There is an interesting book now on sale in the club shop. It is the Rugby League Review Number 2 and features articles about rugby league from around thirty writers. There is "Green Without Gold: The Green Vigo Story" by Hendrick Snyders, two articles on the game between Wigan and Bath, Rugby League in Cuba, Eddie Waring, Northern Union Rugby in 1908, How cricket helped pave the way for rugby league in Australia, a good plug for the game by David Watkins and eight obituaries including those of Eric Ashton and Billy Blan who had once played for the Squirrel Hornets from Scholes in the Wigan Intermediate League.
Well worth a look at or maybe a present for Fathers' Day!

Green Vigo now there was a character if there ever was one

i think some of us know all about the green vigo story without reading it.

which story would you like to hear? the gun wavinmg in hallgate? the attempted entry with manace in ince, the platt bridge labour club incident, the squirrell arms incident, the incident in whelley.......there are just too many.
if the authors done a thorough job then i reckon it will be a good read.

was sad in a way how he went.......he came over from south africa where he had never touched alcohol, and was introduced to it by colin clarke, terry cass, and a few others iirc.........
i used to bump into em in maximes on a saturday, and i knew terry.

sadly the last time i saw him was last year on ince bar at 11 in the morning drunk as a skunk trying to get a taxi to somewhere or other with a couple of deadbeats.

legend on the field though

I recall he use to blow kisses to the fans when he scored a try, famous one at KR

Aye and I remember a last minute winning try at Hunslet (Elland Road dog track) not jumpers for goalposts but Giant tuning forks ....any old how me me mate and his Dad went up all joyous in the Stand/Bar and we were pelted with ale from above (fortunately the "glasses" were plastic !)

does he really still live in wigan?

i'll never forget his hatrick at headingley1/4 final of jp trophy i think. He got deported didn't he?

no mate......it was in the days when you needed a suit and tie to get in.

went downhill years later.

i think he lives round norley, but he spends a lot of time in platt bridge and ince i believe.

beats me how he still lives in the UK

Mind you didn't he once score five against Saints ?

Leeds wan't it? At Headingley?

I'm sure a couple of the tries are on that 101 greatest tries video.

Nah it was seven against the Stains at Central Park, great memories

Correct.

It's just a shame he fell in with Terry Hollingsworth, Billy Melling etc.

Today he would have been a top class player.

Yeah introduced him to the loopy juice

He was a top class player then..but I know what you mean he would have been a crowd favorite (as he was then) but now he would have brought more to the club to watch him . one of the best wingers I've seen at wigan..and we've had a few!.. shame what happened to him..but for the fans that saw him in action the memories are still there.