Some of the crowd clapped because Mr Smith blew his whistle at the wrong time; it was meant to be names - reading - Last Post - minutes silence, ended by Mr Smith's whistle. Instead, the daft get blew his whistle after the Last Post and some people in the crowd got confused and started clapping.

That, coupled with the Wigan players running straight through the Dolls whilst they were still 'performing', pretty much summed up how the pre-match stuff went.

The guy on the microphone did state that the minutes silence would start on the referee's whistle after the last post.

Got to say I was a little dissapointed with the club yesterday. My lad was the one in the pink Stanley Rangers shirt who kicked for goal, he is 10 yrs old and had absolutely NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER of making that kick. The guys who organised actually wanted them to kick from FURTHER BACK!!! It was only after some discussion that it was moved to the 25/30 yrd mark. My lad was gutted, after practising for an hour on Sunday morning from a reasonable distance, he thought he might be in with a shout of winning the boots. I actually told him before he kicked it that I would be buying him some boots myself because he had no chance of kicking it anyway

Very shortsighted of the club imho, I am a box holder at the moment, but don't think I will be next year. Still smarting about it today

It was a great idea in theory ... in practise it flopped, badly!

Shame really.

Felt for the little kids, they had NO chance.

What a farce, why not offer a million pound prize and make them take the kick from the other try line. Because they would have just as much of a chance of winning. If they are going to do things like this , at least make it look professional, not the shambles it was yestreday.

only at wakey

Its probably our way of finding young talent if a 10 year old can kick it, sign him up

I thought the kick off was a complete joke too, made me cringe!

The kids should have been able to kick from closer but i think that having the adults kick from the halfway line was fair. You cant just give away 9k. Lets be honest that the adults wernt the best of kickers and all had the ball at completely the wrong angle on the cone. I personally have kickd the sticks from the halfway line and i have not played rugby since school.

sign him up

They told us before the event that the 'golden boots' were just a gimmick and that if he managed to knock it over they would be giving us a voucher for JJB to buy some boots, hence why I told our young'n that I would buy him some seen as the club made it impossible

Still don't understand the logic?????

This is the problem with doing something like a themed day like this. If you can pull it off, great, if you don't have the resources and it looks a mess - rain or not - then it has the complete opposite effect. That said, why did we do this againt Wigan, who always bring a load across, rather than a Quins/Crusaders/Catalans?

because we would end up with a pee poor crowd and look like we can not even give it away

I just don't get giving away cheap tickets against a top side. Makes little sense.