Wigan Warriors • Re: Changing Managers!
Cruncher wrote:
So many happy memories of drinking in the Royal Oak, The Griffin, The Market Tavern, The Millstone etc before matches, or on Friday and Saturday nights just talking solid rugby, that it still hurts to think all that was taken away from us and that some of those grand old RL pubs, even without Covid, are now boarded-up ruins.
We definitely lost something there. Something irreplaceable for those of us who experienced it ... but time moves on and there's nothing we can do about it (sorry ... I know you're already aware of that).
Our pre-game local was Upper Morris Street club, absolutely packed to the rafters before big matches. One fond memory before the Manly game it was a good couple of hours before kick off, around 5pm we couldn't even get inside the club, my dad was in the queue and asked me to have a look 'how big the crowd was' inside the ground (from Upper Morris Street you could see most of the popular stand and the Kop corner). I told my dad we better go quick as it was heaving, didn't even risk a pint for fear of not getting on the ground. Never known anything like it to this day.
Statistics: Posted by MattyB — Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:50 pm