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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 26/08/2026

Name two better players who have played for your club. I’ll wait.

Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 25/08/2026

God the Father - Jim Sullivan God the Son - Ellery Hanley God the Holy Spirit - Billy Boston Wigans Holy Trinity can never be bettered.

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 25/08/2026

A Rugby League Giant. Rest in Peace Billy, and thank you.🙏 🍒

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 11/08/2026

First bits done for a beta quarterly (or whenever I feel like it) wigan rugby history magazine. Asked the museum if they wouldn’t me using “gerrumonside” as the title hope they won’t mind, they shouldn’t tbh but still courtesy. Opinions and stories from 1862 to well, whenever.

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 29/06/2026

Shall turn the button ON and start posting again.

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 31/03/2026

Message to @wiganwarriorsrl.bsky.social How much more money will you be asking off fans? We have a billionaire owner and you don’t give a toss about our history unless it’s from the 99s or Boston. A complete shower

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 05/03/2026

Nice to see Wakefield with healthy crowds 👏

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 25/02/2026

Some sad news coming out of the Leigh club to break soon 😞

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 20/02/2026

Makes you think Where have those Bradford Bulls fans been?

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 20/02/2026

UK Track Cycling Championships 🆓 tickets 🎟️ I have x2 tickets for tomorrow nights cycling track championships at Manchester velodrome Can’t go (Wigan v Hull) but free to anyone just send me a message and I’ll sort email Also have x2 for tonight I can’t attend.

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 19/02/2026

Well done Hull Kingston Rovers Winning a World Club Challenge in the part of the city the were founded

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 18/02/2026

To any Hull Kingston Rovers supporters out there… Enjoy these moments You never know when it’ll come around again

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 12/02/2026

Central Park, home of the Wigan Rugby League Football Club. Wigan, Lancashire.

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 11/02/2026

For any Wiganer you’re all good to read the latest Lathams Loft in the next @forty20magazine.bsky.social 👍 #Manly

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 05/02/2026

Visited Tyldesley RU club tonight to see these special items belonging to John “Buff” Berry Lancashire, North of England, England and Westmorland caps

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 04/02/2026

Captain of the West Lancashire and Border Towns Union. Got sent this image of a photo to try and identify him. 25% in my view could be Charlie Holt of Wigan (1885) or J. Warren of Warrington (1886) who captained versus Westmorland. The provenance of the back story suggests it could be Warren

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 02/02/2026

Nice to see Warrington Wolves celebrate their 150 year anniversary through heritage and history and not through commercial opportunities Wigan, as we are not yet 150 years old, take note. Redeem yourself for 2029!

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 29/01/2026

For a moment I felt like Jim Slevin! Probably the first Wiganer since Jim to hold this trophy aloft in the guise of the West Lancs Cup! Oh to be in 1890! #RugbyHistory #SocialHistory

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 29/01/2026

£50,000 worth of silverware 🏆 The West Lancashire and Border Towns Union (as it was, minus lid, for now) trophy and the Lancashire Cup (RU) First played for in 1885/6 Wigan won it twice and came runners up once. One of the most important trophies in Rugby of either code. ❤️ Jim Slevin be proud

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 27/01/2026

Anyone know if Semi Tadulala ever reached his potential and became Full?

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Stuart Sheard @dropkickbooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Unfortunately, there were no 'giant killing' acts in the 2nd round of the 2026 Rugby League Challenge Cup. That wasn't always the case. Follow the link to read about a century of 'giant killers' www.dropkickbooks.com/blog/post.ph...

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A century of giant killers

The Rugby League Challenge Cup started life as the Northern Union Challenge Cup in 1897. The competition was re-named the Rugby League Challenge Cup in 1922 when the Northern Union became Rugby Footba...

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 26/01/2026

Don’t often praise Rugby Union but the Lancashire RU have made my day today! 🏆

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 25/01/2026

Rochdale Hornets it is Played Rochdale 10 times in the Cup, twice with a 2-legged tie Wigan 10 Rochdale 0 Not lost since 1979 either so… a nailed on Hornets win!

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 24/01/2026

Welcome back @andyburnham.bsky.social May inspire some of us to rejoin and get back into helping Deb and John in Atherleigh Ward eh

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 17/01/2026

Fun Fact Warrington Wolves have NEVER lost a World Club Challenge! #unbeaten

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 16/01/2026

Tour de France 2027 Keswick to Liverpool! Time to get my Decathlon CMA CGM team flag ordered and produce a Remco Evenepoel flag for Parbold!!! May fit on Van Der Poe somewhere

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 14/01/2026

We need a Wigan Old Boy as England Head Coach… try something new

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 11/01/2026

Albert Goldthorpe. 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 A legend of our sport.

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 09/01/2026

I bottled it. Jai Field in my work… I’m 41. Im too old to ask for a selfie and fan boy stuff. He’s in his 20s. I am ashamed. Middle aged men shouldn’t be fanboying

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 09/01/2026

Very very niche audience I have but you never know… Will apply to all ages groups for Girls in the Leigh/Wigan/Salford/Warrington area… come and join the biggest amateur rugby league club for juniors in the country! 🖤💛

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 09/01/2026

📅 On This Day 9th January 1886 Snow cancels Wigans match against Bury 1892 Snow cancels Wigans match against St Helens Recreation ☃️

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Wigan Tours @wigantours.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

More #1925 in #Wigan Now this was a clash of the neighbours! 🏉 I am sure Highfield will be reet. They just need a bit of stability 🤔

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 08/01/2026

📅 On This Day 8th January, 1873 The Wigan Football Club (the one that was around before todays Wigan Warriors, established 1879) played their first ever match. They travelled to Warrington with the game ending in a draw.

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Wigan Museum @wiganmuseum.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our latest What's On guide is out now! Jam packed with events, talks, and activities happening across all of our amazing venues, there really is something for everyone 😍 You can pick up your free copy at any of our venues, or access it online at the link below 👇 www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Res...

The front page of the guide features brightly coloured bubble shapes including yellow, green, pink, orange, and blue.

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 03/01/2026

£27 to stand at Castleford? Are they run by Medici bankers?

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 31/12/2025

A Mrs Plath presenting International Caps to Joe Egan, Ken Gee, Martin Ryan and Ted Ward before a match v Belle Vue, October 1946 Ryan, Egan, Ward and Gee in said caps with GB jerseys

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Ancient & Loyal 🏉 Wigan R.L. @ancientandloyal.com · 31/12/2025

64 photocopied pages of the Lancashire Rugby Union minutes. So many classic names in those Lancashire teams… Valentine. Seddon, Sam Williams, Mills, Payne, Kemble, Eagles, Bullough, Atkinson, Bumby… And of course the President, Monkey Hornby Oct 1886-Feb 1890

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