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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:27 pm 
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This has probably been written about before but i have been thinking about my personal memories of Hilton Park, In no particular order:

The time we played Widnes in the snow, i can see Gary Stradings now with Derek Pyke walking up and down the touch line with a brush in hand. circa 1981

Des Drummond taping the ball to himself against Halifax (i think) in his own 20 and taping it in the wrong place and after beating the whole team, some of them twice bringing it back for a scrum. Circa 1980.

Whitehaven scrum half Arnie Walker being sent off and seeing that John Woods had lined up the goal kick ready went to kick the ball over the stand, over for JW just beating him to the ball to keep it safe. circa 1981

Beating Keighley 92-2, thought we were going to get the magic 100. circa 1985.

Playing Australia as defending champions and getting hammered 44-4 (ish) 1982

Beating St.Helens with Denis Ramsdale's last game in charge. Phil Johnson kicking a goal off the main stand touch line. circa 1993.

Playing against Wi&^n as they started full time and getting beat 35-0 (ish) I think it was Ian Schubert's first game. circa 1987.

Salford in the Challenge Cup in the mud on BBC. Circa 2002.

Being robbed of a point against Hull in Super League because of a wrong decision by Steve Gason. Again against London & Wakefield. Circa 2005.

Hammering Leeds, last match of the season under the great Peter Smethurst. circa 1986.

Andy Goodway running scared of Tony Cottrell the whole match against Wi%^n. circa 1988.

The ill fated matches with David Stephenson & Peter Brown & Gary Van Bellan & Milton Huddart (except Hull away in the CC).

Beating Widnes on a Wednesday night the year they were unstoppable. 1988

Parading the Championship trophy around the ground, last match of the 1981-82 season.

Losing to Castleford in the challenge cup when i though we would have gone all the way. 1981-82

Same year as above drawing 1-1 with Warrington in the play off (then getting beat at Wig&* in the replay) 1981-81

Watching a GB - France under 19's and GB scoring after about 8 seconds. Circa 1980

Again Woody in action against France for the GB under 24's. circa. 1981.

Hope this brings back some happy times for others.






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The Des Drummond one was V Barrow 81/82 (its on the DVD :wink: )
The Phil Johnson goal was in 87 V Saints (thats on the other one :lol: )






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Many of the above.....

Graham Steadman playing for Cas and single handedly beating us by about 24. Probably the best individual performance I have ever seen.

Alan Platt playing for Hunslet one midweek game and doing the same.

Losing to Carlisle in the Lancs Cup, about 83.

Giving a gobful of abuse to Robin Whitfield at half time as he went down the tunnel at half time and him stopping, staring at me in shock, and telling me to wash my mouth out. I was about 14. :lol:

Watching Mal Maninga during the 86 Aussie tour training at HP. He was bigger than the scoreboard. If not bigger.

Playing (either Runcorn or Chorley) in front of about 600, circa 98.

Chris Johnson scoring a touchline conversion in the last seconds to secure a 24-24 draw against Cas. Circa 87.

Scoring for Leigh Rangers at the Railway End, in a curtain raiser :lol:

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watching peter smethursts debut for the "A" team with 2,000 others

colin tyrer kicking the conversion from the touchline to give the pies a draw in 1968

hull qf of the cc in '71.......after that you just knew :CHEERS:

numerous barnstorming tries by joe walsh

wilf briggs and that AMAZING sidestep

being one of the 451 in the lowest EVER crowd v hull fc december 1974

one of the best ever team effort tries, against wakey, april '81


the invincible aussies, '82......even if it was their second string :shock:

willie richardson running riot for carlisle several times in the '90's, when he was older than stanley genes grandad



giving the money back i took at half time for my mates g/f tickets in 2001 after the widnes play off game :P

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Adam Bristow scoring in the last minutes against Whitehaven(think it was in the cup) was a great moment






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Lemon wrote:Adam Bristow scoring in the last minutes against Whitehaven(think it was in the cup) was a great moment


Was that not Paul (Nev) Norman? Turls scored the try before him. With four minutes left and trailing by 9 it looked over, then came those two tries and the crowd went delerious!






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Definitely Paul Norman. Didn't 'Haven scored what appeared to be a clinching try in the 75th minute, or summat as late as that?

Final try was scored smack bang in front of us at the Chaddy End, watch the DVD and you'll see one of the moderators on here jump on the pitch :shock: :lol:

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Forgot about that match, certainly was a classic.






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DParky wrote:Was that not Paul (Nev) Norman? Turls scored the try before him. With four minutes left and trailing by 9 it looked over, then came those two tries and the crowd went delerious!
:oops: my mistake. it was a great moment i dont know how ive managed to get Bristow in there :oops:






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Bristow was the Salford try on TV, God we missed Adam when he went.

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