Quote Mugwump="Mugwump"Can someone please explain this Warrington obsession to me because I just don't get it? The way some of you keep yapping on you'd swear they've been our deadly rivals since the game went to 13 men.
Which is phucking odd because in nearly 25 years of watching Saints I don't ever, EVER recall Warrington making so much as a full stop of a mark on the Rugby League Richter Scale of Rivalry. Yes, they had a track record of dirty play between the arrival of Boyd and the retirement of Cullen - but not much else. Indeed, since Lydon's monster drop goal they've been a perennial basket case.
If we're using a measure of pain-inflicted-upon-us during this period as a guide - Widnes are bigger rivals. Christ! LEIGH are bigger rivals.
The truth of the matter is we currently have a handful of posters who a) can't take a bit of ribbing at work (despite holding the BEST record against an opponent in SL HISTORY!) and b) just love to wail about it like little babies who've had their cuddly toys taken from them. And BOY do they wail. They wail so much that occasionally it borders upon a tacit argument that Wire are more worthy of hate than WIGAN!?!? Now this IS crossing the line. Especially when - on results - Wire are more worthy of our sympathies than hatred.
It's like there's some kind of Orwellian historical distortion afoot here. It's perverse. It's groundless and it's phucking WRONG!'"
As a Warrington fan it pains me to say that you're absolutely right. Regardless of the result tomorrow to say we have grounds to make up on Saints would be an understatement of biblical proportions.
I suspect the obsession relates to a feeling that Warrington are 'on the up' and that Saints might not be. However I've lost count of the number of years Saints have been 'in decline' only for them to hand us our twice a year, win the Challenge Cup and make the Grand Final.
Time will tell - although the first sign of the obsession residing will probably be when people stop starting threads about it.
