Good luck Latics

[Fraggle]

stevocod posted:
Sorry Fraggle i know you don't like text message language, it's just habit and apologise for that. I think sometimes people do it 2 avoid spelling errors and does have a bad effect on the younger generations.

However i can spell reasonably well and my mother is an ex English teacher, so i will post with as many full words as possible, but apologise if i include one or two.

If you are not sure of certain text you can always question it and i'm more than happy to elaborate on such text.

A long time ago it was decided that txtspk was to be discouraged on here, since there is little consistency in the abbreviations people use so people could become upset if someone interprets their abbreviations in a different way to the original intention. It is also a long-established tradition that communications on the internet should be done as you would any other kind of communication - you don't speak in txt so there's no need to write it on here. I know that many of the younger generation use txt all the time on their mobiles, and perhaps us oldies (mid-30's in my case!) are behind the times, but the majority said on txt so it's no txt. I'm just doing my moderating duty in letting you know, we do try and have some basic rules after all!

As for their opinions, (i.e. latics fans) i totally respect their views, opinions, i just think it's not relevant to the warriors and i'm sure there are more non latics fans than latics fans and are fed up of reading such threads.

You don't have to read threads about Latics! In truth, they are very few and far between and us moderators, I hope, do a decent job in stopping any that become too argumentative. The vast majority of messages are just rugby-related (and even then, not always directly Wigan-related) and it's very difficult to keep people totally on-topic. So long as the Latics stuff doesn't become excessive, disrespectful or downright trollish then I'm prepared to let it go for now and just ignore anything I'm not particularly interested in.

[im_a_cuckoo]

As the person who started it, fair play to the moderators for allowing a bit of reasonable debate. There are plenty of areas of common cause - the recent arguments the Latics had with the police (after Friday night's South Stand/pitch invasion shenanigans, it could be us next), or issues of ownership of the clubs, the ground, Dave Whelan's attitudes etc.

I, for one, can't see why we're allowed to take our drinks in to watch the match while - in the same stadium - just because Latics are a football team, all drinking has to be restricted to before the match or during half-time.

Then there's the question of the pitch - this season it's us who have inherited a useless playing surface after years of them having a go at how rugby affects the pitch.

Like it or not, we both share this town and the ground, and some here will have to confront their old-fashioned attitudes and get used to the fact that - for the time-being - Latics are pre-eminent in terms of attendances, publicity and, crucially, success.

[Antwigan]

It'll be interesting to see the attendances in a couple of years. And very interesting in 134 years time.

[Uncle Fester]

stevocod posted:
How can it b petty? I don't live in Wigan and am a life long fan of the rl team and have no affiliation with the football team. I am a football fan and always have been. But as i am not a latics fan as many are not on this website can you please find a site dedicated to them and stop wasting the ppls time who care nothing about the latics.

It's not sour grapes or pettiness it's ppl who don't happen 2 follow the football team and y don't u get off ur high horse and start repecting other ppls views or teams and understand that mayb other ppl on this site support other football teams or not follow it all.

How many more threads are wasted on this topic and do i really need to say it again, well i'm goin 2:-
"THIS IS A RUGBY LEAGUE SITE AS IT SAYS ABOVE WIGAN-WARRIORS.COM, BY THE FANS, FOR THE FANS" I think this is meant for fans of rugby league not wigan in general!

There are plenty of football sites/forums 2 join on the net and if u want 2 speak bout it go there. I'm not normally this harsh and probably wouldnt speak about it if u were all latics and warriors fans but obviously not all r and should b respected 4 that.

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