and its been our year every year since....and dont forget it....!!!



My first ever game was Warrington V Bradford Northern in 1979....

I'd played half decent in the school team and was given a "schools complimentary ticket" to the match so i thought why not have look...

Wires won 10 points to 8 and to say it was a blood n guts game was an understatment four players left the field after various altercations.

two left on Stretchers (and You didnt leave on Stretchers unless you were out cold in them days)and two were red carded and Ian Van Bellen for Northern just looked the most scariest man I'd ever seen...!!!!

I walked home behind two sets of blokes who were arguing like good uns With the Wires fans saying "its like this every time you lot come down"

I remember thinking great when do we play em again

After that I was hooked.......

It did always seem to be like that against Wire though, '79 was a bit before my time but even up until early Superleague games between the sides always seemed to feature more than their fair share of niggle, and were often all the better for it.

Can't have that nowadays though, got to think of the children.

Stuart Spruce and Steve McNamara putting Mark Forster into the cameraman, ECW-style. Cameraman carted away unaware of what day of the week it was.

Cheers for that, been trying to recall who the Wire player was in that incident all afternoon!

[list[*Les and Marcus St Hilaire's tries at Headingley, each neatly bookending a tremendous act of retribution.
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[*Deacon kicking crossfield off a penalty in the last minute of the 2001 68-18 win at the Shay for Withers to finish the job in style. All the better after the Hobson affair of the previous year.
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[*Steve McNamara belting a penalty to touch as hard as he could at head height into the Threepenny Stand. They can dish it out but...
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[*A massive Bulls support at Wigan in 1998 shrugging off the hammering we were getting and singing for Henry Paul (who was about to join us) and Abi Ekoku who seemed to think we were taking the mick but was eventually won over.
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[*'You'll Never Walk Alone' at Don Valley in 1997. Never before, never again AFAIK.
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[*Brian Mac putting Steve Mac away on the halfway line against Saints the week after Wembley 97 and SM finishing it off somehow. And Graeme Bradley doing the same against the same opposition the year before.
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[*Leeds fans singing 'There's only one greedy b.st.rd' at Jimmy in 1996, the final confirmation the tables had turned.
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[*Paul Medley running one in the same game, Kevin Iro chasing him for a bit then giving up because he just couldn't be ar5ed.
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[*Bulls fans celebrating Lee Penny's try on behalf of the shellshocked Wire fans towards the back end of the 84-12 win at Wilderspool.
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[*Having a chat with Paul who runs Southstander the morning after Bulls had won at Headingley in 2003 and Les - whom as recently as that week he had assured me was still total crap ('Vainoslowcoach') - had gone the length of the field to score.[/*:m[/list:u

I'm seriously feeling quite emotional now. Great moments.

Stood in torrential rain against Saints & Wilkin getting sent off a couple of years ago.

Thanks for that.

In truth, the list is endess, and these memories of past days and days yet to come are one of the reasons why we watch the game. All the more so for those with more woll on their backs, who can remember having good times despite the years being barren and the team being poor-to-crap.

I don't remember the year ( 2002 or 2003 maybe ) but Leon scoring a try in the last minute at headingley to win the game is probably the most crazy i've ever gone in any rugby match including finals.

Was that the same match as Reardon smashing Danny Mc into touch.

No they weren't the Leon was round 26 in 2002. The Reardon McGuire was in 2003.

I thought so when thinking about it cause i remember the 2003 game. When we defended awesome in last 15 mins. cheers.

I remember that. For some reason I was on the eastern terrace and got plenty of banter/abuse from the Leeds fans throughout that game. When Leon scored in the last minute it went a bit quiet and when I looked around everyone had gone