Re: Memorable away games. : Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:55 am  

Lot of people really digging into the archives but of more recent times Salford 2016 that drop goal by Sandow at the end of that come back.

Re: Memorable away games. : Tue Dec 21, 2021 3:59 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

Halifax away in 2002. Briers kicking 5 drop-goals, then Daryl Cardiss winning it for Halifax with a try in the last minute. It was at that point i was convinced we were going down.

I was there unall. Honestly one of the most nerve wrecking games I’ve ever been at, given what was at stake. God knows what would have happened from 2003 onwards if we had gone down, a real turning point in the modern history of the club, god bless Sir Paul Cullen.

Re: Memorable away games. : Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:24 pm  

DallasMead2 wrote: I was there unall. Honestly one of the most nerve wrecking games I’ve ever been at, given what was at stake. God knows what would have happened from 2003 onwards if we had gone down, a real turning point in the modern history of the club, god bless Sir Paul Cullen. And god bless David Plange. Cullen won 2 from 6. Plange won 4 from 16. In actual fact our trajectory was not changed significantly. We were in 10th when Cull arrived and 10th at the end of the season. It was David Plange that lifted us from 12th to 10th. https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html

DallasMead2 wrote: I was there unall. Honestly one of the most nerve wrecking games I’ve ever been at, given what was at stake. God knows what would have happened from 2003 onwards if we had gone down, a real turning point in the modern history of the club, god bless Sir Paul Cullen. And god bless David Plange. Cullen won 2 from 6. Plange won 4 from 16. In actual fact our trajectory was not changed significantly. We were in 10th when Cull arrived and 10th at the end of the season. It was David Plange that lifted us from 12th to 10th. https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html

Re: Memorable away games. : Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:08 pm  

Wires71 wrote: And god bless David Plange. Cullen won 2 from 6. Plange won 4 from 16. In actual fact our trajectory was not changed significantly. We were in 10th when Cull arrived and 10th at the end of the season. It was David Plange that lifted us from 12th to 10th. https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html Fair point, god bless anyone but Steve Anderson then eh!

Wires71 wrote: And god bless David Plange. Cullen won 2 from 6. Plange won 4 from 16. In actual fact our trajectory was not changed significantly. We were in 10th when Cull arrived and 10th at the end of the season. It was David Plange that lifted us from 12th to 10th. https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html Fair point, god bless anyone but Steve Anderson then eh!

Re: Memorable away games. : Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:53 pm  

DallasMead2 wrote:

I was there unall. Honestly one of the most nerve wrecking games I’ve ever been at, given what was at stake. God knows what would have happened from 2003 onwards if we had gone down, a real turning point in the modern history of the club, god bless Sir Paul Cullen.

Just looking back at that season's fixtures, that loss at Halifax was only in May. But it definitely seemed like we were doomed already. Went there again in September and we won 16-19, another proper nail-biter. I remember hugging a random Wire fan at the final hooter

Re: Memorable away games. : Thu Dec 23, 2021 5:51 pm  

While there's a weather related theme, here's two.

Swinton, circa 1992, at the legendary Station Rd. ground.
"Piddled" down, all morning, and all afternoon, and there's no overhead cover, there, so everyone's pee wet through. THEN,
during the game, there's a floodlight failure, so, we're getting wetter for longer.
Swinton were atrocious that season. Guess what. They beat us.

Leeds 88/9. It had put a decent amount of snow down in Warrington on the Saturday night, but the five of us made an "executive decision" in Oliver's (after MANY beers), to chance it, the following day. HUGE snowfall overnight in Yorkshire, and when get there, there's hoardes of Yorkie Muppets in t-shirts in the South Stand, while the more sensible were wrapped up like Chris Bonnington.
Leeds had Ettingshausen, Cliffy Lyons and "Slammin'"Sam Backo, as well as a load of GB Internationals. We had the second coming of Phil Blake, as well as Les Davidson and lazy ar53 Roach.....we mullered em



Non weather
I loved Saints in the 93/4 Regal Trophy, live on Grandstand.
We packed put the Kop end and we were in full voice. "Walking in a Davies Wonderland" was the loudest it had ever been. For some daft reason, Grandstand's cameras caught me for a few seconds, and I had random people coming up to me in the Time Square a few hours later, saying "saw you on the Tele this afternoon". We were superb, that afternoon. My favourite Wire backs era. Penny, Myler, Davies, Shelford, Mackey, Bateman etc.

