and your dad got in the pram with you on the way back in order to sleep it off!

My gran took me in the late sixties sadly I can't remember the away side but she never missed a game at home and most away, but HKR in the early seventies was the first on my own, a bit of bother in the South stand that day too.

Sure hkr had grid iron type posts at one point in the late 70s

They did yeah as did Hunslet IIRC.

Leigh at home early 70's is the first I recall, a home game a packed crowd with an easy Trinity win by 30 something. I was only 7 0r 8 and dad took me along. I remember Topliss having a cracking game and the big crowd was something to behold. After that I went periodically but remember a cup run of home matches very well and we went to every round, Saints, Hull KR and somebody else could've been Salford? not sure then we lost in the semi. Great memories of growing up in Wakefield.

Neil Fox's 2nd testimonial match - some friends from school were asked by teacher Mr Robinson (known better now as having the first name Brian) and I went along as well. Football was always the sport of choice in my family but I was 15 and getting fed up of it because of the violence at games. Started watching RL around this time and as I was born in Wakefield I had to support them.

Boxing Day 2012 season. Fan ever since.

October 12 1975 home vs Keighley was the first serious one but my big bro took me to a home game against Huddersfield in either spring 68 or 69 I don't know which ... could be either

sometime early in the 60,s,i remember going to odsal 1962 championship final,got absolutley soaked,caught the train home from i think low moor,there were lots of good fullbacks in them days gerry round,frank dyson,ronnie james,bernard ganley,jacky fennel,randell (widnes) and there was one at bramley called wilson a maorie i think he was

Ian Schubert, came to play for Leigh for a season in the mid 80's.

Think it was 83/84 season, Geoff Wraith in charge at home to Keighley, Peter Roe was Keighley player coach.
Got beaten something like 16-37.
Then became a regular the season after under the 'guidance' of Len Casey!

Wigan was actually the second home game that season. We played Warrington a couple of weeks earlier, and that was the first ever match that my dad took me to. It was Steve Ella's debut and we went on to win 14-10. We beat Wire, Leeds, Wigan, Hull and one other team who I can't remember in the first five games? 28 years later it's still a family affair, with my mum, my wife and my own two kids going to most games together.

If could pick I'd take Wembley over the Grand Final every day of the week.

I can't remember my first game either but Trevor Skerrett was no 10, I reckon it was 1980.
The first game that I actually remember parts of the gameplay was against Wigin, it was the first game of a season where Wakey had been promoted from the 2nd division, a win was not anticipated.....but happens...lol....dunno what year that was.

How comes we don't have that "most memorable game" spin off thread going on ?

Thinking about it now, its quite telling that although there have been a few memorable games in recent years, all mine...the ones that stick in my mind, are from donkeys years back.


edit, oh wait....WTID

Can't remember the opposition, but it was ar BV in 1963.

So who used to try and stand on the raised concrete plynth with the handrail round it under the floodlight tower........next to the large dark haired woman, old enough to be my mam, who's shoutin gerrem onside, and the referees a w****** from whistle to whistle ??

First game attended was in 1956 but can't remember against whom. One of the early games I can recall was against Workington town when Trinity second row Les Chamberlain broke his leg. You could hear his bone snap around the ground. I still cringe today when I recall this incident. Another early memory was my uncle lifting me up to the level of the "dugouts" next to the old west stand for Tom Van Vollenhoven to sign my programme. He wasn't playing that day.

That lady still attends but stands in a different position these days. Not quite as vocal as she used to be nowadays...

Is that the "Come on Trinity" woman?

Wow yeah I remember her very well. She used to take some stick as well but they never shut her up! Feels like years since I last saw or perhaps heard her?

It is

Although I've been to half a dozen games this season, I haven't seen her for years

Is that her with the booming voice?icon_smile.gif

Can't remember my first game or year or what year but it was early 70s when my uncle Tiger Handforth was playing and used to stand at side of old dugout's getting as much to eat and drink out of bags of my Nana's and aunties bags enough to feed an army those were the days

That was a great game for your first up. I took a couple of colleagues to that game for the first time - it was an awesome day!

Some game in 1970. We lived on St Catherine Street at the time and my mother worked at the Theatre Club. When there was a night game on, if my dad wanted to go he had to drag all three of us there. My two brothers would mess about but I ended up watching it and enjoying it. By the time we moved to Kettlethorpe when I was six, I was hooked.

First game was home to York in the 1979/80 season aged 8. Went with my Dad (it was his first Trinity game too) and we sat in the East Stand. Watched Trevor Skerrett get thumped in a tackle by a York player right in front of us......as Skerrett got up from the tackle, a kid near us yelled out "it were number 12 Trevor!", Skerrett turned and gave him a big grin and thumbs up and went off looking for the player in question. I was hooked from that point onwards.