So, in other words it was meaningless. Which just about sums it up.

The point about this Yorkshire thing is this; NO-ONE is bothered outside of Yorkshire. When the chant goes up people just shrug the shoulders. I mean we just couldn't care less about which county you live in/were born in.

And the idea that I would stick up for Saints (Merseyside) or Warrington (Cheshire) because they are playing in Leeds is ridiculous. Saints are the enemy. Whoever beats them is alright with me.

Spot on. The old Yorkshire / Lancashire rivalry died when the changed the boundaries imo.

Lancashire for me is a cricket thing and associated with Blackburn, Burnley etc.

It's about as meaningful as Hudds fans chanting Fartown.

Well of course they're not, they weren't born in Yorkshire poor souls. If I hadn't had the good fortune to be born in Gods own county, I wouldn't care which county I was from either.

I've read your moronic Wigan posts for quite a while - Please grow up and change the record you sad act.

I strongly suspect that Wane and his troops would have expressed the same unconfined joy had Wigan pipped Leeds on friday with the last play of the regular season .

To win two pieces of silver is a fine achievement , all three would be outstanding .

I am puzzled as to why you aren't bothered ?

A sure sign you have trophy fatigue my friend

First thing they need to do is change the league leaders trophy to something that doesn't resemble a catering tray. The SL trophy is still the big one but it's literally like comparing an iPhone 6s to a Nokia 3210.

The crux of this thread is pretty funny. I think you are taking issue with the fact that another teams fans would rather cheer a rival than cheer for Wigan. Does that not say something about the general view of your team and it's practices? I am a Warrington fan, and Wigan are bottom of the pile when it comes to teams I'd rather cheer for, Saints are just as big rivals as Wigan to me, but if it came down to cheering for one or the other, it would be Saints, even after all the hurt they inflicted at the death over the years.

And the simple reasons for this are that while Saints have their fair share of nastiness and petty play (Wilkin, Masoe etc.) Wigan have such a bigger amount of what i perceive to be thuggish behavior, and the very fact that their coach actively encourages such an ethos is the big no no. Comments from his mouth have sometimes been seriously silly and the way he asks his players to go out and do what they do sometimes is just unacceptable to me, and that's where my hatred stems.

This does not mean I am not able to appreciate the talent in that side. It's all definitely there and only a fool would play blind to the ability and skill shown on that field. Unfortunately the other side of things is what drives my opinion and outweighs the positives.

Good, cause we love being hated... Just makes us chuckle..

Pretty well explains my attitude to Wire, though I'm thinking mainly of the d###heads who watch them, not play for them.

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If Wire had made the play offs and played in a final and Westwood did that now, how many games do we think he'd get? Considering his England career looks to be done I'd guess far more then 1 friendly!!

Wirewirewire - fair assessment.

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Who are you trying to kid by trying to justify your hatred of the game's biggest club? We all know how it works in Wankington, it's drilled into you to hate Wigan from birth. You attend matches 50
% to watch Wanky and 50% to hate Wigan.

It's quite sweet, really.