For every fan that moans about not coming back next week and leaves early, there is a fan who would be there week in week out watching us get battered in NL2.

We are indeed a proud club that expects the very best, but we don't have a God-given right to win every game or even play to our abilities EVERY game. That's professional sport for you.

Take the rough with the smooth and get behind the lads.

correct mate, if your a fan you get behind the team not boo them , i cant believe people are defending there right to think its right to boo them after 1 game, they wernt booing after the last minute try against hudds in the freindly

Leaving early is not something I do but they did not get any applause off me on Sunday. Applause was not deserved and has it ever crossed your mind if you applaud rubbish like that when they do actually play well your applause are meaningless?

Dave

Agreed. I always try to stay to the bitter end, but it's difficult, if not illogical, applauding such rubbish as we were served yesterday.

Last season, the players reacted to having been booed against Huddersfield by giving us fans the cold shoulder treatment at the end of the next home game. I think the very least they must expect is the same thing in return when they let us down equally badly.

I didn't go on Sunday - living in London means i can never get to every game. But, i think i would have booed them off too. I've done it before and i'll probably do it again. I don't want to watch a team that just turns up to play the last 10mins of every match. I don't mind if we're being completely outplayed but being outenthused is a joke. I've seen us get smashed by Saints and Leeds and stayed to applaud them off because they obviously tried their hardest under difficult circumstances, but over the past couple of years, the players/coach have started to run out of excuses. Silveware or a final this year or else Npble should be shown the door...

That they annoy you and they are pathetic

No time for happy clappers and i can never understand anyone that leaves early when the game is in the balance.

what an original and insightul topic

EXACTLY! - The game was only 12-6, and fans leaving with twenty mintues left CLEARLY shows no faith in the side.... 6 points in it, 20 minutes left, surely, you have to agree that that is a sign of no faith in Wigan? There's no way you can disagree with that... especially you 'Charlie Seeling', you sound like an intelligent bloke, surely you can understand where I'm coming from there...

But I wanted to leave early so I left early. Is there a problem with this? I never intended to stay to the end, so it wouldn't matter if they'd been winning (or losing) by fifty. I don't see how or why people should be criticised for exercising their freedom of choice. Its not like a crime. Why let it irritate you?
For what its worth, the people who stay till the end don't irritate me.

To be honest, it's a nothing thread. Some go early, some don't. It's the same across the game. They're all still fans. It's the ones who sit in their armchairs at home rather than going in the first place who aren't genuine fans - and there are plenty of those, many of whom openly admit it, who regularly post on the boards of other clubs.

Right, your not even talking about the same thing - If you leave regardless of them winning or loosing then you clearly have nothing to do with this debate - If you'd read into what we are talking about, we're discussing why people leave & boo based on the teams performance - You leave regardless of this performance, therefore, it doesen't concern you - Hence the reason i didn't reply to your first post, because it was totally irrelevant - If you leave regardless, then that's your decision, maybe you want to beat traffic? I don't know - But what I'm stressing, is why people boo and leave based on Wigan playing bad, nothing else.

Don't get me wrong I was as bitterly dissapointed with Wigan's performance and Mathers' lack of balls as the next man.

However, Wigan fans that boo the team, and especially those that booed Mathers on his return from the sin bin are feable.

It's these kind of deluded fans that thought after the Huddersfield game last year that the only reason we ain't winning the league is due to a 'lack of pride in the shirt'.