Each club’s one main rival?

[Eddie]

What would you say is your club’s one main rival?

It would be interesting to see how many of them are reciprocated - eg in foootball Everton would consider Liverpool to be their main rival but Liverpool could consider Man Utd to be theirs, while Norwich v Ipswich is reciprocated. 

To start, Saints’ is Wigan. 

[Henson Park Old Firm]

Wolves v Dragons... seems a lot of passion there.

[Wellsy4HullFC]

Hull FC v Hull KR obviously.

I guess Leigh would consider Wigan as their main rivals, but not the other way round.

Warrington would either be Wigan or Saints I guess.

Not sure about the West Yorkshire clubs. Most would consider Leeds I guess.

[whatmichaelsays]

As a Leeds fan, the Wigan game was always the first one to look for - even when Bradford were in the league. 

[deluded pom?]

Hull v Leeds is another one. Leeds, in any sport, are not well liked in Hull (except when they win at Wembley )

[paul hicks]

as a Leeds supporter I would not say we have a main rival I know there's a few clubs that consider us there rivals but off the top of my head there's none that stand out these days.

in the old days it was clearly hunslet  but of course that's well in the past  but now there's no one team for Leeds supporters we just enjoy the silly hatred from other west Yorkshire teams towards us 

[Eddie]

6 minutes ago, deluded pom? said:

Hull v Leeds is another one. Leeds, in any sport, are not well liked in Hull (except when they win at Wembley )

So do you think most Hull fans would prefer to beat Leeds than HKR?

[wilsontown]

York's games against Bradford have been pretty intense, but I guess you couldn't say it was a traditional rivalry. Hunslet maybe?

[Tommygilf]

I have to say as a Leeds fan I agree totally with the sentiment expressed on here about our rivalries. First in my mind is Wigan. Then a big SL rivalry with Saints and Wire. 

Our Yorkshire derbies are big games but depend on the level of the opposition at the time.

[Leyther_Matt]

2 hours ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:

I guess Leigh would consider Wigan as their main rivals, but not the other way round.

There's a bit of a generational thing from a Leigh point of view. I've no doubt at all that the majority of fans would consider Wigan to be our main rival, but from a personal point of view and a lot of Leigh fans of a similar age (32), competitive games against Wigan have been few and far between in our lifetime, so there is generally a greater concentration on Salford, Widnes and Featherstone (in no particular order) and even Hull KR in the mid-2000's.

[M j M]

As a Leeds fan it's Hunslet in theory. I'm wary of Leeds fans who feel soft or sympathy for them.

But in reality nowadays it's Cas first locally and Wigan first outside Yorkshire. Never really got the Bradford thing which was hyped for a couple of decades. They're local and rivals yes and we got thrown together in some huge games for a while. But Cas has always been no 1 for me.

[RLDave]

Bradford Vs Liquidation

[deluded pom?]

2 hours ago, Eddie said:

So do you think most Hull fans would prefer to beat Leeds than HKR?

Hull KR every day of the week and twice on a Sunday.

[Exiled Wiganer]

Saints. Then daylight then possibly Leigh. 

[superten]

5 hours ago, Eddie said:

What would you say is your club’s one main rival?

It would be interesting to see how many of them are reciprocated - eg in foootball Everton would consider Liverpool to be their main rival but Liverpool could consider Man Utd to be theirs, while Norwich v Ipswich is reciprocated. 

To start, Saints’ is Wigan. 

In the late 80s there was no bigger game than Wigan v Widnes  

[WakefieldCityLoyal]

As a Wakefield fan of my generation it would be cas then fev and always wanting to beat leeds.

For the older generation they always class leeds as the main derby/rivals due to been successful in the 60s and getting cheated in the watersplash final.

Up the Trin 

[Sports Prophet]

Sharks and dragons

roosters and bunnies

maybe eels and dogs

Blues and maroons

Oz and England 

[RobertAM]

Toronto vs Toulouse

[Canis Lupus]

1 hour ago, RobertAM said:

Toronto vs Toulouse

Maybe Leigh with so many players going from one to the other. Hopefully that will change with the Ottawa team coming in 

[paul hicks]

used to be Leeds v Leeds parish church I'm led to believe .

oh and hunslet v Holbeck.

sadly I missed them by a number of years

[bobbruce]

9 hours ago, Eddie said:

What would you say is your club’s one main rival?

It would be interesting to see how many of them are reciprocated - eg in foootball Everton would consider Liverpool to be their main rival but Liverpool could consider Man Utd to be theirs, while Norwich v Ipswich is reciprocated. 

To start, Saints’ is Wigan. 

These things change currently City are Liverpool’s main rival I couldn’t care less how United do. 15 years ago Arsenal not Liverpool would’ve been uniteds main rival. In RL Leeds and Bradford would’ve been each other’s main rival now Leeds is probably Cas and Bradford Halifax. 

[daz39]

Traditionally ours are Halifax but in the more recent super league era i'd say it's more Wakefield and recently Leeds, although both their sets of fans claim they don't care about us they go bonkers when they beat us !

[paul hicks]

1 minute ago, daz39 said:

Traditionally ours are Halifax but in the more recent super league era i'd say it's more Wakefield and recently Leeds, although both their sets of fans claim they don't care about us they go bonkers when they beat us !

to be fair Leeds fans this season go bonkers anytime we win a game

[Spike]

As a town fan our main rival is whitehaven, but there is a slight rivalry with Barrow and I don't think any town fan would want Bradford to win after the carry on last year and the abuse we received 

[Eddie]

53 minutes ago, bobbruce said:

These things change currently City are Liverpool’s main rival I couldn’t care less how United do. 15 years ago Arsenal not Liverpool would’ve been uniteds main rival. In RL Leeds and Bradford would’ve been each other’s main rival now Leeds is probably Cas and Bradford Halifax. 

I disagree, the vast majority of Liverpool fans (those from Liverpool at least) would consider Utd their main rival, it’s all about history not who is good at any point in time.