mass brawl v Swinton all the bench running to join in.
Slarlom lager division 2 whare you got A4 team sheets handed out at the turn styles instead of programmes
beating Wigan first home game after promotion 87/88 i think
getting robbed by Wigan Challenge Cup sat afternoon on grandstand 1990
tv gantry collapsing v st helens and Eddie and Stevo walking back to the hospitallity suite looking puzzled, it soon got fixed and we hammered Saints and didn't lose a home match for the rest of the season (play off season 2004)
Austrialia match 1990
million pound match v cas

Watch where your walking then ya silly sausage.

this is like top trumps, and i have all of them, good picks, especially the wigan qtr final in 1990 ray prices broken finger bone poking out through bandages etc

great afternoon that too, i was slightly drunk..

First experience of watching Wakefield was my Dad taking me for the last 15 minutes of a match in the mid/late 80s when you could just walk in the open gates 15 minutes from the end. He didn't take me for the whole game as it would have been a waste of his money had I not enjoyed it!

The 'stewards to exits' call which later explained the freebie last 15 minutes.

My dad taking me to watch the training evenings on Thursdays:
Playing Jimmy Cricket at pool one Thursday evening when the club was Corrigan's.
Running round the field during an actual training session and passing the ball with Kevin Harcombe.
Getting some life tips from the legendary Ray Price.
Tracey Lazenby heading a high bomb.
Being the first person to ever ask for Chris Perry's autograph when he came over from Oz. He was so shocked, he had to ask my dad if I was joking!

The woman in the long blue coat ''Come ooooon Trinitaaaaay!''

Ronnie Gibbs getting knocked out and staggering all over the field like Bambi.

Did John Glancy ever score a try?

Andy Mason's solo warm-ups.

Andy Wilson getting his ball bag ripped!



One supporter shouting on during a game against Leeds ''make the ba$tard$ bleeeeed!''.

Our second half displays in the 2004 season at fortress Belle Vue. You just knew we were going to win.

The million pound game against Cas. It was never in doubt, I was more nervous at Odsal the week before!

STEWARDS TO EXITS that used to be our signal to up a gear

wont it 12 0 afta they'd just one da cc

My first ever memory of Belle Vue was of sliding down the handrail on the steps behind the South stand and my dad telling me off for it!

Amongst the many other things I've done at the club, I built all the internal walls of the new dressing rooms under the Coach house. I was ably assisted by Richard Pell who has just got the Gateshead job, he did the labouring I did the skillfull bit, twas ever thus!

Mine too 1967 and Carl Dooler had a blinder as well.

Watching the great players of the past - Neil Fox, 'Rocky' Turner, John Wilkinson, Harold Poynton, Gert Coetzer, And Mason, Mike Lampkowski, Andy Mason, George Ballantyne, Wally Lewis.

As a youngester walking with my dad under the West stand and seeing the bar packed with old men smoking pipes.

Watching the players leave the dressing rooms in St. Catherine's School and running across the yard to get to the pitch.

Having to queue at the turnstiles for over 30 mins to get into the ground.

Listening to my aunt telling the story of when she was an extra in the ground when they filmed This Sporting Life.

Wakey Vs Australia

The drubbing of Highfield (the only time I've thought we might get triple figures) including 13 goals for Mark Conway.

and last but certainly not least....

Watching Karl Kirkpatrick get chased off the pitch by an "angry mob"

In no particular order

Bill Ashurst scoring V Bradford Agbrigg Rd end with a chip over the top from 20 meters out re gathering on the full and swan diving under the posts.

Geoff Bagnall on his A team debut putting his team mate away with a behind the back pass Cats bar corner (I knew from that moment he could play).

Getting a bag of chips on the way home from Chippy Woods.

Alan Hunte scoring a length of the field try for our A team before signing for Saints (not a bad decision considering).

The dummy by John Wells that led to his try against Saints/Wigan (not sure which) 5000 people took it.
Million Pound Game what a night.

Game against Australia it was pouring down.

Game against Widnes in the fog and queuing up at the old shop for a replay voucher.

Stewards to exits.

That Co mon Trinity woman.

The Saints game the week after the death of Leon Walker and the moments before kick off.

The Wigan game start of 87 season (ish) Julian Russell winning try. We went bonkers. I have never known BV so full. Oh and the hammering they gave us a few years earlier under Trevor Bailey.

Top six season under McNally. We used to blow teams away in the last 30 minutes.

Standing alongside the old tunnel and seeing Wally Lewis run out along side Peter Sterling both making their debuts (we lost).

