: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:31 pm  

Ossett Cat wrote:

or in 1993/94 when we played them away at Central Park on the Sunday with an under strength team and lost, we went back in the middle of the following week and against the odds Henry Paul mugged them along the late Dave Woods and Matt Fuller after which Wigan promptly signed Henry Paul for the following year.

watched that game on teletex it took an age to come up FT

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:39 pm  

Fordy wrote:

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)?

do you remember the year we won the Wigan sevens that was a great day out think it was 1980

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:55 pm  

Round 18 of the 2007 Super League season was a great performance by the Wildcats. Wigan under the influence of Trent Barratt came to Belle Vue with a strut but the Wildcats outclassed them in every department. Try scorers that day were Blaymire, Demetriou, Fox, Jefferies 2 and a fantastic try scored by Richard Moore who handed off Calderwood then trampled all over him to kiss the ball then dive over the line. Brett Ferres kicked 4 goals in front of 8,126 supporters

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:07 pm  

Remember Mason cutting Wigan to bits one year with a couple of blinding tries at Belle Vue, also remember a game when i was very young when Wigan scored with nearly every touch of the ball but missed loads of kicks got to the point where everyone was having a crack a goal and Andy Greg missed straight in front of the sticks.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:20 pm  

jonh wrote:

Remember Mason cutting Wigan to bits one year with a couple of blinding tries at Belle Vue, also remember a game when i was very young when Wigan scored with nearly every touch of the ball but missed loads of kicks got to the point where everyone was having a crack a goal and Andy Greg missed straight in front of the sticks.

Still managed to rack up 70 points though!

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:51 pm  

TRB wrote:

Still managed to rack up 70 points though!

Indeed they did cannot remember the stats but it was 70 points wracked up with only 2 successfull kicks, obviously pre the botica days. Im 30 now can can not really remember the specifics apart from the missed kicks and Andy Greg miss towards the end.

The 2006 night match was a shocker from a Wigan point of view and in my opinion the writing was on the wall for Millward after that. Richards who has turned out to be a pretty solid fullback played 1 that night and was abysmal as were a good few others.

Ashton running away from Moore on his spectacullar try still makes me smile from 2007.

Remember not sure what year it was but Nige Wright was on loan from Wigan mainly due to his shocking defence which ensured he could not get near the first team at Wigan. Whenever Wigan formed a scrum they pulled a second row or Prop in at 6 and fed them the ball and got them to run straight at him, and to his credit he had a good game taking all they threw at him. Cas used the same tactic shortly before and Ian Smailes bashed him all over the park. Think the display of Nige that day ensured he returned from his loan.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:19 pm  

Wakefield No 1 wrote:

Yes!

See my posts above, it was Jason Timmins who got the ball free..and it could have been John Holdsworth the ref..

Wasn't the ref Colin Morris? I remember seeing it on the highlights and could have sworn it was him.

--edit--

Having done a little research, BSB's "The Sports Channel" started broadcasting to cable viewers on 27 March 1990. So the Wakey-Wigan match (1st April) will have been the first one shown.

So, here goes:

Wakefield 14-23 Wigan

Wakefield tries: Bell, R. Price
goals: M. Conway (3)

Wigan tries: Dermott, Hanley, Edwards, Preston
goals: Hampson (2), Goulding
drops: Dermott

Att: 6075

Ref: C. Morris

Info c/o The Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-91
(Ray Fletcher & David Howes)

And yes, you were robbed!

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:01 pm  

Just been viewing 89 90 season highlights video. Both controversial games within a few months of each other. First cup game on telly Feb 90. It was on Grandstand and a buy your ticket in advance game. Mason had a try disallowed for a double movement ( looked a fair call to me), and Phil Fox had a try disallowed for a forward pass (bad call that one I think). Finished 14 26 Ray Price went off on a stretcher with a back injury.

Second game was on 1/4/90 (was it a Sun or Sat night a telly game). Anyway as has previously been said Hanley dropped ball under the sticks. Ref Morris gave the try. Even Hanley looked embarrassed. Wakey then given a succession of five penalties in as many minutes by Morris. Wakey scored as final hooter sounded and fans had to be cleared from pitch so Mark Conway could take conversion. Ref had police escort as he left the pitch. Final score 14 23.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:08 pm  

The Wigan game that we won in 2006 on Sky still sticks out in my mind. The video ref took an age to decide if we had scored in the corner or had the ball been dislodged by in the process ( was it Hallpenny and Richards). Still think we were lucky with that 50 50 video call. Had it not gone our way ultimately we would have been relegated.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:00 pm  

Jason wrote:

The Wigan game that we won in 2006 on Sky still sticks out in my mind. The video ref took an age to decide if we had scored in the corner or had the ball been dislodged by in the process ( was it Hallpenny and Richards). Still think we were lucky with that 50 50 video call. Had it not gone our way ultimately we would have been relegated.

You're right it was Halpenny and Richards and yes it was a bad call. Richards was almost horizontal and going over the line when Halpenny hit him and the ball came loose and was touched down by another Wigan player. What the Ref didn't pick up was Halpenny reaching across Richards' back and punching the ball loose but it was an understandable error, it happened so fast.
A woman Wgan supporter sat in front me who had been a real pain for the whole match went absolutely balistic and I couldn't console her no matter how hard I tried . At the end we shook hands and parted friends and my last words were "Don't worry, you won't be relegated". Sometimes I really hate being right.

PS I've just re read your post and we are on different wave lengths. The incident I describe was at the end of the game with a Halpenny tackle on Richards.


regards