I must apologize to the Mods for my recent posts - every one containing at least one expletive - (or lots of .... ).

I've not been on here since Friday night and have seriously thought of giving up supporting the Wire and RL for good.
I was / am totally pig-sick.

I have been supporting Warrington since the early 1970's and I honestly cannot think of any time I've been as hacked off as I am / was after Friday.

I've seen them lose 80 - 0 at Stains
I've seen us lose with seconds to go against Stains
I saw us lose to the Joe Lydon 'wonder drop goal' in the 80's
I saw us lose to Wigan in CC final in the mid 90's and in the Regal Trophy that decade too.
I've seen us lose away at Hunslet in the 80's.
I've seen us get stuffed by Bradford and Leeds.
Even losing the 2 GF's was not as bad.
This list goes on.

In all of the above (except Hunslet!) we were never really the 'class' side or something conspired against us (particularly the goons injuring Monas and Ratch in the 2nd GF).

But I have honestly never taken defeat like that on Friday.

Totally livid. It's beyong 'upsetting'.

My long suffering wife was totally understanding though - that's the one saving grace.

Nor sure where I go from here.

I've decided not to make the 300 mile round trip to Hull on Friday and have still yet to decide whether to watch on tv.
Can't even persuade myself to see how things are going on the club web site or the Warrington Guardian.

Why, why, why ?

Would you like the use of my strait jacket & padded cell for a few days ? Just till you are ready to go out into the big wide world again & purchase your season ticket for next year.

Fez we are all gutted mate and anyone with more years supporting the Wire than a Cas fan has fingers on one hand has quite naturally experienced plenty of downs to go with our ups.

It's sport and it's full of if's and but's, if Currie had got over in the last minute, if Gidley had kicked that kick we would have been quite deservedly Challenge Cup winners and I'm not denying Hull their win, it's a very fine margin that separates the have's and have not's in the trophy cabinet, well this year so far.

We may end up with now't again, we might win a couple of games and make history, either way it's been better than the last couple of seasons, we've been to a final we are in the semi against lord knows who stick with the Wire and stick with RL would be my two penneth FWIW despite our world being less than perfect ATM

...and let's face it, you could have been a RU fan. Now that thought IS depressing!

today my almost 3 year old daughter asked for the simpsons instead of pepper pig for the first time.

karma is relative.

Back of the net!

I went through something similar 18 months ago. I fell out of love with the game. I hated the RFL. I hated Sky. I wasn't interested in Wire anymore. I hated the politics in the amateur game. I was fed up of wasting my time and money. I took a season out. It makes all of the difference. I still hate Sky. I still hate the RFL. But I love the game and the Wire, the rest I try to ignore. Maybe you just need a bit of a break?

Yeah, go and watch RU or football for 12 months that'll cure you.

Dread to think of the meltdown amongst our fans if we were genuinely back to the days when the likes of Saints put 80 on us.

Pretty much the same for me.
My love for the game has lessened over the years, obviously, I must be really getting old.

My "obsession" has totally gone, and replaced by, not so much apathy, more, it's on, I'll watch.
Not had a season ticket for about 10 years (at first due to job insecurity, now, if it's televised, I'll watch it at home, but go to the others). Away games went years ago. I just got peed off with giving up 7 hours of my life to watch them in deepest, darkest Yarkshire, throw my tea down my neck, and.meet up with the same mates in the Time Square, an hour later, on a Sunday night.
I'd struggle to identify most of Wigan/Stains/Leeds side if they walked past me in the street. likewise the likes of Patton/Johnson /Wilde etc. Bar our close season signings, I've no idea which club has signed which players.

Aussie RL bores the bottom off me, and I fear we're following suit. yardage/territory obsessed.
Like the dear departed Yed, scooting from dummy half, bores me to tears when it's done constantly. There's a time and place, not for the full 80 minutes.

I didn't go to Wembley because
a)I'd just got back from holiday, the afternoon before
b)My previous 3 visits, I'd been surrounded by bandwagon jumping scrotes who had no idea/interest what was going on.
c)Travelling
d) I thought it was going to kick off, massively
e) I couldn't be ar5ed

Those todgers on Sky really get on my nipple ends

Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE my club, and, if the circumstances are correct, I'll defend them to the hilt, but Smith is starting to grate on me. The smug grin, the lack of a plan B, capitulations when he is the coach, the way he treats certain players, be they established internationals, or local lads. He's certainly got his favourites, and I don't like that. His reluctance to play virtually all the back division in their natural positions.
My patience with him is running thin. I don't want him sacked. FFS, he's the best Wire coach I've seen, since 79. I just feel he's on easy Street, and feels himself bombproof.We've regressed MASSIVELY since 2013's GF.

The fact that we're still top of the table, and got to a CCF, tells me volumes about the level of SL.

Come on, Smith. Earn your corn, and turn our club into trophy winners, again.

Good post. Funny how things change. When I was kid, throughout the 80's I'd be at all games home and away, all home A team games and even watch the first team train at Lousher's Lane and Victoria Park. As soon as the game had finished on Sunday I was looking forward to the next one. Wigan week was massive. Certain players were heroes to me, John Bevan, Jacko, Boyd, Eccles, Roberts even Hesford. It may be age but that devotion has gone. I just don't feel it like I used to, no matter how much hype there is and people saying how good a product it is. Last home game I went to was Huddersfield in the League - I was bored stiff.

Not sure it's a melt down, just people being honest about how they feel. It's a refreshing change from the "Im more of a fan than you" / "you're not a real fan" posturing we normally get. Maybe the powers that be in the game need to have a think about why fans of long standing are disenfranchised.