Following on from Sally's yr 2000 post, what has been your top 3 hightlights and lowlights in the last 10 years?

HIGHS
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1) Challenge Cup win 2009 (obviously)
2) Playoff win at Leeds in ?2007?
3) Andrew Johns game vs Leeds in 2005. My god, it is mental that was back in 2005.

LOWS
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1) Pre Smith - Early 2009 - never been so deflated as a fan, ever. Now almost seems like it was 10 years ago, thankfully.
2) Every single game at Knowsley Road and most at home too - Roll on new decade and a change of luck.
3) Warrington Wolves 24 Huddersfield-Sheffield 44 - 2000

Pretty much the same but I would add :-

High
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Wigan in CC Semi final


Lows
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Castleford at home in 2008 - the "that's me I'm done" match.
London Broncos home in 2002 - the "sit-in" match.

Cas at home in 2008 was weird. I sort of felt numb rather than low. I walked out of the ground and met my mate and we just both laughed.

Wakey away at start of that season was really low. King's pass into touch behind Penny (if that's waht happened) summed up that year for me. Lots of Wakey away matches would feature in my list.

You know what, I didnt go to that match because of a last minute problem at home. Being at home watching on TV you dont quite get the same sickening feeling as you do live, but I am sure had I of gone, it would have made the list.

The whole 2002 season was the worst for watching rugby i've experienced.
It almost made me stay away, we were terrible, boring and it was oh so painful

everyone else in our crew had sloped off before the end leaving me and killer, who went over and sat with the kids in front of the screen for a while before getting manhandled by a rent a steward. Strange thing about that, and i apologise if i'm mis-remembering this here, cockers was still stood in there with his drum, but aparently wasn't protesting against cull,so i've no idea exactly what he was doing.

Worse low st helens 80-0

What about Quins away this year?

Travelling down there and to be served up that performance was hard to take

oh yeah how silly of me

has it been that long already

Way to many lows but I have, or rather had, managed to forget most of them. In recent years the defeat to Cas in '08 hurt, and I thought it couldn't get much lower - I was wrong.

Not enough highs, but those that have already been mentioned (CC Final, Semi Final, Leeds Playoff game, Leeds Joey game) immediately spring to mind as does the day it was confirmed that Tony Smith was taking over from Jimmy Lowes.

I hope there will be more highs than lows over the next few years - but I'm 'not holding my breath'.

2005 was pretty good, folk always remember Joey, but we were pretty strong that year. Grose was inspired at fullback, Gleeson had his best year and we won 11 from 12. This involved 'Bridge Day' & maybe 'Rauhihi Day' I think. I enjoyed that year, we won a number of close contests and played really entertaining rugby with *** ****, Danny Lima and others perhaps having their best times with us. It was Culls peak looking back. That was the year for me when I thought Culls masterplan was starting to take shape, we played with freedom, were a threat from anywhere especially set plays and I enjoyed it, it went downhill from there.

Clearly, for one off moments, this year has been the best, with the semi final & final being incredible occasions but ask me which season I've enjoyed the most of the last ten, I'd say 2005 I think.

I expect 2010 to surpass this though.

Probably Rauhihi's best season, one of the main reasons the Cowboys made the Grand Final.

Rauhihi Day was May Day 2006 then, awesome.

what year was it, when against Leeds at the HJ he did the ball steal.I thought that was his best game for us

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Highs.
Rob Smyth going down the right flank to beat Bradford at Wilderspool was a cracking moment!
Winning at the Boulevard in 2002, Briers kicking a fist full of drop goals (was probably the worst game of rugby i've ever watched but just sticks in my memory)
Beating London Broncos at home by about 50 points at home in 03, and Appo running the show
Also Winning by 1 point at Headingley in 2002, seem to remember Danny Halliwell having a blinder!

Lows.
Getting beat at home by London in 02, ending Anderson's stint incharge.
Losing at Hull KR in the CC when they were in the National League.
Countless trips to Knowsley Road
Standing on the steps of Odsal watching us getting battered in 2003 (iirc) and us not even touching the ball for 25 minutes, the only high point being Sid Domic scoring and Nat Wood having a do at Jimmy Lowes

in an awful game, you're getting confused a tad.

He did drop a goal, maybe two in that game you are referring too at Hull, I didn't go to that game, I had the updates on teletext, we were winning with five minutes to go, and at 10.45pm I was still sat there waiting for a confirmed result.

Thats one of my highlights iirc it was blazing hot and the whole atmosphere was excellent from start to finish

Highs

Wembley, Joey game against leeds in 05, play off at leeds cc semi final against wigan this year, wen we last beat saints 01 (im sure it was 01)

Lows

Trips to Knowsley road, Cullen final game, london game in 02, play off in catalans 44-16 or something similar, losing 10 in a row with lowes in charge

There was about 300 Warrington fans there, if that! Briers ran the length zig zagging away from Gareth Raynor! Good times

Oh god, i'd forgot about that.

Like another poster has mentioned, Quins away this year would be a low, not just because of the result but because of the whole Matt King incident...

Also, '08 at Wakefield where we got beaten 14-2, and we were in the hail and snow...

Highlights-
1. Challenge cup Win
2. Leeds playoff Win
3. Joeys debut
4. Cup semi-final v Wigan this year

There are one or two games that stand out for me: The first win at the JJB, coming back from the dead against Bradford, winning at the Boulevard in 2002, and the Challenge cup win at the Willows in 2000 are favourites.

One league game that really stands out for me is St. Helens away in 2005, where we lost to a last minute Sean Long drop-goal after throwing away a lead in the last couple of minutes. Obviously the result is a major low-light, but it is arguably the best game Ive seen.

Low-lights-
1. St.Helens away 2002 72-2 I think, also include all other visits to Knowsley Road in this.
2. All of 2002, escaping relegation felt fantastic but the season in general, with the exception of games such as winning at the Boulevard, was horrible.
3. Castleford at home in 2008 was horrendous, it was probably the lowest Ive ever felt walking away from a Warrington game, Knowsley road incidents aside.

that was a low point, however in my usual up beat manner i was heard to make a drunken speach on the mini bus on the way home which went a little like this...

"it's the low points like this that will make the victories in the future so much sweeter, all we need to do now is win the challenge cup and this will all be forgotten!"

but in a much more drunken slurry hic, manner whilst trying not to fall over standing up on the bus



i did not expect it to happen later the same season until we beat hull kr by one point, then i felt any thing was possible!

can't believe 2003 isn't getting mentioned more, just for being a million times better than anyone expected. including that play off game at wigan, which as a defeat was still a pretty good game.