I've apologised once.

juvenile and outdated its becomming an embarssment as commented by club officials after the game

didnt the players themselves sing it after we won the grand final against haven sure they did

Oliver Cromwell is alive and well in Leigh. Why don't we rename ourselves Leigh Puritans and have done with it?

Going forward we all have to apologize for winning, the team will now play in a new cherry and white hairshirt. Any questions about the ancestry or optical ability of the officials will have to be submitted in writing after the game (with the correct punctuation and grammar). Celebrating a try must be done in an inoffensive manner, ideally in the medium of mime.

The new club anthem will be as follows:

O RFL we love thee
Thou used to makst us sick
But now we hast seen the light
We really love our Dick
Forgive us pray for dirty mouths
And our unruly wrong
We wouldn't want to re-offend
By singing the flute song...

To the tune of the old Latin Gregorian chant - Flutus extinctus

You hear worse in a school playground

Fred did you say the players were singing it in the sheds after the game on Sunday Sorry if incorrect.

Great post mapleleyther, very funny!

You may well do Fred and I heard dads and mums using choice language when I was watching my 12 year old lad at the weekend. But the parents behavour and the flute song do one and the same thing. They put their clubs in a bad light. This club is now on the up, lets all pull together and build this club bigger and better than ever before. Every time that rubbish is sung en masse we take a step backwards. We land on a snake instead of a ladder and we are choosing the number of places we move.

A big fat over reaction by the do gooders who can't stand other people singing a song ffs !!! I can't believe that it has come to this to be honest , and like matt I am in between 2 and 3 !!!And to those who have a problem with it ..... Get something real to complain about will you ?

Not keen on it myself - sort of feel for the young ones around - but where do you get off banning songs with offensive words in? Most chants / songs have them in presumably for the shock value??

Personally I never used to swear - then I met frankb

for me its got nothing to do with the swearing or hating wigan.
i just cant get my head round why we need to mention the ira in a rugby league song

Well, if anything is going to make this song more popular at the next match, this is it.

Partly, this seems to be a pretty strong Leighite trait of not wanting to be told what to do, which is admirable enough, but when there seem to be a lot of people who are on the inside who are uncomfortable about the song, then it's not quite the same thing, is it? After all, unless I'm mistaken, this most recently has come out of a comment by a Leigh fan, not Richard Lewis, or anyone from WN1.

I've not been to watch Leigh for a good while (hence not posting very much), but my kids are old enough to start coming up to watch a match, and this isn't the sort of thing that would stop me bringing them. I would tell them what I think about it if they asked, and it wouldn't take long. But honestly, is repeatedly defining yourself by what you hate particularly healthy?

They did and who cared then ? The players sing it for camaraderie good.

Those of us who think this is a storm in a teacup are ahead.

They do. It's the players sing song after a win. Proper over reaction. It's just another song sung on the terraces, not all that often any more but the odd one offs aren't going to change the world or peoples opinion of Leigh and our fans, it doesn't cause fighting or any direct insult like 'your mums your dad', 'sheep shaggers' chants etc which IMO are far worse!

It was the first Leigh rugby song I heard and learnt as a 10 yr old watching Leigh and it was a lot more common back then than it is now!