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[Trojan]

Thanks for making me remember THAT semi-final from 1992

The semi I was thinking of was the 1987 JP when Leeds beat Wigan. The Wigan team with Hanley and Edwards were about to embark on their remarkable 8 year dominance of the Challenge Cup and every other comp going, except the 1994 Regal Trophy ( )

[Tommy The C5t]

The semi I was thinking of was the 1987 JP when Leeds beat Wigan. The Wigan team with Hanley and Edwards were about to embark on their remarkable 8 year dominance of the Challenge Cup and every other comp going, except the 1994 Regal Trophy ( )

Ok I'll let you off.

[Mumby Magic]

Has Chiswick been mentioned, ALL the on the road games and what about the defunct clubs various grounds?

[Pride & Heritage]

Batley played Wigan in the Challenge Cup in 1984/5 at Burnden Park, Bolton.

[Tommy The C5t]

Has Chiswick been mentioned, ALL the on the road games and what about the defunct clubs various grounds?

I remember us playing there in the late 80's early 80's and it ###### it down all game and that's before you take into account the wind.

[THE RED ROOSTER]

Scotland RL played at Firhill (Partick Thistle), Wales played England at Cardif Arms Park (1996), Wales played Ireland at the Vetch Field in Swansea.
In the World Cup 2000, the following additional venues were used Kingsholm (Gloucester RFC) New Zealand v Lebanon, Wales v Lebanon was played at Stradey park (Llanelli RFC), and New Zealand v Cook Islands at the Majedski Stadium, Reading with Ireland v Samoa at Windsor Park Belfast and on BBC. I can never forget being in the Cabbage Patch watching this prior to the game between England and Australia at Twickers (which for somne strange reason does not feature in this thread.....) when a geezer in front spoke thus into his mobile "Rugby League's on the BBC and it's S&%t".
London have indeed played at Leicester RFC twice v Leicester (2000) and Hull (2004) and been tonked both times. IIRC..
In addition, on Sunday 17 March 1996 London Broncos played a pre-season friendly against Swinton at Wellington College Crowthorne Near Bracknell in Berkshire.
The 1996 Academy Cup was played between London Broncos and St Helens at Blackheath RFC on 15 September, and an Alliance 1st Division game against Wakefield Trinity was played at Oxford RFC on 1 June 1996.
Those were the days......

[Johnoco]

Wakefield v Saints 1999, because BV was unavailable.

IIRC, it wasn't 'unavailable'. It was because they said they were going to play all their TV games at Oakwell until Belle Vue was renovated.......

This seemed to last one game.

[Tommy The C5t]

IIRC, it wasn't 'unavailable'. It was because they said they were going to play all their TV games at Oakwell until Belle Vue was renovated.......

This seemed to last one game.

The first and last one John.

It was a good game from what I remember, Wakefield won 23-22 and didn't Tommy Martyn miss a last minute penalty goal some 50m out?

I was only 12/13 at the time so my memory is a bit fuzzy on this one.

[Tommy The C5t]

Scotland RL played at Firhill (Partick Thistle), Wales played England at Cardif Arms Park (1996), Wales played Ireland at the Vetch Field in Swansea.
In the World Cup 2000, the following additional venues were used Kingsholm (Gloucester RFC) New Zealand v Lebanon, Wales v Lebanon was played at Stradey park (Llanelli RFC), and New Zealand v Cook Islands at the Majedski Stadium, Reading with Ireland v Samoa at Windsor Park Belfast and on BBC. I can never forget being in the Cabbage Patch watching this prior to the game between England and Australia at Twickers (which for somne strange reason does not feature in this thread.....) when a geezer in front spoke thus into his mobile "Rugby League's on the BBC and it's S&%t".
London have indeed played at Leicester RFC twice v Leicester (2000) and Hull (2004) and been tonked both times. IIRC..
In addition, on Sunday 17 March 1996 London Broncos played a pre-season friendly against Swinton at Wellington College Crowthorne Near Bracknell in Berkshire.
The 1996 Academy Cup was played between London Broncos and St Helens at Blackheath RFC on 15 September, and an Alliance 1st Division game against Wakefield Trinity was played at Oxford RFC on 1 June 1996.
Those were the days......

Yes I went to both Bradford vs London games at Welford Road.

The first was a Saturday evening in front of the sky cameras, we won 42-0 helped by a 12-3 penalty count from Wigan official Robert Connolly. That's the night we got locked up in Birmingham New Street train station by the transport police.

The second was a close one, Bradford winning 19-16 on a Wednesday evening.

Both were enjoyable experiences.

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

I remember us playing there in the late 80's early 80's and it ###### it down all game and that's before you take into account the wind.

11th. Feb 1990, to be precise and you won 20-2 with Gerald Cordle scoring a hat-trick. Oddly enough, we played you at Chiswick in the first round the previous season (10-28) in beautiful weather.

[Tommy The C5t]

11th. Feb 1990, to be precise and you won 20-2 with Gerald Cordle scoring a hat-trick. Oddly enough, we played you at Chiswick in the first round the previous season (10-28) in beautiful weather.

Cheers for that, I knew it was either the late 80's, early 90's because I was a small boy at the time.