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Quote: Wire Weaver "1973/74 When we won virtually every trophy on offer. Fantastic achievement,
with plenty of great games.'"


This one, unashamed glory hunter and had a season ticket every year since

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2009 was a roller coaster. London away was one of the lows of being a Warrington fan, but Hicks' try in the corner in the Semi final, the drop goal in the quarter and the whole Wembley weekend made that year one I'll never forget!

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I enjoyed flying biscuit's post above. 85/86 was such a special season for many fans as the team was basically what every Wire fan wants: a powerhouse pack that could dominate and intimidate, a world class halfback and then some superb runners in the backs who could break defences. It was similar to 2011.

Another point about 85/86 is it was an interesting season just before the Wigan dominance started and there were four or five teams tightly contesting the title. We lost it in a run of losses a couple of months out from the end of the season that saw Reggie Bowden quit but then at the end of the year under Tony Barrow had the momentum as the best team and the comprehensive despatching of the champions Halifax in the Premiership Final made it feel like really we were as good as anyone if not the best at that point and if only we could swap those final weeks in the Premiership for the run of losses at the end of Bowden's time the title would have been ours.

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I think how enjoyable a season is, depends on what your expectations are of the team's performance and whether the club exceeds them, is about on par or fails to live up to them.

93/94, 2009 were my favourite seasons. 93/94 because it held up the dream of overtaking the great Wigan team and we were so close, and it was such a joy to watch Davies. 2009 because after such a dismal start it gave the single biggest highlight of my Wire supporting career, and I have always been more chilled out as a fan after that first Challenge Cup win, because no matter what happened after that I had at least seen us win a major trophy.

Other less glamorous seasons that I enjoyed were 1999 and 2003.

After we had been so bad in 1998 I expected us to be fighting to avoid bottom spot but most of that season felt like a pleasant surprise. We weren't a great team but didn't pretend to be - and we played some exciting rugby with a lot of good tries from Toa and Hunte. It was the best season of Toa's career and he was unplayable for parts of that season. Briers was still very raw back then but he also played some really good stuff. We were competing for the top 5 most of that year and then we heard the incredible news that Langer, Gee and Nikau were joining for 2000 and the possibilities ahead seemed amazing. The final month of the season we just switched off but I still felt optimistic and couldn't wait for 2000 to come around.

2003 was the final year at Wilderspool and after the relegation battle of the year above it was just nice not to have to worry about fighting the drop and as the season went on, to have the top 6 to play for. When we made the top 6 it felt like a real achievement even though we lost to Wigan in the first playoff. The team had no superstars but it felt like a hard working and together team with guys like Grose, Burns, Domic, Fozzard, Hilton and Clarke. Also we had the unlikely success that when Briers broke his wrist and was out for the season, and most of us thought, thats the top 6 done then, we had Graham Appo playing out of his skin. That year we fronted up well against the top teams even though they beat us, but we really pummelled the smaller teams, with Appo at the forefront. Given that the Wire sides of that kind of era were always prone to losing to Salford, Wakey etc, that was a welcome change. It was a good way to send off Wilderspool and it felt like a happy atmosphere.

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I started going the games in the 87/88 season and would go with 94 followed by a close second 2011. I'll come along to my reasons in a second but I see Tony Barrow mentioned and (i could be wrong here) he was unbeaten at Central Park during his tenure at Wire against a money pumped Wigan, it also included us winning the British Coal 7s staged there and featuring all the clubs sides and international sides well.

I think the success of 94 beats 2011 (for me), just because it was so unexpected. Also I was a huge fan of our Welsh imports in Bateman, Ellis and Philips and obviously Davis who was amazing, (for me, the centre partnership of Davies and Bateman was the best ever). I've never seen a prop forward totally dismantle a side like Philips did v a strong St Helens pack which included GB prop Kevin Ward. It was one of his first games, might even have been his debut, and he was bouncing everyone off and no-one could bring him down. Gary Chambers was excellent as well as a strong running/fast prop forward, not to mention Kelly Shelford and other players.

The 2011 team was the dream team. We could afford, thanks to SJM, the best players in their positions and what a dynamic side it was to watch. Many of those trys scored were works of art in themselves on the back of a tremendous pack of fire and guile worth the admission fee alone. That front row of Morley, Monas and Carell was just beastly with super Ben and Solomona (class) in there. We really should have won the big one that season but for a dubious Sinfield penalty last minute in the semi-final play off we're still waiting.

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Regardless of the fact we didn't win silverware in 2011 it will be talked about as a benchmark season from Wire fans for years to come.

Honestly I would prefer the Wire season in 2011 to the Wigan season of 2016, even though Wigan won the GF.

Look at how in football, the Brazil team of '82 and the Cryuff Netherlands team of the 1970s are regarded as iconic teams in football history but they came home empty handed. Much more than Brazil 94 or Italy 06 who won World Cups.

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