Quote Superblue="Superblue"Table's telling me of the state of rugby league in Cheshire which cannot offer a big club to Super League. Perhaps an amalgamation of Widnes, who have at least experienced Big Club status, and Warrington , who have the financial backing, could present the opportunity to provide a Big Club aurora for Cheshire rugby fans'" Lets get the facts right Superblue Warrington and Widnes are not in Cheshire but in Real Lancashire - its your lack of Geographic Knowledge www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/you ... confusion/ The boundary is still The River Mersey and both Warrington and Widnes are North of the Mersey - I take it your South of the Mersey and probably descendant of 1970s Southern Imported influx to expand the New Town -

Quote Superblue="Superblue"Table's telling me of the state of rugby league in Cheshire which cannot offer a big club to Super League. Perhaps an amalgamation of Widnes, who have at least experienced Big Club status, and Warrington , who have the financial backing, could present the opportunity to provide a Big Club aurora for Cheshire rugby fans'" Lets get the facts right Superblue Warrington and Widnes are not in Cheshire but in Real Lancashire - its your lack of Geographic Knowledge www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/you ... confusion/ The boundary is still The River Mersey and both Warrington and Widnes are North of the Mersey - I take it your South of the Mersey and probably descendant of 1970s Southern Imported influx to expand the New Town -

Insightful analysis. The most likely explanation I heard at the time was that Maurice Lindsay, a man who was always prepared to ride roughshod over others to get his way, realised that the sell-out to Murdoch would be problematic given that some clubs would clearly miss out financially, possibly forever. How to get it through, then? Answer, use an age-old technique: propose something totally intolerable and therefore make the slightly intolerable more appealing. The 'merger idea' was the totally intolerable: he knew it was just smoke and mirrors but the sheer horror of it made embracing the Murdoch deal with club structure intact suddenly the better option. Old Mo wins again.

Quote Winslade's Offload="Winslade's Offload"Well if we go back a little further to 270 million years I think you will find the Wire club was in fact pretty close to the equator on a land mass called Pangaea. www.openculture.com/2014/07/map- ... angea.html Following a bit continental drift and a few years later we drifted away from Eurasia and ended up moored on the eastern side of what we now call the Atlantic Ocean. As an aside, just to the SW of Warrington was a large volcano belching out malodorous sulphurous fumes and steam. The volcano is now extinct of course but it's name lives on in the settlement of Widnes. But anyway, can we still say Warrington was in Lancashire, when in truth we were part of the Eurasia land mass ?'" The true purist knows that Warrington played their first game on the spot that was originally part of the historic gas and dust cloud, before those bureaucrats at city hall merged all the gas and dust and rocks, re-drew the boundaries, and called it Earth.

Quote Winslade's Offload="Winslade's Offload"Well if we go back a little further to 270 million years I think you will find the Wire club was in fact pretty close to the equator on a land mass called Pangaea. www.openculture.com/2014/07/map- ... angea.html Following a bit continental drift and a few years later we drifted away from Eurasia and ended up moored on the eastern side of what we now call the Atlantic Ocean. As an aside, just to the SW of Warrington was a large volcano belching out malodorous sulphurous fumes and steam. The volcano is now extinct of course but it's name lives on in the settlement of Widnes. But anyway, can we still say Warrington was in Lancashire, when in truth we were part of the Eurasia land mass ?'" The true purist knows that Warrington played their first game on the spot that was originally part of the historic gas and dust cloud, before those bureaucrats at city hall merged all the gas and dust and rocks, re-drew the boundaries, and called it Earth.

Ha Ha. Before that gas cloud, during the Planck epoch, Lancashire and Cheshire were merged in the singularity about 13.8 billion years ago.

Actually it's believed when the club was first formed they played on Wharf Meadow, where Riverside Retail Park now is: still north of the river though.



All but three of the club's grounds have been 'north side', being those just south of St James' church and the old and new Wilderspool sites slightly further south, where we spent over a hundred years!



As an aside, I've a major query on the claim we moved to the 'main' Wilderspool site in 1898 as is widely believed, as I've uncovered evidence that throws this into doubt. It's an area worthy of more research, but sadly not likely something I'll be able to make time for soon.

Quote Redrosewire="Redrosewire"Lets get the facts right Superblue Warrington and Widnes are not in Cheshire but in Real Lancashire - its your lack of Geographic Knowledge www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/you ... confusion/ The boundary is still The River Mersey and both Warrington and Widnes are North of the Mersey - I take it your South of the Mersey and probably descendant of 1970s Southern Imported influx to expand the New Town -'" Sort of get your drift, so if Warrington and Widnes aren't in Cheshire then my point stands, that Cheshire cannot offer Super League a Big team

Quote Redrosewire="Redrosewire"Lets get the facts right Superblue Warrington and Widnes are not in Cheshire but in Real Lancashire - its your lack of Geographic Knowledge www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/you ... confusion/ The boundary is still The River Mersey and both Warrington and Widnes are North of the Mersey - I take it your South of the Mersey and probably descendant of 1970s Southern Imported influx to expand the New Town -'" Sort of get your drift, so if Warrington and Widnes aren't in Cheshire then my point stands, that Cheshire cannot offer Super League a Big team