Quote ="Cruncher"There are lots of factors in why people cheer for teams other than their own.
First of all there's the underdog thing. Then there's the rivalry issue.
I would almost never cheer for Saints, as I suspect Saints fans would almost never cheer for Wigan. But there are exceptions. For example, if Saints were playing Warrington I would support Saints simply because Warrington appear to be the bigger threat to us at present. I would support Saints against an Aussie team, because the Aussie still have problems with arrogance and ego which put all of us in the shade.
I suppose another factor is how you've been received by away fans in the last fixture and so on. I've never felt as if I wasn't welcome at Saints, whereas at Warrington they specialise in that kind of thing. I've always enjoyed the atmosphere at both Hull and Hull KR, so I'm usually fine with them, but Leeds have been exceptionally bitter and twisted since they fell from grace, so as things are they will almost never get my vote.
Though Bradford are a club I've never had a particular beef with, I loathed and detested them for a year after the last Grand Final in which we played them, simply because the group of Bradford fans we got stuck on the tram with were pigs of a sort I've never seen before or since in RL. I suspect it's human nature to respond to that kind of thing by taking it out on what they represent.
Anyway, it's all swings and roundabouts, as Nobby would say.'"
Funny, I have the same dislikes, and amicabilities to the other clubs as you do.
