I am proud to say that my home village of Burtonwood is now turning back primrose + blue after decades of moving towards the Red V.

Walking past the rugby field and all the kids now are sporting Wire tops, hardly a Saints shirt in sight!!!

Now Saints are on the slide an Wire are on the rise after 30 years as whipping boys I am glad to say that normal order has been resumed!

You used to get loads of glory hunters in Warrington (like Saddened) when Saints were winning things.... You don't see as many Saints tops around our town anymore....

They're all in hiding because Warrington have turned good. Sport is cyclical though and we'll rise to the top once again sometime in the next 30 years no doubt.

Agree but mainly Wiganers in the middle to late 90's when we was pants.

All the bandwagoners typical of that guy Saddened seem to have jumped ship back to Wire, lets hope we can keep it that way! The last Saints output in Burtonwood is the Bridge Inn which was owned by my arch enemy Roy Mattaiahs (ex Saints skipper), that is slowly getting filled by Wires!

Just to mention....pre season at Latchford Albion...next years u14s are reporting lots of new players....as are Rylands...Crosfields.......the more the merrier. Watching a successful Warrington team playing fast entertaining rugby seems to be feeding through to junior recruitment

A tip of the cap to Burtonwood..........

I assume its still Burtonwood Bulldogs, my eldest used to go down when he was about 6 before we left for the 'Land of Sand'.

A tip of the cap to Burtonwood..........

I assume its still Burtonwood Bulldogs, my eldest used to go down when he was about 6 before we left for the 'Land of Sand'.

I coach the U15s and the new U7s at Burtonwood and at the U7s we have twelve Warrington supporting kids and only one Saints lad. Ten years or go or more and this would have been the other way around.

Mind you I am taking my middle lad out of Warrington to play down at Blackbrook so it is not all one way traffic.

this thread doesnt even make sense, burtonwood is in warrington anyway but is nearer to st helens town centre than warrington.

your bound to get some saints fans there eitherway, get over it.

on another note, good to see wires however if the saints fans were glory hunters when they were winning what about the wire fans that have emerged now eh ?

get over it

True it is nearer to Saints town centre but is in Warrington borough, you could say the same about Penketh being nearer to Widnes than Warrington.

The fact is Wire are claiming more fans, which means our support base is growing by the year and hence the reason for stadium expansion.

What part doesn't make sense? When I was at Sankey High all the lads from Burtonwood supported Saints, and you rarely saw a Wire shirt up there. Past few times I have driven past the playing field there has been loads of kids in Warrington shirts, and that is a good thing to see. QED.

Who was that chap who used to come on here, post absolute tosh, hack people off with said tosh, and then eventually got himself banned??.....Wasn't he a Burtonwood chap too??....Do you know him Raymond??...

how can Penketh be nearer to Widnes than Warrington, when it is in Warrington???

Means nothing, Burtonwood is in Warrington but is closer to St Helens town centre than Warrington town centre.

I moved to Burtonwood a few years ago and was initially surprised that it is dominated by St Helens fans. I play for the open age rugby team and probably about 75% of my team mates are St Helens fans.

That isn't typical at the Bulldogs youth and junior though. Interesting to see if the village can support the Bridge team and the new open age Bulldogs team.

Have you mastered the banjo yet, citywolf?

Ha ha, not yet.

Still have all my fingers at the minute too.

Personally I don't think they can. The Bridge was struggling last year and we don't appear to be gaining any new players for next season. Have lost 1 or 2 through retirement. I'm only playing next year as really don't want to see them short.

It's a shame the 2 committees couldn't come to an agreement and merge, not sure what went wrong.

Question on the bulldogs. If they are stepping up into Open age, where are they going to get the more experience players from? Probs not within the village as the bridge have the majority.

Why oh why has such a little village now got 2 teams? Mark_m any key reasons why no merger took place?

The lads at Burtonwood Bridge have all been brainwashed at a young age by their former Saints player coach!

The Bulldogs are wazza through and through look at the Evans brothers as an example.

The Evans brothers who were brought to Burtonwood by Warrington? Any proof they were wazza through and through when living in Wales?

You leave Uncle Roy alone

Brainwashing has nothing to do with it. Try loyalty.

I only joined 4 seasons ago but wouldn't want to play anywhere else. The lads were fantastic from day one. And for a small club they certainly do their fair share of touring, Canada, America and Brugen to name but three.

Roy may be stubborn at times but he genuinely loves the club and wants it to succeed.

I've no idea why the two clubs never merged and think it's a shame.

there lies the problem you can either be a pub team who are only interested on going on tour each year or have a bit of ambition and put all the effort into climbing up the divisions and entering all cup competitions.

think you will find the bulldogs will be supporting one open age team shortly, and it wont be named after a pub

But that isn't the problem at all, unfortunately you've completely missed the point.

Burtonwood is a small village on the out skirts of Warrington. At open age it's difficult to attract players for various reasons. Lack of facilities, travelling distances, larger and more established clubs centrally located around Warrington etc.....

We have a very small squad of players, take into account injuries, players working and other reasons people aren't available on a Saturday and that small squad suddenly dwindles to a bare 13 players or less.