League leaders shield in 2009 (part of three days without sleep that began with me quitting my job in Leeds, two trips to Manchester and ended in a Sushi bar in North East Japan)

It used to be one of the grounds where you could go stand in the best spot even as an away fan, not many left now...

One thing that sticks in the mind about the Willows was Salford's innovative idea to play recordings of crowd noise over the P/A system to generate an atmosphere, can't believe this never caught on.

Yeah a fine game and a cracking atmosphere, you should of won it in the last minute but didn't go for the drop for some reason.




Get the 100 bus from the City Centre goes to The Trafford Centre (actually goes past Weaste Lane) and its a 10 minute walk or jump on the 67 which goes to Patricroft, Irlam and Cadishead area ground is right near there. Tram to Eccles to and you can catch either one of those buses there or get a cab.

...you need to get down south roofs.....

Contrary to Roofs experience, always found the Willows to be a great and friendly place to go, apart from falling A over T in the club bar one Sunday evening



For me the memory of a game around 2000 when we had found out that day Dickie B was letting the club go and we looked like we had no future only for Ritchie Barnett to have one of his few outstanding games in a Broncos jersey and rip Salford apart, so what did their supporters do at the end of the game?

Cheer and applaud the Broncos off the field like real supporters of the game and the performance of a player even if not one of their own.

Inside the ground it was always absolutely fine, the Salford fans are an awesome bunch and a great laugh - it's outside the ground that I didn't like, Weaste is a hole, unfortunately.

I did - The Stoop was very non-intimidating, and I had a great day actually.

Actually yeah tbf I guess it was the area that was the main issue, apparantly the night we won there were little pockets of trouble all over. Without sounding like a wimp I was semi-jogging back to the car tbh.

I had the most horrible burger ever in my life at the willows



I think that the highlights of the Saints v Salford game in 2005 on boot’s n’ all is probably the memories that I’ll cherish the most. The one where if you didn’t knock on you could have gone on to win the game.

I’ll just add that other than the dodgy burger my experience at the Willows was a pleasant one!

Surprised there aren't many Warrington memories on here.

The famous Kidwell pass.



Alan Hunte scoring a CC QF winning try for us on Grandstand in something like the 8th minute of stoppage time.

Fitzpatrick scoring in front of the Wire fans and giving us the bird.

And a personal one from this season: jumping up so high after a try that I went over the top of the crash barrier and fell straight on my face/knees.

So you never had a burger at Wilderspool then?

Losing. Never seen us win there.

Memory is probably the same as Leyther Matt's. Great try by a depleted Leigh side in a bad tempered game. Must have kept the ball alive for what seemed like an eternity.