ah yes, but they will hate everything that the Warrior succeed and everybody involved.

take it as a win.

Quote ="sergeant pepper"Really sad to see the lack of acknowledgment of his passing from Latics. He's a former chairman of their club and whilst some of the fan base might not have liked him, you'd expect a club to be above that.'" https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL/sta ... 2913856517 Literally the first reply. They were never going to do more than that.

Quote ="sergeant pepper"Really sad to see the lack of acknowledgment of his passing from Latics. He's a former chairman of their club and whilst some of the fan base might not have liked him, you'd expect a club to be above that.'" https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL/sta ... 2913856517 Literally the first reply. They were never going to do more than that.

This.

I understand the reasons why people from that era disliked him, but sometimes you just have to keep your opinions to yourself.

RIP Maurice.

If only as a sport we had taken the success of the 95 World Cup and ran with it who knows where we could be today.

That was a great tournament. Remember watching England/Fiji at Central Park and it was packed.

Fast forward to the 2000 edition and it was a nightmare.

I know it's not like for like and there's more of a back story with Mo, but Wigan paid respects when the son of the new Latics owner died. Like I said it's not in the same ball park, but showed a touch of class for someone not related to the club in anyway way, never mind a former chairman.

Comments can be turned off on most social platforms too. There's more they could have done, but I don't expect anything less from them.

Saints fans jeering and singing through the minutes applause for him last night too. Just shows what we already know about both sets of fans. Latics and Saints are scum, their bleating about how great they are but in reality just bridesmaids to the most popular and successful team by a million miles and they can't handle it. Warrington usually get my ire for their behaviour towards away fans but Saints have just taken their crown. I have never liked St Helens because they are our dearest rivals but I always respected them as a rival but after all these years of them having my respect, they can respectfully swivel on it. Absolute scum. Their little horrible clan on redvee epitomises everything about them. And Latics.... You can make damn sure I will be on to their forums to pay my respects to Dave Whelan when it happens in exactly the same manner as they have shown. Fat 50-60 odd year old sad acts who bring their rag bag druggie kids up to hate Wigan Rugby because they have small penises and an inferiority complex.

I said at the time that an applause rather than a silence was a good idea given the two teams involved and their hatred of all things Wigan, but then you could still hear the song coming through. At least it wasn't anything aimed at him personally.

You know what, Wigan get loads of stick from fans. The "evil club", "no class" & "arrogance" etc, but when you see stuff like this it doesn't add up.

I look how the club recognised Ratchford after his testimonial game, or how they've celebrated Burrow. The club go above the petty stuff that tarnishes fans (lord knows I've thrown mud).

The moron's on Redvee and Latics need to take a long hard look at themselves.

I don’t think there’s a club that does more to show it’s class than Wigan at the moment. It’s driven by Rads by the looks of things and it’s something he can be extremely proud of. Every players milestones are celebrated, regardless of the club they play for.

It goes beyond that as well for me. Obviously we have the Sinfield and Burrow thing in the reception which we didn't need to do as neither have any connection to Wigan and we have displayed it for all to see rather than hide it away somewhere (we also auctioned our shirts off for MND which I didn't see any other club doing) but it's the whole way we conduct ourselves.

If the same thing happens to us next week (heaven forbid) as happene to Saints in 2019 with a poor VR call, do you think IL and KR write the article that McManus wrote? In fact, we didn't even mention it in 2017 IIRC after the Tony Clubb decision we just congratulated Hull and moved on.

We will never win some fans over regardless of what we do or the facts you put in front of them that dispels the myth they promote, we're hated for a reason, but we definitely can't ve accused as having no class.

Live stream to Maurice's funeral. https://www.facebook.com/WiganWarriorsR ... 896975228/

Live stream to Maurice's funeral. https://www.facebook.com/WiganWarriorsR ... 896975228/

RIP
Gave us the Best Days of our Lives
There'll never be another like him
Simply the Best

Quote ="MattyB"Live stream to Maurice's funeral. https://www.facebook.com/WiganWarriorsR ... 896975228/'" Only just seen this Matty. Thank you for posting. A brilliant and honest eulogy from Kris Radlinski Some top guys as the bearers.

Quote ="MattyB"Live stream to Maurice's funeral. https://www.facebook.com/WiganWarriorsR ... 896975228/'" Only just seen this Matty. Thank you for posting. A brilliant and honest eulogy from Kris Radlinski Some top guys as the bearers.

R.I.P Maurice. I understand that Wigan RL existed before him but for me at 37 years old it didn't and he made Wigan RL and without him wouldn't have nowhere near as many fans in my age group. His front running vision has created a legacy that got thousands on board and he engaged with the fans too. Only the best was good enough.. He will be very sadly missed.

He needs a statue somewhere in the town. He put Wigan on the map.

Oh wow, I've just listened to the eulogy now. What a great and special life he lived.

I’m 38 mate and you’re bob on. Wigan Rugby League club has and continues to play a huge part in my life but had it not been for him I’m not sure I would be half as interested. I was mesmerised as a kid watching all the stars we had and he made it happen. One huge memory stands out as a 11/12 year old kid at Central Park that always caught my imagination and it wasn’t even in the 80 minutes! It was Henry Paul and Inga in the warm up throwing 40/50 yard passes to each other, some normal passes, some one handed, some flick passes out the back. I’d stand there and it felt like you were watching magicians.

God bless Maurice and rest in peace.

35 myself and feel the same way - RIP Maurice.

35 and feel the same way. Magical times at Central Park.
No other team will experience what we were so lucky to have back then.

I remember those passes as well! Bit older than 11 or 12 at the time though...

Am a bit older but the sentiment is the same,he did so much for Wigan Rugby will forever be in his debt.
Kris did a fantastic eulogy befitting a man of Maurices stature.

Along with Rads emotional eulogy seeing the Challenge Cup dressed in Cherry and White ribbons on the alter with Maurice's framed picture was very moving.

He would have loved that.

He was a "bit of lad" owd Morris.
I met him a few times and he was always a gentleman with me but I know other people who dealt with him on a business footing and one of them in particular is quite scathing in his opinion of him.
I thought KR pitched it perfectly. A great guy but like the rest us humans he had his frailties.
I was unaware of his Irish background but it probably partially explained his love of horse racing.

Just brilliant.

Jim Mills on twitter wasn't too complimentary of Maurice upon news of his death. Wasn't really the time for it, he should have kept his feelings to himself and said nowt.