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.

Remember her very well too....hadn't seen her for years until late last season and then she suddenly re-appeared at the side of us down at the front of the Northstand

She was at the Dam Inn on Tuesday having a very large carvary! Doesn't look that much older than she did 30 years ago. She still goes and she's still the shouty woman it's just that there is a lot more noise at bv than there used to be.

She's actually quite posh and the little bloke who I assume is the hubby is still there .

Can't really remember. It was 1962!

Yeah, its an odd combination, bellowing at a rugby match in the Queens plummy English

everybody else shouts Wakey, nobody but nobody shouts Trinity, like Brian Blessed in a skirt

Don't think I ever heard her swear either... Very loud and very opinionated... As every good RL fans should be!

Great memory of Belle Vue.... Made me smile

I remember her reply to my brother was "i suppose you'd rather me be at home doing the puddings" once as he snapped at her once after hearing her say " do you know the offside rule at all referee" for the 100 time in her matrionic voice

Started watching in 1960 but the first I really remember was when we played Wigan. I think it would be 2nd round of CC in 1961. Went with my dad and we lost 2-0. Apparently Jan Prinsloo had a golden opportunity to score but took the wrong option on the outside and was tackled into touch.. 28,000 in the ground that day!

Mine was Challenge Cup final at Wembley in 1960. Been hooked ever since.

"Feline"s dad used to take us to A-team games on a Saturday afternoon back in the '70's and we used to volunteer to do the scoreboard (the massive old wooden structure that used to be at the back of the Northstand), and we then got told that the old guy who used to do the scoreboard for the first team was retiring, so we got promoted to the first team and have been going ever since

My first game was 1972/73 it was against Salford (I think)
But sometime after that I remember going more regular. I would go with my dad and we would be stood in the old south stand .always remember lots of lads stood at the back of the stand dressed in platforms and flares with scarfs tied round their wrists or in a knot round necks singing songs like.... T.R.I.N.I.T.Y trinity trinity...Your going home in a St. John's ambulance .. And sometimes half would chant Rangers and the other Celtic! ..

i also remember this match, it was one of my earliest memories although my dad had been taking me also from 1960 when i was just 11 years old. we used to walk all the way down to Belle Vue from Eastmoor. i remember the massive crowd and me not been very tall been passed over the shoulders of the crowd to a position at the front as i couldn't see a thing at the back. great days and some great memories of the fantastic team from the early 60's.

Both of you can't have got it wrong so it must be me, there can't be too many games where we lost 2-0 but the memory I have is that it was St Helens and Alex Murphy who kicked us to death on a very very windy day, and although we were playing towards the scoreboard end with the wind in the second half they managed to keep us out, was that the same game or am I mixed up and got the wrong game which would obviously be at at another time.

The 2 - 0 was indeed 1961, probably at the age of 12 the first time I can remember going to Belle Vue. As we were coming out of the ground a Wakey speccie asked my dad had he seen the ball. My dad said "no" The Wakey fan said "no me neither" not for the last half hour. The game was played under the old rules the Wigan forwards effectively stuck it up their jumper. McTigue was outstanding that day, the best prop forward I have ever seen, hands like a halfback but one tough man.
The date was 25th Feb 1961 and was a 2nd round Challenge Cup tie (I've just looked it up) I vaguely remember the ground being absolutely rammed full. Was that the record attendance there?

A year later Wakey got their revenge in a 5 - 4 win (by daylight robbery) Frankie Parr broke blind side from a scrum to score only to have been ruled to be in touch, which he never was. He still moans about it now.

There was a famous photo about at the time showing Ken Trail should we say "advising" the touch judge!!

I was also there when Billy Boston played his last ever game for Wigan in 1968 when Wakey fans gave Billy a fantastic ovation at the end of the game.

The attendance a year later, was also, I believe 28,000.
I understand the record attendance at BV was for a CC semi final and was 37,000! where the heck all those people stood I don't know.

I used to watch Trin as a kid and remember getting knocked out of a cup game by Warrington, and we had to move out of the stand where the Benadorm flats now stand. Probably around 1976 or 77.

Watched them (nearly every home game) since around March 1994 and Bright Sodje debut against Saints.

First went down to Belle Vue in 1960 but don't ask me to remember who we were playing! I don't remember going to the Wigan 2-0 game but I do remember a game against Huddersfield where the score was 3-0 I think. This was played in snow with an orange ball and the 3 that Hudds scored was a penalty and a drop. The best nil for me was when we beat Widnes (or was it Wigan - my memory!) 8-0 and Bill Ashurst had a fantastic game. Anybody else remember that?

In them days a drop goal was two points

Correct. So must have been a try. Told you I had a poor memory!

2 emotions here:

1 is that I feel young - yeah!
2 is that I'm not happy about it as I missed the best players and teams at BV. Boo.

My first memory is not of RL, but of American Football. My dad was a VP in the old wooden stand and I guess I went to some I don't remember, perhaps with my sister who was a fan but now lives in Toronto - Wolfpack time! I used to with an old friend back in the late 70's. It was cold, poorly attended and dismal, until we put the 79 squad together!

Ah 79!! When we went to all the away games because thrashing everyone at home had become boring