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| Quote ="Cruncher"The thing I remember most clearly about the 'Mission Impossible' run-in was the Premiership quarter-final a week after we'd successfully completed our league fixtures. With the team physically shattered after so much challenging and intensive rugby, John Monie had no option but to turn out the A-team to face Featherstone. Predictably we lost - Featherstone then went and celebrated as if they'd won the Challenge Cup.
More than anything else, that showed to me how far removed from Wigan so many other clubs were in that era - not just physically, but intellectually, emotionally etc. Featherstone clearly had no concept of what Wigan had just gone through.'"
He rested 11 players apparently. It's the only [url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=1462team sheet[/url I don't have for that year so if anyone has it?
It looks like the team included players like Russell Bridge, Paul Gartland, John Gilfillan, Gus O'Donnell, Shaun Wane (only game that season), Steve Blakeley and a long since retired Graeme West. |
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| Quote ="Bilko"He rested 11 players apparently. It's the only [url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=1462team sheet[/url I don't have for that year so if anyone has it?
It looks like the team included players like Russell Bridge, Paul Gartland, John Gilfillan, Gus O'Donnell, Shaun Wane (only game that season), Steve Blakeley and a long since retired Graeme West.'"
Sadly, I have no team sheet. But if memory serves, Wigan treated it as an end-of-season warm down. Having just won the league in incredible circumstances, the Premiership seemed like very small potatoes. The Wigan fans were not upset. They cheered their team's achievements of that season, and roundly booed Featherstone's ridiculous celebrations. |
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I went to everyone of those games. Two abiding memories
1) The Cas game at home and Graeme West coming out of retirement to play and scoring the last try of the game. The crowd went wild, it was as if we had won the championship already.
2) The final game at Leeds, I took Liam who was then only 5 years of age. The Leeds speccies were superb, so many of them came up to us before the game saying "We hope Leeds don't lose but we hope that you don't either"
A draw would have been good enough for us to win the Championship.
Wel,l we went one better with a display of guts and enthusiasm that I doubt we will ever see again (Oh and three Bobbie (Bobby) Goulding drop goals)
IIRC the Leeds chairman at the time commented that it was the greatest achievement of any team in any sport.
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If I remember correctly - and I may be wrong on this, but didn't Wigan have to postpone on of their matches earlier on in that season because the under soil heating hadn't been switched on, and the match called off due to frost ?
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| Quote ="Jono"If I remember correctly - and I may be wrong on this, but didn't Wigan have to postpone on of their matches earlier on in that season because the under soil heating hadn't been switched on, and the match called off due to frost ?'"
Yes, it was the Bradford game. |
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It was brilliant that.
We went out and got undersoil heating and then forgot to turn it on!
there was only a problem with one corner of the pitch but it was enough to stop the game being played. It nearly cost us the League.
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| Quote ="Parsifal"It was brilliant that.
We went out and got undersoil heating and then forgot to turn it on!
there was only a problem with one corner of the pitch but it was enough to stop the game being played. It nearly cost us the League.'"
I vaguely remember that, amazing would hapen these days |
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| Quote ="Bilko".
That decision left Wigan playing during the final week of the season Castleford Sunday (at 6:30pm), Bradford Tuesday, Widnes Thursday and Leeds (Away) on the Saturday.
if i remember correctly, the leeds match should have been on the sunday and maurice asked if we could extend the season by 3 days and the rfl said no, because they want to show the game on tv so your playing on saturday
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