[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:18 pm  

And a marketing opportunity dream for the club to exploit.

Bradley Wiggins leader of the Tour de France, 3 times gold medalist at the Olympics is a Wigan RL fan.

Anyone notice anything in this pic the day after he claimed yellow?



Also only posted three or four things when he claimed yellow, two of which were these:

Also the mighty Wigan Warriors at Wakefield today ‪#ancientandloyal‬

Lets hope he can keep in yellow to Paris.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:53 pm  

The Warriors 'boot bag' on the bed

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:58 pm  

He looks like a former Widnes star



Good luck to him and his bike ride.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:12 pm  

his nephew plays for orrell st james u7's and he sponsors the team

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:24 pm  

Nice chap as well, his son goes to the same school as my eldest, his lads always have the full Wigan kit on, on non uniform days. Lives on the same estate as me and often see him with his wigan RL bags and shirts.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:31 pm  

They brought him on the pitch once iirc and we should certainly be getting him to do a lap of honour ASAP at one of our games when he hopefully wraps up this tour de France.

It's brilliant for the club to have such an amazing sportsman supporting us.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:46 pm  

Watch a bit of it yesterday so will watch it even more now - brill

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:51 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

They brought him on the pitch once iirc and we should certainly be getting him to do a lap of honour ASAP at one of our games when he hopefully wraps up this tour de France.

It's brilliant for the club to have such an amazing sportsman supporting us.

It's hard to see him not winning the tour now. He was a pre race favourite along with Cadel Evans and he's almost 2 mins ahead of Evans going inro this week. I'm sure he'll win it and win gold in the Olympic time trial. Our club should really tap into him from a marketing angle. Great opportunity!!

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:51 pm  

Amazing sports man is right..

The Tour De France is a huge event and to have the guy whos leading it showing his support for us, but most importantly our game..should not be over looked by wigan and the RFL..

one tweet from someone like ferdinand is seen by over 2 million people all over the world..thats publicity our game as ever had on a daily bases..

one tweet on a friday or monday to say "guys watch sky sports 2 tonight, you'll love it" will get more people tuned in than 1000 stobart trucks.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:34 pm  

"Like" Team Sky on facebook, find that photo and "like" it. It's got a chance of being their wallpaper for a day or two, as was said above, priceless publicity.