Nothing to do with it being a stones throw from Wigan and Saint Helens then?
Put the next magic weekend in Withernsea and see who has the most fans there!

I thought FC vs KR was as loud as ST's vs Wigan... although wigan had thw loudest fans all weekend I thought ST's were quiet and Leeds vs Bradford was really quiet suprisingly

Leeds and Saints fans seemed more concerned with singing at each other than their 'rivals.'

Well said thunder

Wire fans won't like this

Wigan fans. Not the self-styled '17th man' but the orignal 'one song' f**kers.

All they chant is the tedious 'Wigoon,Wigoon' while pointing their fingers in unison.

Warrington fans' obsession with Wigan is pretty embarassing actually, I never realised how desperate they were to be noticed.

And what have you ever done? Hull KR are a complete nothing club.

We tend to just laugh at them. They will not stop untill the whole of the world accepts Wigan v Wire is bigger than Wigan v Saints.

The only way that could happen is if saints went down.

Wire have 2 good seasons and suddenly they are bigger than Saints (4 times SL champions, 10 times grand finalists)? A fantastic club such as Saints does not become a 'spent force' overnight because of 1 bad season (and trust me, they still have every chance of reaching the grand final AGAIN).

Obsessively so, like they need a big rival to be considered a top team.

Wigan v Saints has a long history, Wigan v Wire will never match it.

If winning the Championship a few more times then yourselves and in more recent times to boot qualifies us as a complete nothing club then............Shweet.

well after watching the games over the weekend, the best derby game at this magic weekend was the hull derby and the cas v wakey derby, two excellent and exciting games, even if my own team did lose

Aside from WTW getting one over on Cas, I really enjoyed the Salford v Hudds game; pleasant surprise, since it was one of the games I expected to be crap.

The Hull game was also a cracker.

For me a Derby goes deeper than "who're the local club nearest to us that play on our level". To me, a Derby is more about passion for your town and an historic dislike/hatred for another town close by.
It's more than "We've beaten you five times in the last three yeas", but more about how lucky/talented one team were in a 1947 game between the two towns, or even deeper historic reasons. For example, Leigh will always regard Wigan as our Derby side for a purely historic reason. We may not like Widnes much, and we share our ground with Swinton, but neither are considered our rivals.

For this reason, surely Saints v Wigan (why does everyone hate them anyway, with Wire joining in the act....) is the only real derby on this side of the Peninnes.

(Yes, before anyone points it out, I'm aware of the lack of sporting competativeness between us and Wigan now, thank you very much!