There's no hope for me then, as I was doing all those A-Levels at Winstanley in 2000.




Yes, it certainly was when I was there and to make matters worse on this thread, I'm married to a Saints fan and live in Lowton which now has an identity crisis whether it is Wigan at all.

Where did it all go wrong?

Wow I never actually knew that!

It was in my day.

One of our PE teachers at Hawkley Hall was Jeff Clare. His favourite story was how he scored the first ever 4-point try. He was a nice bloke who once got David Lyon to come down and take us for a rugby lesson.

My mate never shuts up about Jeff Clare.

He was a Hawkley pupil to and every time you mention PE he will discuss (at length) what a superb teacher Jeff Clare was.

We were lucky in that we had two great teachers who knew what they were doing but were a great laugh at the same time. In my last year we had a reet bell who spent the entire hour perving on lasses while we were sent off towards Three Sisters on cross-country jaunts.

Our rugby teacher was Mike Hancock, apparently an ex semi pro with Swinton, very good teacher but very regimental, he was always making you do press ups or star jumps or sit ups if you spoke when he did or didn't do something right. The worst was in winter doing rugby on a muddy pitch "20 forward rolls" he'd shout and your head would be filthy and cold with all the mud and water on it.

My most memorable PE teacher at Rose Bridge was and old Aussie fella called Mr Sonerson. Apparently he was one a full time NRL player back in the day.

My year was full of wendy ball wannabes and each lesson he would ask for the vote on what game we would play. Football would pull in about 20 votes and RL would pull in 2 (from me and my mate). After Mr Sonerson had counted the votes and witnessed the overwhelming footballing majority, he would always say "right you little poofta's, Rugger it is!"

What age are you?.

You tell a similar story to my Mate. Might be the same year.

Winstanley got best A level results last year in the whole country therefore regardless of people wanting their kids (most are 18 btw so not kids) mollycoddled. Your there to learn not be looked after. Personally, the tutors at Winstanley were great for me

I hope you didn't study English.