Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:09 pm  

My first game was as an 8 year old against Barrow in November 1984,we won 59-2. Big Mal Meninga was playing.

First cup final i was taken to was the sickening 13-8 loss to the Pies in the 1991 Challenge Cup. I was gutted when my dad couldn't get me a ticket for the shambles 2 years earlier but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:37 pm  

My first game was the 1976 CC Final against Widnes,been hooked ever since.

My first Saints home game was the following season against Wigan,can't remember the score,hopefully we won.

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:08 pm  

cjhatesunion wrote:

My first game was the 1976 CC Final against Widnes,been hooked ever since.

My first Saints home game was the following season against Wigan,can't remember the score,hopefully we won.

Wigan won 22 - 17

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:15 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Wigan won 22 - 17

Incorrect. The first home game for Saints v Wigan after the challenge cup final was a 10-10 draw.

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:24 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote: Incorrect. The first home game for Saints v Wigan after the challenge cup final was a 10-10 draw. No it was actually 14 - 12 for Wigan on 27th Dec 1976. http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... age_id=396

BackrowSaint wrote: Incorrect. The first home game for Saints v Wigan after the challenge cup final was a 10-10 draw. No it was actually 14 - 12 for Wigan on 27th Dec 1976. http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... age_id=396

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:28 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote: No it was actually 14 - 12 for Wigan on 27th Dec 1976. http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... age_id=396 Sorry I worded my post badly, the OP stated the following year which would the 1977-1978 season. But yes, Wigan did win the next game at Saints but I think the game the OP is referring to would be 30 Apr 1977.

Rogues Gallery wrote: No it was actually 14 - 12 for Wigan on 27th Dec 1976. http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... age_id=396 Sorry I worded my post badly, the OP stated the following year which would the 1977-1978 season. But yes, Wigan did win the next game at Saints but I think the game the OP is referring to would be 30 Apr 1977.

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:37 pm  

I've many fond memories of Knowsley Road. First time I actually went was the Lancashire Cup final against Warrington in 1987, the weekend after we beat Manly at Central Park.

First game against Saints, though, was a couple of years later - again, the Lancashire Cup Final when Wigan won 5-4. A very dour game if I remember rightly.

I was a kid then, and I always remember that my dad wouldn't take me into the away end, citing poor views, so we instead stood under the old scoreboard at the opposite end.

Even more so, I always remember my dad pretty much refusing to take me to Saints or Warrington games, citing big, aggressive crowds, but in reality, he was probably on a p155 up with his mates.

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:58 pm  

22/03/85

St Helens 47 - 18 Hull

My abiding memory was a certain Mal Meninga sending up a massive bomb and chasing it. The Hull winger waited for it to come down and, a microsecond after he caught it, Meninga hit him like a freight train at full pelt. The Hull player lay twitching on the floor for some time afterwards. I was hooked.

Remember my first game against wi*an later that season, a midweek game in the Premiership. When we started to run away with the game in the second half, the wi*an fans tried a pitch invasion to get the game stopped. I think that was my first view of police violence up close (for once, I was cheering on the plods)

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:56 pm  

Webbo wrote:

22/03/85

St Helens 47 - 18 Hull

My abiding memory was a certain Mal Meninga sending up a massive bomb and chasing it. The Hull winger waited for it to come down and, a microsecond after he caught it, Meninga hit him like a freight train at full pelt. The Hull player lay twitching on the floor for some time afterwards. I was hooked.

Remember my first game against wi*an later that season, a midweek game in the Premiership. When we started to run away with the game in the second half, the wi*an fans tried a pitch invasion to get the game stopped. I think that was my first view of police violence up close (for once, I was cheering on the plods)

I remember that Hull game as it was one of my early Saints games.

Watched the highlights the same night as people may recall there was a programme called 'RL Action' that used to be on Granada about 11.00pm on a Friday showing a game from that evening.

Re: You never forget your first time.......... : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:38 pm  

I'm only young, and the first match I remember going to was the Grand Final in 2002 when we beat Bradford at Old Trafford. I remember that my mate was sat like 2 row in front of me and my dad had get off to work so I went back with my friend.

My dad wasn't sure what my first game was though. He said I went to the Grand Final that year and that he said Adrian Lam apparently ripped us apart.