A team which has previously only won 6 games in 32, you think they will win 5 out of the last 6?

Did I say Latics would win 5??

Wigan peer just owned all of them

Listen kids let em stew in their own !!
Their adventure into the limelight is soon to come to an end, another couple of years and theyll either be defunked or in serious cack.
Karma is a great thing, and I will p1ss myself chuckling when they do go down as I can clearly remember one loyal 25 year tic holding a placard to the Granada cameras with the infamous 75-0 scoreline whilst he was queing for season tickets. How I will love to meet up with the clown when the inevitable happens (thats if he still "supports" em).

I'm really ambivalant to the football but reading the childish drivel on the site, cockneylatics, most of the comments are puerile at best. we do pass comment here thats true, but the comments over there are just what you would expect from a 12 year old. i have made 2 posting and rest assured i will not be returning to the crappy, garbage filled site..... must be that time of the month...

I wouldnt worry about them. come August they will be back to sub 8,000 crowds with the away fans taking one of the side stands.

I am a born and bred Evertonian. Old enough to remember my first game in the 70s watching Everton beat Newcastle United at Goodison when the likes of Andy King and Mick Lyons were playing. I started watching Wigan RLFC when I moved back from Yorkshire in 1992 and have been a season ticket holder at CP and the DW ever since. In many respects I fell out of love with football but in love with rugby league. Why? Simply because football to my mind is not what it was. Its the cheating and hypocrisy of football that gets to me and the fact that many (not all) of the players, are basically overpaid whiners! Addd all that to the lack of sportsmanship in football and its no wonder that I prefer rugby. Rugby is everything that football is not. Don't get me wrong I still look out for the Everton result and watch them from time to time, but I know what I prefer to watch. As for the Latics, good luck to them, I hope they stay up along with the likes of Blackpool and west Brom. the likes of Martinez ,Holloway and Hodgson are the good guys in football and deserve some success.

For me it's history. When Wigan RLFC started, Wigan Athletic wasn't even an apple in its mother's eye. Wigan RLFC is where Wigan's sport heart is!

The bookies have Latics odds-on to be relegated. I hope they're right.

Since our dear brothers last had a crowd in excess of 20k which was back in April 2010 weve managed 4 20K+ crowds and another one guaranteed next week V Stains. And when you think of the promotions Latics have had on tickets for home fans such as 3 for £30, 2 for £20, bring a mate for a fiver and the infamous 'big ticket' giveaways, then take into account the huge away crowds that come to the DW..well ermm....

Just check out the facilities around the town for the amateur RL clubs...St Judes, Hindley, Rose Bridge, St Pats, St Cuthberts then compare them to what the local footie teams have and we can see that Fosters field just doesn't cut it...

Wigan a rugby town? Well it certainley isnt a Wigan Athletic town thats for sure...

Apart from the last few lines about wanting 'tics to stay up this post echoes my thoughts about football nowadays. I do watch football, but non league. There's no question Wigan is a rugby town. Come end of May I could be very, very happy for so many reasons.

If Blackpool beat 'em this week its 'praters for our brothers in blue. I aint counting my chickens though yet.

Ive got mixed feelings wether I want the team to go down, on ive nothing against the team, club or the loyal 1500 that went during the dark, dark days when a blanket was being walked around the ground for people to throw cash in due the perilous financial position that the club was in at the time. BUT I really really can't wait to rub as much salt, sh it, cack, bizz into the wounds of the five fingered knuckle shufflers that performed a colour change a chameleon would have been proud of on the 8/5/2005. I know of ex-mates, work collegues, family members that ditched their Utd and Liverpool shirts and were now 'proudly' parading around in their brand spanking new stripey shirt thingy. Funnily enough over the past 2 years or so they have become more and more distant to the Latic cause and now have returned to speaking fondly of Rooney and Stevie G....ankers the lot of 'em

Just for our friend thtythreeyearswafc1 Wigan RLFC offer a 'scrum' ticket offer for one season ticket holder to bring 6 guest for £5 per ticket for 1 game excl the Stains game Wigan RLFC SOLD the north stand tickets to Heinz, its upto Heinz what they do with them after that as opposed to the offer of 3 free tickets to every Heinz pensioner from Wigan Athletic ticket office, which I think was the Fulham game. As for season ticket prices im paying £15.84 per game for my seat in the Boston Stand yet a loyal tics fan pays just £13.15 per game for the exact same seat.. I had a cracking email from Mike Hogan (which Ive lost) that basically states that Wigan RLFC operate a no FREE ticket give away policy as they believe it devalues the season ticket, and generates no income into the club. I hope that answers your question sixyearswafc1 (as for the chubster bit kidder, tha's not geet a clue mon) Mr Eagle eye erm... www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/TheBi ... 67,00.html I think 2k per game is enough to alter attendances, dont you?

Just for our friend thtythreeyearswafc1 Wigan RLFC offer a 'scrum' ticket offer for one season ticket holder to bring 6 guest for £5 per ticket for 1 game excl the Stains game Wigan RLFC SOLD the north stand tickets to Heinz, its upto Heinz what they do with them after that as opposed to the offer of 3 free tickets to every Heinz pensioner from Wigan Athletic ticket office, which I think was the Fulham game. As for season ticket prices im paying £15.84 per game for my seat in the Boston Stand yet a loyal tics fan pays just £13.15 per game for the exact same seat.. I had a cracking email from Mike Hogan (which Ive lost) that basically states that Wigan RLFC operate a no FREE ticket give away policy as they believe it devalues the season ticket, and generates no income into the club. I hope that answers your question sixyearswafc1 (as for the chubster bit kidder, tha's not geet a clue mon) Mr Eagle eye erm... www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/TheBi ... 67,00.html I think 2k per game is enough to alter attendances, dont you?

why is the text so big over at CockneyLatic? I feel like i've just put on me nan's specs!

To make it look like theyve written more.

Ya know like schoolkids do on the computers change the font to like 36 n then go "miss miss look how much I wrote!"

hahaha

a lot of fans only became anti latics via Whelans antics over making us play at widnes.

before that i had no animosity towards them.....since then ive prayed they get relegated...if only to spite whelan

Isn't it about time this guy updated his little chart?

Ha ha, that's the one. Bumped into him yesterday at the game, which was nice, then bumped into that knob Boardman later in the evening, which wasn't.

Am I missing something or does that CockneyLatics site have a massive font? Reminds me of the special needs books you see in schools with big bold letters!! Then again if the players are anything to go by then it seems about right!!

How many local lads play for the latics?

They have a lad on loan from United who plays, pretty close....

They have nobody who actually plays who is local though I don't think where as we have a number of either local or home grown players in contention every week.....

S Tomkins
Goulding
J Tomkins
Deacon
McIlorum
Hansen
Lockers
Prescott
O'Carroll
Mossop
Farrell
Tuson
Marsh
Charnley

Not to mention the amount of backroom staff we have previously linked with the club or local/fan of the club.

Although saying that, any team in the football league has no where near that many players either from the town or developed through the youth system. RL in general is terrific for this.

I speak to fans of Liverpool and United all the time who love having a great team but admit they would rather it was local lads taking to the field. The derbys are so much more intense.

Tom Cleverley isn't even a local lad he's from Basingstoke

More local than Oman, Columbia, Honduras, Senegal, Argentina and all those other places the Latics' squad come from!

I asked the question on CL a good while ago as to how many local players had come through their system and played for their first team since they were formed in 2005 - the only one they could come up with was Leighton Baines, and it didnt take him long to jump ship to his "boyhood club"!