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I'm really ambivalant to the football but reading the childish drivel on the site, cockneylatics, most of the comments are puerile at best. we do pass comment here thats true, but the comments over there are just what you would expect from a 12 year old. i have made 2 posting and rest assured i will not be returning to the crappy, garbage filled site..... must be that time of the month... icon_surprised.gifops:

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I wouldnt worry about them. come August they will be back to sub 8,000 crowds with the away fans taking one of the side stands.

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I am a born and bred Evertonian. Old enough to remember my first game in the 70s watching Everton beat Newcastle United at Goodison when the likes of Andy King and Mick Lyons were playing. I started watching Wigan RLFC when I moved back from Yorkshire in 1992 and have been a season ticket holder at CP and the DW ever since. In many respects I fell out of love with football but in love with rugby league. Why? Simply because football to my mind is not what it was. Its the cheating and hypocrisy of football that gets to me and the fact that many (not all) of the players, are basically overpaid whiners! Addd all that to the lack of sportsmanship in football and its no wonder that I prefer rugby. Rugby is everything that football is not. Don't get me wrong I still look out for the Everton result and watch them from time to time, but I know what I prefer to watch. As for the Latics, good luck to them, I hope they stay up along with the likes of Blackpool and west Brom. the likes of Martinez ,Holloway and Hodgson are the good guys in football and deserve some success.

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For me it's history. When Wigan RLFC started, Wigan Athletic wasn't even an apple in its mother's eye. Wigan RLFC is where Wigan's sport heart is!

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The bookies have Latics odds-on to be relegated. I hope they're right. icon_razz.gifRAY:

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Since our dear brothers last had a crowd in excess of 20k which was back in April 2010 weve managed 4 20K+ crowds and another one guaranteed next week V Stains. And when you think of the promotions Latics have had on tickets for home fans such as 3 for £30, 2 for £20, bring a mate for a fiver and the infamous 'big ticket' giveaways, then take into account the huge away crowds that come to the DW..well ermm....

Just check out the facilities around the town for the amateur RL clubs...St Judes, Hindley, Rose Bridge, St Pats, St Cuthberts then compare them to what the local footie teams have and we can see that Fosters field just doesn't cut it...

Wigan a rugby town? Well it certainley isnt a Wigan Athletic town thats for sure...

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Quote: Billy`s Cat "I am a born and bred Evertonian. Old enough to remember my first game in the 70s watching Everton beat Newcastle United at Goodison when the likes of Andy King and Mick Lyons were playing. I started watching Wigan RLFC when I moved back from Yorkshire in 1992 and have been a season ticket holder at CP and the DW ever since. In many respects I fell out of love with football but in love with rugby league. Why? Simply because football to my mind is not what it was. Its the cheating and hypocrisy of football that gets to me and the fact that many (not all) of the players, are basically overpaid whiners! Addd all that to the lack of sportsmanship in football and its no wonder that I prefer rugby. Rugby is everything that football is not. Don't get me wrong I still look out for the Everton result and watch them from time to time, but I know what I prefer to watch. As for the Latics, good luck to them, I hope they stay up along with the likes of Blackpool and west Brom. the likes of Martinez ,Holloway and Hodgson are the good guys in football and deserve some success.'"

Apart from the last few lines about wanting 'tics to stay up this post echoes my thoughts about football nowadays. I do watch football, but non league. There's no question Wigan is a rugby town. Come end of May I could be very, very happy for so many reasons.

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Quote: shaun_edwards_cheekbone "Apart from the last few lines about wanting 'tics to stay up this post echoes my thoughts about football nowadays. I do watch football, but non league. There's no question Wigan is a rugby town. [sizeCome end of May[/size I could be very, very happy for so many reasons.'"


If Blackpool beat 'em this week its 'praters for our brothers in blue. I aint counting my chickens though yet.

