Just watching some games on youtube and having a chuckle , can anyone remember who there first opponent was in that competition?

have to giggle at some of the comments , union fans billing it as pro's v amatuers to disguise how poor their game was back then.

But that's exactly what it was. It's like an all stars RL team playing Dewsbury at the time. Very entertaining though

well it took them a long long time to get that bad, very entertaining .

considering there crowds, union was still a bigger sport , all the royal parasites attending big games , and the sing low sweet chariots , they wherent as amatuer as they would like us to believe.

One of my best moments in supporting wigan...when they sung swing low in the final...and I knew we still had a chance at 15-0 down, as we just needed to get the ball! Wish i'da been there!

Ist match v Richmond,won 48-5.
2nd " v Harliquins, " 36-24.
Semi v Leicester, " 35-12.
Final v Wasps, " 38-15.

The reason I know these results is first,I have the DVD and second I have GOOGLE.

Many thanks , I did try google but failed

Unfortunately, this event was one of several around that time which really put our players in the shop window for the Union big money boys. Up until then, they genuinely didn't rate us. I went to watch Wigan v Bath at Maine Road with an RU man, who, even though he was from the NW, seriously thought that Bath would win easily. I almost felt sorry for him afterwards, he as so shellshocked (even though he must have been the only northerner there who was). That pity ran out a couple of years later, when they started making plans to sign all our best players.

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It'll be good to see how the Joining Jack all-stars team get on in this years Dubai 7's. Paul Sculthorpe, Martin Offiah, Jason Robinson, etc will still have a lot of class!

Lacing their boots for the occasion are

Jason Robinson
Kris Radlinski
Sean Long
Gary Connolly
Martin Offiah
Ste Hampson
BJ Mather
Dennis Betts
Mick Cassidy
Paul Sculthorpe
Stephen Blakely
Adrian Morley
Brian Carney
Andy Johnson (Captain)


Imagine that lot together in their pomp!!

Imagine how embarrassing for the union boys if a bunch of retired leaguies, with an average age of 40+ go and win it, or come close to winning it.

...and with that line up its not beyond the realms of possibility!....would be seriously hilarious and so hope it happens!

Shoot me down...but I'm often an "anybody but Wigan supporter" but that weekend of the middlesex 7's there was only one team I wanted to win! Is it my old age and memory but I seem to recall watching it on terrestial TV...loved it!