After watching poor displays, in anger ive said the exact same "im not coming watching this crap again".... but ill be there the next game....

and i can bet many people in here have said the same thing?

When your team is underperforming it is frustrating and fans will react in many different ways! some people are willing to stay... some will be angry, leave , maybe boo... like i've said, i dont personally leave early but i wont hold it against someone who does.

I don't always clap, but I always stay.

If the performance warrants applause (win or lose) it gets it. (leeds in the cup and playoffs for example)

If the performance doesn't warrant applause, it doesn't get it (hudds at home for example)

Do you tip bad service in a restaurant

I regularly leave early. In fact yesterday I left the game with almost ten minutes to go. It doesn't mean I'm not a fan. It means I leave early.

Not the same thing though is it mate

Is it not?

Do you ever go to concert? the theatre? and then give a rousing applause at the end even though what you saw was awful?

It's not in the same context.

The whole setting for a rugby game and your 'team' is different to that of the theatre and an 'act' - So, that's why it's different. I couldn't relate the two - and to be honest mate, this is going off course now.

If I went watching an act at a concert, say the arctic monkeys for example, and I had the loyalty for the arctic monkeys as I do for Wigan, then yes, I'd still applaud them regardless, because that's what a loyal fan does... I wouldn't boo them, I'd applaud them, and have the faith in them.

Just like I have faith in Wigan, I wouldn't judge them, boo them off, leave early whether it be after 1 game or 8 games... It's just not something you do to a team you follow.

I do stay to the end of every game, win, lose or draw,

I clap the players at the end of every game, win,lose or draw,

That is what a loyal supporter is all about supporting the team through good and bad times.

Why should Wigan RL or whomever be any different? Does it not make you gullible if your behaviour is dictated by blind loyalty. The nearest one should get to blind loyalty is your family and to put a sporting team on the same pedastal seems very unhealthy.

For the record I do not boo the team. I have left early on occasions irrespctive of whether Wigan are winning or losing simply to escape the traffic. I would never dictate what other fans should do though. They pay their money and a free to do as they please.

Do you attend every game?

Do you attend reserve/academy fixtures?

How far do you have to trvel to watch Wigan RL?

Are Distant Supporters beeter by definition than Wigan Resident Supporter?

Why should supporters not express their feelings positive or negative?

Does it matter what you wear?

Does it matter how much you spend?

Who created this hierarchy of fans?

Or are we talking cliches a bit like Brian Noble does.

For your information,

Yes I do attend every home match

I attend as many acad/res fixtures as work permits

I live in wigan now but have been in HM Forces for a good few years so I have traveled a fair few miles to watch wigan play over the years

if you support a team why boo them when they lose, thats not showing loyalty

who gives a crap what I wear or how much I spend , thats being a bit childish aint it????

The questions were general questions JF

Bet you missed a few matches serving in the forces though. Now I do not think there is anything wrong with that but some might



Personally, I think supporters creating any hierachy of loyal ness / true supporterish is a bit silly.Each to their own IMO.

i know this post has gone off the rails a little, but it really does annoy me when people leave early when were winning or if where getting beat, what do you achieve by leaving early.
the only other thing i wanna say is if your a fan you try and get behind your team and encourege them, not boo and cheer when someone catches the ball after one game in hard conditions its abit pathetic.

At the next match if you are near somebody who does that you tell them

tell them what

For every fan that moans about not coming back next week and leaves early, there is a fan who would be there week in week out watching us get battered in NL2.

We are indeed a proud club that expects the very best, but we don't have a God-given right to win every game or even play to our abilities EVERY game. That's professional sport for you.

Take the rough with the smooth and get behind the lads.

correct mate, if your a fan you get behind the team not boo them , i cant believe people are defending there right to think its right to boo them after 1 game, they wernt booing after the last minute try against hudds in the freindly

Leaving early is not something I do but they did not get any applause off me on Sunday. Applause was not deserved and has it ever crossed your mind if you applaud rubbish like that when they do actually play well your applause are meaningless?

Dave

Agreed. I always try to stay to the bitter end, but it's difficult, if not illogical, applauding such rubbish as we were served yesterday.

Last season, the players reacted to having been booed against Huddersfield by giving us fans the cold shoulder treatment at the end of the next home game. I think the very least they must expect is the same thing in return when they let us down equally badly.

I didn't go on Sunday - living in London means i can never get to every game. But, i think i would have booed them off too. I've done it before and i'll probably do it again. I don't want to watch a team that just turns up to play the last 10mins of every match. I don't mind if we're being completely outplayed but being outenthused is a joke. I've seen us get smashed by Saints and Leeds and stayed to applaud them off because they obviously tried their hardest under difficult circumstances, but over the past couple of years, the players/coach have started to run out of excuses. Silveware or a final this year or else Npble should be shown the door...

That they annoy you and they are pathetic

No time for happy clappers and i can never understand anyone that leaves early when the game is in the balance.

what an original and insightul topic

EXACTLY! - The game was only 12-6, and fans leaving with twenty mintues left CLEARLY shows no faith in the side.... 6 points in it, 20 minutes left, surely, you have to agree that that is a sign of no faith in Wigan? There's no way you can disagree with that... especially you 'Charlie Seeling', you sound like an intelligent bloke, surely you can understand where I'm coming from there...

But I wanted to leave early so I left early. Is there a problem with this? I never intended to stay to the end, so it wouldn't matter if they'd been winning (or losing) by fifty. I don't see how or why people should be criticised for exercising their freedom of choice. Its not like a crime. Why let it irritate you?
For what its worth, the people who stay till the end don't irritate me.