Panic!!!! St Helens Memories! : Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:00 pm  

Oh 'eck! Should have posted this earlier, but it's time to ask about what memories you guys / gals have of games against the St's.

Many will say '79 - and hopefully a few of you were there (TV for me then).

What about Jacko's try at BV?

What about Hunte's shocker, or Wassa's score at Knowsley Road?

Was anyone there the last time before when we won at KR?

There's whole heap of history there, of you wil.....

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:03 pm  

beating them at Oakwell?

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:04 pm  

Aah, the St Helens cup semi final.

I remember getting home and being 'full of it' that we were going to Wembley, then my brother who'd also been at the game (but not with me) came and all he could talk about was having a pee in the bogs next to Colin Welland.

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:04 pm  

pocket 4's wrote:

beating them at Oakwell?

go to print now TRB

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:16 pm  

remember being 14-2 down in the 80s and pulling it back to 14 all , mark conway attempts a drop bounces off sticks and jimmy Leuluai scores conway converts and then gets his drop and from nowhere we beat saints 21-14

or the first game kelly and harkin in charge one wednesday night which we won 15-0

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:25 pm  

mutley cat wrote:

remember being 14-2 down in the 80s and pulling it back to 14 all , mark conway attempts a drop bounces off sticks and jimmy Leuluai scores conway converts and then gets his drop and from nowhere we beat saints 21-14

think this was one at the back end of season when we had to win 5 out of our last 6 games to stay up, our 1st season back in the top flight under Toppo and he stopped us from being the yo yo team IIRC

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:23 pm  

Of no use unless anyone can remember but we went on a run of always beating saints home and away once a year and my best memory was at home when the ball was thrown to long on the last tackle on his 20 yard line and someone came out of the line and absolutely creamed him. He didnt know were he was and all the Saints players were running up field thinking he'd kicked it and someone simply picked the ball upand went under the sticks. Of no real use other than it was an absolute belting hit on Long and a great win...

Does anyone else remember the hit? Think it was about 4-6 years ago at Belle Vue..

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:22 am  

WILDCAT PLOD wrote:

Of no use unless anyone can remember but we went on a run of always beating saints home and away once a year and my best memory was at home when the ball was thrown to long on the last tackle on his 20 yard line and someone came out of the line and absolutely creamed him. He didnt know were he was and all the Saints players were running up field thinking he'd kicked it and someone simply picked the ball upand went under the sticks. Of no real use other than it was an absolute belting hit on Long and a great win...

Does anyone else remember the hit? Think it was about 4-6 years ago at Belle Vue..

Willie Poching

It happened just in front of the flats in the corner.
Long was absolutely gobsmacked that someone had finaly got to him.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:29 am  

Headingly, 7/4/79, with about five minutes to go in the Cup semi and Saints are about to make their second huge mistake that will lose them a game which otherwise was as tight as the proverbial fishes bum.
Their first mistake was Peter Glynn missing a rolling ball over his own line and leaving it for Andy Fletcher to touch down. Their second mistake was to give Dave Topliss half a yard too much space with the ball in hand, and to Dave that was an invitation that could not be refused. He shot through the gap and made halfway before handing it to Keith Smith who drew the full back before passing to Andy Fletcher, one of the best finishers in the game,and it was all over, we were going to Wembley.
I looked around as I celebrated, and a couple of yards away was a young Saints fan about seven years old and the look on his face was enough to break your heart, this was wrong, it wasn't in the script, he had come here to win. The moment was particularly poignant as I had seen the same look on the face of my son four years earlier when Trinity lost to Widnes in the semi at Odsal. Sadly, I would see it again a few weeks later.

regards

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:31 am  

Back in the 60s. Alex Murphy was being interviewed on tv before a trinity game, interviewer (probably Eddie Waring) said to him, "you have not got the better of Neil Fox so far this season, what do you intend to do differently today?"
"Well I am so much faster than Fox, I shall simply sidestep him and then use my speed to get away from him"
During the game every time Murphy sidestepped so did Foxy, but Neil was so much bigger than Murphy, the result was like running in to a brick wall. By the end of the game Murphy must have been bruised and battered. And of course the mighty Trinity won the game to make the whole day even nicer.