I would rather watch a game of rugby union than watch Latics.

Yet another boring tics thread..

i dont care if they stay up win the league get relegated or go bust..they simply dont interest me.

I wouldnt, I usually go and watch Coventry City purely for the comedy value and to watch the mongy Cov fans get wound up



Whereas watching Union just frustrates me!

Who?

I would watch some games if Whelan had nowt to do with them, the less money I can give him the better

Oldham Athletic

That's my dads joke "they're not the latics the latics are oldham" he's a crewe fan like me though.

FWIW I would try and go to watch both if i didn't live in London, although i'd probably have to pick and choose the footy games because of cost. I've seen them play a bit down here and i feel pretty proud to have the Warriors bossing Super League and the Latics just having a presence in the Premier League. Obviously, it looks like i'm in a minority...

You're the mentality thats missing that I dont understand why its missing.

Though if you read Cockney Latic I can see why noone would want to associate with that crowd. If they go down all those idiots will probably run off though and the Latics will be worthy of support but not just now.

It's getting like that cockney latics forum on here let them argue about us i dont care what they do

I hope they go down and stay down

I'm happy to admit I support both Warriors and the Latics. I don't understand the reasoning behind why some people from each side hate the other, but that might be to me being 17 and not old enough to know about it.

One town, two teams in my eyes.

Is that reply an exact example of whats wrong not just with Rubgy and Football in Wigan but for all the major conflicts in the World. Middle East, Irish paramilitary etc. We all got to hate someone as some bigot somewhere told us to do so. Look at us Welsh im supposed to not like the English for someting that happened in 1280ish. Bloody heck i cant remember what i did last week. But most of the people i know really hates the English for doing sod all to them but something happended very serious and very bad which no one is certain of but knows it happened. Ohh and it was the English to blame.

No one bloody knows why the Latics hates the Warriors. They have an apparent reason for it but personally i think its jealousy.

totally agree, I have absolutely no interest in football.

the only reason I would be bothered if the Latics were relegated was if it affected WRLFC in any way.

I don't hate them, I just don't care about them.

I have absolutely no interest in football, especially latics, although I had to watch man u v chelsea the other night due to the other half being man u mad!
Just had a look at that cockney latic forum, the non football message boards first 5 threads include the rugby! theres about 15 threads about the rugby, obsessed much?

Its got to be jealousy. How can they propose that they do not care about the "thugby" (irony much?!) as they call it yet have so many threads about it on there and I bet that theres almost as many threads on there about Rugby as there are about the football!

Sadly not. Some of the old timers could tell you about the abuse suffered on the old website when Latics were in the 3rd league tier, or whatever it was called then.

going by titles, there are 13 titles about rugby (I presume "ellegren jackets" is about us) out of however many threads there is. God knows how many threads are about the rugby under a general title!
Theres a couple of people on there who put them right when they're talking poop about us though, jewel, Eagle Eye and Wigan Peer (isn't WP on here too?)

+1

Looking at it from a distance,it's clear the hostility more comes from the Wigan RL fans.

Wigan RL had all the limelight in that town for years and years while the football side lived in it's shadow,but along came the football team in the town who made it to the biggest league in the world and took the limelight off the RL side and the Rugby fans couldn't handle it.

Werent really that bothered about them untill I started my new job last year where there are a couple of Latics fans there who simply hate Wigan Rugby! I asked them why and they couldnt explain it just mumbling 'its a sport', or something along those lines.

Enjoy watching them lose now just to wipe the smile off their smug faces

Really?

One town, I'm a "Wiganer" and I support Wigan. I don't care if that's RL, Football Cricket etc..that's just me though and I'm sure everyone else has their reasons to be different.

IMO the bickering from both sides holds back the potential of massive support on the terraces for both sides.

Anyway I can't be bothered to argue about it, I ain't trying to convert anyone!

i really dont like the latics at all,
been kinda a half supporter for many a year, used go down with granddad on a sat.
there recent "success" has made them arrogant that coupled with the general arrogance of football im beginning to hate them
on the flip side tho, i hate the fact that all the pundits and papers run wigan down all the time, no matter what angle they are looking at wigan is always crap.

I know what you're saying about the media, Sky are the worst for small clubs in the premier league. If your not a top 6 club fan it ain't worth listening/watching!

And a lot of the arrogance comes from the new "fans" who have not seen the bad times. Success breeds arrogance, and it's there to be seen at every successful clubs terraces in the country. Have a walk around our own ground and have a listen, it's unbelievable compared to a couple of years ago!

I think the root of it all, and it is prob the same for most of the warriors fans who hate the latics, its the general arrogance of football.
They think they are better than everyone else and want everything their own way,