: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:58 pm  

One of the best tries i ever saw came at Craven Park by a certain Andy Wilson.. An absolute cracker and i do believe we won and Henry Paul was awesome!! Now i might be getting confused and putting 2 games into 1 as i was young but Willo's try was a full lengther weaving through all the team. What a player and charachter he was and i saw him on the Brennan Rooney walk with Barry Mcdermott and Steve Prescott at Hunslet. He still only looked 30! Good face cream...

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:10 pm  

Wakefield No 1 wrote:

I'd love it to watch the TV coverage of our first game on satelite TV BSB wasnt? nobody had one of their dishes did they, so in reality they were virtually broadcasting to no-one. Anyway the orginal cheater Ellery Hanley got over the line in the corner and toddled off towards the posts thinking he was safe as houses that was untill Jason Timmins ran and dislodged the ball from him. The ref, Robin Whitfield?? was surrounded by wigan players and eventually gave the try!!!! dispite the fact Ellery never even put the ball down. There was no video ref in those days..

I know Jason very well and to this day we still can't believe that try was given. Hanley dropped the ball, it bounced straight back up in to his hands and down he went for the ref to give the try, the ref was perfectly placed to see the incident too, it was daylight robbery. Had that try been disallowed I'm positive we'd have gone on towin the game. Thought it was the last 16 of the cup not a bskyb league game but I may be wrong. That season ason got a letter through for the GB train on squad but he was injured at the time, crying shame cos he had pace and great vision.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:00 pm  

Uptoncat wrote:

I know Jason very well and to this day we still can't believe that try was given. Hanley dropped the ball, it bounced straight back up in to his hands and down he went for the ref to give the try, the ref was perfectly placed to see the incident too, it was daylight robbery. Had that try been disallowed I'm positive we'd have gone on towin the game. Thought it was the last 16 of the cup not a bskyb league game but I may be wrong. That season ason got a letter through for the GB train on squad but he was injured at the time, crying shame cos he had pace and great vision.

You are correct, we also had 2 tries dissallowed which on any other day would have been give, the game was on BBC 1st half highlights and 2nd half live, the day started off red hot and i went to the game in t shirt and shorts needles to say it rained 2nd half. Price and Bell where the 2 tries dissallowed if i remember rightly.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:27 am  

For me, the play off game. Late getting in due to Wigan turnstile incompetence, and then BJ strolling thro' to touch down in front of us, every Wigan fan head-in-hands 'cos they knew they were out, and then Smithy taking it back for something I still don't get to deny us a semi spot. (And maybe a caning )

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:04 am  

red white & blue wrote:

Beating them 25 - 10 at Wembley in 1963. They were red hot favourites, nobody gave us a cat in hells chance of winning

I remember Wigan were 'all over us' for the first 20 minutes and then we completely outplayed them. Try scorers were Gert 'Oupa' Coetzer 2, Ian Brooke, Malcolm Sampson, and Harold 'fishcake' Poynton with a lengthy interception try. Neil Fox kicked 5 goals.

I have a photo of me sitting on the roof of the car in the car park afterwards wearing my bobble hat, scarf and rosette .... aahhhh those were the days!

And before you ask TRB, no you can't have the photo to put in the programme!!

Ok then i'll ask, can you supply the photo of you "Car walking" Ta.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:53 am  

Haywire wrote:

Lads queing up in the play offs to get in, when they did get in they where (was it?) 16-0 up. They where made to sit with the Wigan fans and didn't get to see us score a point!

Yeah, this is my main memory of Wigan as well.

Lived in Manchester at the time (uni) and my mate came up to meet me for a few beers before we set off to Wigan.

A few beers turned into a few more and when we got to the train station, we'd missed the last train that would get us to Wigan on time.

Thinking that it can't be that far from Manchester to Wigan (Wakefield to Leeds surely?) we hopped in a taxi and asked for the JJB, our first concern being the driver having no idea where this was!

Eventually we arrived (£50 later) and sprinted over to the turnstiles where a large amount of wakey fans were stood. The queue seemed to be motionless and kick off was arriving, so i got the radio on my phone and started to commentate the game for the fans stood outside.

Didn't get in till we were 16-0 up and didnt see us score a point, but commentating to a large group of wakefield fans was certainly enjoyable.

Also remember the end of that game when the wakey fans ran to the edge of the pitch as the players clapped us and seeing the look on the players faces...they were as gutted as we were!

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:09 am  

I have memories of going to Central Park pre-season to see the Wigan Sevens competition (not sure which year though)
We spotted a young ginger kid playing for Wigan who looked like he might be a good prospect. That kid was of course Kris Radlinski and went on to be slightly more than a good prospect.

Also did we not play Wigan the first game after Martin Offiah signed for them for some record fee (£440,000 springs to mind)?

[Wildthing]

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:13 am  

My favourite Wigan memory is Nigel Wright's return to BV after his sale to Wigan. He got sent off after about 20 mins (I think) and I have never heard such abuse for a player in all my years going to watch Wakefield.

He looked mortified walking down the tunnel.

Not even sure why he was sent off but I do remember BV being packed, Not even sure if we won or not but I think we did.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:25 am  

Barry Clegg 2nd wrote:

You are correct, we also had 2 tries dissallowed which on any other day would have been give, the game was on BBC 1st half highlights and 2nd half live, the day started off red hot and i went to the game in t shirt and shorts needles to say it rained 2nd half. Price and Bell where the 2 tries dissallowed if i remember rightly.

No your getting your games mixed up!! The Ellery Hanley no try was in a league game at Belle Vue, I think it was a sunday night too for BSB. The cup game was a different occasion..

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:28 am  

Wildthing wrote:

My favourite Wigan memory is Nigel Wright's return to BV after his sale to Wigan. He got sent off after about 20 mins (I think) and I have never heard such abuse for a player in all my years going to watch Wakefield.

He looked mortified walking down the tunnel.

Not even sure why he was sent off but I do remember BV being packed, Not even sure if we won or not but I think we did.

remember the price being put a quid so we could buy nigel back , never happened though .

my main memory was losing on a wednesday night down at belle vue and all the decisions went the goons way however in the 2nd half we turned it around we were losing about 14-2 or 12-0 we scored (Gary price if memory serves me right ) he carried the likes of platt , edwards and betts over the try line with him as he collected the ball about 15 metres out .
then with minutes left on the clock a high bomb caused mayhem on the wigan goal line and ged bryne appeared to score . i say appeared because im still to this day unsure if it was a try but i do recall it was the first time id experience the wakey crowd giving the score . if it had been turned down i think the ref would off need more than a escort .


however does any one remember the hanley try that never was he crossed over the try line at chav corner and showboated to the posts only to be clobbered by (Eden me thinks) and had the ball clearly ripped . the ref probably holdsworth gave it as a try even though ellery got up looking sheepish and the ball was rolling towards the players entrance.

most recently you could mention moore , but seeing as hanley is legend at the goons my most recent memory of anything wigan was the camp judge calling ellery mr potato head on that skating show