a game we played at Dewsbury, and I'm goin back years now, where fans were segregates in the 'popular stand' and there was a police presence with police dogs and all the trimmings!!
Ive been thinkin about this for months and cant remember if its a dream or it really happened lol, any help would be muchly appreciated and stop me going mad!!
Thanks

Trans Pennine Cup Final in 2000?

A police dog attacked Pey Lovell on the way out after the game IIRC and then Pey got arrested for nowt really.

Yeah it must have been that, the only thing that makes me doubt it, is that im sure me and my mate wagged school and got the coach from Leigh, which would mean the cup final was possibly a Wednesday night, remember Tim Street doing Klinsmanns in the "swimming pool" after the game! Stu Donlan was in his first stint aswell IIRC

It was indeed on a Wednesday night - I couldn't go to the game as I had a rugby game after school.

School in 2000 Matt, younger than i thought lol

Me thinks it was the major/minor semi final 1999 when we went on to lose to Dewsbury in the final. The stewards wouldn't allow us to move to the other side of the stand at halftime, a fence collapsed and a few Leigh fans fell onto the pitch i'm sure it was then!

The police dog was never the same again poor thing

Wasn't it for an ATTEMPT POISONING OF A POLICE DOG, when it bit him




Sorry Pey

Definately the Transvestite Cup final, it was midweek, and it poured down with rain. I may be seeing it through tinted glasses but I've a memory of thier fans trying to run us and then bottling it after being met in the middle. Which was when the Police got involved? Anyone else remember it like that?

Didn't either Donlan or Turley get sent off very early in the game, or was that the one after?

Yeah goin off that i agree with it being that Wednesday night in the Trans Pennine Cup, definitely a night worth wagging schoool for (we did get caught by the way) Can still hear the dogs barking right infront of me now i know it wasnt a dream, giving it the "big man" when i was brickin it really ahaha

It was at the 2000 Trans Pennine Final on a Wednesday night that Pey Lovell indeed got bit by a Police Dog. I think we lost 10-6 and IIRC Stuart Donlon scored our only try. When I arrived I did not believe the game would actually go ahead as the pitch resembled Howe Bridge swimming pool.

We returned to Dewsbury for the play off match and it was Sid who was sent off very early,IIRC by Russell Smith. However we still went on to win. A shame we could not repeat it in the GF.

That GF match at Gigg Lane was there to be won at Half Time. We all rave about Turk but that 10 minite interval spent with players quietly filling in clip boards in the dressing room cost us big time.

I'm no RL coach by any stretch but even I am aware your not going to get the best out of the likes of Streety & Whittle filling in clip board questionaires. Definitely not just 40 mins from SL !!

Was that the game when Adam Bristow went 70 metres for a try, uphill, and the leythers sang 'Bristow is a leyther'.

Talking of 'do you remember'.....does anyone know what significance today has in the history of Leigh RLFC?

Annual bath night (whether they need it or not).

Nearly ......





It was this day in 1982 that Leigh beat Whitehaven to win the League.

Remember it well

I was on nights and couldn't go.

I wasnt even a twinkle in my dads eye

I was there.

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Here's another OB

Experienced is what we prefer to call ourselves (except of course Frank who is old)

I was at Haven for the Championship clincher. Was also at Dewsbury for the TP Cup final. I took a couple of photos of the pitch before kick off, it must have been ankle deep in water. I'll see if I can dig them out and post them on here.

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I shall play again sooner than you think. And it will be at the LSV.