Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:22 pm  

Yawn!!!!!

Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:28 pm  

So dog genuine question, if you were a wire fan would the fact this weekends game is available to watch on sky effect your decision on travelling to see them play? 350 miles round trip plus or watch it on tv? Simple fact if it was not on sky more would travel. Why is that such a subject of delight?

Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:37 pm  

3 of us heading down and staying over. Any decent pubs nearby? Thanks in advance

Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:02 pm  

Not that many pubs close by mate, Ealing itself has a few and town is pretty decent but it's then a bus rude or 20 min walk to the ground
Hope we make yr lot work for the result on sat.

Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:44 pm  

Exiled down south wrote:

Didn't they have Lowes in charge at the time? I think we nearly ended up with him as our coach.

In fact Lowes had been sacked and Tony Smith was in charge, but it was only his second or third game. He was quoted afterwards as saying something like ' Sometimes you have to reach rock bottom before you can improve'. I was at the match and Wire were poor that day but it was also one of those rare games where simply everything worked for London, the bounce of some of the kicks, some eight or nine man passing movements, in most games half don't come off, but on the day they all did. That season we finished 10th but no complaints from Wire fans as we won the Challenge Cup for first time in 35 years.

Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:58 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Not that many pubs close by mate, Ealing itself has a few and town is pretty decent but it's then a bus rude or 20 min walk to the ground
Hope we make yr lot work for the result on sat.

20 minutes? Bloody hell you're fitter than me! I'd probably take 20 mins after the game DOWNHILL to Ealing!

Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:59 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Hoping wire come down thinking they are going to stroll it.
Remember that game where the bloke from Warrington took his shirt off in disgust and tried to burn it while shouting abuse at his team

Happy days!

Re: Wires Sat Night : Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:28 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

So dog genuine question, if you were a wire fan would the fact this weekends game is available to watch on sky effect your decision on travelling to see them play? 350 miles round trip plus or watch it on tv? Simple fact if it was not on sky more would travel. Why is that such a subject of delight?

It would still be a problem even if it was not on Sky. Only 3 options for attending are go on club coach,drive down if you have that option or stay over, a fair few would of used the train, get there and back quicker but that is not an option as last train back is 20.31.

Re: Wires Sat Night : Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:42 am  

northernbloke wrote:

So dog genuine question, if you were a wire fan would the fact this weekends game is available to watch on sky effect your decision on travelling to see them play? 350 miles round trip plus or watch it on tv? Simple fact if it was not on sky more would travel. Why is that such a subject of delight?

3,205.....that's how many saw that fat bloke try to set fire to his shirt...attendance was 3,206 but he wasn't watching himself. Clubb absolutely hammered King in a one on one tackle and Curtis scored under the stiks from the loose ball.......Melling ran the length of the park to celebrate his try with Clubb....so, no, I take no delight in the clubs demise but I doubt that it being a TV game will bother those fans who would have traveled......we're a pub side now and we'll attract pub sized gates regardless of who we play....

Re: Wires Sat Night : Thu Aug 31, 2017 6:37 am  

I think in real terms we were a pub side then with a few decent players and nice ground to play on. Coaching structure was poor, training facilities; a field just off the A3, back room staffing, well ........
We've now just found our level in terms of ground, players etc