its always wigan in cup games on the bbc and games on the radio.
its only bert and ernie on sky that insist on using the warriors moniker.

I say drop the warriors tag for sure, its pointless.

Only way it will effect anything is about 2 of the songs.

Remember a few years ago when we had that questionnaire handed out before the game to be used to gather a general consensus amongst all fans about certain issues?

Well I am pretty sure that one of the findings of that was that the Warriors brand was the one to move forward with, I think the majority of fans responded positively too it. The following season of the questionnaire saw the introduction of the 'Wigan Warriors' badge to the official jersey. Where it has remained since.

I'm not totally against the Warriors brand but I do always refer to use as Wigan Rugby, even though I've now known them as the 'Warriors' for the longer amount of time!

I do however think it is a more marketable name for the club and as stated many times in this thread (and the hundreds of others there have been) those who knew the club as Wigan R.L can continue to refer to it as such, I don't see the big deal!

Totally agree 100%.

We are WIGAN RL

I think this feeling is shared amongst many fans, if you ask the mass majority of Salford fans, we would more than happily go back to Salford RLFC, I think it's time we all left these daft nicknames behind and go back to the more traditional names.

I agree with getting rid of the Warriors tag as well, add on the bonus of getting rid of the dreadful Max and it all sounds good to me.

I remember that questionaire too.

But although 'Warriors' is on our badge, apart from Max we have no association, history, merchendise, relation, identity, links, website, programme, books etc etc, to do with a WARRIOR. We simply do not relate to WARRIORS at all. People generally don't say to their mates they're ''going watching the Warriors'', they say ''I'm going watching the Rugby''.

It's about time it went. In fact, I'm going to take this further! Who'll join me?

Alex I 100% concur.

However, IL has gone on record as stating that he likes the "Warriors" tag.

Not going to happen sadly.

get rid i say lets be called "the riversiders" as we used to be.

I'm all for dropping the name, but the above is not quite true. The Old English for 'warriors' was 'wigan'.

Copy and paste from rlThe Battle of Maldonrl lines 235 to 237wigan to wige, þa hwile þe he wæpen mæge
habban and healdan, heardne mece,
gar and god swurd.

rlTranslationrl
warriors to battle, while with weapons we are able
to have and grasp, the hard blade,
the spear and the good sword.

I wonder if 'latics' means anything in Old English

You're looking at this from a purely adult perspective. Most kids I know, including my 7 year old, do associate with the name. As adults we can choose to use/ignore it. If, however it helps market to a younger potential fan, especially in these times where there is so much vying for their attention, then surely it's a good thing. Btw, he loves Max too!

It isn't going to be dropped. The club are moving forward with the Warriors name attached.

Yes, Wigan RL is preferable, but I don't see it happening.

I cannot stand the warriors tag, or "rhinos, bulls...etc" its embarrassing., cheesy, pointless and should all be dropped.