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I was at the 80-0 and i was at home before the final hooter..Probably the lowest i've ever felt after watching a rugby match.

I didn't set foot in Knowsley road for a good few seasons after that.... icon_biggrin.gifEPRESSED:

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Quote: the ditch "Yep remember that one ,a piece of corregation (roof)blew off and just missed Gary mercer that evening not long after we was all heading out the ground!!!!!!!!!

Would nt mind but we had them on the rack as well....
At least we won the rearranged match. We haven't won that many at KR over the last few decades but I do remember that one.

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Quote: howley-wire "I don't think i went them two, but i was there where we got beat 72-2 when clarke kicked a penalty over to give us a 2-0 lead.'"


I could have sworn Robbin' Bob sent a Wire player off. Was it Marquet or Guisset? I'm certain it was one of them two. Guisset, I think......

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Quote: thenewguy "I could have sworn Robbin' Bob sent a Wire player off. Was it Marquet or Guisset? I'm certain it was one of them two. Guisset, I think......'"


Guiseet in the first half.

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Quote: MikeyWire "I was at the 80-0 and i was at home before the final hooter..Probably the lowest i've ever felt after watching a rugby match.

I didn't set foot in Knowsley road for a good few seasons after that....

come on it was only the regal trophy no one cared......80-nil it could have been 800 for me...

watching sean long bang a drop goal over or cunningham flop over with only seconds left was worse

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Quote: the flying biscuit "come on it was only the regal trophy no one cared......80-nil it could have been 800 for me...

watching sean long bang a drop goal over or cunningham flop over with only seconds left was worse'"


I cared, Biscuit. It was my team (I was only 26 at the time though, old age makes you think a lot more objectively).

We were 80 minutes away from a final. We still had the basis of a decent squad (even though Johnny D. had walked away a couple of months previous). True, we had Manure Thompson, and the 2 wasters from Tonga, but still had good youth (remember Sculthorpe, Harris, Roper, Hilton, Wainwright, Penny).

Only 18 months before, we should have won the league.

I still believe, this game started a huge snowball of e, and set us on the road to 12 years of tosh.
A decent league position of 5th, papered over the cracks, for a few months. Then, after that, came many years of abject failure.

Yes, in that period, we had 3 CCsemi finals (2 of which were with ageing Aussie starlets), and we had to cope with near bankruptcy in 1998/9. We had the feel good factor of Peter Deakin (RIP, a top fella....I just wish we had him now, along with Moran's dosh....we could be reaching for the moon), and the new stadium. BUT, before this game, we were a decent side, one of the best in the Championship, but it went t1t5 up, straight after.

For the record, I was there for the 80-0, but I didn't go to the game the week after.

I went to the game in '97, and we got another kicking (we signed Briers a few days after).

To be honest, this game, was the beginning of the end of my away days as a Wire fan. True, I've been to plenty since, but 80-0 doesn't exactly thrill you with the idea of giving up 3 to 7 hours of your life, to go and watch an away game, when you've got a wife, mortgage and a young un. I hadn't set foot in the place since, until the play-off defeat of Sept 2010. Plus ca change. Knowsley Road was stll a pooh hole, and we got beat.

What I've just said, maybe a tad over the top for a few on here, but I stand by it..

Rant over

Back slightly on topic, I was there for a FEW of the good times. That Regal trophy win in 93 was awesome (got myself on telly, too), as was our last win there, a few weeks later. The abandonment game was a good few minutes, as was it's re-arrangement.

See, there are good points.

Strangely, though, Number 1 in the charts, the last time we won there (I think), was D:REAM, Things Can Only Get Better......... I don't think so.

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Whilst where talking about drubbings, I just found the video of when we beat Bradford with Smythe? i think scoring in the last few minutes to win, If my memory serves me right didn't they come back to are place a few weeks later and smash us all over the pitch?

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Quote: THEOriginalWire "i went to the 80-0 game and was sat in the shed with my parents, in amongst all the st helens fans! who despite the scoreline were still baying for our blood and still giving the well known shouts of "fooooooorrrrrwwwwwaaaaaaarrrrrrrdddd"

..... and don't forget the Knowsley Rd favourite "gerrrrrum onside" icon_lol.gif

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I was at the called off one. Gary Mercer nearly hit with a bit of the stand. Won the rescheduled game.

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I was at the 80-0 although i did leave at 60-0 as i couldn't see us coming back from there.

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I was there at the 80-0.
We left when it got past 50, then in the car going home we listened to the match on the radio and all you heard was

"...and Saints are in for another"


Bad times!

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Quote: MikeyWire "I was at the 80-0 and i was at home before the final hooter..Probably the lowest i've ever felt after watching a rugby match.

I didn't set foot in Knowsley road for a good few seasons after that....
Same for me, I was there and didn't go back to Knowsley Road until two years ago.

Strange as it may seem, we went to the match actually expecting to win, our record there have been pretty decent prior to that match.

TIME TO END THIS RIDICULOUS RUN OF RESULTS WIRE!!!!!!

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I was there, seem to remember the clock being almost perfectly in sink with the score board, and towards the end of the game we were all singing wear sh~~e and we know we are, rrr great days noooot icon_rolleyes.gif

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10 years of hurt

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anybody remember being at the game in the 80s that seemed to be 9 v 10 at one point with all the sendings off? I think we won in the end!!!

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