Quote: 74' "I've said naff all about the fans. Wigans reputation is worse off than last week. Correct?'"
Who do you mean by Wigan?
The Club, the players, All of the fans or Just 1/2 dozen or so individuals?
If you mean the individuals I'll agree, the rest you couldn't be wider off the Mark!
Is your reputation as an individual worse off because someone from Warrington jumped a woman outside a pub and punched her?
I was disgusted as I bet were 99% of Wigan fans by the comments made by a few people on Wigan's Board, They don't speak for everyone, they speak for themselves as individuals.
I was also disgusted by some of the responses of other teams fans, not because of their response, but because most of them were aimed at "All Wigan fans".
We were all labelled "Ignorant/scum etc", and to be honest some of the stuff on the Leeds board was way out of order. Unfortunately if 1 Wigan fans says something about McGuire, or 1 Wigan fan says something about all Wolfs fans being Scum it doesn't mean that people should then label ALL WIGAN FANS the same?
Obviously the same goes in reverse as certain posters from this site do nothing but stir up trouble on our Board etc, that doesn't mean I think all Wire fans are the same.
HOWEVER
The next time Wire/Wigan play each other and there's trouble, I'd hazard a guess that a contributing factor to it will be the comments made on these boards stoked up by individual Keyboard Warriors who more than likely Won't be at the game when the trouble starts!
I'll be at the game with my family, I'll be drinking with my fans and opposing fans before and after every game as normal, trying to have a good chat about all things RL albeit with a Slightly Biased pair of C&W glasses on.
I find that way, when you talk face to face with other teams fans, you get a different perspective of the RL community than you do lately on these RL Fans boards (I'm with Yed on this).
Well done on a Great season, Bit of burnout seemed to catch you late on the year, I think you'll be a far more difficult prospect to handle next year with Hodgson at FB instead of Mathers "If" the another year older syndrome doesn't become a factor for some of your major players.