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louis0071 posted:
ive heared there is a riversiders meeting tonight can somebody tell me if there is ? what time does it start ? were abouts in the jjb is it and can you join up on the night of a meeting ?

cheers louis

louis0071 posted:
i think that was for a preveious meeting can somebody tell me please

Fraggle posted:

louis0071 posted:
i think that was for a preveious meeting can somebody tell me please

Erm, no. This thread was only started yesterday, and meetings are only once a month, not daily! I recommend you click the little number 1 above/below this list of messages and read Nine's message from about half past 8 this morning...

jinkin jimmy posted:

Fraggle posted:

louis0071 posted:
i think that was for a preveious meeting can somebody tell me please

Erm, no. This thread was only started yesterday, and meetings are only once a month, not daily! I recommend you click the little number 1 above/below this list of messages and read Nine's message from about half past 8 this morning...

Honestly, you couldn't make it up!!

ancientnloyal posted:
Im thinking of joining the Riversiders after 22 years of life, finally bite the bullet and have something to do on a Tuesday night.

what would I get for my money?

Nine posted:

ancientnloyal posted:
Im thinking of joining the Riversiders after 22 years of life, finally bite the bullet and have something to do on a Tuesday night.

what would I get for my money?

Well, if you were there last night:

As you might expect from a meeting starring Terry O’Connor, Barrie McDermott and Mick Cassidy, and co-starring Bryan Fletcher – who has a nice, dry sense of humour himself – plus three Academy lads, last night’s Riversiders meeting isn’t easy to summarise.

The place was packed, there were plenty of laughs, some very good serious points well made, and of course some interesting opinions on the respective quality of various makes of pie.

Others who will no doubt post what their favourite bits were, but it was overall a really enjoyable meeting, from which my main memories are:

1. Bryan Fletcher acknowledged all the things that were wrong with Friday’s performance (and our form so far this season generally) and didn’t try to make any excuses. He was very confident that the lads can turn it around and said they can’t wait to get out there on Friday and start to do it – if only to get away from Nobby. Bryan said he has never seen Brian Noble angry before, but they did on Friday and he has carried it on ever since. He also said that particularly with a new set of halves it will take time to gel, and that Trent Barrett is several steps ahead of the rest of the team at the moment because of his talent and ability to read the game, and it is taking the team a while to get up to Trent’s speed of thought. Trent will play on Friday, he said.

2. Man of the Match award winners for the first three Senior Academy games were there to receive their awards, which are provided by The Riversiders, They were: Darren Goulding (Whitehaven friendly, away), Nicky Stanton (Bradford, away), and Joel Tomkins (Hull KR, home).

3. Barrie, Terry and Mick had the room in stitches. Among other remarks, Barrie claimed that the last time the notoriously tight Mick got a tenner out of his pocket it was conker!

4. Barrie & Terry said they had plenty more ideas for what they could do on their slot on Boots N All but Sky might not approve of all of them. Look forward to one coming up soon involving them joining Weightwatchers with Gareth Carvell….

5. They were asked who they would be if they could be someone else for the day, Barrie and Terry both said they were happy to be themselves and felt lucky to have had the careers and lives they have had; Mick said it were so many great people out there, but as he is the greatest he didn’t see the point in swapping.

6. Barrie said he was asked by Leeds last season which forwards he would sign for the club if he could sign anyone – and he said Sam Burgess and Eamon O’Carroll. All three said Eamon was an outstanding prop and Terry predicted he would play for GB within the next two or three years. They all reckoned that with Fielden, Feka, Eamon and Paul Prescott Wigan have a good set of front-rowers that any team in the league would give its eye-teeth for.

7. All three ex-players were critical of the number of non-GB players in Super League, and while acknowledging the quality of some Aussies & Kiwis said they were convinced that the only way forward for the sport over here to progress at international level was for that number to be reduced. They were critical of the number of local youngsters that the Wigan club has let go in recent years and said that the club needs to return to the days when the core of the team were local, or at least British, with the addition of one or two genuine stars from Down Under.

8. All want a British person as new GB coach – Barrie said best coach in terms of being knowledge, tactically astute, etc, he has come across is Shaun McRae, but the coach who could make him run through brick walls for him was Ellery Hanley. Barrie said he wouldn’t have a problem with non-British input into the coaching, but he would want a team that included the likes of Hanley who would understand the passion and send the team out there against the Aussies and the Kiwis with the right motivation.