Ive got mixed feelings wether I want the team to go down, on ive nothing against the team, club or the loyal 1500 that went during the dark, dark days when a blanket was being walked around the ground for people to throw cash in due the perilous financial position that the club was in at the time. BUT I really really can't wait to rub as much salt, sh it, cack, bizz into the wounds of the five fingered knuckle shufflers that performed a colour change a chameleon would have been proud of on the 8/5/2005. I know of ex-mates, work collegues, family members that ditched their Utd and Liverpool shirts and were now 'proudly' parading around in their brand spanking new stripey shirt thingy. Funnily enough over the past 2 years or so they have become more and more distant to the Latic cause and now have returned to speaking fondly of Rooney and Stevie G....ankers the lot of 'em

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Just for our friend thtythreeyearswafc1 icon_wave.gif icon_wave.gif

Wigan RLFC offer a 'scrum' ticket offer for one season ticket holder to bring 6 guest for £5 per ticket for 1 game excl the Stains game

Wigan RLFC SOLD the north stand tickets to Heinz, its upto Heinz what they do with them after that as opposed to the offer of 3 free tickets to every Heinz pensioner from Wigan Athletic ticket office, which I think was the Fulham game.

As for season ticket prices im paying £15.84 per game for my seat in the Boston Stand yet a loyal tics fan pays just £13.15 per game for the exact same seat..

I had a cracking email from Mike Hogan (which Ive lost) that basically states that Wigan RLFC operate a no FREE ticket give away policy as they believe it devalues the season ticket, and generates no income into the club.

I hope that answers your question sixyearswafc1 icon_thumb.gif

(as for the chubster bit kidder, tha's not geet a clue mon)

Mr Eagle eye erm...

www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/TheBi ... 67,00.html

I think 2k per game is enough to alter attendances, dont you?
Just for our friend thtythreeyearswafc1 icon_wave.gif icon_wave.gif

Wigan RLFC offer a 'scrum' ticket offer for one season ticket holder to bring 6 guest for £5 per ticket for 1 game excl the Stains game

Wigan RLFC SOLD the north stand tickets to Heinz, its upto Heinz what they do with them after that as opposed to the offer of 3 free tickets to every Heinz pensioner from Wigan Athletic ticket office, which I think was the Fulham game.

As for season ticket prices im paying £15.84 per game for my seat in the Boston Stand yet a loyal tics fan pays just £13.15 per game for the exact same seat..

I had a cracking email from Mike Hogan (which Ive lost) that basically states that Wigan RLFC operate a no FREE ticket give away policy as they believe it devalues the season ticket, and generates no income into the club.

I hope that answers your question sixyearswafc1 icon_thumb.gif

(as for the chubster bit kidder, tha's not geet a clue mon)

Mr Eagle eye erm...

www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/TheBi ... 67,00.html

I think 2k per game is enough to alter attendances, dont you?


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why is the text so big over at CockneyLatic? I feel like i've just put on me nan's specs!

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Quote: onedego "why is the text so big over at CockneyLatic? I feel like i've just put on me nan's specs!'"


To make it look like theyve written more.

Ya know like schoolkids do on the computers change the font to like 36 n then go "miss miss look how much I wrote!"

hahaha

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Quote: Odemwingie "Mr Birchall (my old rugby coach from Deanery, he is a bit of a legend)quote]

"...and it's bump, bump, bump, in at the corner" icon_biggrin.gif

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Quote: KoA "It's the extreme that annoys me. I know some people who are so biased towards the Latics (God knows why) that it's unreal, they've gone to the extent of attacking RL fans. I could name the people who vandalized the road signs at the end of this season.

Harmless banter is nothing, it's obviously going to happen between two clubs in the top flights of their sports. It's when it gets personal and destructive to the town and its reputation that the problem comes.'"


a lot of fans only became anti latics via Whelans antics over making us play at widnes.

before that i had no animosity towards them.....since then ive prayed they get relegated...if only to spite whelan

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Isn't it about time this guy updated his little chart?

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Quote: PJs Gone To Derby "
"...and it's bump, bump, bump, in at the corner"'"

Ha ha, that's the one. Bumped into him yesterday at the game, which was nice, then bumped into that knob Boardman later in the evening, which wasn't.

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