Re: Drop the 'Warriors' tag : Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:49 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

:CLAP: Totally agree 100%.

We are WIGAN RL

On another thread i said Team Team Team..... Now its Please Please Please..... get rid of the Warrior crap.....

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:57 pm  

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.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:58 pm  

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.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:00 pm  

sbohan wrote:

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!

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?

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:11 pm  

Alex I 100% concur.

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

Not going to happen sadly.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:48 pm  

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

: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:28 am  

Alex BP' wrote: ... we have no association, history, merchendise, relation, identity, links, website, programme, books etc etc, to do with a WARRIOR 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 The Battle of Maldon lines 235 to 237: wigan to wige, þa hwile þe he wæpen mæge habban and healdan, heardne mece, gar and god swurd. Translation 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

Alex BP' wrote: ... we have no association, history, merchendise, relation, identity, links, website, programme, books etc etc, to do with a WARRIOR 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 The Battle of Maldon lines 235 to 237: wigan to wige, þa hwile þe he wæpen mæge habban and healdan, heardne mece, gar and god swurd. Translation 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

: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:29 am  

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!

: Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:40 am  

Alex BP' wrote:

I think it's more negative than anything.

If you check on teletext or newspaper articles, which looks better from a Wigan point of View:

''WARRIORS BEAT ______''

''WIGAN BEAT ______''

If your flicking through Rugby League news on your an not a huge RL supporter then Warriors could be anybody.

Warriors simply isn't Wigan, so why have it kept tagged onto the end of our name? It isn't our identity, it isn't used and in my opinion it makes us
sound slightly American-super-dooper-hyperfyed....

We're a traditional Rugby League club and even our young supporters recognize that.

feck me you`ve only won two

: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:31 pm  

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.