Being packed into Threepenny like sardines on those massive wooden steps. Not being able to see wtf was going on went play went to the nearside corners of the pitch.

Indeed, sending the dad into the club at the front whilst sneaking off for a quick try at the Eddy end and waiting for players to come out of the new tunnel and sign autographs as they went down the old tunnel.

Good times!

having goal kicking contests at half time on various 2nd and 3rd division pitches and getting chased by portly stewards

taxi races at oldham on way to watersheddings

trips on Bramley buses to France for the test matches

loads and loads Daz, you were there for most of them.

we werent as portly ourselves then though mate,a lot easier bombing round mclaren field/hope street etc in them days !!

Still the same for you Hudds fans isn't it?

er yeah i guess so when were visiting wakefield saints bradford leeds or hull kr !!

Climbing over the back wall at the Eddington end at Knowsley Road five minutes into the match so we didn't have to pay..........

they still do that

Wigan were the dog's bollo[icks[/i.

Now they're just bollo[ick[/is. Just ask Castleford .................

Weird...read this topic, thought for a bit and and hard a really vivid flashabck to WHELDON ROAD (proper name) with the steam rising up as the two packs went down (for a more than 10-15 second scrum) on a frosty winter night, mid-week div 1 game against Swinton.
I know we have a few cold games now but it used to be like that for months! Hard to imagine now, likewise seem to remember mid week games being a lot more regular?

I remember the day Widnes came to train on the field at the back of my house.

Whilst I certainly agree with euroboy that as a widnesian I wouldnt know good a rugby player if one slapped me in the face with a three eyed fish, I remember all the local lads being treated to Martin offiah, Sorensen and Davies lobbing it around, followed by legging it indoors to get my autograph book before they left.

That would be worth a lot of money if I could find it. Probably been thrown out by my Mum.

He was one dirty mo fo.

That's another thing that's been consigned to yesteryear - proper salt of the earth thugs (hardmen). Les Boyd & Paul Cullen. Kurt Sorensen and Joe Grima. Real hard b'stards.