Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:41 pm  

I was living in Cardiff and agreed to visit my then partner's tedious couple friends in East Grinstead on the proviso that we would go watch the mighty Trin in the regal trophy against London. I wanted to see Nigel Wright turn on the style against the lowly opponents - suffice to say I was somewhat disappointed with the whole weekend.


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Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:53 pm  

coco the fullback wrote:

I was living in Cardiff and agreed to visit my then partner's tedious couple friends in East Grinstead on the proviso that we would go watch the mighty Trin in the regal trophy against London. I wanted to see Nigel Wright turn on the style against the lowly opponents - suffice to say I was somewhat disappointed with the whole weekend.


Sun 8 Nov 1992 London Crusaders 30-0 Wakefield Trinity Crystal Palace NSC 860

I remember listening to the commentary on Radio Leeds, it was a major shock.
I genuinely couldn't believe it, especially as we had walloped Highfield 90 - 12 at BV a few weeks earlier!

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:06 pm  

coco the fullback wrote:

I was living in Cardiff and agreed to visit my then partner's tedious couple friends in East Grinstead on the proviso that we would go watch the mighty Trin in the regal trophy against London. I wanted to see Nigel Wright turn on the style against the lowly opponents - suffice to say I was somewhat disappointed with the whole weekend.


Sun 8 Nov 1992 London Crusaders 30-0 Wakefield Trinity Crystal Palace NSC 860

Sounds like the match was the highlight of your weekend then

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:12 pm  

coco the fullback wrote:

I was living in Cardiff and agreed to visit my then partner's tedious couple friends in East Grinstead on the proviso that we would go watch the mighty Trin in the regal trophy against London. I wanted to see Nigel Wright turn on the style against the lowly opponents - suffice to say I was somewhat disappointed with the whole weekend.


Sun 8 Nov 1992 London Crusaders 30-0 Wakefield Trinity Crystal Palace NSC 860

Bl**dy Trinity.

I was hooked on Trinity when they beat Wigan under Toppo in 1988, a genuinely shock defeat for Wigan.

Since then I've taken many friends and acquaintances in the hope of them getting hooked. Every single time the game was a duffer and I mean a DUFFER!

It's not like I picked games I knew we'd lose or during a period when we were rubbish, but every time no matter how good our form we would crash and burn. We would go home with me knowing that they most definitely were not hooked, in fact, some looked at me in a way that suggested I needed help or in some cases they even just laughed.

All teams have good and bad days but Trinity has to be the most unreliable team on the planet in any sport. Our ability to shoot ourselves in the foot just at the wrong moment is legendary. Our ability to be taken down by the underdog, however obvious the risk, is staggering and the better we appear to be playing the more monotonously likely a disaster sits just around the corner.

Can't explain it, nobody can but It's the reason I don't take guests to games anymore and why I don't evangelise the club like I used to. It's not that I can't be bothered it's just that I can't take the embarrassment anymore, I've gone soft.

But in answer to your post, you should have known better, so it serves you right. You'd have been much better off staying away with a warm can of Lager watching your friends slide collection.

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:53 pm  

coco the fullback wrote:

I was living in Cardiff and agreed to visit my then partner's tedious couple friends in East Grinstead on the proviso that we would go watch the mighty Trin in the regal trophy against London. I wanted to see Nigel Wright turn on the style against the lowly opponents - suffice to say I was somewhat disappointed with the whole weekend.


Sun 8 Nov 1992 London Crusaders 30-0 Wakefield Trinity Crystal Palace NSC 860

Yep, we went to that one too....I rented a mini-bus and drove 12 of us all the way down there....think we got to London in about 3 hours and it then took another 2 hours to get to Crystal Palace only to see us score nul points

One of the best was on 16th February 1994 - the Wigan away match at Central Park on a Wednesday night. Me, the missus, TRB and his missus all went in his car on a cold foggy winter's evening and IIRC it was one of Henry Paul's first stand-out matches for us as he virtually single-handedly won us the game against the Wigan superstars including Shaun Edwards, Steve Hampson, Sam Panapa, Nigel Wright, Martin Offiah, Via'aiga Tuigamala, Gary Connolly, Simon Haughton, Mick Cassidy, Oliver Gildart, Andy Farrell, Billy McGinty and a couple of others !!!!
As we were walking out at the end of the game the Pie-Eaters were virtually in tears and some were threatening never to go to another Wigan match ever again !!!

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:01 pm  

Couple spring to mind for me,,1 is not do good london awsy in the fritz days its was played at cyrstal palace athletics stadium can remember going and standing on grass at side of pitch in second half like been at an amutuer game but even though we was the higher division team we got stuffed.cant remember the score...tjen got stuck in ttaffic jam om way home

Then of course the yorkshire cup final v eagles, stood in kop end ellend road watching us win a trophy for first time.went to school day afterin my trinity top rather than uniform which didnt go down well with teachers but i didnt care

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:56 pm  

Apart from the obvious, million pound games and so on, the Crusaders away at Wrexham, the traffic was dreadful due to an accident, we must have taken every back road to get there, sat with Paul Johnstone in the ground whilst waiting for the team bus, 10 minute warm up and then beat them, for me a great but unexpected win due to the adversity. The look on Jarrod Sammuts face at full time sat at the side of us was priceless .

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:59 pm  

FIL wrote:

Yep, we went to that one too....I rented a mini-bus and drove 12 of us all the way down there....think we got to London in about 3 hours and it then took another 2 hours to get to Crystal Palace only to see us score nul points

One of the best was on 16th February 1994 - the Wigan away match at Central Park on a Wednesday night. Me, the missus, TRB and his missus all went in his car on a cold foggy winter's evening and IIRC it was one of Henry Paul's first stand-out matches for us as he virtually single-handedly won us the game against the Wigan superstars including Shaun Edwards, Steve Hampson, Sam Panapa, Nigel Wright, Martin Offiah, Via'aiga Tuigamala, Gary Connolly, Simon Haughton, Mick Cassidy, Oliver Gildart, Andy Farrell, Billy McGinty and a couple of others !!!!
As we were walking out at the end of the game the Pie-Eaters were virtually in tears and some were threatening never to go to another Wigan match ever again !!!

I was on a skiing trip with school along with my sister. We called home and was told the news about the win which seemed absolutely impossible. I got off the phone and we both ran round the room over the seats tables everything shouting our heads off. Unfortunately that was the game that Wigan decided they were having Henry Paul, what a player he was. Got the video from micron video when we got home

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:43 pm  

Some great games already mentioned but loved the 17 nil game at Headingley in the early nineties when Hanley was playing for the Loiners.

Another corker was a Good Friday evening game at the Jungle when JK was in charge, the team had been ripped apart by going into Administration, we losing 24-6 & the Cas fans were in full voice shouting going down. We won it with a great last 20 minutes, great night!

Re: Memorable away games : Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:58 pm  

Lockers700 wrote:

Some great games already mentioned but loved the 17 nil game at Headingley in the early nineties when Hanley was playing for the Loiners.

Another corker was a Good Friday evening game at the Jungle when JK was in charge, the team had been ripped apart by going into Administration, we losing 24-6 & the Cas fans were in full voice shouting going down. We won it with a great last 20 minutes, great night!

I remember that game. Absolutely stunned Leeds. Possibly the most dominant Trinity performance I’d seen against a top flight club until we crushed both Wigan and Hull by huge scores a few seasons back.