I dislike them as much as the next except for other reason and I wanted to know how many actually go to watch them from these boards?

I am not from Wigan and I struggle to understand where the rivalry comes from? In my town its between Wigan and Saints or Liverpool/Everton and Man Utd/City but I know theres no competition between the RL and Football amateur teams (in fact I know of a few that play for both!) so I just want to know why we cant all just get along?

As i've posted in another thread I have my own reason to dislike Latics (Crewe fan long story) but I dont get why the Rugby and Football cant get on? If they had got on while Whelan was in control then I cant help but think both teams may have been better off financially, though I'm rather happy IL is in control as he does seem to do a better job!

I'm a season ticket holder for both.
I find it's popular for supporters from each side to hate the other without knowing the backstory, or even being born when the actual fallout happened.

So what was the reason for that fallout?

Cockney latics (btw where the hell does "Cockney Latics" come from?!) seem to think its to do with the council picking the Rugby over them in some way.

Also if people would support their local teams (if they like RL and Football) both teams would benefit from bigger crowds, more shirt/ merchandise sales and so on.

'some' latics fans say Wigan RL/ Wigan council tried to kill them when latics were on the brink of going out if business.

Great idea, as the "cherry and white" is so famous, maybe the latics could play in the same colours!!!

I think that people here who support both are a minority, or a VERY silent majority. And i think its mainly down to a preference for a particular sport not antipathy twixt the two clubs. In the 70's and 80's i followed football avidly, and followed Bolton... But i always liked rugby league and i got increasingly tired of the way that money dominates football to a ridiculous extent. I have not watched a full game of football for over 10 years now and could not even if Bolton were in a cup final, or won the Primadonna league. In short i have no interest, but i certainly admire true fans of smaller clubs. You would be amazed how many Tangerine "colours" you see in Blackpool these days.

Football is dull I'm afraid.

who cares!!

i come on here to talk about rugby league not football

no way.
im a liverpool fan of many years, and not a band wagoner.

my son (bless his heart) is a warriors season ticket holder, and a stockport county season ticket holder........he goes to the odd latics game.........and cheers for the opposition

No, I'm a Blackburn Rovers season ticket holder.

Move to other sports or lock it.

I don't like them and I don't go to the games but I believe they will stay up this season. So much so that odds of 9/4 are beginning to look very attractive.

Blackpool, Wolves and West Ham to go down.

Blackpool are home to Latics this weekend, if Latics lose that it will be very difficult to stay up. IMO West Ham and Birmingham will pick up points this weekend, so that Latics game is huge!

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.