anyone remember them blue n yellow smoke canisters the club had in front of the fletch for the game where we beat saints in 01?

The teams came out, the canisters released, for about 5 minutes, no one in the fletch could see the pitch, or breath very well as it all blew in on us.

Remember them well.

SL1 1996, we had a bit of a role on going into june, bullmania had a exploded, and they'd beat wigan despite being a man down, they came to wilderspool (sans grass) on a sticking ing hot day, and two of the best fights ever kicked off simoutaneously, mark forster(currently wearing his fetching blue scrum hat) and sonny nickle, and on the other side of the pitch, THAT henare encounter, where he whaled on glenn tomlinson for no reason whatsoever, and ended up grabbing the touchies leg in the melee.

Later on mark forster got thrown into the camera at pondlife corner by (hey) macnamara and jon scales, i think it was.

But best of all from that match, one of the bradford photographers infront of the fletch kept getting belted by water balloons.

Monsieur Invisible, I salute you for a fine start to a super thread.

The buses that used to be waiting right outside the ground.

The trolley they used to wheel round the pitch selling (only) mars bars and bovril and being shouted at several times a lap, "how strong's your juice?"

I can even still picture the paper cups with the stripes that they used to sell beer in when you got to the top of the stairs when you 'transferred' to the main stand. (The one that nobody definitely set fire to; it was a complete accident.)

The scoreboard spelling Sheffield incorrectly.

Neil Harmon warming up on the touchline and colliding with a touch judge. The official was fine whilst Harmon had to receive treatment.

And lastly, and I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, the team emerging from the tunnel to 'The March of the Gladiators'.

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Warrington 15,Australia 12. Mike Nicholas saying to himself "right nicko,it's them or you."
The old guy in fletcher street on matchdays with his "you are all sinners/doomed/end of the world is nigh" placards.
Warrington 0,Workington Town 1.

Arriving at a game against Leeds to find out it had been called off due to a waterlogged pitch,imagine if there was internet then Jeez the moaning would have been unbearable...
Dessie laying out Offiah under the sticks in front of the Fletch.
Holding a cup of Bovril instead of a Pint.
Johnny Warbo.
The smell of Wintergreen coming from the dressing room.
Going into the touchdown club after the game (i loved it in there)
Just seeing Jiffy Davies play for us was awesome.
The orginal starlights with the twins...
The Brawl V Australia was brutal even a couple of stewards had to come onto help stop it...
Going into the ground 1 and a half hours before kick off as a kid..Then when old enough to drink entering the ground as the ball was being placed on the kick off tee...
Jon Roper and Richard Henare's tries v Saints..

I could go on forever here listing memories...Very happy days...I fell in love with my team at Wilderspool in 1990 i've never looked back since..My loyalty is now being rewarded and it feels good...

Great Thread. Same memories as a lot of others on here, the Bradford comebacks, Langers ball steal from Martyn etc

The general feel/smell/ atmosphere of the place is what the HJ can never replace. Games against Wigan, Widnes and Saints, the atmosphere was always something else

Always hating it if I arrived late as it was impossible to get to your spec wading through and annoying fellow Fletcher Enders( I stood in the middle of Fletch near the white railings at the back), and the same went if you needed a slash during the game

The 17-17 draw against Wigan when we should of won it the amount of possesion we had

THe 30-30 v Saints. 2003ish Also the 25-24 loss against Saints(circa 97??) I'll always remember, brilliant game

The general anticipation of Widnes' return to Superleague(2002), remember it kicking off in town outside Weatherspoons and all along Bridge Foot/Wilderspool Causeway

One that sticks in my mind is when Bobby Goulding was playing for Salford( I think) and was giving the Wire fans the finger back after the Fletch dished out the usual stick to him. Forster ran over to him and started pointing at the scoreboard laughing his head off( Wire were winning comfortably at the time). Goulding didnt know where to look

The Huddersfield "Sit In". Not a highlight as such, but certainly sticks in the memory. Deakin running out to try and appease those who were "sitting in". Didnt agree with the protest(though stayed to see what was going on ) but that was an horrendous result. 44 past us that day I think

The worst game Ive ever watched in my life, Salford beating us 22-2 towards the back end of 2002

The 300 "last ever" games at Wilderspool

Danny Farrar being the hardest player ever

Johnny Warbo

Just the general banter/stick/abuse dished out to opposing players from the Fletcher End and POndlife

£10 Wolfpacks

I'm not a Wire fan but my abiding memory of visits to Wilderspool is walking down the main stand side terrace and getting the strong whiff of Wintergreen

A character in the fletch end during the 70's known as the Mighty Sid and the kitman Ocker. Where are they now?

What a great thread and some memories as well.
that shop outside the ground use to get rammed bout 2 hours before ko'
Willie wurst hot dogs....
Sneaking in (RAILWAY END)..
I was once in a taxi with Gary Mercer and Duanne Mann ..
Tony Thornley tripping up on his way onto the pitch and injuring himself....
The little bog near the railway end....
the scoreboard only had certain teams names so usually it said VISITORS.
paying 45 pence to get in!!!!!All in all great memories..

remember us being robbed by hull and billy thomo and the mayhem that followed with the 2 sets of knobs...beating widnes in the lancs cup a week after they crowned world club champs..paul bishop swallowing his tongue...that famous brawl against wigan..the smell of winter green,the toilets,the scoreboard,our only win against saints,,the famous sit in sure it was hudds..the fire to our stand..relief at staying up by beating cas...and the day it all ended,wakey down here...

after 40 odd years too many too mention.how about;
the gang of skinheads forming the fletcher end mob 1972.
the old wooden greenalls stand to the right of the fletch.
the bottle bar under the old wooden main stand[ everyone drinking bullseye brown]
johnny bevans debut
every lad in warrington wagging school to go to challenge cup daytime match during the 3 day week
windy corner
strippers b4 the game in legends
trains stopping to watch the match behind the railway end
staying in the windy corner bar all 2nd half if we were getting thrashed
touchdown club and the famous 'hotseat.
HAPPY DAYS!

Old wolfpack membership cards! Crappy yellow business cards with photo on, think it was a tenner. Weslers boiled burgers, fluorescent peas, getting battered by Halifax on a bonfire night- John schuster kicked about 400 goals that night. Daily mirror clapper inflatable things, the wire ball fireball, warren Stevens getting knocked out cold nearly every game. That pass from farrar to Forster off the floor. Graeme bradleys elbow in John duffys throat. Mark htons millionth shoulder reconstruction, bob eccles just being immense. Many magical moments by Kelly shelford. And genuinely believing we were brilliant when we were pretty much awful.