I finally got round to editing one or two of my collection to upload onto youtube, and have put on highlights of the following for those who wish to view:

Saints V Wigan '97 Challenge Cup 4th Round (26-12)
Wigan V Saints 27th Dec 1987 (22-32)
Wigan v Saints Good Friday 1985 (19-30)

Hope you enjoy, I've plenty more and will play around with a few more games when I get chance

Cheers

=red No Youtube links. For the millionth time.

What a magnificent performance that was that day! Just watched it and sent shivers down my spine 12 years on!

Brilliant them mate.
That C.Cup game is possibly my all time fave. The crowd that day just went fooking ballistic. Love watching the crowd go ape when Newy and Hunte score

Cheers for those mate. Some enjoyable watching, and a few good memories to boot.

I remember breaking my ankle the day before the 97 cup win and being so gutted that I couldn't go, didn't stop me jumping around the house when we won it though!

Mate, that is superb!

Anybody else think rugby was so much more enjoyable those days, or is it just nostalgia giving me misty eyes?

Its nostalga

but we're all guilty of this! I personally love the old men who stand behind me and have for the 5 years slated the saints side, "the side of the 60's/70's were much better than this shower!" awesome, comedy genius

Rugby was more enjoyable back then , we didnt expect to win like the fans do today so when we pulled wins off like the CC , we went completely potty.

I remember standing behind the sticks when Huntey scored, absolute fantastic

Spot on that mate ... let us know if you do any more!

A classic match, purely for the "Wide to West" try by Joynt in the last minute was Saints Vs Bradford in the 2000 play-offs.

Feel free to give the keywords to enter to find the links on YouTube, but please don't link directly to the site.

Can you PM me the links DPID

Ta

Got to be one of, if not the, best ever try

Awesome that - it shows just how good Tommy God was aswell!

And just to complete it I just saw myself on the video!

Watching some of them now.

Great stuff.

watching now.
cant believe goulding was sent off for that tackle.
the pie ducked his head and gouldings arm touched him with the force of a feather!!!!!!!




cheers DPID.
any chance of the final with gouldings bombs?

'96 that was awesome, we were dead an buried and me and a few mates where sat infront of some bradford lads we were haveing a laugh but taking a lot of stick. Then sir bob put up his first bomb. 10 minutes later we were playing the bongos on the bradford lads heads!



good times

Aah the days when the commentators made more errors than the sides they were commenting on

This weekend?

Ray French and Joe Lydon?



How baggy were the shirts?

Glad to see the shoulder pads went the way of the dodo

I know. Between Stevo, Frenchie, Mc Dermot et all Messers David and co must be wondering what they have to do to get in a good opinion

On a positive note for all the pre super league doubters how quick were those eighties games played? I know it was only highlights but is it a sad reflection on British R.L in terms of how little we have advanced or is it a credit to Australian sport on how they embraced the science of the game so readily?

Even as a Saints fan I have to admit that that is a shocking tackle from Goulding in the '97 game!

calling it a tackle is harsh!, he could've got in the gb squad for that alone! Highjump that is!

It brings it home that we seem to have dumbed down our beautiful game.

Today, the game largely seems to be based on flapping about on the floor to get a quick play the ball before the defensive line is set. In addition, taking the defensive line back 10m allows attackers to build up a real head of steam meaning they'll almost certainly get over the advantage line.

Some of these videos are gems, showing that you needed guile, quick hands and the ability to work a defence from one side of the pitch to the other to create a gap - not just taking advantage of a tackler not being able to get up from the ground and set in the defensive line in 3 nanoseconds, or having your forwards always hit the line at full pelt because of how deep the defence is standing.

We've been one of the main beneficiaries of these changes, with players like KC, Roby, Pryce etc so I shouldn't complain - but have we allowed RL to become a Twenty20 version of its former self?