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| This subject has been brought up many times on here and I always have the same opinion.
For me, Wigan RL is associated with success and trophies. Wigan Warriors is associated with failure and underachievement.
I would love us to drop the Warriors tag.
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| Quote: Phuzzy "Bit selective that Alex!'"
I was just going off the thread so far, that's all.
Fair enough if some/majority of people want to keep it. But I'd like to know their reasons for doing so like Phuzzy has done.
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| We should drop Warriors straight away. For decades 'WIGAN' in sport meant rugby league, and I hate it when Latics are referred to as simply 'Wigan'. They are 'Wigan Athletic', just as we should be 'Wigan RL'.
I'd hate it even more, if latics became 'Wigan' and we became 'The Warriors' in popular culture.
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| Quote: ROBINSON "We should drop Warriors straight away. For decades 'WIGAN' in sport meant rugby league, and I hate it when Latics are referred to as simply 'Wigan'. They are 'Wigan Athletic', just as we should be 'Wigan RL'.
I'd hate it even more, if latics became 'Wigan' and we became 'The Warriors' in popular culture.'"
Correct. Anyone voting not to remove the Warriors tag is confirming themselves as a Latics fan, in my opinion.
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| Quote: Bernard Long in exile "Correct. Anyone voting not to remove the Warriors tag is confirming themselves as a Latics fan, in my opinion.'"
That's just silly, Dave.
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39110_1363272058.jpg Dropkick Murphy..we actually saw and heard a mass of bouncing and scarf and flag waving to Dale Cavese that drowned out anything we could muster.. It stopped us singing our own celebratory songs, it died out seconds later when we accepted we couldn't be heard over the Wigan lot
Celebrations muted from us, job done from them. Most fans who slag them off are jealous their own club's support is nowhere near that good
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sally cinnamon..Why not discuss Wigan? It's a rugby league message board. Wigan are the most famous brand in rugby league
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Tre Cool..Saints fans are hopeless unless it's a cup final or grand final. Wigan fans are so much more loyal and passionate
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the flying biscuit..Wires havent been massively succesful over the years, but I've spoke to Brian Bevan And he spoke to me and i wouldnt swap that for Wigans History, ever
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Ande..on the TV i could only hear the Wigan fans with about 10 to go
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Saint94..Every team is in your feckin shadow, we all know
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| Quote: ROBINSON "We should drop Warriors straight away. For decades 'WIGAN' in sport meant rugby league, and I hate it when Latics are referred to as simply 'Wigan'. They are 'Wigan Athletic', just as we should be 'Wigan RL'.
I'd hate it even more, if latics became 'Wigan' and we became 'The Warriors' in popular culture.'"
This is already starting to happen which is why we need to drop it.
We are Wigan they are latics.
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| Quote: ROBINSON "That's just silly, Dave.'"
You started it, Don.
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| Quote: Alex BP' "Going off this thread so far, apart from one post everybody would like to see us drop the tag.
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Not according to the poll.
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| Quote: {Hogan} "Not according to the poll.'"
I added the poll after I made that post.
For some reason, most of those people who want to keep the tag aren't posting their reasons why?
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| Quote: Alex BP' "I added the poll after I made that post.
For some reason, most of those people who want to keep the tag aren't posting their reasons why?'"
heres mine.......we added it in the name of progress and its now a world wide name.
why change back for the sake of it?
had you ask me 5 years ago, i would have said drop it, but now its become synonymous with the club, so i say leave it.
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| I voted 'yes'. I think it works, especially with young children. The 'tags' that the clubs have adopted have been important in the SL era to give clubs easily recognisable brands. Regardless of tradition/history/whatever, the 'Warriors' brand is used effectively as a marketing tool and helps to get youngsters' attention.
I sat with 5-year old Miss JTB on Saturday night with the replay of the match on TV and when she spotted Mighty Max she was leaping around with excitement (and I don't think it was the Quavers). That can only be a good thing.
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| Quote: wigan pie man "heres mine.......we added it in the name of progress and its now a world wide name.
why change back for the sake of it?
had you ask me 5 years ago, i would have said drop it, but now its become synonymous with the club, so i say leave it.'"
We added the tag because of the introduction of Super League.
Have we benefited from the 'Warrior' tag? I can't think of any evidence of us doing so. In regards to 'Warriors' being a world wide name, well due to lack of silverware and a lack of achievments on the pitch our name hasn't really been circulated world wide. In fact I doubt those outside of the UK who heard of Wigan pre-1996 know that we have changed our name to 'Warriors' because we have not done anything to warrent being in the world media.
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| Quote: Vicki_w "I voted 'yes'. I think it works, especially with young children. The 'tags' that the clubs have adopted have been important in the SL era to give clubs easily recognisable brands. Regardless of tradition/history/whatever, the 'Warriors' brand is used effectively as a marketing tool and helps to get youngsters' attention.
I sat with 5-year old Miss JTB on Saturday night with the replay of the match on TV and when she spotted Mighty Max she was leaping around with excitement (and I don't think it was the Quavers). That can only be a good thing.
But apart from Max, in what other way to way utilise our 'Warrior' name?
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| Drop it
We don't need to be called Warriors to have mascots for the kids
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| Quote: Alex BP' "We added the tag because of the introduction of Super League.
Have we benefited from the 'Warrior' tag? I can't think of any evidence of us doing so. In regards to 'Warriors' being a world wide name, well due to lack of silverware and a lack of achievments on the pitch our name hasn't really been circulated world wide. In fact I doubt those outside of the UK who heard of Wigan pre-1996 know that we have changed our name to 'Warriors' because we have not done anything to warrent being in the world media.'"
wrong........we won the first grand final, and went to 3 others.
i think the rest of the rugby league world (oz,nz) know by now that wigan are now wigan warriors. changing it back might confuse them.
mention "sea eagles" to me and i know you mean manly....thats how it works.
Knights? Roosters?
same thing.
it helps sell merchandise too........did we have merchandise pre superleague apart from a shirt and scarf?
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