As you walked down to the ground from underneath the M4 where the roundabout is, the opposing fans buses used to park in an area on the left halfway down, as we walked down the Wakey team bus was parked up and there were players stood up in the aisle, we thought that maybe the team bus was going to park in and the players walk down to the ground, alas no such thing O'neil had smacked Korkys backside at cards and relieved him of all his hard earned, not content with that he thought it funny to wind him up over it which as you can imagine didn't go down too well with Korky, hence 3 or 4 of the players trying to pull him off, although we saw the bust up I'd no idea what it was over till Mr Brown who used to post on here and happens to be Korkys father in law told us, they scored 72 points that day 12 tries 12 goals to our 2 tries not sure if any of ours were converted, the best part of going there for me was the train down and the tube to Ealing Broadway, not forgetting the 5 cans of Vb in a bucket of ice for a tenner.

Cheers, I knew it involved a card game of sorts. The 'bad' old days indeed!

Some memorable away games were a nightmare to stand through but had great after match celebrations. Salford away under Harbin, Promotion game at McAlpine under Kelly, Miller drop goal game at Newcastle v Catalans, Leigh away in end of season playoffs, Bradford away during 4 from 6 run in under Kear.

Since S L started it was the Cas game away after J Kear took over with 6 games to go .A game we had to win ,and a man sent of in the first half

Wigan away, first game of the season in 2009.

Trinity were written off before the game and were without 9 first team regulars.
Dave Halley scored twice to stun the Pies in the first game since Watene's passing

One of THE best backs to the wall games you will ever see

I'm smiling as I type, just thinking about this one.


Another one was beating Bradford on their own patch, while Cas got beaten at Salford, to set up the original "Million Pound Game".
This is possibly the best feeling I@ve had at a RL game.
Had we lost, Trinity would have been in oblivion but, this victory gave us a chance to survive.

The run from JD, beating 4 players just to get out of our in goal was unbelievable and the offload from Solo to set up the try in the corner were superb.

Who knows where we'd have been with out that win, it doesnt bear thinking about.

I was living in Cardiff and agreed to visit my then partner's tedious couple friends in East Grinstead on the proviso that we would go watch the mighty Trin in the regal trophy against London. I wanted to see Nigel Wright turn on the style against the lowly opponents - suffice to say I was somewhat disappointed with the whole weekend.


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I remember listening to the commentary on Radio Leeds, it was a major shock.
I genuinely couldn't believe it, especially as we had walloped Highfield 90 - 12 at BV a few weeks earlier!

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 .

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.