps our fat fingered egg chasing lurker

I don’t really understand why there should be so much pride in Wigan producing so many international rugby league players, there aren’t really internationals at all. You can only really call yourself an international if your sport is played internationally and rugby league is only taken seriously in 3 or 4 countries. Can you really call it a World Cup when 99% of the world doesn’t play it? It’s like saying the Spanish are world champion bullfighters or Ireland produces the best Gaelic footballers. The Great Britain team don’t really represent GB either, they represent the hand ful of towns who bother to play the game. When noone else plays it, the sentiment is quite meaningless. I mean, why would somewhere like Birmingham or Newcastle produce international RL Stars when they don’t even play the game? Where else other than Wigan, St Helens, Warrington Hull Bradford or Leeds would a RL player come from? They barely play it anywhere else

The cheese rollers in Gloucestershire will be claiming to be international cheese rollers next :roll:

the last time Wigan RL played Fulham there was less than 4000 on if i recall

it was a top of the table clash as well (division two)

no idea how many fulham brought of that 4000 though

This last bit is simply not true. That first season we moved to the JJB our crowds doubled from 3500 to 7000 and i was amazed at those first few games as it was full of people who used to openly take the p1ss out of me for being a Latics fan. rugby fans who used to sneer down their noses at Latics and people I’d gone to school with in the 70’s and 80’s who never had any interest in Latics even though Gidlow Middle was only a few hundred yards away.

There’s loads of kids now probably anyone up to the age of 25 who were simply too young to have bothered with Springfield, they probably wouldn’t have either if Whelan hadn’t have come along and moved us to the new ground so moving has been a positive thing in that we attract the young uns more easier. Good on em, as vat says not jcls, every kid now should grow up loving their local club although its not easy with sky etc

JCLs are the middle aged fellas who never went to Springfield Park, supported another team or the ones who claim to go when we were in non league even though our league crowds were under 1500 in the 70s abnd again in the 90s. Using those crowds as a base when we were really shit 90% of our fans are jcl’s and have never seen us get beat at Barnet when 92nd in the league or relegated against Plymouth. Youd never get 9% of our fans to admit they werent there though let alone 90. Wiganers are just fickle as anything, that last season before we got into the league, we’d get 1200 for a league game against Stafford Rangers and then 15000 against Sheffield Wednesday in the cup. If we’re honest, Theres not many out there who really did stick with the club through all the lean years despite the many thousands who now claim they did

Why don’t you pair of bell ends f*ck off and stop spoiling what used to be a decent board before it got full of your rubbish

No I wasn’t referring to you Arky

I was referring to WTBMA, or Wigan’s Turning Blue My Arse to give him his full title :roll:

So as we’ve won today, rather than being pleased you just come on and have a go at a player :roll:

I suppose if that shot would have gone in, you’d have asked it to be chalked off?

The point for me is loyalty

I was born in Wigan, grew up in Wigan and may well die in Wigan and have supported Wigan Athletic for over 30 years

They are my team, and always will be and that’s the reason I turn up, no matter how much they piss me of

If the small matter of us not winning anything if enough reason to question why you bother then you aren’t much of a football fan

There are fans of other clubs up and down the country who go a lifetime without seeing their team win anything, but they still go because it is their team and they are loyal.

Apart from a handful of top teams, this is the existence of a football supporter: to put up with years, even decades of sh1t in the vain hope that for the odd year or two, your team might actuallty achieve something

If all you’re bothered about is results then go watch United with the rest of the sheep in Wigan

Hope that helps

It would be a great break if half our team weren’t jetting off around the world, not due back till Thursday. I guess the excuse is already lined up if we look sluggish on Saturday as all two of our forwards will be on the other side of the world for the best part of a week, not sure West Ham have the same problem as us in this respect

As we’ve got Arse and Chelsea after that though we need a big result against West Ham