Ta, but I did say think.
Not something I do a lot of if I can help it.

Didn't word it very well.

Only club not to have been relegated from the top flight.

I guessed that, but was just saying

Have you regained your faith from a couple of weeks ago? Told you to keep it.

Was confident yesterday tbh...............until the game kicked off

u r 100% right im sick of the blue poo dishing out towards the rl fans of wigan, its the blue poo cockney fans who made me hate um soooo much, they need to c a real mans game instead of watching a little pussy rolling round on the floor because he sneezed,

In English please?

Congratulate latics...Pffft !

I sent my mate a congratulations text; he replied by saying that we should get out of his stadium and that we can keep the "M62 cup". I asked him what trophy his side had just won, and he replied with a load more abuse.

Top mates you got there. Has he got a secret past of supporting Man U, L/pool, Everton? or another of our more famous footballing neighbours. He sounds like he's a bit insecure of his current allegiance to the blue sh@t. (Think i'll abuse my mate for having the balls to congratulate me on my team avoiding relegation and risk losing our friendship) I say tell him to feck right off, and go play with the other kiddies that live on the Cockney liar site, they have clearly got into his twisted little head.

congratulations for what?

they won nothing........were very poor also rans and out of their depth.

congratulations should be saved for winners.

Correct, why praise mediocrity, it baffles me !!!

one story that i found quite amusing was that after the full time whistle, martinez threw his jacket to the latics fans as a thank you.
trouble was he had forgotten to take his wallet out of the pocket and that went as well
what a dipstick

Newspaper bollox - confirmed by Martinez.

I am very pleased with the result.

So what if one or two idiot "latics fans" bad mouth Wigan RL? There are plenty on here who bad mouth Wigan Athletic.

Great that a town the size of Wigan, situated where it is, in the catchment area of Liverpool and Manchester, is represented at the top table of Football.

As for the comments that only winners should be congratulated.....

Do you REALLY think that Wigan Athletic can compete with the money on offer from Chelsea and Man City?

Survival in the Premier League is the best they can hope for and well done to them for achieving that!

prime example of why i will not waste my breath congratulating latics!

went on my facebook to find this status from a latics fan.

"Just seen the clip on bbc sport were sam tompkins got knocked out by gareth raynor's punch it is so funny can't stop laughing you have got to watch it"

tomPkins? who is he! & why is there any need for that!

Long may our town have sports teams competing at the top of their respective games, we still have a Premier League football team and not only a Super League team but Super League Champions. Tremendous for the town.

Agreed. I think that there is more than one or two that bad mouth the rugby. I remember years ago, before they got in the prem, going to a latics match and hearing the chants of "if you hate Wigan rugby clap your hands", but then we sing "fu** the latics" in one of our songs, so it's a bot pot/kettle for us to say we hate them for saying nasty things about us

Some Latics fans are good blokes, infact, the majority of them are good people. There are a minority who a knuckle dragging idiots, which to be fair, we have as well. Such as the 2 guys I was stood next to at bradford who spent the whole time hurling abuse at Josh Charnley for little to no reason. The Latics fans I know - season ticket holders who claim to have been going since the Springfield days, know of the animosity, and possibly even feel some of that animosity themselves, but when we speak about the situation they see there are 2 sides to this story and there's no point to us hating each other. The town is plenty big enough for the both of us.

OMG i'm agreeing with him again...

To stay up with the resourses thay have is an achievement.

What an excellent post. I do not like football, much I'm pretty indifferent to latics. If they stay up or go down I don't care, but that's more to with disliking football than the club. What I don't like is the minority of their fans apparently all of which congregate on the cockney latic site; they're pretty disgraceful, even if the were RL fans (or fans of anything) I would still see the same.

Hats off to Whelan & Co for keeping them up this long, fewer resources than almost every club in the PL but manage to survive season after season. However, its a tight-rope being near the bottom every season, you can only survive so long without going down. What happens when Whelan quits the club, ive been told he already wants to sell, they wouldnt be afloat if it wasnt for the investment that has been put in by Whelan, and continue to post losses which would be worrying as a Latics fan.

I'd personally like Latics to stay up indefinetly, but many of their fans are an embarrasment to say the least with a massive chip on their shoulders towards anything WRL, although some fans on here seem to have caught the same condition though which is sad.



Yeh i agree, sporting achievements have put Wigan back on the map, literally.

For fecks sake is this still going?

Thing is, as Lenegan has proved, Whelan isnt the best at running a club anyway so isnt there grounds for saying that, if they get the right person, Wigan Athletic could end up a real force in the future and if they get the right person and the right people then maybe theres a chance they could sort the animosity out for example "20% off if you have a WRLFC" season ticket" etc. Im not from Wigan and I don't support a necessarily local team but I can understand the frustrations of the real fans of both that just want them all to get along for the sake of the town.

Too late now, could have worked if they offered it when we both moved into the JJB, who knows. Are lots of RL fans really intested in watching 20 or so football matches a season though? Im not so sure.

I wouldn't assume all the 1500 of days gone old are "proper" fans, I've said it before and will no doubt say it again, I enjoyed the journey to the Premier League far more than the time spent there. Circumstances change and some us go less now than we did then and arguably talk with more knowledge about the likes of Campbell, Griffiths, Adkins, Skipper and Tankard than any of the current crop.

Glory hunters will of course jump on any bandwagon, but if clubs want to attract more fans were else do they turn? I often wonder for example how many fans we pull in from places like Leigh who have there own side, or people choose us over other rugby alternatives that may be closer to were the actually live, and frankly does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? From a selfish point of view, I'd rather see the sold out signs go up than get snotty about were people come from - that said I don't get the whole "changing teams" melarky in any sport, but each to there own!

I very much get the point put across by others than its odd to celebrate mediocrity, but then I guess its more the battle against adversity, its quiet an achievement on relatively modest budgets etc etc to be staying up for a 7th season.

That said, I do find it funny how the press build up survival as a £40 million game or the initial promotion from the Championship as a £90 million "boost" for the club when all that plus a bit more fly's out in wages.

For those that get annoyed by the likes of Cockney Latic, its easily avoided I've managed to for a good few years now!