Same here. I sometimes wonder just what we would have won throughout the 80's/early 90's had wigan not been the overwhelmingly dominant force that they were.

Yes, the Wardonia/Locker Cup games....they were "friendlies" to behold !

From the age of between 10-30 I witnessed loss after loss to Wigan in finals or semi finals. We would have to play them in the grand final and CC Final for the next 4 years and hammer them every time to start to erase those memories.
My memory might be playing tricks on me here but I am sure I remember being in a pub around Burden Park before a JP final hearing that Andy Gregory would not be playing because he was about to sign for Wigan who then went on to beat us. I also remember being on a ferry coming back from holiday when a pie eater told me that they had signed Billy McGinty.
Old Trafford, Burden Park, McAlpine stadium, Maine Rd, Wembley and Halton stadium (2004 balanced out by 2009) are places that I have pretty bad memories playing Wigan.

As a great man once said "ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind". I am looking forward to the GF (and Craig Charles in the build up) but another defeat in a big game would add further ghosts.

should have been awarded a penalty try in that game as well... Mark Roberts tackled without the ball just as he's about to score from a kick thru on the line - playing as hooker if I remember rightly!

Who did we beat in the final of the British Coal '9's tournament at Central Part circa 87 ish?

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