Ive been a Wire fan for many years, followed them to every ground in the country from the 70s, going on the coach to clubs that did't do programmes just team sheets, now im showing my age.



more recently i went all home and away games when we had bloody Rodwell and crew, and ona better note was there at the smellie dome when we sent Widnes down, and said goodbye to Wilderspool harldly ever missing a game. However, this year i have not bought a season ticket and eventhough i have got my shirt to date not even been a game.



I got fed up of coming back down the 62 in silence and being totally brassed off after being beat when we really should have won and you always thought they would (you all know the feeling). I asked myself, im supposed to be enjoying this.



I posted regulary on the message board on the official site before they stopped it as Postl



I have noticed that over recent years it seems an effort for our players to come over and clap the faithfull.



Having said all that you never fall out with the club just with the players wearing our colours.



I would love to go to the semi final and maybe i will quite rightly miss out as i totally agree season ticket holders even if it is there first year should get first dabs on the tickets as i did in 2004, i actually think season ticket holders should be allowed two.



If i am by wanting to be at the semi's judged by some of our support jumping on the band wagon then to honest don't give a flying F

What on earth is all this about? There are Wire fans all over the Country, like myself, who due to the distance, work commitments etc, cannot go as often as they would like. There are also others who have simply got sick of the wait for success and have lapsed. The Club needs every single bit of support it can get. I'm sure that there are a few who would like a return to the old 4,500 a week gate. Whether people like it or not all Clubs need 'bandwagon ' supporters, the simple formula is more fans=more money=more success.

=redThis is exactly what people are talking about, fans should stick with the club through good and bad times however long it may last.



=greenAlthough we need bandwagon supporters for the final you wont see three quarters of these fans every again so just because we win the Challenge Cup doesn't necessarily guarantee bigger crowds and more money, in fact i very much doubt we would see a significant rise on home attendances even if we won a trophy.

I'm not saying that this is right, I'm saying that this is fact. As far as I am concerned it isn't right, but it happens and it's a fact of life.

all this bickering about bandwagons,true fans new fans etc...we are on the verge of going wembley,got a great coach,players beggining to believe in themselves..does it bloody well matter whether joe bloggs and his family attend their 1st game or 1001...lets enjoy what we`ve got at the moment...the more speccies we get the better

Well said Les

Great post, well said.

Great post, fed up of hearing all this 'real fan' rubbish.

I hope the semi-final and the final are packed with band-wagon jumping glory hunters. That will mean we have a band-wagon actually worth jumping on.

I've had a buzz cut for the past 30 years, ever since I got out of Red Bank and joined the BNP, Lee was just a whipper snapper.

Have you got one of them dead cool tatoos on your hand, aswell?

I am totally naffed off with this bandwagon word lets be totally honest what have we actually done, we have beat HKR away and reched a semi final hopefully we will do something at last and win the bloody thing.



lets be honest Latchford i think we have got the best most loyal fan base in the league if we had a team that was say a regular top 6 side the Haliwell Jones stadium would be well to small.



When we get to Wembley and we take 30,000 be them fans or warrington people just wanting to watch there team in a major final then i say fantastic and should be able to do it without being tagged jumping on the band wagon.



We had it all be it from a very self righteous few in 2004 which is totally beyond me.