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Just trying to get away from the mcrae slagging off and blame everyone at the club. Next year COULD be one of the last seasons at our famous ground. The question i would like to ask is. What is your best memory/moment of our famous ground. i will start

1, Ending wigans long run in the challenge cup
2, That tackle by Richard Webster on Jason Critchley (ouch)



away you go folks!

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one memory stands out for me the centenary game v widnes and steve rule kicking a last minute goal to tie the game 16 each i think it was last time i seen the old place full to the rafters it was before all the health and safety bollox came in must have been over 12,000 there that day

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David Watkins winning debut against Oldham, that night it was electric in the shed before during and after the game...What a fantastic night.

Beating the mighty Wigan in the Challenge Cup

Mark Lee winning drop goal against Bradford in front of the North Stand.

At last but not least I also remeber that tackle/hit by Richard Webster on Jason Critchley against Keighley Cougars...

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Quote: Chris Charles No1 Fan "Just trying to get away from the mcrae slagging off and blame everyone at the club. Next year COULD be one of the last seasons at our famous ground. The question i would like to ask is. What is your best memory/moment of our famous ground. i will start

1, Ending wigans long run in the challenge cup
2, That tackle by Richard Webster on Jason Critchley (ouch)



away you go folks!'"


Too many for one post , but here I go-

The day I stood next to Barney Hudson in the popular side stand(now known as the shed)
The day Gus Risman handed me my free ticket to see a match.
The day we signed Ken Richards and his first try.
The day we signed David Watkins, Colin Dixon,Paul Charlton,Chris Hesketh,Maurice Richards, Keith Fielding, Ken Gill etc,etc.

Every time we beat Wigan, St Helens, Leeds, Bradford,Warrington etc.

The time that the steward asked the 20 stone Bradford fan to vacate my seat in the Austin Truman stand and we won that match as well.

The day we got the franchise.

The day the new stadium is opened(obviously this is one for the near future)

When we knocked Wigan out of the cup and the TV camera moved around the ground and that most loyal Wigan fan John Massey was picked up actually crying at the final whistle.

Anytime that we win, draw or even just play well.

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Salford 31-30 Wigan. A drop from swampy and a brace of tries from nick pinkney, the end of endacotts reign too correct me if i'm wrong. First time i saw Salford beat Wigan at the willows. Away from there, the semi at leeds was my first away game, obviously the result was devastating but for my first away game, shown me the pro's and cons of supporting the reds. Sadistically. 96-16 against Bradford was also a meaningful game for me, it taught me what supporting Salford was all about. While you're there, you sing til your lungs burst. In support of the team, that is. Whether we lose, regardless of the manner of defeat, its still OUR team. If you don't wanna get behind the lads, there are plenty of other teams locally. this is aimed at the morons who want to dish it out, i know that doesn't apply to the majority on here. But if you can watch your team get annihalated like we were there, and still support them after that, then thats cool. If you didn't see that and are calling for heads to roll, get an f'in grip.

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Quote: Chris Charles No1 Fan "Just trying to get away from the mcrae slagging off and blame everyone at the club. Next year COULD be one of the last seasons at our famous ground. The question i would like to ask is. What is your best memory/moment of our famous ground. i will start

1, Ending wigans long run in the challenge cup
2, That tackle by Richard Webster on Jason Critchley (ouch)



away you go folks!'"


C.C.No1.F I have sent you a PM.

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Had many with the team plus a personal one which as it is before the watershed i can not say any more icon_lol.gif

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"The day I stood next to Barney Hudson in the popular side stand(now known as the shed)
The day Gus Risman handed me my free ticket to see a match. "

I'm so green with envy that I'm been sent home from work as unwell. eusa_sick.gif

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Quote: Bigpev "a personal one which as it is before the watershed i can not say any more
At the Willows?! That's disgusting?! eusa_naughty.gif

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Quote: Fatboys Limb "At the Willows?! That's disgusting?!
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Happiest memories are going to a packed Willows as a young lad, watching the game then with about 70 mins gone, we'd be hoping the play was down at the clubhouse end (no matter wheather that was our try line or the oppositions) so the players were close to us at the final hooter, then legging it onto the pitch to get the players tie-ups (a strip of bandage that they used to hold their socks up). Oh the joy the day I got David Watkns tie-up!!!
Also the day we ended Wigan's long run in the Challenge cup.

The saddest memory was the day the game was abandoned at half time because of the sad news that Leeds player Sanderson (I've forgotten his 1st name) had died after swallowing his tongue. I was stood next to the tunnel on the opposite side to the shed (when there used to be terracing, where the club shop is now inside the ground), and I wached a very pale faced young man being carried off on a stretcher. God rest him.

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Quote: proud to be red "Happiest memories are going to a packed Willows as a young lad, watching the game then with about 70 mins gone, we'd be hoping the play was down at the clubhouse end (no matter wheather that was our try line or the oppositions) so the players were close to us at the final hooter, then legging it onto the pitch to get the players tie-ups (a strip of bandage that they used to hold their socks up). Oh the joy the day I got David Watkns tie-up!!!
Also the day we ended Wigan's long run in the Challenge cup.

The saddest memory was the day the game was abandoned at half time because of the sad news that Leeds player Sanderson (I've forgotten his 1st name) had died after swallowing his tongue. I was stood next to the tunnel on the opposite side to the shed (when there used to be terracing, where the club shop is now inside the ground), and I wached a very pale faced young man being carried off on a stretcher. God rest him.'"


It was Chris Sanderson who died during the that match.

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offiah picking the ball up near the try line, spinning round and ripping brian carney against Hull in the early 00s to secure the win.

poetry in motion

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Said it before but it is still my happiest memory when Richard Webster nearly killed Jason Critchley with the best dirty tackle in memory.

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Almost everything Watkins did
The Neil Baker moment of genius
The second Scott Naylor try
The look on the faces of circa 7k Wigan supporters
The class act that was Peter Williams
The atmosphere on Friday nights many moons ago
[iand finally[/i
That pint Chris Charles No1 Fan bought me........ [sizeApril 2005 if I remember rightly [/size icon_wink.gif

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