Now then pop pickers. Seeing as though this is a popular kind of thread at the moment here's my contribution. Select your top 3 moments in Rugby League that haven't included the boys in blue and Amber. Here's my starter for 10:

1: Wakefield v Cas relegation decider in 06. I attended the game and have never experienced such drama being a neutral.

2: The 3rd Test in Sydney in 1988. First time I ever saw us beat the Kangeroos live.

3: 1987 WCC Wigan v Manly at Central Park. 30 odd k rammed into CP with 2 legendary sides going at it hammer and tong. Proper RL.




Your turn...........

Off the top of my head

1. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epT4-ZaHBlwMelbourne Ashes test 1992: Aus 10 - GB 33[/url (including a good fight where Schoey caught the ref with a stray haymaker but GB still got the penalty
2. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSCZ-qQTodQJonathan Davies Wembley try vs. the Aussies[/url
3. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0YDW-_kIGM"That's not a try that's a miracle" - Queensland last min origin try in 1994[/url

Honourable mentions - wide to west try; Willie Nelson being owned by Kidwell; Sam Burgess vs Fuifui Moimoi; Wigan vs Broncos World Club Challenge in Australia; and many many plays by Darren Lockyer (simply the greatest player I've seen)

I'm not sure about top 3, but 3 good ones from memory are 'Wide to West', which was bloody hilarious, Doncaster -v- Batley promotion decider at Mount Pleasant in 1993 or 4 (around that time anyway) and the Old Trafford test where Morley beat up Tallis to the extent that Tallis went crying to the authorities.

Jonathan Davies in the corner for GB at Wembley, brilliant stuff
but for top 3 I saw live and in person i'd pick (in chronological order)
- Yorkshire's almost comeback in the "origin" game at Headingley - what an atmosphere in the Southstand (and free chocolate on the way in)
- Samoa v Tonga at WC08, the war dances, the atmosphere, the pitch invasion (and the train ride home)
- WC08 final, a thankyou from the NZ captain for our support, Kiwi, Kiwi, Kiwi!

any England tournament win would wipe these out, oh well....

3rd test in sydney. he does a bit of a boogie.

2nd test in Melbourne 1992 Gb and Schoey destroy the Aussies.

challenge cup Final 1987 Halifax V St Helens the most underrated challenge cup final ever 19 - 18 a classic.

Off the top of my head

1. Melbourne Ashes test 1992: Aus 10 - GB 33 (including a good fight where Schoey caught the ref with a stray haymaker but GB still got the penalty
2. Jonathan Davies Wembley try vs. the Aussies
3. "That's not a try that's a miracle" - Queensland last min origin try in 1994

Honourable mentions - wide to west try; Willie Nelson being owned by Kidwell; Sam Burgess vs Fuifui Moimoi; Wigan vs Broncos World Club Challenge in Australia; and many many plays by Darren Lockyer (simply the greatest player I've seen)

Of highwayman fame?

Nowt to do with me!

Last game of the 93/94 season. My uncle scored the winning try for Donny. I have his shirt from that match hung up in my wardrobe.





3) The above game, one of my earliest rugby memories.
2) York beating Fev 27-26 at Post Office Road in the 5th round of the Challenge Cup in 2004. We beat them 4 times that season, but that was the sweetest.
1) York City Knights first ever game in 2003 against Hull KR. We lost 34-24 in front of over 3 thousand people. It was quite a change from York Wasps last game against Chorley in front of about 200 of us.

I just stuck to 3 moments I saw live, but there are countless others that I will never forget. It's what makes our game so special.

Who;s your Uncle? I know a mad keen Donny fan (well, he was at that time). I'd love to tell him.

My money's on it being Brendan Carlyle.

Is there a prize, I hope there's a prize, there simply has to be a prize.

Brendan Carlyle. He had a glittering career at Fev Colts, York, Hull FC, Scarborough Pirates, Donny (Dons & Dragons) and Heworth.

It's what got me into the game, I saw my first game at Clarence Street when I was 2 or 3 weeks old.

