: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:24 pm  

Surely the only difference now is they wear hoodies and burberry caps!

82 championShip : Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:46 pm  

Great King Rat wrote:

The match at HKR - was that the challenge cup match that we won by 2 points when woody kicked a late goal? I was at that match and remembered being chased back to the coach by a load of HKR 'fans'. The coaches were parked in a park about a mile from the ground and we had to have a police escort out of hull cos the 'fans' were bricking the coaches! Great days eh?

Correct. Fev was bad all those years ago. Saints was the same. Long gone I,m glad 2 say but I also had bother at Workington and Whitehaven, Lot different these days,

: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:48 pm  

not much diferent thesedays at whitehaven frank

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:12 am  

FredParky wrote:

not much diferent thesedays at whitehaven frank

ah well, this is where we differ

i think the marras are a good bunch, love going the rec.........

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:45 am  

Worst place in the game to film at is Whitehaven - or the old video point was.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:04 am  

joanne callotte wrote:

ah well, this is where we differ

i think the marras are a good bunch, love going the rec.........

You want to try taking schoolboys up there to play. I once gave a team talk after a try that went whatever you do kep your mouths closed and stick together when you walk off the pitch.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:26 pm  

Great King Rat - I was on one of those fans on the coaches too.
I was too young for 71, but that Hull KR game was one of the most memorable games for me in over 35 years of watching Leigh, along with Lancashire Cup Final & Whitehaven of course (when we clinched the league).

Craven park was packed to the rafters, crazy Hull KR fans just went mental at the end when woody kicked that goal. leigh fans running for their lives & fighting their way back to the coaches, coach drivers holding doors shut so KR fans couldn't get on. Bricks all over the place. Police escort all the way out of Hull. There were 52 coaches that day from Leigh all parked up in that park (can you believe it!!).

Fantastic memories - singing the Wemberleigh song all the way home.

We lost two weeks later to Mal Reillys Cas in the quarter finals (Doh!)

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:30 pm  

I may just watch it again later it was a good game.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:30 pm  

82Heroes wrote:

We lost two weeks later to Mal Reillys Cas in the quarter finals (Doh!)

What a miserable day that was as well....... still at least we won the title...

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:31 pm  

you mean you remembered it? you forget everything else