Sounds like the match was the highlight of your weekend then

Bl**dy Trinity.

I was hooked on Trinity when they beat Wigan under Toppo in 1988, a genuinely shock defeat for Wigan.

Since then I've taken many friends and acquaintances in the hope of them getting hooked. Every single time the game was a duffer and I mean a DUFFER!

It's not like I picked games I knew we'd lose or during a period when we were rubbish, but every time no matter how good our form we would crash and burn. We would go home with me knowing that they most definitely were not hooked, in fact, some looked at me in a way that suggested I needed help or in some cases they even just laughed.

All teams have good and bad days but Trinity has to be the most unreliable team on the planet in any sport. Our ability to shoot ourselves in the foot just at the wrong moment is legendary. Our ability to be taken down by the underdog, however obvious the risk, is staggering and the better we appear to be playing the more monotonously likely a disaster sits just around the corner.

Can't explain it, nobody can but It's the reason I don't take guests to games anymore and why I don't evangelise the club like I used to. It's not that I can't be bothered it's just that I can't take the embarrassment anymore, I've gone soft.

But in answer to your post, you should have known better, so it serves you right. You'd have been much better off staying away with a warm can of Lager watching your friends slide collection.

Yep, we went to that one too....I rented a mini-bus and drove 12 of us all the way down there....think we got to London in about 3 hours and it then took another 2 hours to get to Crystal Palace only to see us score [inul points[/i





One of the best was on 16th February 1994 - the Wigan away match at Central Park on a Wednesday night. Me, the missus, TRB and his missus all went in his car on a cold foggy winter's evening and IIRC it was one of Henry Paul's first stand-out matches for us as he virtually single-handedly won us the game against the Wigan superstars including Shaun Edwards, Steve Hampson, Sam Panapa, Nigel Wright, Martin Offiah, Via'aiga Tuigamala, Gary Connolly, Simon Haughton, Mick Cassidy, Oliver Gildart, Andy Farrell, Billy McGinty and a couple of others !!!!
As we were walking out at the end of the game the Pie-Eaters were virtually in tears and some were threatening never to go to another Wigan match ever again !!!

Couple spring to mind for me,,1 is not do good london awsy in the fritz days its was played at cyrstal palace athletics stadium can remember going and standing on grass at side of pitch in second half like been at an amutuer game but even though we was the higher division team we got stuffed.cant remember the score...tjen got stuck in ttaffic jam om way home

Then of course the yorkshire cup final v eagles, stood in kop end ellend road watching us win a trophy for first time.went to school day afterin my trinity top rather than uniform which didnt go down well with teachers but i didnt care

Apart from the obvious, million pound games and so on, the Crusaders away at Wrexham, the traffic was dreadful due to an accident, we must have taken every back road to get there, sat with Paul Johnstone in the ground whilst waiting for the team bus, 10 minute warm up and then beat them, for me a great but unexpected win due to the adversity. The look on Jarrod Sammuts face at full time sat at the side of us was priceless .

I was on a skiing trip with school along with my sister. We called home and was told the news about the win which seemed absolutely impossible. I got off the phone and we both ran round the room over the seats tables everything shouting our heads off. Unfortunately that was the game that Wigan decided they were having Henry Paul, what a player he was. Got the video from micron video when we got home

Some great games already mentioned but loved the 17 nil game at Headingley in the early nineties when Hanley was playing for the Loiners.

Another corker was a Good Friday evening game at the Jungle when JK was in charge, the team had been ripped apart by going into Administration, we losing 24-6 & the Cas fans were in full voice shouting going down. We won it with a great last 20 minutes, great night!

I remember that game. Absolutely stunned Leeds. Possibly the most dominant Trinity performance I’d seen against a top flight club until we crushed both Wigan and Hull by huge scores a few seasons back.

Think we stopped Cas from topping the table that night and curtailed their play off hopes. Great night.

Fev away Boxing Day 88/89 season maybe, Steve Ella scored a belter Trin fans going wild that try turned our season. Halifax away maybe same season or 89/90 last match of the season, pitch invasion end of match and Toppo coming out to salute the fans

Up the Trin

A memorable match for me was going to Roots Hall to watch us play Southend back in the days of Mansfield Marksmen, Kent Invicta and Scarborough Pirates. Not so much memorable for the game, although we did win, but for the lovely long drive down with a stop in Cambridge, a couple of pints and a stroll along the seafront before and after the game. Made a nice change to that old familiar drag of a drive down the M62 either east or westwards. It was enjoyable explaining things to those ignorant (in the nicest sense of the word) fans who were watching a live RL game for the first time.

Chorley away in the cup in 1994. They had a real dig but we took them to the cleaners. Think it was JD debut that night.