TVOC, any ideas who York played around the end of the 1986/7 season?

Bingo. Though I suspect you already knew...

He was good lad in that Donny team. They'd assembled a very useful little squad at the time. Carlyle was one of those honest players, who wasn't the most skillful, but would never stop trying.

From what my Grandad says (and my own vague memories), he was a sneaky bugger... kind of like a less skillful Tommy Martyn or Lee Jackson!

Sorry fella but unless it was Leeds (around that time) I don't carry that info. It wasn't Leeds so that narrows the possibilities down a bit.

What you need is a copy of the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook (7th Year) 1987/88 (I think that's how they worked) - I've only got 1 to 5 and 14.

Top non-Leeds moments... well, GB/Eng moments have been hard to come by, and I've only been present in person for one GB win against the Aussies, and it wasn't in truth, that great a game. I think I can count ones seen on TV though.

1) Wide to West - actually, more specifically, the bit where Matthew Elliott fell off his chair. Pure sporting theatre. TV.
2) Melbourne 1992, a match that delayed my acceptance of Australian domination. Worth it though. TV.
3) 2005 Tri-Nations final. Always nice to be on hand to see an upset loss for the Aussies. A really clinical NZ performance, and all the more enjoyable for not being too partisan, and thus able to relax a bit.

my top 3 are probably not in any order but

- 98 CC final, proof that every dog has its day
- Wide to West
- Probably one of the my favourite ever games Salford v Saints last year at The Willows, 14 try's, Salford took the lead on the first attack and never let it go and there was never more than around 4 points in it until the very last minute or so

other great moments; the miracle try SoO1 in '94, 'Here they come through Nightingale' 4 Nations final last year, Saints CC final comeback in '96, Murrayfield Magic last season thousends of fans walking down a narrow street kicking a ball in the air catching it and doing it again and one poor lad even had to retrieve it from someones front garden.....Fans together, you dont see that in football.

1996 Challenge Cup Final - Robbie Paul's hat-trick, Goulding and Martyn tormenting Nathan Graham with their kicking.

Melbourne 1992 - Graham Steadman nipping in at the corner, ET's Bambi on Ice impression trying to cover Schofield's grubber through for a try.

Sydney 1988 - The late Mike Gregory ignoring Martin Offiah screaming for the ball alongside him and outpacing the cover, "Ford, he's a stepper Ford...", "And he does a little boogie..".

Wally Lewis desperately trying to obstruct Offiah like it made a difference.

Indeed - and Gregory outpacing the NSWRL's golden boy of physical perfection in "Junior" Pearce to boot.

1. Wide out West was funny because the same thing had happened to Elliott only 2/3 weeks before against Wigan - plus Long putting mascot head on was hilarious.

2. Roosters v Penrith 2003 NRL GF - IIRC each side made over 350 tackles incredible game.

3. WCC of the following year when the Aussies at last took it seriously and gulf between the two leagues was laid bare for all to see. The finest display by any Aussie club side here I have ever seen.

Tri-Nations final at ER in 04 to see that Aussie team live when they destroyed Nobles "Team of 13's" an absolute joy to watch and i actually didn't care it was against GB because the skill on show was sublime.

12 man GB beating the Aussies at Wembley after Edwards got sent off an outstanding effort and highlighted by Davies' try in the corner.

NZ Beating the Aussies in the WC final was another great "under-dog" story and a great performance by the Kiwis lead superbly by Marshall.

Mason-Nelson I'm always making that slip

Fev beating Hullfc in CC final was it 1982
and Cas beating Hullkr in CC final
bet neither of those clubs fans would put leeds wins down as their top 3 moments not related to their clubs
1970 last time we owned the aussies in a series and boy didnt we own em,but they went away and learned from it,we stood still

For sheer emotion and being at the game it must be:

1. Donny promotion to top division, I nearly cried I was so happy
2. Donny beating Widnes in the first game of the following year, and then seeing them top of the league on the next programme's cover.
3. Great Britain beating Australia at McAlpine in 2001?? Me and my brother got on the 9o'clock news.