Re: Memorable away games. : Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:31 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

While there's a weather related theme, here's two.

Swinton, circa 1992, at the legendary Station Rd. ground.
"Piddled" down, all morning, and all afternoon, and there's no overhead cover, there, so everyone's pee wet through. THEN,
during the game, there's a floodlight failure, so, we're getting wetter for longer.
Swinton were atrocious that season. Guess what. They beat us.

Leeds 88/9. It had put a decent amount of snow down in Warrington on the Saturday night, but the five of us made an "executive decision" in Oliver's (after MANY beers), to chance it, the following day. HUGE snowfall overnight in Yorkshire, and when get there, there's hoardes of Yorkie Muppets in t-shirts in the South Stand, while the more sensible were wrapped up like Chris Bonnington.
Leeds had Ettingshausen, Cliffy Lyons and "Slammin'"Sam Backo, as well as a load of GB Internationals. We had the second coming of Phil Blake, as well as Les Davidson and lazy ar53 Roach.....we mullered em



Non weather
I loved Saints in the 93/4 Regal Trophy, live on Grandstand.
We packed put the Kop end and we were in full voice. "Walking in a Davies Wonderland" was the loudest it had ever been. For some daft reason, Grandstand's cameras caught me for a few seconds, and I had random people coming up to me in the Time Square a few hours later, saying "saw you on the Tele this afternoon". We were superb, that afternoon. My favourite Wire backs era. Penny, Myler, Davies, Shelford, Mackey, Bateman etc.

I was at the Saints one. Jonathan Davies….wish we’d had him from 21 instead of 31 but an awesome 12 months nonetheless.
Steve Roach - akin to mentioning Tyrone Roberts for me - INSTANT forum ban. What a waste of skin….

Re: Memorable away games. : Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:53 am  

Leeds away in the 80s we won 54-16 with some of the finest attacking I've seen from the wire..mark Roberts was unplayable that day

Re: Memorable away games. : Fri Dec 24, 2021 11:01 am  

as a Wiganer one of my strangest memories was a New Years day game at Wilderspool. Got there in plenty of time only to not got in as the gates were locked before we made it. Watched the whole of the 1st half through a hole in the back of the stand. At HT a shout went up that one of the turnstiles was open (dont know if it should have been, but wasnt hanging around to find out) so got the 2nd half inside

HKR away on a Wednesday night in January. Turned up in club shirt only, has to be the coldest i have ever been in my life. Although one game away at Watershedding may push that close as we had fans with hypothermia on that day

from a rugby perspective Wigan v Bradford in the playoffs stands out as we were dead and buried

Re: Memorable away games. : Fri Dec 24, 2021 1:43 pm  

The pieman wrote:

as a Wiganer one of my strangest memories was a New Years day game at Wilderspool. Got there in plenty of time only to not got in as the gates were locked before we made it. Watched the whole of the 1st half through a hole in the back of the stand. At HT a shout went up that one of the turnstiles was open (dont know if it should have been, but wasnt hanging around to find out) so got the 2nd half inside

HKR away on a Wednesday night in January. Turned up in club shirt only, has to be the coldest i have ever been in my life. Although one game away at Watershedding may push that close as we had fans with hypothermia on that day

from a rugby perspective Wigan v Bradford in the playoffs stands out as we were dead and buried

New Year’s Day 1994 I think? Ice cold, low scoring game, but very tense. A controversial decision by Russel Smith too, which I think he subsequently admitted he got wrong.