too right mate.

one word.......STANLEY MATTHEWS ( SIR)

That's 3

Ahhh...takes me back to that night at the fans forum. Eee we did chuckle.

Was walking the dog last week wearing my Wigan top and a little chavtastic car with two lads wearing latics tops give me the sticks and shout out the window I simply kissed my badge at them, I am now firmly behind Latics getting relegated.

I have no problem at all whatsoever with anyone walking around Wigan with a Latics top on, they are wearing their hometown team's shirt.
What I do take exception to is having snide remarks made to me or my young kids when wearing Wigan RL shirts around Wigan which has happened a couple of times recently. Wouldn't mind if I was walking around Warrington, St Helens or even Leigh but, again it's our home town FFS....!!!
And for this reason, the days of Latics playing Canvey Island again can't come soon enough.

Happens all time mate

Best one that happened to me was when i was in town with my wigan shirt on. and this chav came over started singing if you hate wigan thugby..all i could do was laugh because he was wearing a latics top and a man utd baseball cap

When quized him about wearing two teams the smile dropped of his face and he jogged on

Unbelievable.

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Me to

Its chavs and idiots like that and the two in the car who really i hate..but its them who will drop latics like a bad habit when there relagated.

have you ever watched phoenix nights??

its a brian potterism

Last week about 7.00pm one night my lad, aged 12 got out of a relatives car on Wallgate to post a letter at the GPO. He was wearing his Wigan shirt. A fat bloke in his 50's staggered out of a pub and threatened to f-ing tear his throat out if he didn't take that f-ing shirt off. Big man.

Funny how a lot of these stories involve threats made by adults against little kids. There appears to be a concerted effort from some scumbag latics cowards to make Wigan RL fans reluctant to show their colours in public.

My lad, from having a somewhat open mind towards Latics now has an entrenched opposition towards them. And they wonder why Wiganers don't get behind them in numbers and why only 12,000 home fans turned up to watch them in their biggest game of the season against United.

I can only say that I haven't noticed much of this. I see as many Wigan RL shirts as I see Latics shirts.

The colours stat that really amuses me is the number of Latics shirts I see around town - usually in places like Tesco - when Latics are playing at home.



You can tell by the gormless expressions on most of their faces that they don't even realise the club whose colours they are wearing has got a game.

Last night I was reading this thread and there was alink to the Cockney Liar!

I made the mistake of clicking on it and wasting 20mins of my life looking at the most absolutely disgusting comments from Football fans on various subjects inc Wigan Rugby and Yet they have the Nerve to call us "Vermin, Knuckle Draggers" etc etc!!!!!!!
It's no wonder what happened at West Ham the other night occurred!
Even then the Footy fans blame the Police for there not being enough of them!!!!!!!!!
We all know that if there was No Police at the Footy nearly every match would descend into a Free for all !!!!

It was amazing how many cocky, aggressive posts there were on various subjects all mouthing off and threatening each other and yet we all know that they are exactly like all the Chavvy knoobs you see on every street corner! Full of hot air and Nowt to back it up!

One post said something about Rugby being "Soft Whinging Barstewards!"!

I'll tell you what, ask em to come down to the Bridge or Pats and put a Metal detector on the gate and say No blades past here but theres a few lads waiting for you on the inside and We'd soon see who the soft Barstewards were then!!!!!!!

I've told numerous people (And a few posters on here & you know who you are!

) that there's no middle ground on this as far as they are concerned so the lines been drawn and that's fine by me!

I know which side I am on!

They are starting to hit the skids now and they know it. Panic-stricken by their unavoidable slide into mediocrity they will resort to what they do best... attacking Wigan RLFC.

The class will rise to the top

They will never be able to accept that their ball is the wrong bloody shape.

Precisely, this is the very reason for my user name.

theres plenty of middle ground on this issue,and theres plenty of bigots on both sides of the arguement too

I too took some time to trawl throough some of the posts on the Latics message board and was apalled by the vitriol which is poured out there.

I sincerely hope that this is from a small minority and I feel sorry for the true Latics supporters who have to put up with this behaviour. I have some friends who are really decent people who have supported Latics all their life who wouldn't dream of descending to this sort of level. All they want to do is enjoy their stay in the premier league whilst it lasts; but being there seems to have given some of their fans ideas above their station.

I suspect that most of the rugby and football fans have little interest in the other side but don't hate them. I blame it all on the premier league.

Both sets of fans should fear the premier league. Latics are not going to stay there and will be affected , like rugby, because the hysterical blanket coverage in all media is swaying more and more youngsters to the idea that it is better to watch a load of foreigners play another load of foreigners, either live or on TV, rather than watch you own proper home town team no matter what shaped balls they play with.

You may have gathered that I think the premier league is a carbuncle on the face of British sport. It has badly affected the national football team, all other clubs in the football league, and making minority sports like ours even more obscure to the general public.

In my honest opinion it has brought the worst out of the players who play in it, it has brought the worst out of some of the Latics fans who support it and it has brought the worst out of club chairman who try to deal with the pressure of competing in it. And the root of all this is money, money and money,It is the worst thing ever to happen to the British sporting scene in my lifetime

Rant over.

That's what happens when you don't have any real rivals in your own sport.
To be honest I think it's a great thing having a Premier League football team in the town. I've never had a problem with Latics. What I can't stand is a section of their so called fans.

hoops youre spot on in what you say but its not just rugby league and the latics that should fear the premier league even the likes of aston villa,everton,newcastle and spurs should be feared as well because if the money men get thier own way the next step will be a european league and that really will be a closed shop for only the very richest and biggest clubs in europe.
as i say there are sections of both clubs supporters who are eqaully as bigotted against each other,my personal view is that maurice lyndsey is more to blame than anyone else {maybe eqaulled by whelan}
his attitude towards the latics in the 80s stunk as much as whelans does towards the rugby now and this has led to a division of sorts between the towns sporting teams.
myself im proud to be from wigan and hope both teams can do as well as they possiblly can

Fancy a laugh?

[urlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mbwzk/The_League_Cup_Show_2009_2010_26_08_2009/[/url

About 1:30 in.

I hate to tell you this, but anyone who inclines towards Latics on this forum, even cautiously as you are, is going to get very short shrift.

There's been far too much damage done to Wigan RL's reputation - or at least attempted damage - by the the mere presence of Wigan Athletic in recent years (and that's before we even consider the concerted campaign to undermine us), for anyone other than those who support both teams to adopt the 'understanding' approach that you recommend.

And frankly, anythying Maurice Lindsay may have said way back in the 1980s - which is a like a quarter of a century ago - is neither here nor there, given that Latics were completely inconsequential at the time, both to Wigan and the rest of the world, and given that Maurice is no longer anything to do with the rugby.

If you genuinely want to reunite these two clans, hinting that you think Wigan RL are the cause of this divide - when Wigan RL are the original creators and long-term propogators of this town's sporting glory, and therefore have an inalienable right to hold pole position here - then I'd suggest you're going the wrong way about it.