I call Warrington Wire...the place not just the club i.e. I'm going up to Wire at the weekend.

I'll always know the club as Wire and again the wolves moniker is a bit naff but I don't think we should drop it.

It's an add on, it's great for the club, it's a revenue stream, you can't market 'wire'

A wire man wouldn't pass trading standards.

Aim your wolf stuff at the kids, get them interested, little wolf toys, clothes etc.
Get your adult stuff like hoodies and hats and scarfs with Wire on, aim the Wire stuff at adults.
win win

With the last wireworks having closed years ago maybe we should be embracing a trade that is prevalent in our town in 2014. Such as Warrington hand car washers or Warrington gents hair stylists.

And there we have the man himself .Would the famous song from the stand need a new tune to be sung as TF & THE WOLVES ?

I have to say I have never ever shouted C'mon Wolves.

Oh Warrington ( oh Warrington)
is wonderful (is wonderful)
Oh Warrington is wonderful
It's full of call centres, hand carwashes and more call centres
Oh Warrington is wonderful

I'm 18 and refer to us as the Wire constantly and exclusively.

The poundshoppers?

Opps Double Post................

Oh Warrington ( oh Warrington)
is wonderful (is wonderful)
Oh Warrington is wonderful
It's full of Museums, Art Gallery's, Culture & The Wire
Oh Warrington is wonderful

I now qualify as a grumpy old man and I occasionally take my 5 year old grandson to the match, he loves wolfie but tells his mum that me and grandad are off to see the Wire - the boy is being tought well

I don't have a problem with either. The club will always be Wires to me, I've never stood on the terraces and shouted "COME ON WOLVES!" because I'd feel like I was watching the wrong sport, at the wrong ground.

However, the club wasn't the Warrington Wires, and the whole point of SL and broadening the appeal of the game was to give towns, and locations a monicker to the neutral or new speccie. So Warrington Wolves is ok with me, from a marketing viewpoint - at least it's prescence on the town crest gives it some credibility.

I just thank the lord I'm not a Halifax fan who in the recent past had to pledge allegiance to the "Halifax Blue Sox".

To be fair, very few people call us "The Wolves". I NEVER CALL US THE WOLVES!

Few if any other the Sky RL team refer us as the Wolves, its either Warrington Wolves or The Wire.....that is except for one person, Stevo! He constantly refers to us as only The Wolves!!
I can frigging hear him saying it in my head now!It gripes me every time he says it. Almost as if he knows it pi$$€$ me off!

Occasionally Eddie calls us "The Wolves" when he is along side Stevo, but he seems uncomfortable saying it.

I can only think of 2 SL teams that actually had an original nick name that was excepted as a club name that is instantly recognisable and has common usage, Saints and Wires(Wire), I could except Cas without argument. These names were promoted over the century by club and fans.

We are very fortunate to have a Nick name as the Wires as few clubs have such a privilege, and long should it continue.

Personally I have no issue with being called Warrington Wolves but not The Wolves as this is NOT our name and neither is it a Nick name or be it comfortable to say for us as Yed said.

I would like to see our club move away from the use of the title Wolves on the score board and out of tradition and because it is still our nick name use the title Wires.

Saints are not St Helens Saints but their Nick name is excepted so why not the Wires?

Drop Wolves from Warrington? No Never, it's been a great feature and opens up our club to more than just people from Warrington because of its expanded identity, like morrisseyisawire touches upon. Wolfie is a fantastic mascot and unofficially excepted as the best in SL. The RFL have used him as a mascot for England too.

So it's Warrington Wolves and The Wires for me, forever!

Love Warrington, love Wires. Hate Pies.

Of course it means something to them because they recognise it as the identity of the club - hence the chanting. I doubt any of us on here regardless of our age were ever part of the wire pulling industry, but we all know the name of our club and so do the younger fans. If they believed they supported the Wolves they would be shouting for the Wolves. They don't and neither does anybody else. Rhinos, Bulls and one or two other names have worked. Wolves hasn't.

It's a marketing tool, yes, but what's cynical about it? Using a copyright design means most revenue from 'Warrington RL ' merchandise goes to the club, not to traders, probably not even RL fans, buying in items from China for sale and pocketing the profits themselves. I can't see that any fan would have an issue with that.

It's not as if fake Warrington shirts are widely knocked up nd sold on markets worldwide is it? In fact plenty of those that are have the full team name on them anyway (eg "Manchester United"icon_wink.gif so the far east blaggers obviousy don't worry too much about copyright. If you go to Old Trafford the scarves on sale outside the ground usually just say "United" on them or something similar to get around it. If you go to Anfield you can buy lots of things outside the ground that say "Liverpool" because you can't copyright the name of a city, but you need to go into the official shop to find anything with "Liverpool FC" or "Liverpool Football Club" written on it due to copyright. If either of those clubs tried to change their name there would be absolute uproar though - see "Hull Tigers" as the example, and that is actually their traditional nickname anyway. Some things are simply sacred though, and club names absolutely should be.

We are Warrington RLFC.