You gotta love the anti warriors tag snobs. Such an irrelevant issue its unreal.

Lets drop the Warriors tag and lose out on potentially thousands of pounds on merchandise and so so just so a bunch of grown men on an internet forum with a stick up their about it are happy

Where did you get this loss of "thousands of pounds" from? are people really more inclined on buying a product because it has the Warriors tag?

Hull FC must be financially f*cked.

Bad example as Hull does not have masses of competition on its doorstep. Like Newcastle, in wendyball, they have big followings because their Cities are isolated, relatively speaking.

Apart from Hull KR.

My point exactly... Would you like to run off a list of competing sporting clubs?

I see what you say, we have Wigan, Wire, Saints, Widnes, Leigh, Salford, Swinton in league
Man Utd/City, Bolton, Everton, Wigan, Liverpool in football
Sale in Union
Lancashire in cricket
Plus countless more smaller sports

Hull have 2 RL teams and a championship league football team

But to be fair how many Wiganers are going to support Wire, Saints, Widnes, Leigh, Salford or Swinton? Judging by their regular crowds I'd say the effect of LCC and Sale Sharks is also negligible.

My points being for every extra team or sport that is 'potentially' one season ticket or one match ticket or shirt less, it all adds up, if say we had only ever had Wigan and Wire RL and Wigan Ath in this area how much bigger would the crowds be. Imagine if Saints and all the other clubs had never existed in this area.
I would imagine Wire's ground would probably be about 20k and the DW selling out for both teams RL+FC.

The point is you need to get a persons imagination when they are young. Many of us were taken to games by older family members, or we walked up with our mates when older, but access to other sports is everywhere now. When i was young there was no internet and mass TV coverage of sports, generally you followed your local team, or a team having some success (my grandson has a friend at school who is a Warrington fan "cause they are good", this is in Blackpool). Much as i hate the Warriors" tag, we need to use marketing ploys to get people through the gates, and buying the merchandise.

Think of marketing like a road sign... Its not for people who know where something is, its for those who don't...

All adults from the old school era hate warriors or wolves tagged on but the kids love it, take away the kids and you taken away current child merchandise and future adult merchandise. It's here to stay, it sucks but it works otherwise they wouldn't bother.

This