: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:06 pm  

Drop the Warriors, bring back Kelvin the Gorilla and move back to Central Park. Job done.

[JTB]

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:06 pm  

Pemps wrote:

Just had a text off a mate of mine asking about the new shirt. His wife bought one at the game on Saturday and when they got it home it had no Kooga or Wigan crest on it.

Did he refer to it as a 'Wigan' shirt or a 'Warriors' shirt?

[Pemps]

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:10 pm  

JTB wrote:

Did he refer to it as a 'Wigan' shirt or a 'Warriors' shirt?

Warriors. Always Warriors.

[JTB]

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:12 pm  

Pemps wrote:

Warriors. Always Warriors.

You are mates with an 8 year old?

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:14 pm  

Alex BP' wrote:

:) Oh I know, it's just a good debate.

But what I'm trying to say is that if Warriors does attract new support and better our club then fantastic! Let's keep it. But, we do absolutely nothing to utilise our ''WARRIORS'' name. It doesn't attract people, it's not created new merchendise, it's not created an affiliation or a new identity. We certainly wouldn't lose out on anything should we remove it from our name, would we?

The Warriors name isn't a hinderance, it's just pointless.

I know where you're coming from but as I explained in other posts, it's only from our perspective as established fans that it has no bearing. On new, and especially younger, fans it is part of the club identity and so I would argue isn't pointless. I think Robinson makes a valid point though (as do you) about making it more of an identifiable brand in the way that , say, the Yankees etc. have done. Now that would be a worthwhile marketing excercise!

P.S. I do realise that it will never have the global identity of the Yankees before anyone makes this an issue! lol

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:18 pm  

piemandan wrote:

Drop the Warriors, bring back Kelvin the Gorilla and move back to Central Park. Job done.

Got to disagree, Edward the pie man was the best mascot by a mile.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:22 pm  

21-12 wrote:

Got to disagree, Edward the pie man was the best mascot by a mile.

that 'bloody pie in tights' as my nan used to say

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:22 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

that 'bloody pie in tights' as my nan used to say

He was brilliant.

rl : Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:41 pm  

Living 30 miles away on the Wirral I'm often asked who do you support, Liverpool or Everton?
Reply, Wigan Rugby League Club!
Couldn't imagine saying Wigan Warriors!
We also have a national company as sponsors who's HQ is away from Wigan.
In conversation do they say "We sponsor Wigan Rugby League Club" or "Wigan Warriors".
I do think with them being miles away from the town they'll say "Wigan Rugby League Club"
Ian Lenagan is the owner and has his view which is fine.
He has also just changed the name of the company from Wigan Football Club" to Wigan Rugby League Club".
As he's just done that perhaps this is the time we should go for the one name for both the company and marketing purposes with "Wigan Rugby League Club"
Wigan Rugby League Club has always sounded great to me, after all that's who we are!

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:55 pm  

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.