I think it's logical for teams to have a few 'rivalries', but there will always be that one that stands out for you. We had a massive rivalry with Bradford and Leeds etc back in the day, but Wigan always stood out as [ithe one[/i.

Saints will always be our biggest rivals but at the minute Wire are our biggest threat to achieving success.

Good post. As a Wire fan, I would always expect that the Saints v Wigan rivalry is the biggest. Rivalry and threat are two completely different things.

Beating Saints means just a little bit more. But the disappointment of losing to either is equal at the moment I'd say. Horrible feeling!

I've got plenty family members who still see Leigh as a bigger rival than Warrington.

Well, you are quite behind the times down your neck o'er the woods aint ya

Are they still darn pit wondering when the next shift change is, 'Wee'us next shift John? uewor maud mus be pig sick, bin darn ere berrt 10 yeer narr'

Staines are like the wasp sting, Wire the bluebottle which keeps buzzing around.
Do not want a wasp sting the bluebottle just bat it away with a rolled up Oldham Chron, if you get my drift.

Yes. Without a shadow of a doubt. I dislike saints, I hate warrington. Wigan v saints has become like a friendly rivalry over the last few seasons. The warrington game has an edge to it, it is a genuine dislike of eachother.

Not really. Not heard rugby league clubs compared to diptera before. Bit low-brow, don't you think?

As a Wire fan for 40 years, Widnes will always be our main rivals.

Rivalry appears to be based on geographic proximity.

Who ever said rugby league was parochial?

wigan fans don't like to admit it, but it kills them that a little old club like Warrington, can 'give them a game' nowadays

Though I'm sure that their arrogance will stop them from overly admitting it.

Haven't all opposing fans formed a special dislike of Warrington since the move to HJ?

When Saints played Leeds in the elimination playoff I wanted Saints to win. That's partly because they were the underdogs (I think many people root for the underdogs), and partly because someone had to stop Leeds winning another GF.

I feel genuinely sorry for you. mind you I love the way you write Wigan in capitals, but can't do the same with Saints and Warrington. Does it make you, as a Wigan fan, superior to us mere mortals?

Wasps are Hymenoptera (along with bees and ants), meaning 'joined wings' as they have a set of small hooks on the hind edge of the forewings that joins them to the hind wing.

Flies are Diptera, meaning two wings as they only have one pair of true wings. The hind wings having become vestigial bodies called haltiers that aid balance and turning in flight.

I would also say that Rochdale warrior's analogy works fairly well IMO.

You've always given us a game, even when we were hoovering up pots and you were thrashing fodder for most other teams.

Given the hysterical reaction to beating Warrington on Saturday, I think it's fair to say all Wigan fans now see Wire as their biggest rivals thesedays.

I didn't see nowhere near as much hysteria when Wigan beat St Helens at Old Trafford 3 years ago.

It's a good point..........but it's a point that no doubt the Wigan fans will deny until they are blue in the face.

However, the Warrington forum backs up your point perfectly.

That's also probably due to the manner in which the game was won

I highly doubt that. For a start it had been our first GF win in 12 years and until that point we were still in Saints shadow. Wire are our rivals, yes, and probably our biggest current threat, but there just isn't that same history of hatred that there is between Wigan and Saints nor the same imbalance of success that there was between us during much of the summer era. If anything, Wigan and Wire have risen together, whereas when we beat Saints we displaced them.

Wigan v Saints is always massive even when one team is going through a blip. Rivalries like Wigan v Warrington, Saints v Leeds, Saints v Bradford etc are only massive games when both teams are at the top.

I work in Warrington so over the years, my personal biggest rivals have shifted from Saints to Warrington. And over the 8 years I've been here I've seen a shift in the Saints fans too who invariably want us to beat Wire. It probably says more about Warrington's improving competitiveness than anything else.