congratulations for what?

they won nothing........were very poor also rans and out of their depth.

congratulations should be saved for winners.

Correct, why praise mediocrity, it baffles me !!!

one story that i found quite amusing was that after the full time whistle, martinez threw his jacket to the latics fans as a thank you.
trouble was he had forgotten to take his wallet out of the pocket and that went as well
what a dipstick

Newspaper bollox - confirmed by Martinez.

I am very pleased with the result.

So what if one or two idiot "latics fans" bad mouth Wigan RL? There are plenty on here who bad mouth Wigan Athletic.

Great that a town the size of Wigan, situated where it is, in the catchment area of Liverpool and Manchester, is represented at the top table of Football.

As for the comments that only winners should be congratulated.....

Do you REALLY think that Wigan Athletic can compete with the money on offer from Chelsea and Man City?

Survival in the Premier League is the best they can hope for and well done to them for achieving that!

prime example of why i will not waste my breath congratulating latics!

went on my facebook to find this status from a latics fan.

"Just seen the clip on bbc sport were sam tompkins got knocked out by gareth raynor's punch it is so funny can't stop laughing you have got to watch it"

tomPkins? who is he! & why is there any need for that!

Long may our town have sports teams competing at the top of their respective games, we still have a Premier League football team and not only a Super League team but Super League Champions. Tremendous for the town.

Agreed. I think that there is more than one or two that bad mouth the rugby. I remember years ago, before they got in the prem, going to a latics match and hearing the chants of "if you hate Wigan rugby clap your hands", but then we sing "fu** the latics" in one of our songs, so it's a bot pot/kettle for us to say we hate them for saying nasty things about us

Some Latics fans are good blokes, infact, the majority of them are good people. There are a minority who a knuckle dragging idiots, which to be fair, we have as well. Such as the 2 guys I was stood next to at bradford who spent the whole time hurling abuse at Josh Charnley for little to no reason. The Latics fans I know - season ticket holders who claim to have been going since the Springfield days, know of the animosity, and possibly even feel some of that animosity themselves, but when we speak about the situation they see there are 2 sides to this story and there's no point to us hating each other. The town is plenty big enough for the both of us.

OMG i'm agreeing with him again...

To stay up with the resourses thay have is an achievement.

What an excellent post. I do not like football, much I'm pretty indifferent to latics. If they stay up or go down I don't care, but that's more to with disliking football than the club. What I don't like is the minority of their fans apparently all of which congregate on the cockney latic site; they're pretty disgraceful, even if the were RL fans (or fans of anything) I would still see the same.

Hats off to Whelan & Co for keeping them up this long, fewer resources than almost every club in the PL but manage to survive season after season. However, its a tight-rope being near the bottom every season, you can only survive so long without going down. What happens when Whelan quits the club, ive been told he already wants to sell, they wouldnt be afloat if it wasnt for the investment that has been put in by Whelan, and continue to post losses which would be worrying as a Latics fan.

I'd personally like Latics to stay up indefinetly, but many of their fans are an embarrasment to say the least with a massive chip on their shoulders towards anything WRL, although some fans on here seem to have caught the same condition though which is sad.



Yeh i agree, sporting achievements have put Wigan back on the map, literally.