Quote: JonnoTheGreat "Warrington fans have unrealistic expectations and think they are a Big Club when the bottom line is they've not been champions since the 50s.
They also believe they are a major rival of Wigan when they are not. Middle 8s last season for you wasn't it?
Every season the Wire lot spout off about being Super League champions and it just doesn't happen. No wonder fans of every club hammer you with that 'its always your year' chant.'"
What a load of old shyite.
I’ve only read one post this Winter that’s said we should be looking at being champions come Autumn, ONE. If anything Wire fans are pessimistic compared to other sets of fans! What we have understood is that our team from 2010-2013 was one of the best teams of the last few decades that we’re not crowned champions and financially we are in a position that not many other clubs are in. So we’ll voice dissatisfaction when the club isn’t run well from top to bottom. There’s no excuses why it isn’t with the backing we have. But nowhere in that do we say “we’ll win the lot”
That chant comes from Stevo tipping either us or Hull FC to win the GF every year for about six years but it seems to have stuck with us with other sets of fans because we lost three GFs rather than sticking with Hull. It never had anything to with us fans lauding our team and saying we’d win it.
Ever since then simpletons make generalisations and get the wrong end of the stick like you have here.
As for Wigan, WE look at Wigan as big rivals because we’ve been in a lot of big games against them in recent years. We don’t care how they look at us. But that’s how rivalries start (that or comparing trophy wins). That’s why Wigan and Saints has no real rivalry before the 1950s because Saints never had any big games with Wigan and had barely won a thing before the mid-50s (1 championship 0CCs in their first 80 years) and probably never registered on any other club’s radars. But then when they started winning things, they did.