The bar under the old stand and the radio broardcasting box in front of it.

Running on the pitch asking for Toppo’s tie ups.

The famous “we like it hard” Tommo comment on Boot’s and All.

I’m sure I well think of some more!

Favorite memories, because they've both long since passed away, are of going to games with my dad and auntie:

The steward at our block of the east stand, who knew everyone by name, except me.

Mint Imperials at half time.

Missing nearly all the tries in the corner of the east stand because I was too small to see past the grown-ups when they got out of their seats.

Getting dirty looks from the WAGS (Mrs Topliss and Mrs Morgan in particular) and a clip round the lug 'ole from the old man when I called the ref a blind get.

Eddie Waring tapping on the glass pane of the press box and telling me to "watch the game", after I'd spent most of the second half of a game against Dewsbury watching him write his match report (Dewsbury then were Huddersfield now - we couldn't buy a win, and were getting gubbed on this particular occasion too).

Watching the players troop down the tunnel to the old changing rooms.

The smell of cigars on Boxing Day.

and, and , and...

I'm wellin up here

Anyone remember the little pie stand that was inside the East Stand?
It's probably my memory playing tricks on me but I think those pies were the best I ever tasted.

mine has to be the memories of watching the game from the south bank...

seeing owen stephens and Dave smith streaking in ... and then Andy Flethcer on his debut

biggest memory is watching the game againt Fev on New Years day with the snow bucketting down and sereaming david smith as he sloshed through the snow to score a 90 yeard match winner

Yes my mates sister worked in it was where the disabled viewing is now!

Dependent on work contracts for next year the next game against Warrington could well be my last visit to Belle Vue (and first this season).
Lots of good memories, many already mentioned.

Used to go with my great uncle (early '80s?) and after head had a pint under the west stand and watching the performance he'd shout "You're bloody rubbish Wakefield, Come on Dewsbury" (or insert current opposition)

Earliest memory, maybe the gridiron exhibition game by the US army? what year was that? seeing the pitch marked out not dissimilar to how it is now was strange and trying to understand the game and scoring. Or have I made all that up?

Used to go in the north stand when I first taken by my dad. When was it knocked down?

Some cracking examples there. This old dump will not only be in my memory but also in my heart forever. I know it's a needs must situation but it's so wrong we've been forced to move, hopefully though the move will help wake the sleeping giant that is Wakefield trinity.

Some more memories not already mentioned:
Challenge cup v hunslet nick du toit head butt
Any one of Michael Jacksons barnstorming breaks. Only domic has come anywhere near to running as good a line
Solomonas magic. What a privilege it was to watch him
Poching see above
Johnny Ts involvement in just about every day since year dot whether it be as a player or water carrier. The mans name should be in the dictionary under the word stalwart
The academy grand final last season
The stench of wintergreen during winter seasons. Always seemed more pungent on evening games
The 1998 promotion season
I could go on forever!

If NM happens, it would be a nice project to use some of these memories to create a permanent reminder of BV somewhere in the new facilities; perhaps a pictorial representation of the clubs journey over the years, with relevant quotes from fans and players of each era.

as a kid watching the players coming from the old dressing rooms(where club shop is now) and dissapearing down the tunnel the smell of wintergreen on the players!!

Knocking 10 bells out of the aussie touring team midweek before they played GB sure the RFL did it on purpose. (Still got the programme)

Ray Price turning to look at the sticks when any team kicked a penalty , Poised waiting for the rebound!!

Matt fuller knocking 10 bells out of Stanley Gene in the play off semi final paving the way to Super League(Gene beat us single handed in previous 2 games)

And the cheerleaders, my daughter copped one...

The comeback win against Leeds - can't remember what season it was but think we were 18-0 down but came back to win with Jacko scoring a cracker

"Stewards to exits" Wasn't the guy scottish and made it sound like "Stewarts" to exit.

1962 and as a kid looking at all the double decker buses parked outside the ground at the final whistle and wondering where "duplicate" was. Cos that's what they had on the destination sign.

The long corridor to the sit down bog in the old west stand. I never could manage a pee due to the long que behind. (Ladies...it's a man thing

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You werent on your own there

Ditto! Were you stood next to me at the fence by the time he put the ball down under the sticks?

Nope! That was my first ever visit to Belle Vue also. To me on that occasion Belle Vue was like Wembley Stadium. I have never had goosepimples like it since as I made my way up from the North Terrace entrance and saw the pitch for the first time. I seem to remember the ticket cost 50p so probably 1971?