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

NOT SURE IF PEOPLE REMEMBER BUT WE BEAT WIGAN 14-4 IN 1997. STARTED GOING RELIGOUSLY THAT YEAR AND COULD NEVER FORGET THE WIGAN FANS SHOUTING THE GOOD DAYS ARE OVER, WE ALSO BEAT SAINTS 39-16 AND BEAT ADELAIDE RAMS 14-12. I THINK THAT WAS THE BEST YEAR FOR A PROMOTED CLUB, ALOT BETTER THAN HULL KRS THE OTHER YEAR. THE GERGORY DAYS WERE THE BEST!!!

97 was a great season, but Greg then went on the slide, and the club seemed to go the same way. If you think about it, in 1997 we were a bigger club/in a better position than Hull, Hull KR, Huddersfield and Wakefield. All four clubs have overtaken us and two of those teams will soon have been to two cup finals since then.

So have we

Does any one remember that time when we had the sky divers in as entertainment and he went crashing into the side of the north stand. OUCH

Yeah that was the last we saw of them! His leg was cut to ribbons!

couple of seasons ago against leigh away having a fiver on beverly at 14/1 first try and then last seasons wet 1 atmosphere was awsome

What about the cheeky girls

I've never been so grateful for the sound on the speakers cutting out, as I was that day.