Quote: ccs "Fantastic win, great effort all round, well done LR and the team for achieving a very rare victory against Wigan on their home soil.
As far as I can tell, these are all our league victories against Wigan away between 1895 and 2015.
Sat 7 Dec 1895 Hull Home Lost 00-03
Sat 31 Jan 1903 Hull Home Lost 02-03
Wed 12 Apr 1905 Hull Home Lost 03-10
Sat 20 Sep 1919 Hull Home Lost 05-11
Sat 4 Nov 1922 Hull Home Lost 09-10
Sun 25 Oct 1981 Hull Home Lost 05-18
Wed 11 Jan 1989 Hull Home Lost 20-35
Sun 6 Sep 1992 Hull Home Lost 13-14
Fri 5 Apr 2002 Hull FC Home Lost 18-20
Fri 10 Jun 2005 Hull FC Home Lost 24-28
Fri 30 Aug 2013 Hull FC Home Lost 33-34
Not many I'm afraid, I knew they were few and far between, but the odds seem to have been stacked against us whatever team we may have had. None in the 1950's for example.
Some of the gaps will be when we didn't play them at all, fixtures were often regionalised in the dim and distant past.'"
I watched from 1946 until 1959 when I left Hull and because of regionalisation cannot remember too many Wigan games being played in that period against either Hull or Rovers. Stretching my memory I only remember 1 in the late 40's when Wigan played Rovers. Went with my dad and the match was memorable for the incident in the last minutes when Wigan,behind by 1 point, were awarded a penalty for a voluntary tackle in the corner close to the Rovers line and kicked the goal to win.
Not seen too many penalties for voluntary tackles since!
