: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:06 am  

my girlfriends best memory will be when she was a little kid sat on the wall by the touchline. she fell off and offiah raced over, picked her up and put her back on

: Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:39 am  

queueing up in the sweet shop next to the fox and grapes on wigan road to get my Uncle Joe's before the match

: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:05 pm  

[Gareth] wrote:

my girlfriends best memory will be when she was a little kid sat on the wall by the touchline. she fell off and offiah raced over, picked her up and put her back on

he'd do anything to avoid having to put a tackle in

: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:23 pm  

Just bumping this thread so that it doesn't dissapear into the wilderness.

: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:30 pm  

Bilko wrote:

Just bumping this thread so that it doesn't dissapear into the wilderness.

A year on

: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:01 pm  

ROBINSON wrote:

Technically Central Park was a dump.

But what an atmosphere - when it was full, and everyone was packed in and you couldn't move, it was amazing. That's one of the reasons I like, from time to time, to go to the old grounds like Knowsley Road. They're from a byegone era. (Cough)

The new grounds are far better, with great facilities, the ability to see no matter where you are stood, or sat, but all too often there's one vital thing missing. Atmosphere. Central Park had masses of it, even there was only 12,000 on - a third full - it was great.

Do I miss CP? No, not really. We have to move on.

How anyone can call central park a dump is beyond me- It would still be in the top 4 or 5 rl grounds if it was still here today- it was far better than half the grounds currently in super league!!!

Looking at those pictures still brings a lump to my throat- like remembering a person you have lost and knowing that you'll never see them again, remembering those memories which now seem so far away!!

Central park did not have the facilities of the JJB, but it had tradition and character and history- sadly the JJB will never match it!! Even given the great facilities at the JJB- if i had a stark choice to make- to watch them at the JJB or to stand on the popular side or in the kop at CP, CP would win hands down every time!!! Long Live Central Park - She'll never be forgotten!!

: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:03 pm  

As a non Wigan fan I recall going to the Wigan v Manly in 87, the atmosphere was brilliant with a fantastic display by you lot, almost as good as when we beat Queensland

: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:07 pm  

andyed-wiganrl wrote:

How anyone can call central park a dump is beyond me- It would still be in the top 4 or 5 rl grounds if it was still here today- it was far better than half the grounds currently in super league!!!

Looking at those pictures still brings a lump to my throat- like remembering a person you have lost and knowing that you'll never see them again, remembering those memories which now seem so far away!!

Central park did not have the facilities of the JJB, but it had tradition and character and history- sadly the JJB will never match it!! Even given the great facilities at the JJB- if i had a stark choice to make- to watch them at the JJB or to stand on the popular side or in the kop at CP, CP would win hands down every time!!! Long Live Central Park - She'll never be forgotten!!

Although I would have loved for CP to have been redeveloped, you can only paper over the cracks so much. Look at Knowsley Hole these days. Better to remember it for what it was and move on with the times.

: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:09 pm  

I could write a book about my memories of Central Park.

My Dad still will never forgive those *&"*x?* 'so and so's' for selling CP.

Yes, it was old..........but it was also worth 2 points to Wigan at every game.

The atmosphere was also what made the Wigan v Oz matches the so called fourth test.

Books will no doubt be written about CP, and so they should !

: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:22 pm  

I could walk you to the exact spot that I spent many a happy year there.

"Rathbones" end. (Kop end).


Tbh I wish we had never left.