When Wigan played Rochdale Hornets in February 1991 in the Challenge Cup, they slaughtered Rochdale by 70 odd points. Neil Cowie was outstanding for Rochdale that day and I'm sure he played his way into the Wigan club on that performance, cos he signed for Wigan shortly afterwards and never let us down.

Cowie is yet another example of a player that was plucked from the lower leagues and did a great job for us. Players like Cowie, O'Connor, Panapa, Hall, McGinty etc all played for us in the 90s and none were big or established names before signing for us. Our dominant glory years were not about just signing big names or us being full time like fans of other clubs try to make out.

He certainly didn't do his rep any harm that day.

Henderson Gill was another that we signed from Rochdale Hornets.

And Martin Hall

Yes another excellent servant to the Wigan club that we signed from Hornets.

Where does Nicky Kiss come from ?

I have seen him in Rochdale town centre on more than one occasion some years back.