London Wanderer Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 9 hours ago, bolty58 said: Fuck off. đź’— Quote
Johnnyrotten Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 12 hours ago, gonzo said: I didnt like it when Bury went. Felt sorry for their fans an staff, an age old football club like them going whilst players 10 miles down the road are earning £200k a week is utterly wrong. These Wigan Cunts however can fuck off. Their town doesnt deserve a football league team. Its a rugby town through and through. They should stick to that. Hope the perish and burn into nothing and never exist in any form again. Leave football to the big boys. On and off the pitch. Playing devil's advocate, as I'm as anti-Wigan as most on here and wish them all the bad luck going. But is that based on no town that plays rugby should also have a football team? Or just their relatively poor crowds? Coz if that's the case there are loads of teams that don't deserve to be in the EFL, but they just happen to not be our "rivals/haters". Quote
Members DazBob Posted October 26, 2022 Members Posted October 26, 2022 With Wigan being such a young club, families who have lived there for generations will have grown up as Man U, Liverpool, Everton or Bolton fans. The only ones who support Wigan will have been those that bucked the family trend at some point. Quote
Site Supporter Cheese Posted October 26, 2022 Site Supporter Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, DazBob said: With Wigan being such a young club, families who have lived there for generations will have grown up as Man U, Liverpool, Everton or Bolton fans. The only ones who support Wigan will have been those that bucked the family trend at some point. They were founded in 1932. Quote
tomski Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 12 minutes ago, Cheese said: They were founded in 1932. They’ve been irrelevant for most of that. Derby yes. Rivals no. Younger fans I get it but I can’t answer for them. I can’t take them seriously. Everything they do/think seems to have us in their mindsets. Weirdos. Quote
Site Supporter Cheese Posted October 26, 2022 Site Supporter Posted October 26, 2022 3 minutes ago, tomski said: They’ve been irrelevant for most of that. Derby yes. Rivals no. Younger fans I get it but I can’t answer for them. I can’t take them seriously. Everything they do/think seems to have us in their mindsets. Weirdos. I agree. Quote
Members DirtySanchez Posted October 26, 2022 Members Posted October 26, 2022 26 minutes ago, tomski said: They’ve been irrelevant for most of that. Derby yes. Rivals no. Younger fans I get it but I can’t answer for them. I can’t take them seriously. Everything they do/think seems to have us in their mindsets. Weirdos. Used to play Horwich RMI and I believe it would kick off Quote
tomski Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 14 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said: Used to play Horwich RMI and I believe it would kick off Exactly, historically they are rivals of Chorley. No offence Chorley fans but that’s small fry. Quote
Members DazBob Posted October 26, 2022 Members Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Cheese said: They were founded in 1932. Okay, in terms of being a Football League club then. Nobody cares about non league clubs. Quote
Breightmet Boy Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 I'd never heard of them until the late 1970s and I had a good knowledge of football, that's how relevant they are to me.  Quote
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted October 26, 2022 Site Supporter Posted October 26, 2022 15 hours ago, London Wanderer said: Complete meltdowns at even the thought of it Brilliant. You might be onto something though. Sign him for a nominal fee, then offer fans (£5 each) at his first home game to queue up and slap the fucker. Quote
Johnnyrotten Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 When Wigan were promoted to the league in 1978, they finished runner up to Boston United. Wigan were elected and Boston stayed down (they may not have applied for promotion for all I know). I always assumed they stormed the league and were deservedly promoted, but not so.  Quote
freds dad Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 Wasn’t Bobby Charlton a Director there and manager for a short time? Wiggin and DMB c**ts Quote
Members DirtySanchez Posted October 26, 2022 Members Posted October 26, 2022 15 minutes ago, freds dad said: Wasn’t Bobby Charlton a Director there and manager for a short time? Wiggin and DMB c**ts Think Ken Bates was involved as well Quote
gonzo Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Johnnyrotten said: When Wigan were promoted to the league in 1978, they finished runner up to Boston United. Wigan were elected and Boston stayed down (they may not have applied for promotion for all I know). I always assumed they stormed the league and were deservedly promoted, but not so.  Whatever happened to Boston by the way?! One minute they were in the league then they vanished without trace. Sure they docked 30 points or summet daft. Luton got twatted the same. Quote
gonzo Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 7 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said: Playing devil's advocate, as I'm as anti-Wigan as most on here and wish them all the bad luck going. But is that based on no town that plays rugby should also have a football team? Or just their relatively poor crowds? Coz if that's the case there are loads of teams that don't deserve to be in the EFL, but they just happen to not be our "rivals/haters". Just seems to me it's just not a football town whatsoever. Even the rugby lads hate the footy lot. Think it'd be better if they had a smaller ground like Forest Green or summet.  Quote
