Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:29 pm  

Just remembered another..remember "Gary Gary Gary Gary"...........ad infinitum He took it well enough as i recall.

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:45 pm  

My Daughter being the Mascot againgst Leeds
The Cheeky Girls
Meeting new friends in the shed
A very hostile shed on the 80s & 90s
Ending Wigans run in the Challange cup
the Salford Crawl V Keighley
Seeing Andy Gregory in a Salford Shirt
The parachutist who took a liking to the North Stand
Tex Evans storming down the wing
Many onfield puch ups ( usually started by Malc)
The Aussie games in the World club Challange
Me kicking like The Legend Chris Charles after one of the last games of the season. ( even after a belly full of beer)

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:25 pm  

mmmm to many for me to mention but i will have ago.
earliest prob wanting to go but my dad saying i was to young.
My first game against Australia under the floodlights loosing 40 odd to 3 with Fielding scoring for salford and brands packaging sponsoring the game .
The anticipation and feeling i got in my tummy walking up to the ground down meadowgate road the closer i got the faster i walked!
My first proper game against Swinton John Player Trophy i arrived at the willows about 12pm for a 2.30 3.00 kick off. We got beat 6 to 0.
Meeting my friends at the old supporters shop with John the kit man letting us run it on tuesdays and thursdays.
Doris and Bill.
The smell of wintergreen.
Tie ups!!!
Running on the pitch at full time.
The game against Cardiff when Ronnie Campbell was attacked with sweets etc as he left the field!
Waiting for R Campbell in the car park after the game to swear at him( i got told to go home)
The cup game against wigan.
Martin playing against London and St Helens
The junior supporters Warren included performing a Christmas play on the stage at the willows """Good John wilky last looked out on the pitch at salford when poor swinton scored a try we had 94uuuuur!""""
Dancing to Rod Stewart if u want my body at the same doo!
My favorite players Paul O'Neil, David Stephenson Colin Whitfield Steve Rule (s ok) Harold and Russell Henney paul fletcher paul groves steve cross sammy turnbull
Noel Edmunds/ keith chegwin with Swap shop!!!!
Centenary game 16 all against widnes.
Neil Baker double chip against Leeds ( i think) awesome!
Climbing over from the cricket pitch straight into the arms of a policeman who sent me back where I had come from!!
Paying 70p to get in.
The old tea room.
KR fans kicking the turnstiles in to gain entry to the ground (early 80s)
Bradford fans when Bull mania was in full force!
Meeting my hubby.
Taking my kids for the first time.
Watching my kids play on the pitch half time / after the game. or in the club.
Crying in the vault after the defeat to sheffield in the cup semi.
Ann and Pete behind the bar.
Gladys in the vault.
Me having the biggest gob.
King Kev Tamati speaking to us after every game with his pint of water and asking us who he should play.
""All sit down""
Sorry to bore you all but the willows has been such a big part of my life but it is time to move on.
Seeing Gary Jack the golden boot ;winner in a salford shirt.

Good night and God Bless I will miss you old girl.
xxxxx

ave its mum.

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:47 pm  

Having hot OXO in the big red tea hut when i was a kid,

then they built the north stand there , what a waste of a good cinder bank.


clearing snow from the pitch wwhen i was young and getting a free ice lolly??????

and a ticket to the match, think we were playing blackpool but not sure.

watching the great team of the 60s. watkins etc

having a season ticket at the age of 5,

watching Garry Jack play for us.

plus one none Salford . collecting the autographs of the manchester untied players as they came to watch the reds.

I will miss the old ground,

good luck with the new one SALFORD.

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:37 am  

Anyone remember a few years back, could of been about 5 season's ago not to sure, but we was playing at the Willows a televised game and a streaker ran on the pitch, not sure who we was playing or what season it was though.

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:15 pm  

Red-4-life wrote:

Anyone remember a few years back, could of been about 5 season's ago not to sure, but we was playing at the Willows a televised game and a streaker ran on the pitch, not sure who we was playing or what season it was though.

More like 10+ years ago now it was Gateshead Thunder me Michigan Red a host of others and King of the Shed were in Rhodes watching it (YES KOTS MISSED A GAME) he was a Geordie (living in Salford) called "Geordie Steve" strangely enough. He was drunk and someone dared him to do it so he did, and spent the rest of the night in pendleton nick. His then mate Geordie John still lives in Salford to this day with a former Willows employee ....

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:17 pm  

RedUnderTheBed wrote:

GB BARLA v Australian Aborigines - an 80 minute brawl. Brilliant

Not actaully read this thread peoperly yet, but noticed that point and yes, it was a belting fight. In fact, if memory serves, if you look the game up on the Micron Video website it's listed as "GB BARLA v Australian Aboiginies - FIGHT"

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:30 pm  

Salford red all over wrote:

More like 10+ years ago now it was Gateshead Thunder me Michigan Red a host of others and King of the Shed were in Rhodes watching it (YES KOTS MISSED A GAME) he was a Geordie (living in Salford) called "Geordie Steve" strangely enough. He was drunk and someone dared him to do it so he did, and spent the rest of the night in pendleton nick. His then mate Geordie John still lives in Salford to this day with a former Willows employee ....

Ahhh the good old days when we used to take charity cases on holiday with us , I distinctly remember trying to get you or your kid to follow suit through Faliraki but you were to chicken LOL.
Come to think of it KOTS still owes me for dossing in my room for a week the cheaky sod.

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:37 pm  

A few quick willows memories (not specifc moments) from me:

The blue 3-wheeler that used to be parked in front of the main stand.
The shed winding up the bearded Toulouse forward.
Clearing the pitch of snow before a cup tie v Fev in 1996.
Me and my dad being dropped off by my mum at the old mining museum for each home game - and going in to look at the stuffed rats while we waited to be picked up.
Scattering my Dad's ashes on the pitch.
The Alliance Lancashire Shield final v Saints - winning with a last minte try by an ANO who went ob to sign for us (Martin Birkett).
PIPO having a run in with John Kear's PA whils selling the Scarlet Turkey outside the ground.
Throwing coins into blankets for half time collections.

Re: Your 100 great Willows moments : Fri Aug 05, 2011 2:36 pm  

strange one from me (and memories came back of it last night watching Swinton from the shed!) was Keighley at home in the last winter season. we lost, but it was a fantasic atmosphere on an exceptionally cold night