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| Quote Rolf Zaugg="Rolf Zaugg"I'm all for dropping the name, but the above is not quite true. The Old English for 'warriors' was 'wigan'.
Copy and paste from [url=http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/maldon/text/maldon202-325.htmThe Battle of Maldon[/url lines 235 to 237:
wigan to wige, þa hwile þe he wæpen mæge
habban and healdan, heardne mece,
gar and god swurd.
[url=http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/maldon_resources/Translations/Killingsfull.htmTranslation[/url
warriors to battle, while with weapons we are able
to have and grasp, the hard blade,
the spear and the good sword.
I wonder if 'latics' means anything in Old English
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im an old school fan and have always wanted to revert back to wigan rlfc.
having said that, although it took a bit of getting used to i refer to them as warriors......it makes them distinct from latics in a way.
i travel the country a lot and wear the rugby shirt most of summer and get asked "do you support wigan?"....when i say yes, they tell me they support aston villa or summat.......so i stress WARRIORS.
lots of folk away from the north think latics are the only team in wigan.
strange, but true.
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| Quote piemandan="piemandan"We are Wigan and the football are 'The Latics'.'"
That's how I refer to the two anyway |
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| Quote piemandan="piemandan"We are Wigan and the knuckle-draggers/Plastics/JCL's/Conroy are 'The Shatics'. '" |
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I've grown up knowing Wigan as Wigan Warriors so it doesn't really matter to me what we're called.
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| Quote Wigan Peer="Wigan Peer"On another thread i said Team Team Team..... Now its Please Please Please..... get rid of the Warrior crap.....'"
As Jim Trott said, No, no, no .........Yes !!! |
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They should also take a leaf out of progressive local amateur side 'Wigan Riversiders' book and drop the 'Football' from the name. Wigan RLC is the way forward.
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| Quote Alex BP'="Alex BP'"although 'Warriors' is on our badge, apart from Max we have no association, history, merchendise, relation, identity, links, website, programme, books etc etc, to do with a WARRIOR. We simply do not relate to WARRIORS at all. People generally don't say to their mates they're ''going watching the Warriors'', they say ''I'm going watching the Rugby''.
It's about time it went. In fact, I'm going to take this further! Who'll join me?
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Yes, I will support anything you do to junk that awful name. |
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Makes no odds to me. Its just a modern gimmick.
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Going off this thread so far, apart from one post everybody would like to see us drop the tag.
I remember at the first fans forum that this question was raised on the spot without much time to weigh up an answer and a decision was made by show of hands. It was about 50/50 and the name was kept...But I think IL and JL should have looked into this further and asked people why should they keep it and do we really benefit from having the 'tag'?
If people read this and are able to post, please do so. It would be interesting to know peoples opinions. After all, it is our identity.
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| Quote Alex BP'="Alex BP'"Going off this thread so far, apart from one post everybody would like to see us drop the tag.
I remember at the first fans forum that this question was raised on the spot without much time to weigh up an answer and a decision was made by show of hands. It was about 50/50 and the name was kept...But I think IL and JL should have looked into this further and asked people why should they keep it and do we really benefit from having the 'tag'?
If people read this and are able to post, please do so. It would be interesting to know peoples opinions. After all, it is our identity.'"
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| Quote Baked Bean Boogie="Baked Bean Boogie"Leneghan has stated that he likes it and that it will not be dropped as it is a brand that our more recent fans can relate to, i say get rid me sen like'"
Lenagan has not stated that he likes it.
At the first fans forum he asked the question that is being posted on here.
The show of hands vote at that forum was about 50:50.
Lenagan said that he was surprised how close the vote was.
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