Quote: ShortArse "from my memory it came off the back of another HUGE loss at Leeds (72-0??), with a lot of young players out of their depth. i imagine a lot of that team didnt have much of a career.
they tried hard, but saints have always been the most dangerous team on a roll, and boy were they rolling that day.
funnily it didnt feel as bad as the cup final losses from the terraces (lovely day as well from what i remember)'"
That was a terrible week. We lost 0-70 to Leeds in the league and then 0-75 to Saints in the cup (QF I think). We had a team full of kids on both occasions with not much experience between them. The teams in those games included the likes of Joel Tomkins, Bryn Hargreaves, Martin Aspinwall, Dave Allen, Bob Beswick, Stephen Wild, Kevin Brown, Harrison Hansen and Sean Gleeson (IIRC he made his debut at FB v Saints). So its not as if they were never seen again at Wigan or in SL. They just weren't up to facing two very good Leeds and St Helens sides all at once at such an early stage of their careers.