ROBINSON wrote:I see your point, but I was 9 when I first started watching Wigan; we weren't called Warriors then, and if we were, it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference. It was enough for me that I liked the sport - I was aware of "branding", due to the coverage of American Football on Channel 4, but it never occurred to me that we should do the same, and I certainly didn't develop an affiliation to any Gridiron teams because of it. This is despite the fact I actually quite like American Football.
The Mighty Max point - we can have a mascot without being called 'Warriors". Can't we?
you have just brought up a clincher for me.
i like american football in a big way for the last 7 or 8 years and my favourite team is Pittsburg. I ALWAYS refer to them as the steelers.
by the same token our newer fans refer to wigan rlfc as the warriors (which many have pointed out, and many recognise as the clubs future fans), because thats what they were more or less brainwashed into calling them from the off, just like myself and the steelers ?
if we suddenly dropped warriors from the name, would these new/young fans stop calling them warriors?
i very much doubt it, so it would be a pointless excercise imo.
