David Vaeliki?

O'Connor?
Hampo?

Kelvin? Both the Gorilla and Skerrett!

Sean Long...........

Hampo won't be playing.

Heard a whisper Joel and Farrell may play but I doubt it considering they are in the middle of a season.

IIRC there was a testamonial at Central Park (Can't remember who??) and some bloke from Latics played. Even then he was greeted with "There's only one team in Wigan".

It was either Edwards' or Dermott's. He was involved in a halftime kicking comp. Gary Schofield, Hampo, Botica, Latics player and a few others were involved. Hampo won.

I think David Grindley played 5 mins in the game too.

I had in my mind it was Edwards. In the 2nd half, they were mucking around (American Football throws, tackling the ref....etc).

The Edwards testimonial match was played on Wednesday 12th August 1992 when he was just 25. He qualified for it by achieving 300 appearances. Wigan beat a Great Britain select XIII 37-36. David Grindley scored "a touchdown" in the last minute.

Crowd was 5,796 with the kick off having been delayed by torrential rain which probably put a few fans off.

The story on that night though was Andy Gregory not playing ahead of his imminent departure.

I could have sworn that Edwards testimonial was a scorcher of a day with a bigger crowd than that. I also didnt think it was a Wednesday match as it was daytime. Obviously I am wrong. I remember a sprint race the length of the pitch (with some RU guy, who didnt turn up, supposedly taking part) and a kicking competition. Whose tesimonial would this have been if it wasnt Edwards?

I was there, our guys also played a football match v a corrie team and farrell murdered them. Offiah beat Eddie Maffie (something like that) and a host of others. The RU sprinter pulled out and Frano stuffed the kickers. Was about 93-94

Yes thats definitely it. Was it daytime?

Yep it was, nice day

Thats what I thought, thats why I cant understand how it was on a Wednesday

The Edwards game was 100% a Wednesday Night with a delayed kick off for torrential rain.

Anybody know how many tickets roughly we have sold for tomorrow night?

Not a clue but i'm thinkng we'll be looking at around 6500-7000 at a guess.

I'm fairly sure that was Derms' testimonial, the sprinter was Ade Mafe. Jeremy Guscott was due to play in the game IIRC, but pulled out at the last minute with some lame excuse.

Hampo definitely won the kicking comp.

Made a habit of that that lad. Soft get!

wasnt Guscott, was the black winger who set the RU 7's alight a few weeks before.

Andrew harriman

I remember that. Also remember someone (my memory tells me it was Derms) tackling one of the Corrie actors at football and booming him into next week, and the actor proper spitting his dummy.

Was a great day.

Shame the ball didn't drop for Rads last night when Spencer scored. It was like the old days watching him chase through (although a couple of stone heavier and with much darker hair).

Saying that Spencer deserved his try. I was hugely impressed with him last night.

I was so certain he was going to recover that ball. Still looked useful, option at FB???