9. We had a misty-eyed stroll down memory Lane as the lads fondly remembered fights, sendings-off and outright dirty play they have … er, let’s say .. been on the pitch to witness during their careers. I choke up every time I think how cruel fate has been to Barrie McDermott, who was a victim of mistaken identity on each of the 19 times he was sent off.


10. Pies. Which are the best? There was a mixed response from Bryan Fletcher, Joel Tomkins, Nicky Stanton and Darryl Goulding, with the Parbold chippy, Greenhalgh’s and The Muffin Man being mentioned. But no mention of yesteryear’s top pies-maker, Pooles’s. Is it just me that finds that sad?

Wigan Watcher posted:

Nine posted:

ancientnloyal posted:
Im thinking of joining the Riversiders after 22 years of life, finally bite the bullet and have something to do on a Tuesday night.

what would I get for my money?

Well, if you were there last night:

As you might expect from a meeting starring Terry O’Connor, Barrie McDermott and Mick Cassidy, and co-starring Bryan Fletcher – who has a nice, dry sense of humour himself – plus three Academy lads, last night’s Riversiders meeting isn’t easy to summarise.

The place was packed, there were plenty of laughs, some very good serious points well made, and of course some interesting opinions on the respective quality of various makes of pie.

Others who will no doubt post what their favourite bits were, but it was overall a really enjoyable meeting, from which my main memories are:

1. Bryan Fletcher acknowledged all the things that were wrong with Friday’s performance (and our form so far this season generally) and didn’t try to make any excuses. He was very confident that the lads can turn it around and said they can’t wait to get out there on Friday and start to do it – if only to get away from Nobby. Bryan said he has never seen Brian Noble angry before, but they did on Friday and he has carried it on ever since. He also said that particularly with a new set of halves it will take time to gel, and that Trent Barrett is several steps ahead of the rest of the team at the moment because of his talent and ability to read the game, and it is taking the team a while to get up to Trent’s speed of thought. Trent will play on Friday, he said.

2. Man of the Match award winners for the first three Senior Academy games were there to receive their awards, which are provided by The Riversiders, They were: Darren Goulding (Whitehaven friendly, away), Nicky Stanton (Bradford, away), and Joel Tomkins (Hull KR, home).

3. Barrie, Terry and Mick had the room in stitches. Among other remarks, Barrie claimed that the last time the notoriously tight Mick got a tenner out of his pocket it was conker!

4. Barrie & Terry said they had plenty more ideas for what they could do on their slot on Boots N All but Sky might not approve of all of them. Look forward to one coming up soon involving them joining Weightwatchers with Gareth Carvell….

5. They were asked who they would be if they could be someone else for the day, Barrie and Terry both said they were happy to be themselves and felt lucky to have had the careers and lives they have had; Mick said it were so many great people out there, but as he is the greatest he didn’t see the point in swapping.

6. Barrie said he was asked by Leeds last season which forwards he would sign for the club if he could sign anyone – and he said Sam Burgess and Eamon O’Carroll. All three said Eamon was an outstanding prop and Terry predicted he would play for GB within the next two or three years. They all reckoned that with Fielden, Feka, Eamon and Paul Prescott Wigan have a good set of front-rowers that any team in the league would give its eye-teeth for.

7. All three ex-players were critical of the number of non-GB players in Super League, and while acknowledging the quality of some Aussies & Kiwis said they were convinced that the only way forward for the sport over here to progress at international level was for that number to be reduced. They were critical of the number of local youngsters that the Wigan club has let go in recent years and said that the club needs to return to the days when the core of the team were local, or at least British, with the addition of one or two genuine stars from Down Under.

8. All want a British person as new GB coach – Barrie said best coach in terms of being knowledge, tactically astute, etc, he has come across is Shaun McRae, but the coach who could make him run through brick walls for him was Ellery Hanley. Barrie said he wouldn’t have a problem with non-British input into the coaching, but he would want a team that included the likes of Hanley who would understand the passion and send the team out there against the Aussies and the Kiwis with the right motivation.

9. We had a misty-eyed stroll down memory Lane as the lads fondly remembered fights, sendings-off and outright dirty play they have … er, let’s say .. been on the pitch to witness during their careers. I choke up every time I think how cruel fate has been to Barrie McDermott, who was a victim of mistaken identity on each of the 19 times he was sent off.


10. Pies. Which are the best? There was a mixed response from Bryan Fletcher, Joel Tomkins, Nicky Stanton and Darryl Goulding, with the Parbold chippy, Greenhalgh’s and The Muffin Man being mentioned. But no mention of yesteryear’s top pies-maker, Pooles’s. Is it just me that finds that sad?

Great post, keep up the good work.