TM Trotter Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 4 hours ago, tomski said: They’ve been irrelevant for most of that. Derby yes. Rivals no. Younger fans I get it but I can’t answer for them. I can’t take them seriously. Everything they do/think seems to have us in their mindsets. Weirdos. I'm probably on the younger end of things here, and I'll put my hands up and say that, yep, I can't stand them. Obviously Blackburn and United are there, but as they've always had more fierce rivalries, it felt like a one way street. The whole Tranmere thing passed me by (just). So for me personally, there was always a bit of a vacuum. Now they've shared divisions with us for a good few years, become blindly obsessed with us as literally nobody else cares about them, and (for me anyway) it's kind of filled that void. Hopefully now their owner has clearly got bored, all 23 of their fans suffer - even one tenth what we did under And*rson. But they won't, the slimy bastards always seem to land on their feet. Quote
gonzo Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 Been here a million times before but its completely generational. Mainly because we havent got s traditional rival like Blackpool have with PNE or similar. We seem to generate one every other decade. Anyone under the age of 30 would never consider United a rival, derby or whatever you want to call it in a million years. Unless you live in Little Hulton or summet. Right here, right now its Wigan. 20 years ago it was Tranmere or Wolves. 20 years previous it was United. 20 years from now it will be some fucker else. Just the way it is with us. Bit crap really, I'd love a proper thing like villa brum or sheff derby but we are stuck with being hated by loads of small clubs and big clubs have their own things going on and couldnt give a fuck about us. Quote
Members DirtySanchez Posted October 26, 2022 Members Posted October 26, 2022 6 minutes ago, gonzo said: Been here a million times before but its completely generational. Mainly because we havent got s traditional rival like Blackpool have with PNE or similar. We seem to generate one every other decade. Anyone under the age of 30 would never consider United a rival, derby or whatever you want to call it in a million years. Unless you live in Little Hulton or summet. Right here, right now its Wigan. 20 years ago it was Tranmere or Wolves. 20 years previous it was United. 20 years from now it will be some fucker else. Just the way it is with us. Bit crap really, I'd love a proper thing like villa brum or sheff derby but we are stuck with being hated by loads of small clubs and big clubs have their own things going on and couldnt give a fuck about us. Think which part of Bolton you're from plays a part as well Quote
gonzo Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 3 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said: Think which part of Bolton you're from plays a part as well Aye deffo. But for a rivalry or derby it should be two way. Theres only Wigan that hate us and us only in our stratosphere.  Quote
London Wanderer Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: You might be onto something though. Sign him for a nominal fee, then offer fans (£5 each) at his first home game to queue up and slap the fucker. haha Quids in Quote
Members DirtySanchez Posted October 26, 2022 Members Posted October 26, 2022 17 minutes ago, gonzo said: Aye deffo. But for a rivalry or derby it should be two way. Theres only Wigan that hate us and us only in our stratosphere.  Agree and never got the idea that Man Utd are a rival In our days of playing them, I doubt many Man Utd fans woke up on fixture release date thinking when do we play Bolton They've got City, Leeds and Liverpool   Quote
Moderators Zico Posted October 26, 2022 Moderators Posted October 26, 2022 6 hours ago, Cheese said: They were founded in 1932. Though they've only been a league club since the late 1970s, so there's a generation or two knocking about that probably didn't go watching them because no one watched non league back then   Quote
BWFC_LOVE Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, gonzo said: Been here a million times before but its completely generational. Mainly because we havent got s traditional rival like Blackpool have with PNE or similar. We seem to generate one every other decade. Anyone under the age of 30 would never consider United a rival, derby or whatever you want to call it in a million years. Unless you live in Little Hulton or summet. Right here, right now its Wigan. 20 years ago it was Tranmere or Wolves. 20 years previous it was United. 20 years from now it will be some fucker else. Just the way it is with us. Bit crap really, I'd love a proper thing like villa brum or sheff derby but we are stuck with being hated by loads of small clubs and big clubs have their own things going on and couldnt give a fuck about us. It could be argued that I’m a product of the generational hatred you speak of, but this has gone on longer than Tranmere (who are further afield) and Wolves (who are even further away, and also have three midlands clubs to contend with). They’re on our doorstep, and have played  in our division for the best part of twenty years. Granted they were a bit try hard, but they’ve won the FA Cup as much as it pains me, and they’re currently a division higher. While some may argue that they don’t hate or even care for Wigan, it’s head and shoulders above anything close to a big  rivalry that we’ve had in my lifetime. Quite happy to embrace it tbh. Not that I’d be too disappointed if they went out of business. Quote
Moderators Zico Posted October 26, 2022 Moderators Posted October 26, 2022 I'm more than happy to consider Wigan our rival  More so than anyone else It wasn't always the case But for me there's far more edge against them than anyone else round here Quote
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