Re: The Willows : Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:18 pm  

My first ever game Salford 4 Castleford 0,also maybe even that same season i remember beating sheffield with a last minute drop goal 17-16ish (i think)

Re: The Willows : Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:56 pm  

Is that the game where John Duffy got drop kick from near half way line which just nicked it for us at end?

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:20 am  

no it was Watson, and svery time i think about it, goes 10 yards more

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:11 am  

alkermagic wrote:

Is that the game where John Duffy got drop kick from near half way line which just nicked it for us at end?

If that's the one I'm thinking of, it was against Warrington.

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:34 am  

My first memories were in the 1950s when as kids we were let in at half time for free and the little old man from Luckettis ice cream. He would take a big square shiny metal tin round the terraces selling his ice cream [ same size as a choc ice ] wrapped in paper , he would shout out " ices , ices " and us kids would follow him round shouting " ices ices , all ice and no cream " then he would chase us off . Also standing on the score board that was on a mound where the clubhouse now stands Happy days.

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:15 am  

When we beat oldham and warrington in the lancashire cup to make the final of the cup where we lost the cup on the worst reffing mistake ever when hampson who should have been sent off scored wining try to deny us cup. Also the 1996 challange cup win over wigan how can any one forget that day

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:32 am  

climbing in through Weaste cricket club in the seventies! The smell of the liniment when the players used to come out many years ago. Meeting my dad every home game stood under the same flood light with his mates, finding I am doing the same as my dad standing in the open terrace under the flood light with my mates. recent good memories beating Wigan in the cup and ending there long unbeaten run. Worst game that still stands in my memory Castleford putting, I think 70 odd points past us.

What I will not miss is the toilet facilities!

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:09 pm  

Good Topic this K.O.T.S.
Some of my best moments
Watching my Daughter lead the team out against Leeds but we got walloped
C.C V Wigan
Cheeky Girls singing at half time.
the Parachutist flying in to the side of the north stand. ( ouch)
The Salford cougar crawl
Mc Avoy drop goal attempt v Bratfud when it nearly took the corner flag out
the Aussie games in the world challange when we played Adalaide.
The Shed atmoshphere in the 80s & 90s when away fans were allowed in. Hostile or what.
The playing surface. ( MUST BE ONE OF THE BEST IN THE SUPER LEAGUE IF NOT THE BEST?)
The friendly against Wigan in the snow

Worst moments
The toilets at ther moment
some of the Death Burgers that have been served there over the years
the drubbing by Cas
seeing Chris Charles in a Salford shirt for the last time. .

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:17 pm  

three great games from 70's

a win over New Zealand 32-31 (winning 32-0 at half time)
a big over New Zealand 50-2

and a game against Australia 12-15

Re: The Willows : Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:14 pm  

Wigan CC game, end of, Will take that memory to the grave with me. Got to agree with Karlos about away fans in the shed in the 90's, Leeds being by far the most hostile and there were a fair few scuffles IIRC. I hope we can recreate the old atmosphere one last time before we go to Barton.

Post match drinkies with the players in the mid 90's in the VC after the game.

Favourite tries? One against Saints a few years back springs to mind where the ball must have gone through 15 pairs of hands. Try v KR this year and one of Paul White's v Sheffield was one of my favourite individual efforts,

Half-time Bovril, pre-Super League era.

Korky's conversion attempt.

Like Wardleyred says though, for an old bint The Willows still does it for me every time.