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| I don't think there were any tries scored!but a great game and the atmosphere looked unbelievable.
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| Saints fans perspective....
Meninga in the Lancs Cup Final.
22 - 6 down and won 32 -22.
The River Caves.
The Semi Final V's Widnes (Eyres sent off and Quirk in the corner)
Regal Trophy Final V's Leeds.
Dreading kick off for many many years....
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| I find this sort of thread really moving..........
It is easy to forget the wonderful history of our great game.
a lot of clubs have these new purpose built stadiums. They are technically brilliant structures with the best of facilities. But they all seem to lack the passion and the atmosphere of the traditional grounds.
It annoys me at times being a Saints fan when we get other clubs fans coming and slating our ground.
Yes it is old, yes it does not have great toilets or bars.
But places like Central Park, Knowsley road, Station Road and Wilderspool had character, passion and above all tremendous memories.
The memory I will always take with me was the 8-8 draw many many years ago when we hit th bar with a drop goal attempt with minutes to go......
There must have been 30+ thousand in the ground on a rally sunny day.
The atmosphere was tremendous........
It was on days like these that we knew as saints and Wigan fans that OUR derby was and still is the biggest and best in the game
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| My favourite memory doesn't involve a try. Around 1982, a band called Kajagoogoo had a No 1 hit with "Too Shy". The lead singer, Limahl, was from Wigan and was introduced to the crowd at half time, presumably for a round of applause.
Some local however took exception to his s blond locks and threw a pie at him, and he didn't miss!
PMSL!!!
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| I dont remember Central Park
Rugby League only started for me when the JJB was built.
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| Quote: Memony " stood in the stand that would become the Whitbread (anyone have a pic from then?) just behind the sticks'"
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| reminds me looking at that picture of the old scoreboard that they would lower, put another card on then raise back up to the window (believe Stains still have this type of scoreboard ) ofthe it got a bit exciting and the scorers lost count and the scoreboard would drop back down and get raised again with the correction
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| Quote: Irish saint "The memory I will always take with me was the 8-8 draw many many years ago when we hit th bar with a drop goal attempt with minutes to go......
There must have been 30+ thousand in the ground on a rally sunny day.
The atmosphere was tremendous........
It was on days like these that we knew as saints and Wigan fans that OUR derby was and still is the biggest and best in the game'"
I've got a tear in my eye now!
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| Wigan v Halifax. I went to the toilets, came out within two minutes and the ground was covered in fog. Seemed like a miracle! The match was immediately called off.
In the hen-pen. Ice-cream salesman shouting. "Choc-blocks, only one left."
In the hen-pen. Everyone shouting, "Give it to Billy" and "Watch him miss it".
Having a season ticket for ringside seats.
Vigo having his teeth knocked out.
Someone saying, "How's your knee, George?" when they mistook me for George Fairbairn as I limped to my seat in the stands about 25 years ago.
Wigan versus Manly.
Henry Paul catching our line drop out on the half-way line and running on to score.
Chisnall falling down like a ton of bricks getting Brian Hogan sent off when he hadn't laid a finger on him.
crowd of 47,747 against Saints.
Players left unconscious in the wake of Billy Boston.
Mctigue's handling skills.
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| A couple of things still stick out about the place.
1. The Tuesday night game with Widnes i was sat on shoulder of father and coudnt see one quarter of pitch!!!.
2. The strong smell of wintergreen coming out of the Billy Boston Stand.
3. The Prize that evertone wants (uncle joes mintballs).
4. The homecomings with the challenge cup (especially in 1989 when Nicky Kiss nearly fell off the stantion.
5. The speed the crowd used to empty out of cp.
6. Alliance games (1.00 to get in and go where you want?
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| 1). The walk through Wigan to and from the ground from Wigan North Western.
2). A packed Kop.
3). Kevin Ward breaking his leg - the deadly silence followed by one of the most heart warming applauses ever witnessed as the Great Man was stretchered off.
4). Cup Semi finals Vs Widnes.
5). Those tall floodlights.
6). Annual slaughterings during Wigans dominance.
7). Billy Boston and Tom Van Vollehovan leading the teams out in 1996.
eight). Tommy Martyn scoing the last ever try.
9). Mal Meninga swatting Shaun Edwards like a fly.
10). Kevin Iro crashing over for the match winner on Good Friday 1999.
Plenty of good and bad memories of that old place.
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| Turning up for the Wigan Sevens in the hot sun one year. Had a bag with a watermelon, two cans of coke, some snacks and a knife (for cutting the melon). They took the cans off us and left the knife.
Some time later sat in the Kop with a beer each eating watermelon, a wasp buzzed my mate, who panicked and flung a full pint and a slice of melon about 10 rows forward; the pint narrowly missing some bloke sat near us. Laughed so hard I cried....
Stood by the barrier with my GF is the early years of the Big Screen. Our faces suddenly appeared in front of about 20,000. I took one look and said "F_ck me". Not hard to lip-read, I've never made 20,000 people laugh before.
But in general - being able to watch the team through the late 80s and into the 90s was a pleasure and a privilege. Boxing Day still ain't the same without the derby.
Super Kel, Edwards, Dermott, Bell, Hanley, Gregory, Iro, Miles, Betts, Goodway, Lydon, Hampo, Connolly, etc - I doubt if we'll ever see teams like that again.
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| My first visit was Boxing Day 1969. Wigan 11 Saints 53.
My favourite memory is Good Friday 1971. Wiagn 6 Saints 9
Other memories are
CC Semi Saints 10 Wire 10 in 1972
Play Off Wigan 16 Sainst 22 in 1975
And who will ever forget
Wigan 8 Manly 2. Even as a diehard Saint it has to be said.
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| Quote: CHANNEL22 "My first visit was Boxing Day 1969. Wigan 11 Saints 53.
My favourite memory is Good Friday 1971. Wiagn 6 Saints 9
Other memories are
CC Semi Saints 10 Wire 10 in 1972
Play Off Wigan 16 Sainst 22 in 1975
And who will ever forget
Wigan 8 Manly 2. Even as a diehard Saint it has to be said.'"
I remember that game. Wigan scored first...after about 11 seconds. Stephens, our prp, was the scorer. Then we went to pieces.
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