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!

Has anyone mentioned Tommy God scoring the last ever try there?

If so it's always worth a mention again


I'm watching the tape now

There were some very poor players on show that day for both teams.