I remember having a quick chat with Shaun McRae at Etihad last season about a certain Super League match from years gone by, and it posed the question - what is your favourite game in which Wire lost, as crazy a question as that may seem?

Now before you jump all over me for it, I'm asking this question based on the idea that even as a bias supporter, you can appreciate any match, win or lose, as a sporting spectacle. I cast my mind back to that heartbreaking loss to Saints in 2005 at HJ in the snow. Devastation clouded the entire town, but what a good old fashioned game that was in those conditions. Or how about heading off to Wigan for the 2003 playoff? We had as much hope of winning there as Andy Fordham does of back stroking the Atlantic. Yet we almost pulled it off and still sang into the night as if we had.

Personally, however, mine would be the 1996 home loss to Saints 24 - 25. I was a ball boy and can remember a fresh faced Steve Prescott doing one of his trademark full back leaps to catch a Willie Swann bomb. He then pierced his way through the defence and tore his way down the right hand wing, it looked like he was heading straight towards me as I sat pitch side. Lee Penny chased and chased with everything he had and somehow cut him down with an absolutely textbook tackle round the ankles. Both full backs hit the ground only 2 feet from me and my mate who also a ball boy. The ground shook it was that good a tackle. Ball went from Martyn through Saints hands before Perrelini flicked a blind pass straight into Roper's hands. With blood streaming down his lower face, and with a knackered Steve Prescott on his tail, he ran 70 metres to score and force the roof of the Fletcher End right into the sky .......

Ok we lost, but some of the tries, tackles and even Bobbie Goulding's decision to take the two points from a penalty when they were 7 points down to give them a converted try winning chance if possible, all made for a great game of rugby league.

There are probably some I've missed, but woke up in a reflective mood today.

To all those at the game today, enjoy the day!

Surprise, surprise it's a Stains away loss for me, but not from recent memory. This one came from the end of the 84-85 season.

I'm not sure on the exact score (it was something like 30-2icon_cool.gif, but I remember us being beaten by only 2 points, and virtually every conversion kick was missed, by both sides.

Tries galore
Plenty of biff
and Tommy Gittins 2@ing Mal Meninga (brave, but very foolish)

Fantastic game.

Two Spring to mind for me both in 2001..

Vs Wigan away - Toa Kohe-Love Making a mess of a tackle and getting sent off and Cowie - Nikau going at it hammer and tongue. We didnt really stand a chance of winning after that but we didnt half make a noise.

And Bradford in the Semi at Huddersfield. We hadnt won a league game if i remember rightly. But we came out firing and the whole of the stand was bouncing. Unfortuantely Paul Anderston ran straight over Alan Hunte and the rest is history. But what an atmosphere.

Not sure the title for the topic is the best, perhaps you should have called it "the most memorable loss"
It which case "main rd, Joe lydon"
enough said on that though.

Regal Trophy Final 1995. I was 15 and at my first final, so just enjoyed the day out. We all knew we were almost certain to lose before it started so none of us minded too much.

Maybe Wigan at home the other year when Morley k.o'd Hansen right at the end. Great game.

Oh... that day at jjb, Paul Cullen was in charge, we lost the game on the pitch, but we won the day in the stands, there was about 4000 of us singing "barmy army" all through the 2nd half and 20 mins after.
We wouldn't leave the ground, they tried to drown us out with music, so we sang louder!

Ha ha lmfao that day!
Maurice Lyndsey said to Dave Wheelan " these are supposed to be the losing fans, why are they singing and not ours?"

We just have to do that again sometime at pieland. Awesome!

The CC semi against Bradford in 2001 was a classic and given how good they were and how out of sorts we were, we were excellent.

Another game I lost but enjoyed was the 2003 playoff at Wigan. That was the first time we'd made the playoffs and there was a great atmosphere and some great moments thanks to Nat Wood, even though we lost.

Also have to mention the Grand Final last year, simply because it was the Grand Final and there were times in the game I thought we were going to win. A few years ago I would have bitten someones hand off if they offered me that for Warrington.

First game I ever went to. We lost at Wilderspool to St Helens, but it got me in Rugby League and WWRLFC and never looked back.

For me, the Challenge Cup Final of 1990. We didn't put up much of a struggle against the fully pro team that was Wigan, but Mike Gregory's performance that day was fantastic and he never took a backwards step, for which I was immensely proud to have him as our Captain . The whole team tried that day in typical one man rugby for the Wire at the time. Looking back I think they were aiming for a not too heavy loss, rather than a win, which just makes me even more appreciative of the trophies claimed in the last four years. I also remember Steve Molloy trying to get onto the pitch, which the Wembley officials obviously didn't want, but the Wire players went over and talked to the officials and he got to spend some time with the team on the hallowed turf. Not sure why he didn't play that day, but I presume he was injured.

For some reason my Dad booked us on a coach from Earlestown which was full of Wiganners but they were as kind as anything with me as a little Wire lad on the way there and didn't gloat at all on the way back up north. All told, it is one of the very few losses that I remember (the others being long forgotten).

Malloy was dropped.
He never played for us again.

It was Malloy who slipped the pass out in the final minute for Bob Jackson to pop on to like he was a centre.

The pass that beat Oldham and sent us to Wembley.

dont have a favourite loss and never will...but a moment that will live with me forever in defeat was that so and so joe lydon with his drop goal at maine road..

That 89 team, had we have avoided the pies in the semi, would have beaten them in the final and so changed history. There would never had been the pie dominance that followed.