1983 JPS Final -couldn't believe we'd actually won something,( i started to watch Wigan when they was in the 2nd div)
1984 York c.c semi - had sleepless nights the week leading upto it i was only 15 at the time, felt sick before the game but the elation knowing that we was going to wembley was something that i will never forget.
1985 Hull cc final - Unbelievable day
1987 Manly - got on the ground at 4pm and there were 20,000 on then, still is the best atmosphere i've ever been in, the hairs are standing up even now as i think about it.
1989 Saints cc final - nothing needs ot be said about this, the greatest and most satisfying day ever.
There have been lots more since then but the above are my top five and sum up for me just exactly what it means to support the mighty Wigan

Il pick 3
Wembley 85 the first game i ever went to as a 9 year old
WCC 94 possibly the best WCC win ever against all the odds
Grand final 2010 when we finally got back to the top
(though 89 final was a great day

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Didn't go in 98, so I guess last year was special.

Keighley A 1978 1st pint of TT's (Thanks to Bilko's season history, can never remember the year)

JPS Final 1983 V Leeds, we are back and you can smell the promised land

Wembley 1985 v Hull, the promised land

Manly 1987, best game & night ever.

Wembley 1989 v St Helens, the great nil final!!

Grand Final 1998 v Leeds, first winner's yet again.

Ch Cup v UTC 2002, 1st trip to France to watch the boys.

Brisbane 1994, best game I've watched on telly!

Grand Final 2010 v St Helens, Bringing It All Back Home.

I dodnt think anyone has mentioned this..

but the last ever game at Central Park was a great day and a fitting way to send off the old ground.

June 1st 1994. Wigan's greatest ever win. Winning the WCC against Brisbane in their own back yard. A feat never to be repeated by an English club.

the great escape season.

all of it...........the low at Cas on a freezing sunday afternoon, followed by the fog at odsal the following friday..........through to the leeds game at headingley.

we fought back from the dead that season.......just getting there , RFL deducted us points........and they still couldnt keep us down

3 games stick in my mind

1985 CC- fantastic game of RL, skill on display and tension to the end. Also made up for the previous year and the journey back home.

1987 Manly - The atmosphere was electric. I was playing rugby the same evening and all I could think of was "I wish this game was over", the build up was awesome.


There was one CC Semi Final at Old Trafford. I can't actually remember who it was against

(Stains I think) and we scored right at the end (was it Goodway or Hanley?). Tbh the surge from the crowd was such that all I knew is that we had scored.

Horrible to lose in a semi, but to win in that way was fantastic.

It was saints. Hanley passed to Goodway with a minute to go.

The try is on Youtube.

bradford northern semi in 1992 semi when wigan won 71-10.

leeds in the 1992 premiership semi offiah 10 tries match

leeds in the 1995 premiership final

and my fav the night wigan got 106 against whitehaven. as well all the wembley wins since 1988

Batley v Wigan - Early Round Challenge Cup Game

At Central Park,

Stood under the Popular Stand with 3-4k others watching on a Big Screen (plonked on the centre spot) borrowed from Arsenal FC.

My greatest memories? I'm old enough to remember the glory days at CP but I've never been prouder to be Wigan fan than when the club was desperately battling relegation and the fans rallied behind the team in numbers that hadn't been seen at Wigan in the modern era.

Everyone in RL knows that no other club's fans would have done that. I'm sure we'll win lots more trophies in the years to come but for me I don't think that period of loyalty and support to the club will ever be surpassed. Those are my greatest memories, not of the team, or even the club, but of Wigan fans rallying to an apparently lost cause in massive numbers while the rest of RL looked on in wonder.

I'm sure lots of us will be thinking back to that dark time on Sunday with pride, and with sheer joy at where the club now finds itself. Bring it on!

So true! 2005 and 2006 brought us too many poor results to remember, the way the fans got behind the club was amazing and I don't think it would happen at any other club. Wire were down the bottom and threw season tickets on the pitch. Saints were at the top and attendances still were not as high as ours. Leeds have had one year not winning the league and suddenly a couple of thousand fans are choosing not to go.

I was at the game

It was little things like that which set us apart from the rest.

Do Wigan fans do anything other than pat themselves on the back over their support?



Lets talk about the p!ss poor crowds you got when you were relegated instead.

So many to choose from but last years Grand Final was so so so special - it had been so long and our lad was there for his first final - amazing day and great memories we will all cherish

I feel sick with nervious excitedment for Sunday already; this is such a long long week!!!!

How many years ago?

It's over 10 years so it doesn't count?

Go on then, tell us what Wigan average crowd was for that season, and then tell us how it compared with ALL the other clubs particularly the ones in the first division.

The last match at CP was awesome. Very glad to be there.

The Brian Carney tackle on Sullivan that saved the game at Stains. It looked like he'd NO chance of stopping him, but he did. Easy enough to find on YouTube if you need reminding.

The Farrell / Renouf / Radlinski try-scoring move that had us 1 point behind at full time with the kick to come against Bradford. Think that was in 2000, if memory serves. Again, YouTube for the win.

And the 2007 play-off was an unbelievable comeback.

Let's also remember the Farrell "Phantom of the Opera" performance against Leeds. It was performances like that that crowned him the greatest player Super League has ever seen, even in the eyes of the Stains-loving duo Eddie & Stevo.

Playing at Central Park before the first team is something i will never forget, i must of been about 12years old and we were playing on a full size pitch against Halton Hornets.

I can still remember walking out of the tunnel at Central Park absolutley bricking it and our best player Terry Newton was missing that day as he had trials for the town team.

Still got the match on video.

Also remember St.Marys primary school allowing the class to go down to Central Park to wish the team good luck before they set off for Wembley, a few days later a member of the team would pop into class with the Challenge Cup...usually Shaun Edwards.

v Leeds JPS Trophy at Elland Rd - first thing I'd ever seen Wigan win after my Dad telling me all about the glory years in the 50's and 60's
V Hull KR at CC Semi Final at Elland Rd - after the Widnes final I though it would be ages before we got back to Wembley again
v Manly - enough said
v Saints at Edinburgh - first thing my kids had seen Wigan win after me telling them all about the glory days in the 80's and 90's
v Saints at OT 2010

The 85 Cup Final. Truly the greatest cup final ever.

The 1986 tour match against the Aussies. Sterling, Kenny, Lewis, Miles - what a bunch players and although we lost we didn't half give 'em a game. I'll never forget Nick du Toit swatting away Noel Cleal like he was an annoying fly.

Last year's final - the early hours of the morning, Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. Yours truly wrapped up in a sleeping bag watching the game on a laptop. Best morale boost ever.