im an old school fan and have always wanted to revert back to wigan rlfc.

having said that, although it took a bit of getting used to i refer to them as warriors......it makes them distinct from latics in a way.

i travel the country a lot and wear the rugby shirt most of summer and get asked "do you support wigan?"....when i say yes, they tell me they support aston villa or summat.......so i stress WARRIORS.

lots of folk away from the north think latics are the only team in wigan.
strange, but true.

That's how I refer to the two anyway

I've grown up knowing Wigan as Wigan Warriors so it doesn't really matter to me what we're called.

As Jim Trott said, No, no, no .........Yes !!!

They should also take a leaf out of progressive local amateur side 'Wigan Riversiders' book and drop the 'Football' from the name. Wigan RLC is the way forward.

Yes, I will support anything you do to junk that awful name.

Makes no odds to me. Its just a modern gimmick.

Going off this thread so far, apart from one post everybody would like to see us drop the tag.

I remember at the first fans forum that this question was raised on the spot without much time to weigh up an answer and a decision was made by show of hands. It was about 50/50 and the name was kept...But I think IL and JL should have looked into this further and asked people why should they keep it and do we really benefit from having the 'tag'?

If people read this and are able to post, please do so. It would be interesting to know peoples opinions. After all, it is our identity.

Bit selective that Alex!

Lenagan has not stated that he likes it.

At the first fans forum he asked the question that is being posted on here.

The show of hands vote at that forum was about 50:50.

Lenagan said that he was surprised how close the vote was.


It looks as though it's just as close according to this poll.

This subject has been brought up many times on here and I always have the same opinion.

For me, Wigan RL is associated with success and trophies. Wigan Warriors is associated with failure and underachievement.

I would love us to drop the Warriors tag.

I was just going off the thread so far, that's all.

Fair enough if some/majority of people want to keep it. But I'd like to know their reasons for doing so like Phuzzy has done.

We should drop Warriors straight away. For decades 'WIGAN' in sport meant rugby league, and I hate it when Latics are referred to as simply 'Wigan'. They are 'Wigan Athletic', just as we should be 'Wigan RL'.

I'd hate it even more, if latics became 'Wigan' and we became 'The Warriors' in popular culture.

Correct. Anyone voting not to remove the Warriors tag is confirming themselves as a Latics fan, in my opinion.

That's just silly, Dave.

This is already starting to happen which is why we need to drop it.

We are Wigan they are latics.

You started it, Don.

Not according to the poll.

I added the poll after I made that post.

For some reason, most of those people who want to keep the tag aren't posting their reasons why?

heres mine.......we added it in the name of progress and its now a world wide name.
why change back for the sake of it?

had you ask me 5 years ago, i would have said drop it, but now its become synonymous with the club, so i say leave it.

I voted 'yes'. I think it works, especially with young children. The 'tags' that the clubs have adopted have been important in the SL era to give clubs easily recognisable brands. Regardless of tradition/history/whatever, the 'Warriors' brand is used effectively as a marketing tool and helps to get youngsters' attention.

I sat with 5-year old Miss JTB on Saturday night with the replay of the match on TV and when she spotted Mighty Max she was leaping around with excitement (and I don't think it was the Quavers). That can only be a good thing.

We added the tag because of the introduction of Super League.

Have we benefited from the 'Warrior' tag? I can't think of any evidence of us doing so. In regards to 'Warriors' being a world wide name, well due to lack of silverware and a lack of achievments on the pitch our name hasn't really been circulated world wide. In fact I doubt those outside of the UK who heard of Wigan pre-1996 know that we have changed our name to 'Warriors' because we have not done anything to warrent being in the world media.

But apart from Max, in what other way to way utilise our 'Warrior' name?

Drop it

We don't need to be called Warriors to have mascots for the kids