Quote: Psychedelic Casual "Until Saints started to win stuff in the 1950s the big North West rivalry was Wire and Wigan.'"
Saints won there first championship in 1930........18 years before warrington won there first in 1948.......if youre gonna talk crap at least have the stats to back it up, a possible reason for the wigan-wire rivalry might have been that up until the late 1930's there was 2 top flight clubs in st.helens......saints and st.helens recs who where basically the pilkington works team and became pilkington recs after folding, so it was only natural they were saints local rivals. Since recs went bust the saints-wigan rivalry really took off and warrington were dismissed by both clubs as a minor irritant which they remain to this day