Good Friday Battle of Knowsley Rd https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2020 ... si-Q5p0SJw

Good Friday Battle of Knowsley Rd https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2020 ... si-Q5p0SJw

Sky are showing the 2003 miracle at 1 and 9 tomorrow too.

2004 has to be right up there with the best of all time. And that brawl was fantastic, Stevo’s commentary makes it. Shame that isn’t being repeated tomorrow but the 2003 derby was fantastic too.

This week just hasn't felt the same

Definitely. Watched the full game today. Stevo’s commentary is phenomenal. The first 10 minutes of the game was incredible as well. The battles all over the pitch made it a classic - Farrell v Scully, Newton v Cunningham, Dallas v Albert, Radlinski and Wellens. One big thing I noticed is how Kirkpatrick really let the game flow - loads of the tackles would now be considered high (rightly or wrongly) and probably 3 or 4 sin bins in the first 5 mins. The fight alone there would be at least 5 red cards but one sin bin each and the game went on.

Last years was quality. When regan grace embarrassed you on way to an easy hat trick in an easy route

The 8 in a row 2010 to 2017 were all great.

I agree there, these days that brawl would have seen it down to 10 v 10! He reffed the game spot on throughout IIRC which added to the spectacle. I know I’m not one to harp back to the past but if refs could let games flow now as in this game we would have a better spectacle each week.

The names mentioned for the 1 on 1 battles are just sheer quality. Everything about that game was phenomenal. I was a teenager back then and went the game with my mates stood up on the terraces and it was probably one of the best games I’ve been to. You just couldn’t recreate those types of atmospheres if we tried

You’ve got us there pal, Regan Grace scoring a hatrick against anyone is as embarrassing as it gets.

Henry Pauls try from the drop out in 1995 always springs to mind

Especially the last derby at Knowsley Rd and the first derby at Standish Park.

Good friday 1986 was a cracker, saints won 18-13 with a mark elia try in the last seconds , a few weeks later and wigan had lost the championship to halifax by a point, so in a way it cost wigan the title

That would just be a blip in the years that followed

Stevo has delight in his voice when the scrap is on, afterwards he gets his PC cap on and denounces it as a disgrace. For me it was the best brawl I can remember, not necessarily from a violence standpoint or Wigan particularly getting the better of it but seeing Faz lose it was shocking and brilliant at the same time.