Just trying to get away from the mcrae slagging off and blame everyone at the club. Next year COULD be one of the last seasons at our famous ground. The question i would like to ask is. What is your best memory/moment of our famous ground. i will start

1, Ending wigans long run in the challenge cup
2, That tackle by Richard Webster on Jason Critchley (ouch)



away you go folks!

one memory stands out for me the centenary game v widnes and steve rule kicking a last minute goal to tie the game 16 each i think it was last time i seen the old place full to the rafters it was before all the health and safety bollox came in must have been over 12,000 there that day

David Watkins winning debut against Oldham, that night it was electric in the shed before during and after the game...What a fantastic night.

Beating the mighty Wigan in the Challenge Cup

Mark Lee winning drop goal against Bradford in front of the North Stand.

At last but not least I also remeber that tackle/hit by Richard Webster on Jason Critchley against Keighley Cougars...

Too many for one post , but here I go-

The day I stood next to Barney Hudson in the popular side stand(now known as the shed)
The day Gus Risman handed me my free ticket to see a match.
The day we signed Ken Richards and his first try.
The day we signed David Watkins, Colin Dixon,Paul Charlton,Chris Hesketh,Maurice Richards, Keith Fielding, Ken Gill etc,etc.

Every time we beat Wigan, St Helens, Leeds, Bradford,Warrington etc.

The time that the steward asked the 20 stone Bradford fan to vacate my seat in the Austin Truman stand and we won that match as well.

The day we got the franchise.

The day the new stadium is opened(obviously this is one for the near future)

When we knocked Wigan out of the cup and the TV camera moved around the ground and that most loyal Wigan fan John Massey was picked up actually crying at the final whistle.

Anytime that we win, draw or even just play well.

Salford 31-30 Wigan. A drop from swampy and a brace of tries from nick pinkney, the end of endacotts reign too correct me if i'm wrong. First time i saw Salford beat Wigan at the willows. Away from there, the semi at leeds was my first away game, obviously the result was devastating but for my first away game, shown me the pro's and cons of supporting the reds. Sadistically. 96-16 against Bradford was also a meaningful game for me, it taught me what supporting Salford was all about. While you're there, you sing til your lungs burst. In support of the team, that is. Whether we lose, regardless of the manner of defeat, its still OUR team. If you don't wanna get behind the lads, there are plenty of other teams locally. this is aimed at the morons who want to dish it out, i know that doesn't apply to the majority on here. But if you can watch your team get annihalated like we were there, and still support them after that, then thats cool. If you didn't see that and are calling for heads to roll, get an f'in grip.

C.C.No1.F I have sent you a PM.

Had many with the team plus a personal one which as it is before the watershed i can not say any more

"The day I stood next to Barney Hudson in the popular side stand(now known as the shed)
The day Gus Risman handed me my free ticket to see a match. "

I'm so green with envy that I'm been sent home from work as unwell.

At the Willows?! That's disgusting?!

Friday night matches

Happiest memories are going to a packed Willows as a young lad, watching the game then with about 70 mins gone, we'd be hoping the play was down at the clubhouse end (no matter wheather that was our try line or the oppositions) so the players were close to us at the final hooter, then legging it onto the pitch to get the players tie-ups (a strip of bandage that they used to hold their socks up). Oh the joy the day I got David Watkns tie-up!!!
Also the day we ended Wigan's long run in the Challenge cup.

The saddest memory was the day the game was abandoned at half time because of the sad news that Leeds player Sanderson (I've forgotten his 1st name) had died after swallowing his tongue. I was stood next to the tunnel on the opposite side to the shed (when there used to be terracing, where the club shop is now inside the ground), and I wached a very pale faced young man being carried off on a stretcher. God rest him.

It was Chris Sanderson who died during the that match.

offiah picking the ball up near the try line, spinning round and ripping brian carney against Hull in the early 00s to secure the win.

poetry in motion

Said it before but it is still my happiest memory when Richard Webster nearly killed Jason Critchley with the best dirty tackle in memory.

Almost everything Watkins did
The Neil Baker moment of genius
The second Scott Naylor try
The look on the faces of circa 7k Wigan supporters
The class act that was Peter Williams
The atmosphere on Friday nights many moons ago
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That pint Chris Charles No1 Fan bought me........ [size=59April 2005 if I remember rightly [/size

Watching Paul Shaw's debut. Magic.
Practicing moves with Craig Coleman on a cool Thursday night.
Watching the shed pelt a Yorkshire TV Cameraman with pennies after he tried to elbow my younger Brother in the face...

...To be fair, my Dad had him by the throat in the Players tunnel at the time.





I'll let him explain that one...

Ban him we dont want that sort of behaviour at the Willows!

Iain Watson Dancing over against wakefield to tie the scores 22 all, gave us a glimmer of hope of staying up at the time, what a goon tho i must have bounced and danced 20 yards from the top of the shed to the bottom right hand corner near the benches hugging and high 5ing complete strangers on the way.

Watching the shed errupting as Alker scuttled between the post against saints from my commentary box was also very good.
Watching Offiah out run Carney from the Northstand
Watching the Blakeley step dance though many a defence at home
Bobbie Goulding fighting with a wakefield player right infront of the shed after being pulled back from a interception , we lost the match but that game had everything
Spending hours in the club shop talking to chris (?) talking rugby Watching the players train every saturday morning for years and on a thursday afternoon (i think) when i had a free period at college.

Both the wigan wins
and finally............whenever the shed finds its voice, i mean a proper roar or a chant or a song doesnt happen very often mind with all the different groups in there, personally i think the sheds been rocking a bit in some games this season somthing to take forward to next season i think.

Not necessarily my favourite memory, nor the most significant, but I always remember Paul Southern's break and chip-kick for Pinkney to score.

Can't remember who we were playing against but I'm pretty sure it was on TV ... remember watching it back and hearing Stevo raving about what a great kick it was for a prop?!

Warrington?

one of the funniest moments was the shed's stand up sit down song for at least 20/30 mins last game of the season against warrington in 2007

also korkys attemped conversion

Sean Rutgerson's Man of the Match performance against London

That 1st half performance against Wakefield when we were 36-0 up at the break Robinson and Dunnemann were awesome that night.

Ah, yes, I remember having to 'hold court' for many die-hards in't shop, saturday's were best, and what may have started with one or two, grew steadily as people came in to buy stuff, but stayed hours engaged in conversation about the game etc...awesome!...and even the players used to come in and watch videos with me...haha, it was great then! Chris


Fondest memory - taking delivery of the new shirt and being able to put it on the web shop....that pleased many!!

My best memory is the beating of wigan in 1996 also making it to the lancashire cup fiant which was spoilt by john holdaworth the ref when steve hampson should have been sent off then later in the game he sent steve herbert off eventully costing us the cup but it was good to actully see us in the final that was good enough to mention