Do you remember the first ever game you attended?

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

Yes.

[JonM]

Widnes v Hull KR as a five year old, sat on the boundary wall at Naughton Park. Don't think I missed a home game for the following six seasons.

[unapologetic pedant]

Swinton v Batley 1980. One striking feature was the away team's colours, listed in the match programme as "Cerise and Fawn". Wiki now says "Cerise, Gold and White".

My second game a fortnight later was against Huyton. Only thing I remember about that was Geoff Fletcher's bald head.

Third game was against Hunslet. Their colours were listed as "Myrtle and Flame". 

Goes without saying, the mighty Lions outshone everyone in the fashion stakes.

[Jemmo]

4 hours ago, Jemmo said:

I think (but its quite a vague memory) was Hull FC v New Zealand...unless I dreamt it

 

Can someone confirm of this game actually happened, it could just be my memory playing tricks on me. Would have been late 80's or early 90's, I think at The Boulevard

[Dave W]

6 minutes ago, Jemmo said:

Can someone confirm of this game actually happened, it could just be my memory playing tricks on me. Would have been late 80's or early 90's, I think at The Boulevard

Could it have been Hull FC vs Auckland in 1987-88?

If it was that, you might be interested know it's on YouTube:

 

 

[Jemmo]

1 minute ago, Dave W said:

Could it have been Hull FC vs Auckland in 1987-88?

If it was that, you might be interested know it's on YouTube:

 

 

Ah it might have been that then, remember just getting free tickets at school and mini bus coming over from Doncaster. Would definitely been around then

[Rene_Artois]

43 minutes ago, Jemmo said:

Ah it might have been that then, remember just getting free tickets at school and mini bus coming over from Doncaster. Would definitely been around then

I used to have a video of the 89 kiwi tour. Hull definitely played them in fact I think Neil Turner was playing for Hull

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

1 hour ago, Jemmo said:

Can someone confirm of this game actually happened, it could just be my memory playing tricks on me. Would have been late 80's or early 90's, I think at The Boulevard

01/11/89  Hull 8 New Zealand 44 ?

[Jemmo]

55 minutes ago, Rene_Artois said:

I used to have a video of the 89 kiwi tour. Hull definitely played them in fact I think Neil Turner was playing for Hull

This would at least give me confidence I am not going mad!

[Vambo]

Wigan Vs Saints CC semi final at Old Trafford. 1990.

[Griff]

Wakefield 23 Halifax 3, 14th January 1967.  Tries from Hirst, Brooke, Fox and Coetzer 2 and four goals from Neil Fox.

[Niggley]

I was a young lad early sixties and my dad took me to Odsal to see Bradford Northern. Don't know who they played but the score was 0-0. You dont get that now.

[OriginalMrC]

First live match was a good one. GB vs Australia at Wembley in 1994.

Edited July 2, 2024 by OriginalMrC

[Anita Bath]

Rochdale Hornets v York September 1964. Thanks to my presence Hornets won….their last win of 1964 and the start of a 15 game winless streak. Talk about having an impact! Never quite understood why I got hooked after that.

[latchford albion]

March 21st 1971:  I was 7 years old and visiting my grandad when my 17 year old cousin called in on the way to Wilderspool.  I must have talked her (and my parents) into letting me go with her and I remember standing at the Fletcher Street end on a beautiful sunny day seeing Wire play Huddersfield.  I can't remember too much about the game other than Wire took the lead with a Derek Whitehead penalty and that Huddersfield then went on to win.

I checked on rugby league project for the date and the score (12 - 24).  There were only a couple of home games left that season - which I didn't attend, but I went regularly with my dad the following season and was a season ticket holder from 1973 until 1982 when I left home and went to uni.

[The Mighty Trin]

It's nice to read all the posts, it's great to reminisce and look back at those special moments in our lifes. Probably for most us taken by our parents, now it's our/my turn to pass on those magic memories for me being my son. Will save all those magic weekend pictures, signed shirts reminding him he took Dave Fifitas pizza lol and of course the previous Wembley visit which like a few Trinity fans said on the bus - he will always remember this day

[Copa]

A suburban game on the Central Coast (New South Wales) in the 70s. The only thing I remember is the tackler head butting the ball carrier when he got up to play the ball. 

[Andy JG]

On 02/07/2024 at 05:49, Cheadle Leyther said:

It was a foul day weather wise and Cas (surprisingly seeing they were known then as classy Cas then, played superb wet weather rugby, completely nullifying John Woods’s threat.

However I still maintain we would never have won the League if we had got to Wembley that year.So it did not hurt as much for me as I had already seen us win at Wembley in 71, although this was a much more entertaining team than the latter.

I remember the game very well...it rained heavily all game. Leigh even went 3-0 on front, but Mal Reilly masterminded a superb Castleford display  

 

Edited July 3, 2024 by Andy JG
missed something

[lemmy xaan]

12 hours ago, Niggley said:

I was a young lad early sixties and my dad took me to Odsal to see Bradford Northern. Don't know who they played but the score was 0-0. You dont get that now.

Not Northern, but Huddersfield v Wake in 1968 (or maybe 67) Cup SF at Odsal was 0-0.

[Anita Bath]

6 hours ago, lemmy xaan said:

Not Northern, but Huddersfield v Wake in 1968 (or maybe 67) Cup SF at Odsal was 0-0.

30 March 1968.

[Barry Badrinath]

i may have been taken to a couple of alliance games, prior this when mike gregory was coming back from injury but the first one one i definitely can  remember being at was 1994 warrington playing the midweek aussie team, it was dangerously full but as a 13 yr old, i didn't actually feel in danger.

 

it was like men vs boys, there were an old aussie couple  in the crowd who were taking part in some good natured banter, till someone went too far and some something ott to the lady.

 

Funny the things that stick out in your mind.

[Vyvyan]

1980.  Great Britain vs New Zealand at Odsal.   Pretty dire game.  I was more interested in running up and down the railway sleepers and kicking up the cinders but I was only 8.  I was taken to more games but didn't really develop a proper interest until the mid 80s.  After that it became an obsession.

[bromleybulldog]

1954 or 1955 (I think) Batley v Halifax at Mount Pleasant, Stood at the bottom end, no terracing in those days, just grass or it may even have been the same sort of ash or slag that Odsal had.  No idea who won, can't remember but probably Fax ! I do recall that there was a large crowd there- even the bottom end was packed! Happy days! Oh, dear, feeling old now!

[RayCee]

My dad took me and my brother to watch GB v the Kiwis at Carlaw Park. 

[Shaggy]

England v Australia at Wembley for the opening match of the 1995 World Cup.