: Thu May 21, 2009 11:04 am  

Wire_Yed_79 wrote:

Toa taking heads off at JJB, van de velde in charge, wire crowd immense that night sang from 1st min to the 80th.

Yep.

He caught Renouf about 3 or 4 times before he un-characteristically flipped and went for him. IIRC, Kohe-Love received a yellow card after the scrap.

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:07 am  

Lefty wrote:

I've got the programme as well but I'm a part time fan and didn't go.

Me too, got a signed programme of ebay.

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:10 am  

Wires71 wrote:

Me too, got a signed programme of ebay.

I inherited a bin bag full dating back to fifties. Looked at them once and them threw them in the loft.

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:22 am  

Alex BP' wrote:

Yep.

He caught Renouf about 3 or 4 times before he un-characteristically flipped and went for him. IIRC, Kohe-Love received a yellow card after the scrap.

Didn't someone hit o'conner in the face and he just stood and laughed at them?

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:24 am  

Lefty wrote:

I inherited a bin bag full dating back to fifties. Looked at them once and them threw them in the loft.

LOL. I did that with my 2000AD mags from the 80's thought they would be worth a mint now. A cursory glance on ebay recently showed me that the loft insulation was worth more

: Thu May 21, 2009 12:04 pm  

Having only been watching Wire since 2002, my first experience of a Semi Final was against Wigan at the Autoquest (I think it was called that back then!!). I was absolutely gutted after the final hooter.

The playoff game at the JJB was immense. 12-6 up at half time, Nat Wood with a blinding try. All went pear shaped in the 2nd half, but come the end of the game none of us would move.

20 minutes after the game, you could still see us all in the stands when the Sky team was doing their wrap up, jumping around, singing etc!

: Thu May 21, 2009 12:59 pm  

Agree with Cockers, Hot Dog

: Thu May 21, 2009 1:27 pm  

WalterWizard wrote:

Paul Cullen chasing Andy Goodway off the field at Wilderspool

that was the best derby ever , i rented out the video a few weeks later and it was worn away at that point. seconded by the challenge cup game 1985 [john ferguson + brett kenny]

: Thu May 21, 2009 1:34 pm  

The Casual Des wrote:

Maine Road 1987 sticks in my memory for bad reasons, the Lydon drop goal still gives me nightmares!

that was 1989!

: Thu May 21, 2009 1:41 pm  

WireFanatic II wrote:

Having only been watching Wire since 2002, my first experience of a Semi Final was against Wigan at the Autoquest (I think it was called that back then!!). I was absolutely gutted after the final hooter.

The play-off game at the JJB was immense. 12-6 up at half time, Nat Wood with a blinding try. All went pear shaped in the 2nd half, but come the end of the game none of us would move.

20 minutes after the game, you could still see us all in the stands when the Sky team was doing their wrap up, jumping around, singing etc!

Yeap...we all sang v-d-v's barmy army for the full 80 mins and some.
We wouldn't go home and they tried in vein to drown us out with the tannoy system.
I would love it if we would all to that again next time at the jjb "Brian Smith's Barmy Army" of course!

Lyndsey asked the question "which team is at home?"