This match is bigger. In terms of the bigger derby, wire are nowhere really.

Still the Wigan v Wire derby is now one of the biggest IMO.

Wire v Wigan on the pitch is bigger than Leeds V Bradford, Hull V Hull KR, Cas V Wakefield just for entertainment value alone, but never will it beat the passion and the excitement of Saints V Wigan. It was on the VT that the term 'derby' was first used for a Wigan Vs St Helens match - why we never use this when promoting the games ill never know!

Edit: This is what was posted: "The term 'derby' in sport actually comes from the Wigan-Saints derby as Lord Derby used to arrange the game in victorian times (i think). Why RL and the two clubs don't advertise this I don't know, someone as rich as Lord Derby would be a tremendous asset for RL."

Wire are our third most important derby team. However, this particular game is massive.

If you are thinking Leigh is big then think again. Untill they get back in super league and can compete with us Leigh is merely a bus stop.

As is now posted on the club website in the late 1940s until about 1954 the Wigan / wire match was much bigger than the Saints match. I lived in Golborne and went to school in Newton and the rivalry between wigan and warrington fans was much more intense than with saints fans

Absolutly not. This year its a huge game because of League position, and while I hate Wire at the moment, Saints are our biggest rivals imo.

Massive game tomoz no doubt, but NOTHING is bigger than Wigan/Saints

I kind of get where he's coming from with this. There was a time in the late 80's/early 90's when Wigan/Widnes seemed a bigger fixture (and derby I suppose) than Wigan/Saints

In terms of this season it's our biggest match so far but nothing will ever mean more to Wigan fans them from t'other side of billinge hill. Anyone who says otherwise shouldn't call themselves a Wigan fan

Not a chance.

Wigan v Leigh is a bigger derby.

Nice one, that might upset the Dire, but who cares?

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Wigan v Warrington

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what a joke

it never will be bigger than wigan v saints

Nah, just because Leigh aren't in the same league as us does not simply make the traditional rivalry and history just disappear. Wire don't even register on my radar, cut it out. Pemps.