[Wildthing]

Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:58 am  

The Trinity V Fulham thread had me reminiscing about some of the Good (and not so good) away days spent watching Trinity over the last 30 years or so. This one sticks in memory, for all the wrong reasons; http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 300991.stm 2005 - following arguably my favourite year supporting Trinity 2004 (Top 6 finish, good play off run, BV being a fortress) Round 3 - after winning our first 2 matches (Bradford away and Wigan at home), we travelled to Griffin Park feeling pretty confident we would beat London Broncos in our 3rd game. Wrong. We were awful from start to finish, and were utterly thrashed. Longest journey home on the supporters coach ever, with nothing to smile about and IIRC we got stuck in roadworks and it took forever to get home. I may be mixed up but wasn't this the game where Rooney and Julian O'Neill were gambling on the coach on the way to the game and fell out? Or am I mixing up my London away games? It was always my fave away game (probably still is) but that one took some getting over!!

The Trinity V Fulham thread had me reminiscing about some of the Good (and not so good) away days spent watching Trinity over the last 30 years or so. This one sticks in memory, for all the wrong reasons; http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 300991.stm 2005 - following arguably my favourite year supporting Trinity 2004 (Top 6 finish, good play off run, BV being a fortress) Round 3 - after winning our first 2 matches (Bradford away and Wigan at home), we travelled to Griffin Park feeling pretty confident we would beat London Broncos in our 3rd game. Wrong. We were awful from start to finish, and were utterly thrashed. Longest journey home on the supporters coach ever, with nothing to smile about and IIRC we got stuck in roadworks and it took forever to get home. I may be mixed up but wasn't this the game where Rooney and Julian O'Neill were gambling on the coach on the way to the game and fell out? Or am I mixing up my London away games? It was always my fave away game (probably still is) but that one took some getting over!!

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:27 am  

Crusaders away from 2011. Having been comfortably beaten by the home side, it was a long journey home on the supporters coach. Until we passed the Castleford team coach, who had just been thrashed by Warrington 60-0. The look on Rangi Chase’s face was priceless.

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:39 am  

Hull away 2004 in the play offs. Korky's run and all.

Salford away when we had to win to stay up. Goulding giving us all the bird, then getting binned for tripping, then getting into a fight with Justin Brooker as he trudged off, both getting sent off, pitch invasion afterwards with John Harbin crowd surfing as though we'd won the cup. Crazy game.

Headingley 2012, on a bit of a wave after winning 9 on the bounce, Danny Wasbrook making a potential game changing break only to release the most god awful pass to Cockayne(?) in a 2 on 1 situation.

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:05 pm  

I remember Workington away in 81, not because of the game but the fact the supporters bus broke down on the way home, somewhere in the lakes in February.

Luckily we won, as the wait for a replacement bus was tedious to say the least.

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:21 pm  

Few games spring to mind, the Bradford away match before the judgment day with Cas in 2006, all the fans waiting for the full time Cas score to come up on screen near the end, you just knew from there we wasn't.

Playing Salford at Leigh in 2012 to get into the play offs, we must of taken about 2000 fans to the match that day and the atmosphere was brilliant.

2006 Semi against Hull at Doncaster for the same reason as above.

Memorable for the wrong reasons, Widnes away in 2015 I think it was, went on my own that day, horrible place, horrible weather and we got hammered by about 50 points after a decent start to the season as I remember, it was definitely one of those why did I bother moments.

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:59 pm  

Wildthing wrote:

Round 3 - after winning our first 2 matches (Bradford away and Wigan at home), we travelled to Griffin Park feeling pretty confident we would beat London Broncos in our 3rd game.

Wrong.

We were awful from start to finish, and were utterly thrashed. Longest journey home on the supporters coach
ever, with nothing to smile about and IIRC we got stuck in roadworks and it took forever to get home.
I may be mixed up but wasn't this the game where Rooney and Julian O'Neill were gambling on the coach on
the way to the game and fell out? Or am I mixing up my London away games?
It was always my fave away game (probably still is) but that one took some getting over!!

As you walked down to the ground from underneath the M4 where the roundabout is, the opposing fans buses used to park in an area on the left halfway down, as we walked down the Wakey team bus was parked up and there were players stood up in the aisle, we thought that maybe the team bus was going to park in and the players walk down to the ground, alas no such thing O'neil had smacked Korkys backside at cards and relieved him of all his hard earned, not content with that he thought it funny to wind him up over it which as you can imagine didn't go down too well with Korky, hence 3 or 4 of the players trying to pull him off, although we saw the bust up I'd no idea what it was over till Mr Brown who used to post on here and happens to be Korkys father in law told us, they scored 72 points that day 12 tries 12 goals to our 2 tries not sure if any of ours were converted, the best part of going there for me was the train down and the tube to Ealing Broadway, not forgetting the 5 cans of Vb in a bucket of ice for a tenner.

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Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:07 pm  

dickie mint wrote:

As you walked down to the ground from underneath the M4 where the roundabout is, the opposing fans buses used to park in an area on the left halfway down, as we walked down the Wakey team bus was parked up and there were players stood up in the aisle, we thought that maybe the team bus was going to park in and the players walk down to the ground, alas no such thing O'neil had smacked Korkys backside at cards and relieved him of all his hard earned, not content with that he thought it funny to wind him up over it which as you can imagine didn't go down too well with Korky, hence 3 or 4 of the players trying to pull him off, although we saw the bust up I'd no idea what it was over till Mr Brown who used to post on here and happens to be Korkys father in law told us, they scored 72 points that day 12 tries 12 goals to our 2 tries not sure if any of ours were converted, the best part of going there for me was the train down and the tube to Ealing Broadway, not forgetting the 5 cans of Vb in a bucket of ice for a tenner.

Cheers, I knew it involved a card game of sorts. The 'bad' old days indeed!

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:26 pm  

Some memorable away games were a nightmare to stand through but had great after match celebrations. Salford away under Harbin, Promotion game at McAlpine under Kelly, Miller drop goal game at Newcastle v Catalans, Leigh away in end of season playoffs, Bradford away during 4 from 6 run in under Kear.

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:30 pm  

Since S L started it was the Cas game away after J Kear took over with 6 games to go .A game we had to win ,and a man sent of in the first half

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:34 pm  

Wigan away, first game of the season in 2009.

Trinity were written off before the game and were without 9 first team regulars.
Dave Halley scored twice to stun the Pies in the first game since Watene's passing

One of THE best backs to the wall games you will ever see

I'm smiling as I type, just thinking about this one.


Another one was beating Bradford on their own patch, while Cas got beaten at Salford, to set up the original "Million Pound Game".
This is possibly the best feeling I@ve had at a RL game.
Had we lost, Trinity would have been in oblivion but, this victory gave us a chance to survive.

The run from JD, beating 4 players just to get out of our in goal was unbelievable and the offload from Solo to set up the try in the corner were superb.

Who knows where we'd have been with out that win, it doesnt bear thinking about.