Top five most painful Wire moments, ever, in order:
1) Leeds elimination semi-final 2011 (head and shoulders above any other defeat, ever). Just like Fatbelly and Yed, I couldn’t talk about it or watch it back, but eventually did just three days before the start of the 2012 season, and I needed beer in order to do it. Instant delete and never mention it again. Today’s discussion is slightly cathartic and the closest I will ever get to group therapy.
2) Grand Final 2012. For obvious and aforementioned reasons.
3) Semi-final v Wigan2004. Third semi-final defeat in four years was almost too much to bear.
4) Wembley 1990. As a 12-year-old, after all the build-up, I just couldn’t compute that we hadn’t won. I was such a little mard about it that I even refused to watch the team come back on the bus, even though it passed within 30 yards of my house.
5) Getting absolutely pummelled at home by Wigan in August 2002 and thinking, ‘We are actually going to be relegated this season. It is really going to happen”.
A 2013 Challenge Cup Final defeat to Wigan would not come close to making this list.
A 2013 Grand Final defeat to anyone would shoot straight in at no.1 and possibly result in my abandoned car being found at a lonely beauty spot.
Can I just say Brett Hodgson is quickly becoming one of my favourite non-HKR player in SL. Applauded the numbers of Rovers fans pre-match, took the banter well all game and is a general credit to your club.
Not to mention how the hell he gets up after getting pummelled almost every tackle, great little full-back!
Quote="garyhulsefan"Apparently Bridge was being sick.'"
If memory serves this used to be a weekly occurrence due to nerves, not sure whether this is still the case or he has 'got over it' for want of a better word.
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