No we're not, and haven't been since November 1996

No were not wrlfc although I still have a scale with it on!

My lad's only 13 and I've never once heard him or any of his mates call us Wolves. I've only heard it from adults a few times and it's usually those who are new to the town.

My lads 8 and he calls us The Wire

I cringe to the point where my face nearly turns inside out when someone refers to us as 'Wolves'. Just sounds naff and I hate how clubs now have an animal franchise thing going on. I don't see how it's more marketable, a t-shirt with 'The Wire' would outsell a t-shirt saying 'Wolves' and we all know it. Why? Because 'Warrington Wolves' sounds sissy and 'Warrington RLFC (the Wire)' doesn't. Warrington Wolves sounds cute and friendly and appealing to people who don't care about the score just as long as everyone has a nice time.

Although a sceptic at first, Warrington Wolves has grown on me. We can't drop the Wolves behind Warrington imo.

BUT....STOP CALLING US WOLVES!
Yes I frigging hate it. Wolves is the nick name of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Warrington Wolves had its own nick name it is Wires!

Well if you speak to the management at the club(as i've heard mr Dowson say at Squadbuilder meetings over the years) we're not Wolves, the wolves, we are Warrington Wolves.

Any person or media outlet that refers to us as otherwise is being lazy and inaccurate. Much like Graham Lovett, commentating from the "H 'and' J".

Personally, i don't give hoots, I just turn up as much as i can and support the team, i'm not gonna get my knickers in the twist over something and nothing for the sake of annoying myself, unlike a certain other person in this thread .

The club now known as Sydney Roosters have merchandise with ESDRLFC on it rather than the modern crest. At the very least we should be embracing more of this sort of thing. Even I was tempted to buy a couple of the Wire T-shirts on Saturday. I didn't but I might in future. I'd be even more tempted if the Warrington Wolves branding was removed from them alogether, as Easts have done with the abovementioned merchandise.

Since virtually all other clubs` fans call us "Warrington W*ankers". Why don`t we exploit this, & change the club`s name.

Imagine the publicity we could get from this, & all the taunts would stop, since that is our name anyway.

UR. I made it aware in the post that other clubs like the Arlie Bird have nick names but they are not common was the point. I can only think of us a Saints and I also said Cas that are just as much known by them as our official club names. I cannot remember the last time somebody call Hull that and the others you example.

FMC I'm not wearing any...give me a call! (Kiss)

The old Roman settlement at Warrington was centred on Wilderspool and Stockton Heath and had a network of roads connecting it to Manchester, Chester etc. Since the old Roman name for the settlement was (probably) Veratinum we should perhaps call ourselves the Veratinum Wires. Mind you, they didn't make much wire in those days so we might have to change it to the Veratinum Togas.

Yes you can get around it by not using the club's full name ( where copyright exists in the name ). You may not be surprised to learn that many soccer clubs HAVE tried to copyright their town/city's name, but the courts have given them short shrift. The club wants to establish 'Wolves' as part of the official name of the club so that they, and only they, can produce merchandise with this brand. 'Wire' and 'RLFC' are public domain so anyone can use them. When modern branding was not around, lots of 'Wire' or 'Warrington' merch was sold by all and sundry - notably in my experience in 1974 when we won so many trophies. Lose the 'Wolves' part of the brand and, next time we get to Wembley, the stuff in Wolfware won't look much different to the gear sold around Wembley Stadium by chancer Londoners! The fact that Warrington does not attract anything like the volume of merch sales of the top soccer clubs is all the more reason to protect such sales as they do have!

I am firmly in the 'Wire' camp.

I can't be doing with gimmicks. There's something about my personality that makes me screw my face up at the cheese in life. Can't be doing with reality TV, can't be doing with pop music, can't be doing with English sports teams adopting animals names. It's all too American/razzmatazz for me.

Fair enough if Leeds have really embraced their 'Rhinos' name...but for me and every Wire I know, we haven't embraced ours and many would rather see it go, even now, nearly two decades on. I wish we'd gone along the lines the two Hull clubs and St Helens did and stayed as Warrington RLFC.

We are 'Wire' or 'The Wire'. Wolves means absolutely nothing to me. I don't know if it does to any real Warringtonians with the Coat of Arms grey wolf in the middle...? As I'm not a Warringtonian I can't really answer that myself (seems like it doesn't reading this thread and to any Wires I know).

Good to see the club directing some merchandise at the masses who do see themselves and the club as 'Wire'.