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| Quote post="post"With all the old pictures on here it's got me thinking, how good did it used to be to sit 'on the wall' as a kid and really get close to your heroes especially when they scored you could give them a pat on the back and that.'"
Only in Rugby League would you be able do this.
Regards to the thread this is fantastic for people like me Im only 17 and sadly never got chance to see Wigan play at Central Park.
What a fantastic traditional proper rugby league ground it looks I have seen photos and videos of it before but these are more of the fans side of things the passion and colours in the stands are unreal!. I here stories and experiences from my Granddad, Dad and members on this board and its makes me a tad jealous I never had the chance to go and soak up the atmosphere that Central Park gave off.
I guess I can never experience the fantastic times and memoris many of you had at Central Park but with the Ultras now at work I guess the DW is starting to feel allot more homely than times before. |
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| Quote GingerWiganer="GingerWiganer"Only in Rugby League would you be able do this.
Regards to the thread this is fantastic for people like me Im only 17 and sadly never got chance to see Wigan play at Central Park.
What a fantastic traditional proper rugby league ground it looks I have seen photos and videos of it before but these are more of the fans side of things the passion and colours in the stands are unreal!. I here stories and experiences from my Granddad, Dad and members on this board and its makes me a tad jealous I never had the chance to go and soak up the atmosphere that Central Park gave off.
I guess I can never experience the fantastic times and memoris many of you had at Central Park but with the Ultras now at work I guess the DW is starting to feel allot more homely than times before.'"
I'm 19 so I only got to go for a few years really, just from like the age of 5 upwards I can remember. Even when I was young it was really special, the excitement going to the ground was so much more! Maybe thats cause I was so young though and I was on my dads shoulders going across the bridge. I remember the last game like it was yesterday! |
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| Quote Odemwingie="Odemwingie"I'm 19 so I only got to go for a few years really, just from like the age of 5 upwards I can remember. Even when I was young it was really special, the excitement going to the ground was so much more! Maybe thats cause I was so young though and I was on my dads shoulders going across the bridge. I remember the last game like it was yesterday!'"
Or get carried through the turnstyle ......My dad had to stop when I was 13 as I was bigger than him, a firemans lift was required then. |
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Indeed getting lifted over turnstiles and sitting on the wall is a great memory. Probably should have got piles if the urban myth is anything to go by! Think I used to take a bit of underlay to sit on when it was proper cowd. In the 86/7 championship pitch invasion, westy gave me a piggy back (was a bloody long way up there!). Eeeeee we're like one big happy family eh?! The good thing is that Wigan rflc is feeling more like that nowadays then it has for a while.
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| Just found an absolute "GOLDMINE" of a site online...!!!
Nine full pages of Wigan RL players from the old days right through to the 80/90's.
One of them below taken from the 1984 Wembley Final.
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| Quote Edinburgh Warrior="Edinburgh Warrior"Gutted . I never saw Wigan play at Central Park.
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This thread is doing my head in .
Watched Wigan from 1959 on television .(Yes i am an old grey haired fat B*****D). Granstand , BBC2 floodlight trophy, Challenge Cup etc. Finally touched the beast in 1999. You guys are only rubbing in what i was really missing all these years . |
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| Quote Pieman="Pieman"Or get carried through the turnstyle ......My dad had to stop when I was 13 as I was bigger than him, a firemans lift was required then.'"
haha that just reminds me when i used to go with my then best mate ( I was a proper Tomboy) He used to grow facial hair all week so he could get into clubs on a saturday and then shave it on the sunday so he could get in central park for a kid  |
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| Quote JonD="JonD"Pondmonster - I remember that pic, I think I may still have that copy of Open Rugby and others in the attic. I'll go and have a look later and see what else is up there - that's my evening sorted then!'"
Thanks Jon, have you got a scanner? It’d be great to see it again. You could argue that that try was a pivotal moment in our history, if Westy hadn’t scored it would have been a first round defeat, as it was we went on to reach the final and lose to Widnes, and get a taste of the big time, go back the following year and beat Hull, etc, etc. |
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Some great pics on both of those galleries.
Really missing Central Park now! It truly was an amazing place when packed with fans in cherry & white.
Think I'll dig out my '87 World Club Challenge DVD to get me in the mood for tomorrow.
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