You want to try taking schoolboys up there to play. I once gave a team talk after a try that went whatever you do kep your mouths closed and stick together when you walk off the pitch.

Great King Rat - I was on one of those fans on the coaches too.
I was too young for 71, but that Hull KR game was one of the most memorable games for me in over 35 years of watching Leigh, along with Lancashire Cup Final & Whitehaven of course (when we clinched the league).

Craven park was packed to the rafters, crazy Hull KR fans just went mental at the end when woody kicked that goal. leigh fans running for their lives & fighting their way back to the coaches, coach drivers holding doors shut so KR fans couldn't get on. Bricks all over the place. Police escort all the way out of Hull. There were 52 coaches that day from Leigh all parked up in that park (can you believe it!!).

Fantastic memories - singing the Wemberleigh song all the way home.

We lost two weeks later to Mal Reillys Cas in the quarter finals (Doh!)

I may just watch it again later it was a good game.

What a miserable day that was as well....... still at least we won the title...

you mean you remembered it? you forget everything else

Having watched the DVD. The Hull KR game is a cracker. Anybody watching that would think Leigh would have been sure bets for Wembley that year. What happened v Cas? did Leigh play badly? were players absent?

IMO the weather beat us that day , although to be fair Cas did have a decent side.

It p1$$ed down the whole match and we couldn't handle the conditions as well as Cas.

Thats an understatement. They were building Arks down Glebe Street.

My Dad made the stand in the 'boys pen' as he called it, behind the dugouts, and I remember very little of the game apart from someone holding a brolly at the side of me which served no puropose other than to divert the rainwater from the same, into the neck of my Parka. I dried out some time in 1984.

Lost 8-3 if I remember rightly.

Remember it well. The rain washed away our hopes of getting to Wembley.

We all believed that 'this was going to be the year'.

Many sorrows were drowned after the match.

What happened re the 82 team? Why did it not go on for a few years?

Same as '71. The team at the time reached a 'high-water mark'........Murph moved on, and tempted players away!!

AJM - hero & villain in equal measure!!

Murphy was a master of getting the best out of honest hard working players.

Whilst we had a great backline of Drummond, Woods, Donlan, Fox, and a nowty little bugger called Kenny Green at scrum half, the forwards were simply a pack of hard local blokes who would run and run all day for him.

Collectivly there wasnt a better pack in the division, but individually (whilst Cook, Tabern, Potter were quality players) they were not world beaters.

Once Murphy left the momentum was lost, folk left or retired in the following years and within a a few years we were in the 2nd division.