Remember Mason cutting Wigan to bits one year with a couple of blinding tries at Belle Vue, also remember a game when i was very young when Wigan scored with nearly every touch of the ball but missed loads of kicks got to the point where everyone was having a crack a goal and Andy Greg missed straight in front of the sticks.

Still managed to rack up 70 points though!

Indeed they did cannot remember the stats but it was 70 points wracked up with only 2 successfull kicks, obviously pre the botica days. Im 30 now can can not really remember the specifics apart from the missed kicks and Andy Greg miss towards the end.

The 2006 night match was a shocker from a Wigan point of view and in my opinion the writing was on the wall for Millward after that. Richards who has turned out to be a pretty solid fullback played 1 that night and was abysmal as were a good few others.

Ashton running away from Moore on his spectacullar try still makes me smile from 2007.

Remember not sure what year it was but Nige Wright was on loan from Wigan mainly due to his shocking defence which ensured he could not get near the first team at Wigan. Whenever Wigan formed a scrum they pulled a second row or Prop in at 6 and fed them the ball and got them to run straight at him, and to his credit he had a good game taking all they threw at him. Cas used the same tactic shortly before and Ian Smailes bashed him all over the park. Think the display of Nige that day ensured he returned from his loan.

Wasn't the ref Colin Morris? I remember seeing it on the highlights and could have sworn it was him.

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Having done a little research, BSB's "The Sports Channel" started broadcasting to cable viewers on 27 March 1990. So the Wakey-Wigan match (1st April) will have been the first one shown.

So, here goes:

Wakefield 14-23 Wigan

Wakefield tries: Bell, R. Price
goals: M. Conway (3)

Wigan tries: Dermott, Hanley, Edwards, Preston
goals: Hampson (2), Goulding
drops: Dermott

Att: 6075

Ref: C. Morris

Info c/o The Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-91
(Ray Fletcher & David Howes)

And yes, you were robbed!

Just been viewing 89 90 season highlights video. Both controversial games within a few months of each other. First cup game on telly Feb 90. It was on Grandstand and a buy your ticket in advance game. Mason had a try disallowed for a double movement ( looked a fair call to me), and Phil Fox had a try disallowed for a forward pass (bad call that one I think). Finished 14 26 Ray Price went off on a stretcher with a back injury.

Second game was on 1/4/90 (was it a Sun or Sat night a telly game). Anyway as has previously been said Hanley dropped ball under the sticks. Ref Morris gave the try. Even Hanley looked embarrassed. Wakey then given a succession of five penalties in as many minutes by Morris. Wakey scored as final hooter sounded and fans had to be cleared from pitch so Mark Conway could take conversion. Ref had police escort as he left the pitch. Final score 14 23.

The Wigan game that we won in 2006 on Sky still sticks out in my mind. The video ref took an age to decide if we had scored in the corner or had the ball been dislodged by in the process ( was it Hallpenny and Richards). Still think we were lucky with that 50 50 video call. Had it not gone our way ultimately we would have been relegated.

You're right it was Halpenny and Richards and yes it was a bad call. Richards was almost horizontal and going over the line when Halpenny hit him and the ball came loose and was touched down by another Wigan player. What the Ref didn't pick up was Halpenny reaching across Richards' back and punching the ball loose but it was an understandable error, it happened so fast.
A woman Wgan supporter sat in front me who had been a real pain for the whole match went absolutely balistic and I couldn't console her no matter how hard I tried

. At the end we shook hands and parted friends and my last words were "Don't worry, you won't be relegated". Sometimes I really hate being right.



PS I've just re read your post and we are on different wave lengths. The incident I describe was at the end of the game with a Halpenny tackle on Richards.




regards

Back in 1945 my father introduced me to the highs and lows of being a Trinity fan (Some things never change). I suppose I was lucky that my earliest memory was a high; the '46 Cup Final.
In truth I don't remember much about the match (I was only seven), but two things do stick in my memory, one was a Wigan supporter sat just in front of me who had a bright red neck, I was fascinated. The other was "that goal". I didn't really know what was going on, but I could feel the tension and everything went quiet, then there was an almighty roar and suddenly I was heading skywards. When I came down (he caught me), I had to ask him what all the excitement was about, I knew about goal kicks but I didn't know they were [uso[/u important. Happy days.



regards

One of the later tries in that massacre was scored (I think) by Gregory who, seeing the Trinity full back in the line, chipped over the top and followed the ball through. The full back turned to chase the ball but lost sight of it. When it came down it hit him at the back of the head and bounced back to Gregory who strolled over to score. It was the final insult in a totally humiliating afternoon.



regards

was this the same game that Phil Eden ran for the try line and pulled his hamstring but still made it over the line just

Bump!

While everyone is in a good mood - please help.

I have one article to put together tomorrow - for the LEAGUE game, and one in 2 weeks for the CUP game. It would be nice if we had enough material for each.

Cheers,

Phil - from Happy Central!

Has to be the win at Central Park which has been mentioned a few times already. The Andy Wilson try which was started by Henry Paul in his own in goal area is one of the best I've ever seen. Those last five minutes felt like about an hour.

Even going back to the car and seeing a smashed window and no radio couldn't take away the delight of a stunning win. I bought me Dad that radio aswell and had saved up for ages and bought him it for Christmas, like I say though the win was far more important at the time.