I am absolutely gutted that i never experienced a wire match at wilderspool. As i only started going when i was in year 7 (the first year at the HJ), this is because my family is a football family and wouldn't take me to a rugby game, therefore when i started high school, i was allowed to go with my mates who were all season ticket holders. Reading some of these memories is making me dislike my Mother and Father haha, but since my first Wire match in 2004, i have never looked back and have propbably spent hundreds if not thousands of mine, and my parents money, following us all over the country, and now the success is showing through, i simply could not be happier

then got found not guilty at the hearing .......we rarely had any luck against the smellies in those days

for a while he almost ruined my 1986 premiership final day.
for some reason Graham west of Wigan Was Stood near us just behind the sticks johnny Warbo came down stood right in front of me waving a big flag blocking my view.... "and started singing are you watching Graham West".......

West totally ignored him (he was busy watching the game) and Warbo went back to his spot and I got my view back...... quite a character

The pound entry voucher for kids in the guardian. Then finding out that a wolfpack is a tenner at the start of my first full season.

Mark fosters double testimonial against Wigan, it was a freezin midweek night KO and hardly anyone was there.

Danny nutley and stevie mac owning the other packs in SL


All the players in the VDV era going to the village after EVERY game Nd gettin my shirt signed by all of them. Some days playing off ground tag with the players who had had a wee bit too much

Watching Paul wood, chris cambell, nooney, hula and others coming through the ranks( these were the first academy players is remember)
The confetti cannons the starlights had
The half time game when people had to catch a ball after it went through the ' bomb machine'

I remember the tannoy announcement was cryptic in an attempt not to initiate panic amongst the crowd.

"A message for all stewards. Mr Fox is under the main stand. I repeat. Mr Fox is under the main stand."

Our group all turned to another and almost in unison announced, "there's a fire".

Anyone who wasn't around at the time and not old enough to remember crap films starring The Bionic Man hot-wiring Migs and avoiding the entire might of the Soviet military single handedly shouldn't be expected to understand the reference.

Actually, two other announcements at Widnes also now come to mind.

When the idea of Super League was still but a damp patch in Maurice Lindsay's silk underwear the original plan was for Warrington and Widnes to merge and form The Cheshire Cats. Yep, that would have worked.
Anyway, a few days passed and Warrington somehow managed to convince the authorities they were worthy of a place on their own, whilst it looked as though Widnes would be kicked out. Who says lightning doesn't strike twice?

The day of Widnes vs Warrington came around soon afterwards and it was a due to be a day of unbelieveable social disorder - something akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall had the gossip in the pubs of Warrington and Widnes been believed. Just before the game Big Jim Mills (it's illegal to write his name without Big at the beginning) appeared on some scaffold with a mic in his hand and made an announcement to the effect that only that morning the authorities had agreed that both Warrington and Widnes would have places of their own in this new-fangled Super League conception.

It worked. Well, Widnes didn't actually get in to Super League but at least there were no demos and the game went ahead.

In another game at Widnes there was a bit of crowd trouble that spilled on to the pitch at half-time.
The police, stewards, pacifist drunks couldn't sort it out so a voice appealed on the tannoy, "...please leave the pitch and stop the trouble. It's the referee's last game and he's very upset."

Surprisingly that didn't hold much weight with the clowns on the pitch but a valiant, yet naive, attempt all the same.

Correct Riddler, i had forgotten all about the 'not so cryptic' Mr Fox reference...! well remembered.

I also remember the pre-Super League game (Good Friday 1995?) where we all turned up expecting to do a joint Wire-Widnes protest about how much we hated each other and didn't want to become 'the Cheshire Cats, the Cheshire Cheeses, or anything you might want to call it' to quote 'Disgusted of Dudlows Green' in a letter in the Warri Guardian at the time.... Then it being announced on BBC Merseyside and in the ground that it wasn't happening, as you mentioned.

I don't remember the third game you mentionend (crowd trouble and ref's plea), was that at an earlier one? (ie prior to 1990 ? )