I forgot to add (and cannot be ar[is[/ied trawling this burdgeoning (sp?) thread) one of the greatest legal tackles seen on British soil.

Wigan v Australia 1986

Wigan (may have been Mick Ford) kicked through on the last tackle. Garry Jack collects the ball behind his own posts and his met with a ferocious chest high tackle from Andy Goodway. I later watched it on video and the Aussie commentator refers to it as a "bone jarrer".

Class.

PS: IIRC Jukesays (who sometimes posts on here) ran onto the pitch at the end and actually caught Wally Lewis's mouth guard after it spilled out. Jukesays, for some unbeknown reason gave it back!

I remember one particular day stood in front of the Pop stand and it was getting fairly rowdy to say the least. Following a try the beer went in the air and the complaints started from the moaning gits on the front couple of rows in the stand.

All of a sudden a steward appeared in the stand and whilst drawing an imaginary circle in the air shouted "Right you lot, all of you, get out, your all banned!!"

The reaction of course was a loud chear and a chorus of "Sit down shut up"

my memories its a dump

Read the thread title again - Central Park not Knowsley Road

Taking my son for the first time and listening to him shout Wigan for the first time.

[size1.sat on the wall oposite the dugout as a kid and wondering if if the ball was going to smack you in the face you were that close to the action.
2.wondering if andy greg could possibly get any more winter green on them stubby little legs of he's.
3.seeing kelvin skerrat racing as fast as he could to join a mass brawl only to see him dive over the lot and land on the other side without touching a soul.
4.the annual overnight pilgrimage outside c.p to get hold of wembly tickets
5.the home comings.
6.the terror every wiganer felt as somebody ran down the wing and there was only martin offiah as last line of defence.[/size

When wigan played Brisbane broncos at central park and they had to stop the match beacuse the players cud not see b coz ov all the fireworks.

And Also another memory has got be to when wigan played saints in the challenge cup and it ended up 16-16 and goulding hit the post with a drop goal then we went to saints ground and totally anialated them ha ha

My main memory is being a ballboy for the last 2 seasons at CP had the chance to ballboy the last game but turned it down because i wanted to be in the crowd for the last game!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loads of memories, one that really sticks out is when we played Bradford 98 i think and Connolly went over with 5 minutes left to seal victory and the popular went mad!

Henry Paul inspired Wakey tearing you to shreds in a Wednesday night match.

Then Wigan buying him on the Thursday

Nearly 30,000 on for a derby match (it was either 92 or 93) and IIRC Gus O'Donnell (for Wigan) attempting a drop-goal which Gary Connolly (for Saints) got a fingertip to in mid-flight so it didn't count. Think it finished 8-8, I was stood on the Kop anongst the Saints fans absolutely packed in like sardines

He made a tremendous break from his own tryline on the right hand side and then went more or less corner to corner weaving in and out. Didn't we have a battle with Auckland for his services?



He never touched it, the Judas

The storm damaged posts which seemed to go unrepaired for weeks on end including an embarrassing appearance on Grandstand!